Law (with integrated foundation year)

Our modern Law degree will give you the skills and knowledge to navigate the English legal system and comparative legal frameworks, preparing you for a successful career in a rapidly changing environment.
You will be supported by experienced academics who draw on their diverse legal backgrounds to bring real-world insight and relevance to your studies. Their experience transpires in their teaching excellence – we are rated 1st in the UK for Student Satisfaction with Feedback (Guardian League Tables 2026).
Your journey begins with an introductory foundation year, designed to develop your skills, confidence, and core knowledge in a supportive environment. This year helps you build strong academic foundations, ensuring you’re fully prepared to progress smoothly onto the undergraduate LLB degree.
Learning is hands-on. You will participate in mock trials, negotiations and immersive simulations covering civil and criminal dimensions, while visits to courts and local law firms will prepare you for contemporary legal practice in the cyber environment.
Through our strong local and regional partnerships, you will gain opportunities for work placements, networking, and career development. You can also enhance your skills through national competitions, such as the Client Interviewing Competition, and engage with guest speakers from law firms, public bodies, and sector networks.
At Cumbria, you will enjoy a learning experience that is locally rooted, nationally connected, and globally relevant, turning knowledge into opportunity and providing a solid foundation for your legal career.

Module Examples

• Legal Skills

• Contract Law

• The Law of Torts

• Constitutional Law

• Criminal Law

• Lawyering in a Digital Age

• Equity and Trusts

• Business and Employment Law

• Law in Action

https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate/law-with-integrated-foundation-year/

Whether graded or not, assessments are an integral part of learning. This programme aims to deliver engaging and challenging opportunities to demonstrate your learning.
In your foundation year, you will be introduced to a variety of assessment types you may encounter across your degree. Knowledge will be tested formally in seminars, workshops, and individual or group tasks. Whereas, summative assessments aim to build on formative assessments at set times throughout the year. Deadlines and assessment outlines will be supplied by tutors and available to view on Blackboard.
In your second year (Level 4), you will create a reflective portfolio to aid in personal development. Tutors will regularly give feedback on the contents of this portfolio throughout the year and prior to submission. This portfolio will then be used throughout your third and fourth years (Levels 5 and 6) as a place for further reflection.
Formative assessments may include legal research, presentations, teamwork, and critical analysis through essays and reports, research proposals, poster and oral presentations, moots, multiple-choice tests, mock trials, and written examinations.
There is a strong emphasis on group working across the foundation year through class activities and assessments with students having the opportunity to do group presentations and investigations and to set up and run an event or social enterprise.