About Law With International Studies, LLB (hons) in University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN)

Many UK-based legal firms have overseas offices, and English-speaking lawyers are highly sought after by organisations all over the world - if you’re looking for a successful international career in the law, this course gives you the academic training you need to become a solicitor or barrister. While English law is used in many countries, you’ll look at it in an international context, identifying which areas of law are dealt with globally and which are dealt with using the domestic legal system. To boost your language skills and further increase your employability, you’ll spend your third year studying abroad.

• Law at UCLan is 4th in the North West for overall student satisfaction - National Student Survey 2019.
• The third year of your course is spent studying abroad, providing a grounded practical experience with international law whilst building contacts and enriching your learning.
• Many staff are professionally qualified and research active with experience as solicitors, barristers, judges or senior managers in major organisations.
• You can take advantage of a variety of educational visits, eg to the Royal Courts of Justice and the Supreme Court in London, and the European Commission in Brussels.

FURTHER INFORMATION

The Law with International Studies degree includes all of the core and compulsory law modules necessary for a qualifying law degree (and so provides the academic stage of training for students wishing to pursue a career as a solicitor or barrister) and also compulsory language modules depending on the particular language pathway that a student wishes to pursue. You can choose from:

• Law with Arabic: (UCAS code: MT16 Short form: LLB/LaAr)
• Law with Chinese: (UCAS code: M1T3 Short form: LLB/LaCh)
• Law with Japanese: (UCAS code: M1T0 Short form: LLB/LaJa)

The aim of the course is to offer the opportunity for intellectual development, to acquire fundamental legal and language knowledge for progression into the legal profession, the wider employment market or further study and to provide flexibility in developing specialised interests.

The degree places a strong emphasis on the development of core legal and other transferable skills, such as oral, written, e-communication and critical reasoning skills, advocacy, personal development planning and group work. We adopt a wide range of learning and teaching methods, designed to support you to develop as an independent learner. These include interactive online sessions, e-learn activities, workshops, reflective clinical legal education, group work, interactive technologies, reading and listening comprehensions, translation and research exercises, presentations, mooting and debating as well as the more traditional seminars and lectures. You will have more structured class contact in Year 1 of your programme to support your transition to Higher Education.

You will also have a vibrant international flavour to lectures due discussion from a variety of student personalities – you will be in class with students from across Europe, Nigeria, Saudi, Mauritius, Cameroon and Pakistan.

Students are supported in finding legal placements and have numerous opportunities to visit relevant legal establishments, both locally and beyond. In Year 2 you are able to visit many of the European Institutions during a week-long study tour in Brussels.

Our Professors usually teach on the course so students get to hear first-hand about ground-breaking research topics such as war crimes trials, women in prison and criminal law.

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND ASSESSMENT

The School’s teaching environment is designed to stimulate learning. For large group teaching, we make use of the many modern lecture theatres across campus all of which have state of the art audio visual support and presentation facilities. All small group teaching rooms, contain state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment to enhance and support the learning experience.

As you would expect from a Law School committed to enhancing the employability of its graduates, there are a number of dedicated skills development rooms with recording and play back facilities within the School itself. There is also an impressive moot court room which looks just like a real court and provides students with an invaluable real-life educational experience. The moot court room is also used extensively for extra-curricular activities such as mooting competitions, advocacy training and visiting speakers. The Library contains a dedicated Law Library with a plethora of textbooks, law reports and journals as well as providing a quiet space for students to study both individually and as part of a group. The Law School’s extensive e-law library facility gives access to many legal and academic sources from the UK and beyond and is available to students not just when they are on-campus but whenever they are sitting in front of a PC.

There is a dedicated Blackboard page for each module which provides extensive online support, from module handbooks and lecture outlines to self-test quizzes and interactive revision materials.

Assessment is undertaken in a variety of ways, from the traditional unseen exam, to seen examinations; end of module and in-course formative coursework assessments; e-quizzes; e-case studies; group and individual presentations; portfolios; pod casts; personal development reflective diaries; moots and debates and oral performance in seminars.

OPPORTUNITIES

You can take up a wealth of opportunities for real life work experience and personal skills development, for example, taking part in mooting competitions, undertaking work placements, mini-pupillages and attending Summer Schools.

You can spend the third year of your programme in a country where the language that you are studying is spoken. In addition you can gain the benefit of visits, for example, to the European Commission in Brussels, the European Parliament and the European Commission in Luxembourg.

58% from listed boards (The All Indian Senior School Certificate awarded by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), or The Indian School Certificate (ISC) awarded by the Indian Council for School Examinations (ICSE), or a recognised Indian State Education Board, such as the West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Karnataka Education Boards
60% from other boards, not listed above
Where a specific subject is required for entry to the degree programme, 58% must be achieved in this subject
Pre-University Certificate, Government of Karnataka can be considered – send to tutor – evidence from Govind included in entry requirements folder
3% margin to be considered by UCLan staff based on reputation of institution, work experience etc

65% in Year 12 English *
Or
65% average grade in Year 11 and Year 12 English provided Year 12 is not below 60%
Or
Standard English language requirements – IELTS 6 or equivalent

University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) Highlights

University of Central Lancashire Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

Preston is officially the cheapest city in the UK for students. The following are the categories of the tuition fee payable by the students.

The total estimated annual cost of attendance for the 2020/2021 academic session is as presented on the table below: