Introduction
This graduate-entry LLB (Hons) is an accelerated, two-year Qualifying Law Degree which includes a two-week International Legal Studies immersion in Toronto. This degree offers the unrivalled opportunity to study in two of the world’s largest international legal hubs and offers a pathway to study the LLM at Northeastern University in Boston.
Overview
Award: LLB (Hons) Law with International Legal Studies (Senior Status) – Subject to Approval
Location: Bloomsbury, London
Study Abroad: Bay Street, Toronto
Study mode: Full-time
Duration: Two years
Start date: 21st September 2020
Annual tuition fees:
Home: £9,250
International: £14,000
Toronto Immersion fees: £2,000 (excludes travel to/from Toronto)
Scholarships available: £2,000
Faculty & Research: Law Faculty
Programme Specifications: Subject to approval.
Summary
For ambitious graduates, this accelerated LLB provides an intensive, academically rigorous and fulfilling way to start your legal career. It has been designed with the needs of those seeking international qualifications and practice in mind.
Students on the Senior Status LLB will attend a two-week International Legal Studies immersion programme in downtown Toronto, Ontario, the content of which has been informed by the involvement of Magic Circle and Am Law 100 firms. As well as broadening your understanding of the complexities of international legal practice from the setting of a dynamic, international business hub, this immersive learning experience will explore legal career pathways in Canada as a UK-qualified lawyer.
In addition to the courses required for a Qualifying Law Degree, Senior Status students can take a range of optional courses including Company Law, Competition Law, and Legal Research and Advocacy, a course designed to enhance your preparation and presentation of written and oral legal arguments and to develop your understanding and practice of litigation.
The programme offers a breadth of educational opportunity to its students alongside academic depth. Senior Status LLB students are able to maintain their undergraduate academic interests or explore entirely new disciplines, by taking elective subjects from many of the College’s faculties. An interdisciplinary element to your Law degree improves your capacity to appreciate alternative and innovative perspectives and can demonstrate a multi-faceted skill set to future employers.
The College is part of Northeastern University’s global university network, which includes a number of campus locations in the US and Canada. Northeastern’s American Bar Association-accredited Law School has been instrumental in developing this programme alongside NCH Law Faculty members with significant professional experience practising in multiple jurisdictions. This Senior Status LLB provides graduates with a legal qualification that has a truly global focus.
Structure
The LLB (Hons) Law with International Legal Studies is a 360-credit, two-year programme.
Students will complete eight compulsory courses, which consist of the seven courses that fulfil the requirements for a Qualifying Law Degree, in addition to a two-week International Legal Studies immersion in Toronto, which will take place during the summer between the first and second years of study.
Students will also complete four optional courses, which can include further and specialist Law study, elective course choices from any other faculty and a 7,000-word dissertation and viva in the final year.
Teaching
You will typically experience an average of 10 or more hours of high-quality contact time in each teaching week, in considerably smaller groups than the norm for UK institutions.
Teaching and learning take place in the form of lectures and small group seminars, facilitating the forms of discussion and debate which are advantageous to the study of Law.
Assessment
Students will be assessed through a mixture of examination and written assignments. The exact proportion will depend on the choice of optional and elective courses.
Career Development
NCH Law students enjoy access to a dedicated Law Careers Counsellor who will guide you to understand and assemble the personal and professional experiences that will make you a compelling candidate in order to achieve your career ambition.
New College of the Humanities has formed a strategic partnership with Northeastern University in Boston, MA, providing global opportunities for our graduates. As part of Northeastern University’s network, alumni of this programme are eligible for Northeastern’s Double Husky Scholarship, providing a 25% fee waiver for their one-year LLM, which examines international law from a US perspective with an immersion week in Northern California, preparing students to take the California bar exam.
This LLM can be studied via distance learning alongside preparations for qualifying NCA exams in Canada.
Courses
In your first Year
Compulsory
Contract Law, 30 Credits
Law of Tort, 30 Credits
Criminal Law, 30 Credits
Public Law, 30 Credits
International Legal Studies Immersion, 30 Credits
Select one course from
Legal Research & Advocacy, 30 Credits
Any 30-credit elective course of your choice, 30 Credits
In your second year
Compulsory
Equity & the Law of Trusts, 30 Credits
Law of Property, 30 Credits
Law of the European Union, 30 Credits
Choose three courses from
Company Law, 30 Credits
Competition Law, 30 Credits
Law Dissertation, 30 Credits
Any 30-credit elective course of your choice, 30 Credits
Entry Requirements
Entry requirements for the Law LLB (Hons) Senior Status with International Legal Studies at NCH London.
Graduates
Offers are typically made to applicants holding an upper second-class honours bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a UK university, a bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a Canadian university with a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale, or the international equivalent.
Professionals
NCH welcomes applications from mature students who may have been out of education for a while who have equivalent professional experience.
Each applicant will be assessed on an individual basis through their application, reference and interview.
Accreditation
The Law LLB (Hons) Senior Status with International Legal Studies is accredited by the SRA (England and Wales) as a Qualifying Law Degree and as such is accepted by the NCA (Canada) as a route to qualification in Canada, in combination with stipulated NCA exams, subject to minimum academic requirements.
This programme is not offered at or supported by a Canadian institution and is not authorised by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.
