Laws University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Overview

Key facts

The LLB Laws programme is offered by University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

If you want to practise law, you need at least an LLB degree. You have several options if you want to study law at Wits: 

The four-year stream

Students enter this stream directly from matric.

The Laws four-year programme from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg comprises mostly law subjects with several Humanity or Commerce subjects at firrst year level. You must take certain core law subjects if you wish to graduate with an LLB. Other subjects form a set of electives you can choose from.

The three-year stream

Students enter this stream after having completed a bachelor’s degree without doing any law courses. Since they have had an opportunity to develop their critical and analytical skills in a first degree, they are equipped to deal with legal studies in an effective manner and may finish the LLB in three years.

The two-year stream

Students enter this stream when they decide to complete a Wits BA(Law) or a BCom(Law) before entering the LLB. Since students are given credit for the law courses completed in the BA or BCom degrees towards the LLB, they can complete the LLB in two years.