Law (Scots and English Dual Qualifying) with Energy Law (Hons) University of Dundee

Overview

The LL.B. Law (Scots and English Dual Qualifying) with Energy Law (Hons) from University of Dundee has a particular focus on law, regulation, and policy in the renewable energy, gas, and nuclear energy sectors.

Discover the foundations of legal knowledge in the Common Law legal tradition as well as Scots Law and develop key transferable skills when you study the 4 year Dual Qualifying LLB. You then have total flexibility to proceed towards qualifying to practise Law in Scotland, England and Wales, or Northern Ireland, as well as many other common law jurisdictions, including Canada and Nigeria. Law graduates are also well placed for a wide variety of other careers, and you will have careers sessions embedded in your course.

Careers

The university supports and develops your career skills as you study.

Their close links to employers will help you to find a job when you graduate.

With its focus on oil and gas and energy law this course is strongly placed to be relevant if you want a career in the energy sector.

This course is fully accredited by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (England and Wales) so when you graduate you will have full flexibility in deciding where to complete your legal training.

They have close links with employers and we offer programmes to support and develop your employability as you study.

A new qualification route to practicing as a solicitor in England and Wales is currently (June 2019) being developed. This will be a centralised Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). This LLB course will still enable you to pursue qualification as a solicitor until after these reforms come in. For more information on these reforms and what they might mean for your journey to practice, visit the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Law graduates work in many different careers. Some choose to practice law as solicitors or barristers, in private practice, in government departments or as in-house counsel in businesses.

Accreditation

This course is fully accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for England and Wales, the Bar Council and the Law Society of Northern Ireland. When you graduate you will have full flexibility in deciding where to complete your legal training.