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What you will study
On our new LLB Law course, you’ll gain a deep understanding of the main areas of legal knowledge, including law as it regulates:
- The functions of the state (public law and criminal law)
- Relations between private individuals (contract law and tort law)
- The ownership and control of land and other property (land law, and equity and trusts).
This LLB includes mandatory law modules: Climate and Energy Law, Environmental Law in Action and Access to Environmental Justice – where you will explore access to environmental justice by doing innovative policy clinic work. The pathway is uniquely interdisciplinary for an undergraduate LLB as you will also be able to select optional modules on environment and sustainability offered by other departments in social sciences and sciences.
All second-year law students are enrolled on a Professional Training Preparation module which enables you to develop key employability skills, complete a law-specific version of the University's Employability Award and hear from a wide variety of voices from practice (both legal and non-legal).
Students who are inspired to undertake a deeper analysis into a specific topic can choose to do a dissertation – an extended final year research project, related to law, environment and sustainability. The dissertation element is an option available on all law programmes, not a mandatory requirement of the pathway.
Levelling the legal field
We support students from a diverse range of backgrounds and work in partnership with organisations to improve access to, and diversity within, the legal profession. This includes supporting students with successful applications for scholarships and mentoring opportunities.
Foundation year
If you don’t meet our entry requirements, you might still be able to apply for this degree with a Social Sciences Foundation Year. This is an extra year of study to develop your skills and make it easier for you to get started at university. On successful completion of your foundation year, you’ll be ready to progress to the first year of your degree.
To see what modules you’ll be studying, refer to the foundation tab in the 'Course structure' section.
Learn from experts in the field
The mandatory modules on the pathway are taught by our leading environmental law and sustainability academics from Surrey Law School’s Surrey Centre for International and Environmental Law (SCIEL). SCIEL brings together research specialists at the University of Surrey and internationally to respond to global environmental challenges using interdisciplinary approaches. Students who select the Law (Environment and Sustainability Pathway) LLB will be encouraged to actively engage in SCIEL’s activities.
Alongside the pathway lead Dr Feja Lesniewska, your lecturers for mandatory law modules will also include SCIEL’s co-directors Professor Rosalind Malcolm who are research scholars working on topics across the UK, EU and international environmental law on climate change, the circular economy and plastics, space law and environmental justice.
Your lecturers are all actively engaged with Surrey’s Institute for Sustainability where they contribute to the leadership and activities of research programmes on topics including climate change, the circular economy, governance, justice, AI and sustainable space law