Legal Practice (LLB) - 2012 entry
LLB (Hons)
Overview
Students who take both the GDL and LPC courses at Oxford Brookes University have the option of receiving an LLB (Hons) (Legal Practice) degree. You will spend the first year of the LLB (Hons) Legal Practice at Oxford Brookes studying for the Graduate Diploma in Law. The second year will be spent at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (OXILP) studying the Legal Practice Course (the professional qualification for those intending to practise as solicitors).
Why Brookes?
OXILP prides itself on the level of one-to-one support it can offer its students. Due to its relatively small size, in premises centred in and around Headington Hill Hall, OXILP has a friendly, collegial atmosphere where students are treated as individuals.
All of the tutors at OXILP are ex-practitioners who teach the areas in which they practised.
The OXILP LPC is endorsed by many leading leading firms of solicitors including Henmans, Ince & Co, Orrick, Clarke Willmott, Manches and Morgan Cole.
In detail
School of Law
Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesCourse content
Year 1
See the course entry for the GDL.
Year 2
See the course entry for the LPC.
Teaching, learning and assessment
You will attend lectures, seminars and workshops as various required by the GDL and LPC. All the tutors who teach on the LPC are qualified barristers or solicitors.
Quality
All our LPC teachers are qualified solicitors or barristers who teach what they practised. Although we use a blended model of face to face and e-learning, our teaching methods are based on the primacy of learning from master practitioners.
Free language courses for students - the Open Module
Free language courses are available to all full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students who are studying any course on our Headington (including Marston Road), Harcourt Hill or Wheatley Campuses, and can be taken as a credit on some courses.
Key facts
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department
Course length
Full-time: 2 years (first year studying GDL, second year studying LPC)
Part-time: 4 years
Teaching location
Headington Campus, Headington Hill
Start date
September 2012
Apply / Entry reqs
Entry requirements
GDL admission requirements are normally a 2.1 honours degree (or equivalent) and evidence of a commitment to the legal profession.
English language requirements
To enrol on the GDL, students whose first language is not English will need A-level English, or a TOEFL score of at least 100 (internet-based score), or an IELTS score of 7.0, or UCLES Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade B or above.
Please also see the university's standard English language requirements.
Please also see the university's standard English language requirements.
English language requirements for visas
If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Border Agency's minimum language requirements as well as the university's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.
Preparation courses for international and EU students
We offer a range of courses to help you meet the entry requirements for this course and also familiarise you with university life. You may also be able to apply for one student visa to cover both courses.
- Take our Pre-Master's course to help you to meet both the English language and academic entry requirements for your master's course
- Take our University English course to help you to meet the English language requirements of your master's course
How to apply
Students may begin the LPC after satisfactorily completing the Oxford Brookes GDL.
See individual course profiles for LPC and GDL entry requirements.
Conditions of acceptance
When you accept our offer you agree to the conditions of acceptance. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
Credit transfer
Oxford Brookes operates the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). All postgraduate single modules are equivalent to 10 ECTS credits, double modules to 20 ECTS credits, and treble modules to 30 ECTS credits. A full master's course will carry 90 ECTS credits. More about ECTS credits.
Fees / funding
TUITION FEES
Questions about fees?
Contact Student Finance on:
+44 (0)1865 483088
finance-fees@brookes.ac.uk
Scholarships and funding
For general sources of financial support, see:
Oxford
Why Oxford is a great place to study Legal Practice (LLB)
Oxford has a thriving legal community and is attractive to many leading law firms due to its position in the Thames Valley and its proximity to London. Being right at the centre of the UK’s most successful economic region means you are ideally placed to approach a range of highly successful local and City of London legal firms for training contracts and future employment. Regular buses, stopping just outside the university, link Oxford to the centre of London so making contact and attending interviews is very easy.
In addition to our own excellent libraries and resource centres, our students have access to the world-renowned Bodleian Law Library, and can attend the careers and law fairs held at Oxford University.
Support
Support for students studying Legal Practice (LLB)
See individual GDL and LPC course profiles.
How Brookes supports postgraduate students
Supporting your learning
From academic advisers and support co-ordinators to specialist subject librarians and other learning support staff, we want to ensure that you get the best out of your studies.
Personal support services
We want your time at Brookes to be as enjoyable and successful as possible. That's why we provide all the facilities you need to be relaxed, happy and healthy throughout your studies.
Research
Departmental research highlights
- LLM lecturer, Dr Zeray Yihdego, was nominated by the Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to serve as a member of an expert group on the UN Firearms Protocol 2001. The group supplements the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and will consider draft model legislation.
- Professor Peter Edge’s research brought together a host of eminent legal scholars from Britain and the Islamic world at our recent conference exploring the interaction between Shariah and other transnational legal systems. The conference debated Eurocentric and Shariah approaches to legal globalisation, the global financial crisis and the obligations and rights of Muslim minorities.
- Professor Lucy Vickers’ research into the legal obligations of employers to protect employees from harassment and religious discrimination has led to commissions from the Institute of Employment Rights and the European Commission. Her most recent work Promoting Equality or Fostering Resentment? The Public Sector Equality Duty and Religion and Belief will be published later this year.
- Sonia Morano-Foadi, recently interviewed and quoted in The Economist, secured £12,000 from the European Science Foundation to fund exploratory work into the effects of EU directives on migration and asylum.
- More than 40 international lawyers from the UK and other countries came to Oxford Brookes for last year’s annual conference of the International Law Association organised by Dr Dawn Sedman. Stimulating sessions included The role of the judiciary; Business and human rights; Justice, ICC and the Security Council and Monitoring rights’ compliance.
- Commissioned by UNHCR to report on asylum seekers and refugees in Japan and expert in Japanese civil liberties and human rights, Head of Law, Professor Meryll Dean has been made a member of the Advisory Board of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL).
Research excellence
In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 85% of our work was judged to be of international quality, with 10% judged to be 'world leading' in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
Our Centre for Legal Research and Policy provides a focus for research and a bank of expertise for the application of the law in policy-related areas. It fosters relationships with outside agencies and other academic institutions as well as facilitating debate and promoting interdisciplinary research within the university. It is a forum for all law staff and students at Oxford Brookes who are engaged in research activities and comprises the following research groups:
- Applied Study of Law and Religion
- Criminal Justice
- Critical Approaches to Law
- Human Rights
- Migration Research
- Public International Law.
