Law, LLB (Hons)

Course summary

Develop your legal skills and knowledge – and build valuable, real-life legal experience – with our highly practical LLB Law.Join the University of Reading’s School of Law, where you’ll benefit from the expertise and practice of established legal scholars and enjoy a global community. We actively shape law and policy; our experts regularly contribute to international and UK policy development and law reforms, and we encourage students to learn and question the purpose and impact of laws. Our LLB course is accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board and provides you with the first qualification for entry into the legal profession. In the first two years of the LLB, you are provided with the foundations of legal knowledge through modules in core areas, including criminal law, contract law and public law. From your first year, you will also be able to choose from a range of specialist optional modules depending on your interests. You can choose to complement your legal study with modules from outside our School, including languages, politics, and business courses such as entrepreneurship. In the final year of your degree, focus on your interests by selecting from a wide range of popular modules, including: Technology, Privacy and Internet Regulation, Foundations of International Law, Banking Law, Commercial Law, Family Law.For more information, please visit the programme page: https://www.reading.ac.uk/ready-to-study/study/subject-area/law-ug/llb-law

The following modules have been approved in principle for delivery in 2025/26. Please note that as part of our current curriculum improvement process, all modules require final University approval and may be subject to change. Core modules on this course: Contract; Criminal Law; English Legal Systems and Skills; Public Law 1; Tort; Equity and Trusts; Land Law; EU Law The University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them. Further information about the content of final approved modules will be available in the summer of 2024. We suggest that you regularly revisit our course page during this time to ensure you have the most up-to-date information regarding the modules offered on this programme. Check our website for more details about the course structure.