LLB Bachelor of Laws

This LLB Bachelor of Law degree gives you a unique opportunity to explore the law from a social science perspective – looking at its impact on society, politics, economics and business.

As one of the UK’s leading legal research institutions, our academics are actively contributing to the development of law globally. So, you’ll be learning from world-leading researchers.

This law degree covers all the skills and knowledge needed to progress to the first stage of the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam (SQE). But equally, you’ll gain highly transferable skills for a career in accounting, banking, politics, government or education.

You’ll be studying close to London’s historic legal district and many eminent law firms – with regular events organised by our Law Society and the Inns of Court. In fact, you’ll never get bored with a packed programme of extra-curricular activities, including mooting competitions, social events and presentations from practising lawyers.

Alongside the LLB degree, we also offer a double degree LLB/JD (juris doctor) programme with Columbia University Law School. You can apply for this programme during your second year. However, we wouldn’t recommend applying to LSE solely for entry to the double degree programme as we can’t guarantee you a place.

Our LLB Bachelors of Law programme is accredited by the Bar Standards Board for the purpose of a qualifying law degree. The process to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales is via the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE).

The SQE assessment has two stages, with the first being focused on legal knowledge, broadly similar to that supplied in law degrees at present, and the second on practical vocational skills. While a law degree or diploma will no longer be necessary to the process of qualifying, a law degree is likely to remain the most effective and reputable way of acquiring the knowledge that is required by the SRA to complete the first stage of the SQE.

Please refer to our website and www.sra.org.uk/sra/policy/sqe for further information and updates.

If you wish to gain further insight into law, we suggest that you look at one or more of the following books:

• T Bingham The Rule of Law (Allen Lane, 2010)
• S Chakrabarti On Liberty (Allen Lane, 2014)
• C Gearty On Fantasy Island: Britain, Europe, and human rights (Oxford University Press, 2016)
• H Kennedy Eve was Framed: women and British justice (Vintage, 1993)
• N Lacey Women, Crime, and Character: from Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• P Sands East West Street: on the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016)