Law with French Legal Studies
Law with French Legal Studies is a degree that equips you to understand and work with two of the most significant legal systems in the world. Scots law, the legal system of Scotland in which this degree is grounded, has a civil law tradition with Roman law foundations that distinguishes it clearly from the English common law system. French law belongs to the same civil law family, sharing many structural features with Scots law while developing its own distinctive doctrines, institutions, and legal culture.
Studying both systems together develops a comparative legal perspective that is intellectually enriching and professionally valuable in an interconnected legal world.
At the University of Glasgow you will study this four-year full-time programme with a typical entry tariff of 232 points, reflecting the highly competitive admission to Glasgow's law school. Across the programme you will study the foundations of Scots private law, including contract, delict, property, and family law, alongside public law, constitutional and administrative law, criminal law, and legal theory. The French legal studies component introduces you to the French civil code, French public law, comparative methodology, and the legal French needed to engage with primary materials.
Glasgow's law school has strong connections to French institutions and to the legal profession across Scotland and beyond, enriching the educational environment.
Graduates from this programme are exceptionally well placed for legal careers that operate across Scottish and French-speaking markets, in European and international law firms, in public international law, in the European institutions, and in cross-border commercial practice. Many graduates go on to the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, the route to qualification as a Scottish solicitor, or to the Bar Professional Training Course. Others pursue academic legal careers or postgraduate study in comparative law, European law, or international law.
The combination of Scots law and French legal expertise is genuinely rare and valued by employers who operate across borders.