What are the Best Universities in the UK to study law?

Some of the world's best law schools are located in the United Kingdom. The most traditional route to becoming a lawyer in the United Kingdom is to obtain a law degree (LLB). Students who have completed an undergraduate degree in a field other than law are eligible to enrol in the graduate diploma in the law conversion programme.

Most students will need to complete extra courses and training to specialise. Graduates of the Bar Practice Course (which replaced the Bar Professional Training Course) can study for and practise as barristers in England and Wales, as well as take the Solicitors Qualifying Examination. In this article, I'll only include the absolute best law schools in the United Kingdom.

The University of Oxford has one of the largest law faculties in the United Kingdom. When applying to Oxford for a law degree, you can either send an open application and be appointed to a college upon acceptance, or you can apply directly to one of the 30 colleges that offer law degrees. Law with legal studies in Europe, which includes one year abroad at a university in France, Germany, Italy, or Spain, is one of two undergraduate degree programs available.

 

Since the 13th century, the University of Cambridge has been teaching law. Today, the Law Faculty is well-known for its courses in international and comparative law, jurisprudence, and legal history. The faculty is also well-known for its socio-legal and social-science research. Students will learn about civil, tort, criminal, and constitutional law during their first year of study. Students can specialize in areas such as family law, international law, and commercial law as they progress through their degrees.

The Edinburgh Law School at the University of Edinburgh has a history dating back more than 300 years. There are three undergraduate programs available: the LLB, the joint LLB honours, and the graduate LLB, which is a two-year transition course for students who already have a diploma. A variety of LLM and MSc programs are available for postgraduates in legal areas such as comparative and European private law, worldwide crime, justice and security, and innovative thinking, technology, and the law.

Law is one of the largest departments at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with over 60 faculty members. College students can pursue the LLB Bachelor of Law as well as the double-degree program, which entails a two-year transfer to Columbia University Law School. There are two graduate degree programs available: the LLM master of laws and the executive LLM, which is open to those with at least three years of post-degree legal work experience. For students interested in conducting advanced legal research, the university also offers a PhD program in law. Students and faculty members conduct research in a variety of areas such as corporate law, environmental law, criminal law, and criminal law.

UCL was the first university in the United Kingdom to establish a faculty of common law. It was also the first to grant degrees in English law rather than civil law.

UCL Law offers three programs: undergraduate, master of laws (LLM), and MPhil/PhD. Specializations include the opportunity to transfer to the four-year joint LLB/JD degree, where students spend years three and four at the University of Columbia in New York, in addition to the three-year undergraduate degree. Alternatively, they can combine the law with another legal system LLB, spending their third year at UNSW Sydney, the University of Hong Kong, or the National University of Singapore.

I hope you found this post helpful and perhaps now you aren't confused anymore about where to study law if you plan to in the UK. Cheers to your next degree.