Undergraduate degrees
Our School of Law offers you a range of three and four-year courses. All
our LLB courses are qualifying law degrees, which means you can go straight
into professional training to become a solicitor or barrister after
completing your studies.
Our joint degrees allow you to study law plus politics, philosophy or
human rights - all subjects our University has a national and international
reputation in.
Full details of all our courses are available in our
course finder.
Three-Year Undergraduate Courses
LLB Law (M100 LLB)
Location: Colchester Campus.
Our LLB Law course will develop your critical awareness of the nature of
law in its social, political and economic contexts, and lets you develop an
approach to the discipline which enables you to see each subject area as
part of an integrated whole.
Full details of LLB Law
BA Philosophy and Law (MVC5 BA/PhLS)
Location: Colchester Campus.
Taught jointly by the School of Law and School of Philosophy and Art
History Our BA Philosophy and Law course will give you the opportunity to
study a wide range of philosophical and legal topics.
Full details on BA Philosophy and Law
BA Politics and Law (LM21 BA/PL)
Location: Colchester Campus.
Taught jointly by our School of Law and Department of Government. Our BA
Politics and Law course will allow you to develop the critical, reflexive
and analytical skills that are common to both disciplines.
Full details on BA Politics and Law
BA Law and Human Rights (M1M9 LHR)
Location: Colchester Campus.
Taught jointly by our School of Law and our Human Rights Centre, our BA
Law and Human Rights course will give you a rigorous academic training in
the discipline of law with a detailed focus on human rights.
Full details on BA Law and Human Rights
Four-year undergraduate courses
LLB English and French Laws (with Maîtrise Master 1) (M122 LLB/EFLM)
Location: Colchester Campus.
The first two years of our LLB English and French Laws are spent at
Essex, where you will take the modules needed to ensure your course is a
‘qualifying’ law course for the purposes of practice in the UK (with the
exception of Law of the European Union, which is studied abroad). The third
and fourth years are spent at one of our three partner institutions in
France, where modules are taken to permit you to obtain the Licence en Droit
and Maîtrise/Master 1.
Full details on LLB English and French Laws
LLB Laws (Study Abroad) (M120 LLB/EEL)
Location: Colchester Campus.
Our LLB Laws (Study Abroad) is a four-year course which enables you to
spend your third year at one of our partner universities. Information about
studying abroad.
Full details on LLB in Laws (Study Abroad)
LLB Law and Philosophy (MV15 LLB/LPh)
Location: Colchester Campus.
Our LLB Law and Philosophy course offers you the opportunity to study a
wide range of philosophical and legal topics. You will apply methods of
philosophical analysis to legal issues and foster an awareness of the legal
dimensions of moral and ethical issues.
Full details on LLB Law and Philosophy
LLB Law and Human Rights (MM19 LLBLawHR)
Location: Colchester Campus.
Our LLB Law and Human Rights trains you in the discipline of law with a
detailed focus on human rights. It enables you to engage in a discourse on
human rights law informed by thinking on rights from political,
sociological, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives.
Full details on LLB Law and Human Rights
LLB Law and Politics (ML12 LLB/LawPol)
Location: Colchester Campus.
Our LLB Law and Politics course will enable you to develop the critical,
reflexive and analytical skills that are common to both disciplines.
Full details on LLB Law and
Politics