Law with Financial Management

Study the latest developments in legal practice alongside gaining valuable skills in financial management. This course is your first step to qualifying as a solicitor or progressing to a career at the Bar. It also prepares you for roles in the financial and commercial sector, developing your understanding of the principles that underlie the preparation, analysis and interpretation of financial information.

Course accreditation

All our LLB courses cover the Foundation of Legal Knowledge subjects and satisfy the requirements set by the Bar Standards Board for the academic component of Bar training. Upon successfully completing the LLB with a minimum grade of 2:ii, graduates who wish to qualify as barristers will be able to progress on to the Bar training course.

Facilities and specialist equipment

• Recently refurbished Moot Court, equipped with digital technology to ensure it reflects an actual court-room environment

• Leading legal research databases used by professionals, including LexisNexis, Westlaw and HeinOnline

• Oxford Law Trove, an online platform giving students access to the wealth of legal educational materials published by Oxford University Press

• New business analytics suite featuring £300K of industry-standard hardware and software, including Vensim simulation software for an immersive experience

• London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) trading room offering the chance to experience what it’s like to be on the trading-room floor, reacting to live ‘stock-market’ data

• Financial databases such as Sage (via Sage Cloud), LSEG data platform, SPSS Statistics and econometrics tools such as STATA

Career-powered links

We have strong links with local law firms such as Macfarlane, Machins, Greystone and Solomon as well as at Luton County Court and the Crown Prosecution Service.

You can also gain professional supervised practice via our three law clinics: family law, criminal law and law related to asylum seekers.

Your student experience

Opportunity to complete work experience at law firms such as Macfarlanes LLP and Machins Solicitors LLP as well as at Luton County Court and the Crown Prosecution Service. This work experience counts towards your qualification as a solicitor.

Gain professional supervised practice via our three law clinics: family law, criminal law and law related to asylum seekers.

Widen your experience through field trips to the Inns of Court in London, the Houses of Parliament, the UK Supreme Court and Luton Crown Court; you also have opportunities to take part in mooting competitions.

Attend research events organised by our Centre for Research in Law (CRiL) and guest talks by prestigious speakers including arbitrators, judges, renowned academics, Members of Parliament and leading legal practitioners from City law firms.

Course modules

Year 1
Introduction to economics and finance – Explore micro-economics, macro-economics and key finance principles. Criminal law – Overview the criminal process in England and Wales and the governing principles of individual and corporate criminal liability. Contract law – Understand legal principles relating to the formation of contracts, their validity, interpretation, performance and remedies for breach. English legal system – Learn to use sources of legal information to support a sound and well–reasoned legal argument. Academic and legal skills – Understand client management, problem–solving, negotiation, and advanced oral and written communication skills.

Year 2
Financial theory and practice – Gain understanding about contemporary financial instruments and markets. Land law – Explore property and ownership rights in relation to land and the impact these rights have on third parties. Law of tort – Understand civil rights and liabilities and/or other civil law matters. Constitutional and administrative law – In-depth grounding in the constitutional and administrative dimensions of public law.

Year 3
Financial management – Gain skills to maximise shareholder wealth through efficient resource allocation. Equity and trusts – Introduction to equitable jurisdiction with a focus on creation, purpose and enforcement of trusts. Dissertation – Identify a current issue of public interest for in-depth legal analysis and produce legal writing to critically discuss the topic. Company law – Understand the functions of a company when running a business and of the legal framework which regulates companies. Fundamentals of EU law – Understand the main legal principles in the European Union.

Every effort is made to ensure this information is accurate at the point of publication on the UCAS website. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to our website.

The LLB Law with Financial Management programme has been carefully designed to develop a wide range of academic legal and practical skills via a varied portfolio of assessment methods. A developing range of assessments will enable you to grow in confidence and demonstrate your acquisition of knowledge and skills.

The assessment methods used across the course include:

• Written assignments: These may vary from essays and reports to more in-depth research work on broader topics. These assessments will test your ability to analyse an issue, to conduct research, to collect relevant materials, to assess the quality of the materials and to synthesise them into a scholarly answer.

• Examinations: These will cover a range of multiple choice examinations through to in-class tests and essay-based exams. The aim of exams is to test your ability to convey your understanding of a topic and to demonstrate your skills of analysis and evaluation in a time sensitive manner.

• Oral presentations: These presentations demonstrate verbal and presentational skills in communicating information to others. Moot presentations will test your ability to carry out research and present your findings in a persuasive and authoritative manner. They will also introduce the practical skills of court etiquette and procedure.

• Problem questions and case studies: These will allow you to apply your legal or financial knowledge to a real-life scenario.

• Dissertation: This allows you to undertake a complex research project and communicate knowledge findings and recommendations in your final year on the course

The assessments will develop incrementally across the course and allow you to gain skills and acquire knowledge receive feedback and grow, thus allowing you to implement this knowledge and feedback into subsequent assessments. At the end of the course, completion of the assessments will demonstrate your ability to apply, analyse and evaluate current legal and financial knowledge, and communicate this in both written and presentational formats. Thus you will be able to demonstrate a range of transferable skills relevant to your professional employability.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Solicitors Regulation Authority
• Bar Standards Board