LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology in Keele University

You will learn the key principles and doctrines underlying English, European and International law and develop an understanding of its social, political, historical, and comparative contexts. Practical experience could be developed by participating in mooting (practicing oral arguments), client interviewing, and volunteering (subject to a selection process) as a Community Legal Companion as part of our innovative CLOCK program, or in our Divorce or Commercial Law Legal Advice Clinics.

Year 1

• Understanding Crime
• Criminal Justice: Process, Policy, Practice
• Constitutional Law
• Obligations 1 – Contract
• Legal Essentials
• Administrative law
• Obligations 2 – Torts
• Introduction to Property Law

Year 2

• Crime and Justice in a Global Context
• Research Methods in Criminology
• Obligations 3 – Remedies in Contract and Tort
• Law of Real Property
• Criminal Law
• EU Law

OPTIONAL MODULES

• Introduction to Public International Law
• Law and ethics
• Family Law – FHEQ Level 5
• Key Concepts in Employment Law
• Law in Action
• Mental Health Law – FHEQ Level 5
• Controversies in intellectual property law
• Civil Litigation

Year 3

• Law of Trust
• Contemporary Case Law Critique

OPTIONAL MODULES

• CAB Legal Placement Project
• Child Law
• Commercial Law
• Criminal Evidence
• International Human Rights
• Jurisprudence
• Health Care Law
• Professional Legal Skills
• Company Law
• The Practice of Criminal Litigation
• Disability Law
• Gender, Sexuality, and Law
• Law and New Technologies
• Transnational Crime
• State Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
• Youth Justice and Crime
• Prisons and Imprisonment
• Living with ‘Aliens’: Immigration, Crime, and Social Control

Employability

This degree will provide students with the knowledge and current professional exemptions needed to train to become a solicitor or barristers. It will also prepare you for a wide range of other career opportunities including the police, probation, prison, the court’s services, community safety, human rights, transnational law, social work, or the civil service. We provide numerous opportunities embedded into modules and the co-curriculum for you to develop key graduate capabilities, helping to prepare you for life after university. Law modules are designed to develop the essential skills of analysis, reasoning, and clear presentation of facts and legal arguments. Because the law is always changing, you will learn to develop a capacity for responding to new challenges, and this produces flexibility and precision that will assist students when seeking employment. Keele School of Law is committed to providing a legal education that helps our graduates to stand out from the crowd.