Law (Hons) Northeastern University London

Overview

The LLB (Hons) Law programme at Northeastern University London is designed to provide a rigorous foundation in legal study while enabling students to shape their academic and professional trajectories. It combines the Foundations of Legal Knowledge with a wide range of elective opportunities, allowing students to align their studies with their interests, values, and career ambitions while developing the intellectual, practical, and professional capabilities required of contemporary legal graduates.

Their curriculum offers ample opportunities to engage with practical legal issues, and spans the relationship between law, modern life and the economy as well as cross-border issues.

Key facts

• The UK’s ‘unwritten’ constitution, and how the legal system acts to safeguard the rule of law.
• The principles and theory of contract law, including how contracts are formed, enforced and discharged.
• The principles that underpin the criminal law, and the justifications for and criticisms of criminal law doctrine.
• The doctrines that underpin equity and the law of trusts in England and Wales.
• How tort law determines liability for harm, its roots in common law and its dependence on the facts and context of a case.
• Foundations of EU law, including its sources, institutions, and its relationship with the English legal system post-Brexit.
• The core principles of land law in England and Wales, including estates and interests, and the interaction between legal and equitable rights.