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Modules

Find out about the modules offered on our Undergraduate Law LLB programmes at Queen Mary University of London.

Our compulsory LLB modules cover all the neccesary topics needed for a comprehensive knowledge of the law.

In your second and final years, you will be able to choose from a broad range of specialist fields – such as human rights law, criminology, intellectual property and medical negligence.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

M100 LLB

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Plus one full or two half modules from the list below:

Full modules

Half modules

Year 3

Compulsory

Plus full or half modules totalling three full modules from any modules available in year 2 and the following modules which are only available to final year students. You can also choose to write a dissertation of 30 credits on a legal topic of your choice as an alternative to a taught module.

Full modules

Half modules

Apply for the LLB Law programme

M101 LLB Law Senior Status

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Plus full or half modules totalling 2.5 full modules from the list below. You can also choose to write a The Art of Law as an alternative to a taught module.

Full modules

Half modules

Apply for the Senior Status programme

M105 LLB Global Law

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Plus one full or two half modules from the list below:

Full modules

Half modules

Year 3

You’ll spend your third academic year studying law at a university outside the UK. We currently partner with following institutions:

  • Argentina Torcuato Di Tella University (Buenos Aires)*
  • Australia University of Queensland
  • Brazil University of São Paulo*
  • Canada Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
  • Canada University of Toronto
  •  Chile Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile*
  • China East China University of Political Science and Law
  • China Renmin University (Beijing)
  • Hong Kong University of Hong Kong
  • India Jindal Global Law School in semester one, National Law School of India University in semester two
  • Japan Kobe University
  • New Zealand University of Auckland
  • Singapore National University of Singapore
  • USA University of Texas at Austin

*These institutions teach in the native language, therefore competency in Spanish or Portuguese is required.

Year 4

Compulsory

Plus full or half modules totalling three full modules from any modules available in year 2 and the following modules which are only available to final year students. You can also choose to write a Jurisprudence and Legal Theory as an alternative to a taught module.

Full modules

Half modules

Apply for the LLB Global Law programme

M120 LLB English and European Law

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Plus one full or two half modules from the list below:

Full modules

Half modules

Year 3

You’ll spend your third academic year studying law at a university outside the UK. You’ll select your host institution midway through your second year.

Queen Mary currently partners with the following universities:

Tuition in English

  • Austria - University of Vienna
  • Belgium – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Denmark – University of Copenhagen
  • Italy – Università di Bologna
  • Italy – Bocconi University Milan
  • Netherlands - Utrecht University
  • Netherlands - Universiteit Leiden

Tuition in native language

  • France – Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)*
  • France – Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I)*
  • Germany – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Spain – Universidad Complutense de Madrid

*If you choose to study at Panthéon-Assas or Panthéon-Sorbonne, you’ll need to complete a two-year French language course at Queen Mary.

At Panthéon-Assas the intensive ‘Licence’ path will give you a French undergraduate law degree and involves more lectures and seminars with less module choice.

Year 4

Compulsory

Plus full or half modules totalling three full modules from any modules available in year 2 and the following modules which are only available to final year students. You can also choose to write a Jurisprudence and Legal Theory as an alternative to a taught module.

Full modules

Half modules

Apply for the LLB English and European Law programme

ML13 LLB Law and Politics

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Plus 45 credits of level 5 politics optional modules. An example of these modules can be found on the School of Politics and International Relations website.

Year 3

Compulsory

Plus full or half modules totalling three full modules from any modules available in year 2 and the following modules which are only available to final year students. You can also choose to write a dissertation of 30 credits on a legal topic of your choice as an alternative to a taught module.

Full modules

Half modules

Apply for the LLB Law and Politics

M1N1 LLB Law with Business

Year 1

Compulsory

Choose one from

  • Fundamentals of Management
  • Introduction to Marketing and Communications
  • Accounting for Business
  • Business and Society
  • Introduction to Financial Accounting
  • Contemporary Legal Issues in Business Management

Year 2

Compulsory

Choose one or two from

  • Ethics and business
  • Technologies in the Workplace
  • Strategic Marketing
  • Entrepreneurial Learning
  • Introduction to Finance
  • Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
  • Business and History
  • Creative industries
  • Corporations and Social Responsibility
  • Responsible Leadership
  • European Business Context
  • Global Governance and International Organisations
  • Inequalities: Work, Education and Housing

Year 3

Compulsory

Plus full or half modules totalling three full modules from any modules from the list below. You can also choose to write a dissertation of 30 credits on a legal topic of your choice as an alternative to a taught module.

Full modules

Half modules

Choose from business modules

  • Financial Management
  • Organisational Change and Development
  • Employment Relations
  • Global Supply Chains
  • Firm Governance and Strategy in the Institution Context
  • Financial Institutions Management
  • Contemporary Strategic Analysis
  • Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases
  • International Business
  • Business and Social Approaches to Social Media
  • Corporate Law and Governance
  • Company Valuation
  • Business computing
  • Startups and Incubators
  • Gender at Work
  • Global Business and Democracy
  • International Financial Management

Apply for the LLB Law with Business

M106 LLB English and French Law

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Year 3

Taught in French in Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University

  • Droit administratif 1
  • Droit administratif 2
  • Droit civil 1
  • Droit civil 2
  • Droit constitutionnel 1
  • Droit constitutionnel 2
  • Droit de la famille
  • Droit des libertés fondamentales
  • Droit des sociétés 1
  • Droit des sociétés 2
  • Droit international public
  • Droit pénal général

Year 4

Taught in French in Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University

  • Contrats spéciaux
  • Droit général de l’obligation
  • Droit international prive 1
  • Droit international prive 2
  • Jurisprudence and Legal theory (taught in English by Queen Mary academic staff)
  • Eight optional modules

Apply for the Double LLB English and French Law

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