LLB (Hons) Law Bachelor's degree at Birmingham City University

This module explores two key questions: 'What is the law?' and 'How does the law work in England and Wales?' It offers a vital foundation for your legal studies and is essential for anyone aiming to become a legal professional in England and Wales

This is a compulsory module that has been curated to examine fundamental concepts of criminal law. The module aims to provide you with a broad overview of the fundamental legal principles and concepts of criminal law. This overview will be conducted through the examination of criminal offences against the person and property along with general defences.

Legal Thinking and Study Skills is the module where you start to learn how to think like a lawyer and we teach you some of your basic study skills. To think like lawyer means being able to construct arguments. This will be a vital skill for the rest of your degree and life beyond. We will teach how to take an informed position on a controversial issue of injustice in society. We will do this by teaching you how to analyse famous cases on topics such as race and policing, exclusion and religion,

Public Law is a core module which incorporates Constitutional, Administrative, Human Rights and European Union Law. The module is designed to deliver two of the seven foundations of legal knowledge required by the Bar Standards Board (Constitutional, Administrative and Human Rights Law; and EU law in context). The module will build on the knowledge of the UK legal system and relevant political institutions gained in Legal Systems in Semester 1.

This module provides students with an understanding of Contract Law by locating their study within a carefully designed employability framework. Embracing employability, Contract Law is explained through workshop activities that simulate a legal working environment where students are part of a legal team under the supervision of their tutor, acting as their potential employer.

his is a compulsory module at Level 4 Semester 2, which is essential for you to pass and complete if you aspire to become a barrister, as per the Bar Standards Board. This module has been designed to prepare you with the knowledge for some aspects of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam and thereby, demonstrates its practical importance for the legal working world.

This is a compulsory Level 5 module designed to help you develop and demonstrate a range of professional and employability-focused skills essential for academic success, graduate employment, and future legal practice. It serves as a key bridge between core legal knowledge and more advanced experiential learning modules such as Law in Practice at Level 6

This is a compulsory module which has been designed to align with aspects of the functioning legal knowledge of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam. The module builds on the transferable skills that you developed at Level 4 and will further these skills. It will also provide a foundation to Level 6 modules, in particular the core module, Equity & Trusts.

The module explores the five main institutions of the criminal justice system: the police, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the courts, the prison system, and the probation service. You will examine the role, function, and interrelationship of each institution, while also engaging with a range of contemporary challenges that impact their operations, such as austerity, technology, public confidence, and equality of access to justice.

The module will provide you with a comprehensive overview of key aspects and legal principles governing UK companies. The module will focus on the formation, management and decision-making within private limited companies, as well as insolvency procedures. This module builds on knowledge acquired in the Contract Law module at level 4 and in particular, your prior knowledge of the formation of contracts will be relevant to further discussions on commercial arrangements where companies are contrac

This module introduces you to some of the key elements of practice in criminal litigation. It covers the most common offences seen in practice (sexual and violent offences). It provides you with a firm grounding in criminal litigation by covering the law surrounding police investigations and the key legal principles in proceedings in the Magistrates Courts and the Crown Court. You will also learn about many of the vulnerable individuals that you will encounter in the criminal justice system, and

This module will help you develop a critical and well-rounded approach to analysing complex medical decisions by using both legal sources as well as ethical approaches. This will enable you to independently assess a variety of legal and non-legal viewpoints and formulate reasoned positions in a clear and coherent manner.

This module introduces you to the core principles and processes of criminal law and procedure in the United States. You'll explore key constitutional protections and the structure of the US criminal justice system, with attention to how it operates across both federal and state levels. Using a "relational learning" approach, you'll engage with real and fictional case files to apply legal principles in practical and critical contexts

The module will explore the relationship between the United Kingdom's human rights obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (codified at domestic level in the Human Rights Act) and the criminal justice system in England and Wales. You will learn to identify the Convention rights which may apply at each stage of the criminal justice process, and to critically analyse and evaluate the reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights in its decisions on criminal justice issues.

The module aims to balance both theoretical and practical elements of ADR, including negotiation, mediation and arbitration. The module provides fundamental knowledge and transferable skills used in the placement modules or clinical placement modules by providing you with workplace and dispute resolution skills.

The module will provide a general overview of the ways in which a person's ideas, inventions, business reputation and creations can be protected both nationally and internationally. Intellectual property can be defined as those products of the mind to which the law grants the author/creator legal protection and hence the enhanced ability to exploit. You will examine the reasons behind intellectual property laws including a review of copyright, patents and trademarks.

The Level 5 Placement Module is an optional module. The module aims to provide you with an opportunity to work on real cases within a supervised setting either within Citizens Advice or at another placement provider. If working with Citizens Advice you will start training two days per week from the July at the end of Level 4 for a period of eight weeks and then from the start of Level 5 you will work one day per week at a Citizens Advice office. If working with another placement provider, it is

Module Overview Family Law is an optional module that forms part of the students' choices on the programme, providing a grounding in the principles of Family Law. Students will focus on foundational areas, including laws related to marriage and separation, divorce, child disputes, and domestic abuse, as well as the involvement of local authorities.