**Overview**
If you're interested in law and you're curious about foreign policy and international thought, this LLB (Hons) Law with International Relations degree course will match your interests.
The course is a qualifying law degree (QLD), which means it gives you the core legal knowledge to progress to the Legal Practice Course (LPC) or Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) to train as a solicitor or barrister. In your final year, you can also choose to take the CILEx Graduate fast-track diploma. This allows you to qualify as a Chartered Legal Executive following further professional experience.
As well as core legal subjects, you’ll get to choose from various optional modules to suit your own interests. These currently include Commercial Law, Employment Law and Jurisprudence.
After the course, you could continue your legal training or take up employment in areas such as finance, commerce, recruitment or the public sector. You could also continue your studies on a Master’s degree.
**Accredited by:**
This course is accredited by Bar Standards Board and Solicitors Regulation Authority.
**What you'll experience**
On this course, you can:
* Bring what you learn to life in mock trials in our replica of a crown court, complete with dock, witness box, public gallery, jury room and interview room
* Use your skills advising members of the public on a variety of aspects of the law, by working in one of our community settings
* Opt for the CILEx Graduate Fast-track Diploma (Level 6 Diploma in Legal Practice) in your final year, which allows you to qualify as a Chartered Legal Executive lawyer when you get further experience after the course
* Join our student law society and take part in team competitions such as negotiation and mooting
* Develop your understanding of global affairs and foreign political systems
**Careers and opportunities**
After the course, you could progress to a graduate training scheme, go straight into employment in the private, public or voluntary sector, or continue your studies.
If you chose a career in law, you can do the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) or Legal Practice Course (LPC), which are the traditional routes to becoming a barrister or solicitor.
If you take the CILEx Graduate Fast-track Diploma module in your final year, you can work as legal executive or paralegal when you graduate and become a Chartered Legal Executive lawyer following 3 years of qualifying employment. This gives you similar career opportunities to barristers and solicitors.
**What can you do with a Law with International Relations degree?**
You could work in areas such as:
* government
* international organisations and multinational corporations
* non-governmental organisations
* pressure groups
* voluntary organisations
* policy research
* the media
**What jobs can you do with a Law with International Relations degree?**
Roles our graduates have taken on include:
* designated detention officer
* paralegal
* business development executive
* environmental crime officer
* trainee probation officer
* firearms licensing operator administrator
After you leave the University, you can get help, advice and support for up to 5 years from our Careers and Employability service as you advance in your career.
Course Details - Modules
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- English Legal System
- Contract Law
- Criminal Law
- Public Law
- Key themes in International Relations
- Tort
There are no optional modules in this year.
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Analysing Foreign and Security Policy
- Equity and Trusts (Level 5)
- Human Rights Law (Level 5)
- International Thought
- Land Law
- Legal Writing and Research
There are no optional modules in this year.
Placement year (optional)
On this course, you can do an optional work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years to get valuable experience working in industry. We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your situation and ambitions. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.
Year 3
Core modules in this year include:
- European Union Law
- Human Rights Law (Level 6)
- Public International Law
Optional modules in this year currently include:
- Advocacy, Practice and Theory
- CILEx Level 6 Practice
- Commercial Law (Level 6)
- Community Lawyer
- Dispute Resolution Skills
- Employment Law
- Equity and Trusts
- Family and Child Law
- Landlord and Tenent Law (Level 6)
- Law in Practice
- Law of Succession
- Legal Dissertation
- Legal Project
- Social Care Law
- White Collar Crime
We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies.
Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry and some optional modules may not run every year. If a module doesn’t run, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.
Course Details – Assessment Method
The way you qualify as a solicitor is changing and we want to make sure that we prepare you as much as possible for the new SQE exams. The SQE exams are multiple choice, so we're adapting our assessment methods so that you're confident with this method of assessment.
Your assessment will depend on which modules you take, but it's likely to include:
exams
problem scenarios
written reports and essays
presentations
practical projects
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Bar Standards Board
Solicitors Regulation Authority
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
M1L2
Institution code:
P80
Campus Name:
Main Site
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry.
If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
128-136 points from 3 A levels or equivalent.
128-136 points from 3 A levels or equivalent.
128-138 Tariff points from the Access to HE Diploma.
128-136 Tariff points.
Acceptable when combined with other qualifications.
30 points from the IB Diploma. 665 at Higher Level - 31 points from the IB Diploma. 765/774 at Higher Level.
Acceptable when combined with other qualifications.
Cambridge Pre-U score of 60-62.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.5
English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 6.0.
PTE Academic
61.0
An overall score of 61 with a minimum of 54 in each skill.
TOEFL (iBT)
91.0
91 with a minimum of 20 in Reading, 19 in Listening, 21 in Speaking and 20 in Writing
Cambridge English Advanced
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015.
An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 169.
Cambridge English Proficiency
Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015.
An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 169.
Trinity ISE
Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components
English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.
Unistats information
Student satisfaction :
0%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
0%
Go onto work and study:
0%
Fees and funding
EU
9250.0
Year 1
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
Channel Islands
9250.0
Year 1
Republic of Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
International
16200.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship
Placement Year and Year abroad:
UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £925 |
EU – £925 (including Transition Scholarship)|
International (Non-EU) – £1,800.
Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice.
Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation.
For more information about fees, go to port.ac.uk/ug-tuition-fees
Provider information
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP
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