Law
LLB Law (Hons)
UCAS code: M100
Start dates: September 2025 / September 2026
Full time: 3 years (4 years with a placement year)
Part time: up to 6 years
Location: Headington
Department(s): School of Law and Social Sciences
Overview
Our degree gives you the critical thinking, communication, and advocacy skills to prepare you for a successful legal career. Study the foundations of the English legal system including Public Law, Contract Law, and Criminal Law, and explore exciting optional modules such as Environmental Law and Computer Law and AI.
Our award-winning and active research staff provide a wide range of activities and events for you to build the legal skills you’ll need in practice and gain practical legal experience. You’ll have opportunities to;
- build key practical skills through mooting and client interviewing
- access to mentoring schemes and employability opportunities
- meet practising lawyers and benefit from our links with the legal profession.
We also offer two specialist pathways: LLB Commercial Law and LLB Criminal Law. Your tutors can support you in deciding whether to follow one of these.
Our graduates go on to careers as barristers and solicitors, or take their sought-after skills into other industries. With the connections you’ll make at Oxford Brookes, you’ll have plenty of options.
Why Oxford Brookes University?
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You’re our priority
Help is always easy to access. You’ll have regular meetings with your Academic Advisor, who will be a member of academic staff from the School of Law.
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Gain practical experience
Academic staff will help you make the most of extra-curricular opportunities including client interviewing and pro bono opportunities.
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Test your legal skills
Try mooting and test your skills of legal argument and communication in our Moot court.
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Tailor your degree
Choose between an LLB in law, commercial law, or criminal justice.
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Taught by experts
Many tutors are involved in high profile legal research which informs their teaching.
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Free language courses
Free language courses are available to full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students on many of our courses, and can be taken as a credit on some courses.
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Study abroad
You may be able to go on a European or international study exchange while you are at Oxford Brookes. Most exchanges take place after the second year. Although we will help as much as we can with your plans, ultimately you are responsible for organising and funding this study abroad.
Course details
Study modules
Teaching for this course takes place face to face and you can expect around 7 hours of contact time per week. In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.
Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.
Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.
Careers
After completing the course, you’ll be ready to take the next steps towards a legal career. A law degree can lead to a variety of careers.Take a look at our Routes to Legal Qualification page, that show you the paths into a legal career. You could take the Bar Course and become a barrister, or start your preparation for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam. Not all of our Law graduates go into the legal profession, however; all sorts of other options will be open to you.
For example, our graduates have also joined the Police and the Civil Service, and one is now a Senior Policy Adviser in the Home Office. Whatever your plans, you’ll have developed a range of skills which will make you a valuable employee.
To gain further specialist legal knowledge and carve your own career path, you could undertake one of our specialist postgraduate LLM programmes. See our LLM Master of Laws for more information.
Student profiles
Our Staff
Mr Chris Lloyd
Chris Lloyd is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, where he researches, teaches, and publishes on criminal law and legal theory. He is the LLB Subject Coordinator.
Read more about ChrisProfessor Sonia Morano-Foadi
Sonia's main area of research currently is EU law and in particular Citizenship, Migration and Human Rights within the EU. She also teaches in the area.
Read more about SoniaRelated courses
Entry requirements
Wherever possible we make our conditional offers using the UCAS Tariff. The combination of A-level grades listed here would be just one way of achieving the UCAS Tariff points for this course.
Standard offer
UCAS Tariff Points: 120 (Law)
A Level: BBB
IB Points: 31
BTEC: DDM
Contextual offer
UCAS Tariff Points: 88 - 96
A Level: CCD - CCC
IB Points: 27
BTEC: MMM
Further offer details
We review each application individually and will be flexible in the offer we make. Where we can see an applicant is studying subjects that support the development of skills beneficial to the study of Law we will make a lower offer. These skills include critical thinking, problem solving and high-quality written communication.
Applications are also welcomed for consideration from applicants with European qualifications, international qualifications or recognised foundation courses. For advice on eligibility please contact Admissions: admissions@brookes.ac.uk
Specific entry requirements
Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
English language requirements
If English is not your first language, we will need proof of your English language ability: IELTS (6.5 or above).
Please also see the University's standard English language requirements.
Pathways courses for international and EU students
If you do not meet the entry requirements for this degree, or if you would like more preparation before you start, you can take an international foundation course. Once you enrol, you will have a guaranteed pathway to this degree if you pass your foundation course with the required grades.
If you only need to meet the language requirements, you can take our pre-sessional English course. You will develop key language and study skills for academic success and you will not need to take an external language test to progress to your degree.
English requirements for visas
If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Visas and Immigration minimum language requirements as well as the University's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.
Credit transfer
Many of our courses consider applications for entry part-way through the course for students who have credit from previous learning or relevant professional experience.
Find out more about transferring to Brookes. If you'd like to talk through your options, please contact our Admissions team.
Terms and Conditions of Enrolment
When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
International qualifications and equivalences
How to apply
Application process
Full time international applicants can also apply through UCAS
Tuition fees
Questions about fees?
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Tuition fees
Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.
Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.
The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support.
How and when to pay
Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.
- For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
- For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page
Financial support and scholarships
Additional costs
Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.
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Full-time study
Part-time study
Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been
published on the website. For more information, please visit our
changes to programmes page.