Law with Economics (Hons)

Overview

Your Law with Economics (Hons) programme at New College of the Humanities will equip you with the skills highly sought after by employers. 

In your degree, you will take all of the courses required for a Qualifying Law Degree, preparing you to take the professional training courses for qualification as a solicitor or barrister. Through your Economics minor, you will learn quantitative skills.

Programme aims

The aims of the major (Law) part of the programme are to:

• Enable students to be awarded with a Qualifying Law Degree which acts as a qualification for those wishing to progress to the vocational and professional stages of training to become solicitors or barristers in England and Wales.

• Provide a thematic basis to academic legal studies which aligns to career paths which are attractive to alumni of the College, in particular careers in which knowledge and understanding of corporate, commercial and employment matters are valuable.

• Provide legal knowledge and skills in areas which align with the College’s LAUNCH programme in developing entrepreneurial abilities.

• Prepare students for further study on postgraduate courses, whether academic (doctoral, masters or other), vocational or professional.

• Encourage the student to think rigorously about economic theory and the origins of economic thought, and help the student understand economic conditions in different institutional, geographic and socio-economic settings.