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Law with Business

LLB Law (Hons)

UCAS code: M2N1

Start dates: September 2026

Full time: 3 years (4 years with a placement year)

Part time: 6 years

Location: Headington

School(s): Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes Law School

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What legal issues do businesses face? Join our specialist Law with Business LLB programme to build your legal knowledge and gain commercial awareness. You’ll advance your insight and expertise across complementary disciplines.

You’ll develop a deep understanding of the legal context in which businesses operate. You'll explore company law, commercial law and many other legal concepts, values and principles.

There are opportunities to build your skills through mooting and client interviewing, and perhaps even join our nationally-acclaimed mooting team. You’ll also have access to mentoring schemes and employability opportunities through our exciting LawID scheme.

We’re a friendly, supportive community. Tutors will encourage you to join in with our activities and events.

You'll graduate ready for ongoing professional training such as the Bar course for Barristers, or preparation courses for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam.

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Law with Business, DipHE/CertHE/LLB Law Hons degree course students in mooting court at Oxford Brookes University

Why Oxford Brookes University?

  • You’re our priority

    Help is always easy to access with regular meetings with your Academic Advisor, who will be a member of academic staff from the School of Law. Many tutors are involved in high profile legal research which informs their teaching.

  • Gain practical experience

    Academic staff will help you make the most of co-curricular opportunities including client interviewing and law clinics opportunities.

  • Test your legal skills

    Try mooting and test your skills of legal argument and communication in our Moot court.

  • Optional year abroad

    This module provides you with the opportunity to apply and test your subject knowledge, skills and competencies by studying abroad.

  • Specialist knowledge

    Gain understanding of the legal context in which businesses operate.

  • Study abroad

    You may be able to go on a European or international study exchange while you are at Brookes. This typically involves extending the overall duration of your QLD course. Students wishing to extend their course by studying abroad are invited to make further enquiries within the School of Law.

     Although we will help as much as we can with your plans, ultimately you are responsible for organising and funding this study abroad. 

Course details

Course structure

You’ll get to understand key areas of law and business. In year 1, on the business module you’ll take part in a business simulation where you’ll work in a team to make managerial decisions. In other modules, you’ll cover some of the fundamentals of law, such as how contracts are created, and how the relationship between government, Parliament, and the judiciary works.

In year 2, you’ll move on to more advanced modules in law and business. You’ll learn about employment contracts, issues to do with civil loss and harm, and conflicting interests over land. The Company Law for Sustainability module allows you to consider how we can embed sustainability in corporate law and policies.

Year 3 allows you to pursue specialist modules and undertake your own research. On the Independent Study module, with support from our academics, you'll have the opportunity to explore an aspect of law that fascinates you. Other modules, such as Business Ethics, show you how to make moral decisions as a business owner and as a human being.

Law with Business, DipHE/CertHE/LLB Law Hons degree course students in mooting court at Oxford Brookes University

Learning and teaching

Our Law with Business course has been specifically tailored to meet the needs of students who want to cover the academic study from which to build a law career. We offer a selection of modules that have been carefully thought through to provide a focus on discrete areas of law, with a strong emphasis on business. 

Throughout the course, our academic team employ a range of teaching and learning styles. You will be supported at every level of the course, with close access to lecturers, small seminar groups and tutorials. 

You will learn through a variety of teaching and learning methods including: 

  • lectures, seminars and workshops
  • supervised independent learning
  • court visits
  • work with a wide range of practical resources.

During your studies, you’ll gain a range of personal and professional skills which will be a springboard for your future career development in a number of industries.
 

Assessment

We use a range of assessment techniques. In some modules, you’ll be assessed through formal exams. In other modules, you may be assessed through coursework, in-class exercises or other means. 

Professional accreditation

After you complete your LLB, you can go straight to the vocational stage of training. If you want to be a barrister, you’ll be ready to progress to the Bar course. You’ll also have a strong foundation of legal knowledge from which you can move on to prepare for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE).

 

Study modules

Teaching for this course takes place face to face and you can expect around 12 hours of contact time per week. You should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.

Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.
 

Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Legal Methods

    In this module, you’ll gain invaluable legal skills for your degree. You’ll learn to think like a lawyer, and understand:

    • the sources of English law
    • the structures and functions of the UK Courts.

    You’ll also learn:

    • how to critically read and assess statute and case-law
    • how to understand legal arguments
    • how to conduct legal research.

    You’ll dive into the world of English law. You’ll learn to find and understand legal information, and you’ll gain key skills in legal thought and argumentation.

  • Contract Law

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with contract law. You’ll gain a detailed understanding of the formation, operation, and termination of contracts.

    You’ll enhance your legal skills, as you explore:

    • the purpose of contract law
    • formation of contracts
    • mistake and misrepresentation
    • exclusion clauses
    • statutory control of contracts
    • remedies for breach of contract.

  • Criminal Law

    In this module, you’ll develop an understanding of the key principles of criminal responsibility, and build key skills for your degree. You’ll look at individual offences, including:

    • murder and manslaughter
    • theft and burglary
    • offences against the person such as assault and battery.

    You’ll also learn about defences, such as: 

    • insanity and automatism
    • self-defence
    • duress.

  • Foundations of Business

    In this module, you’ll gain a strong understanding of business organisations and how they function in contemporary settings. You’ll develop core practical knowledge as you take examples from current business practice, and apply them to business concepts and theory. The knowledge you gained in this, module will underpin further learnings that you will undertake throughout your degree.

    You’ll have the opportunity to examine the complexities of the interlinkages between the internal and external factors affecting an organisation. For example, you’ll explore the impact of challenges such as globalisation and the increasing pace of change, and how these are evaluated in order to establish a strategy. You’ll apply the lessons learned in lectures to a hand-on business simulation game, where you’ll work as part of a team to make weekly business decisions. You’ll therefore gain the insights, tools and skills necessary for succeeding in a real business context. 

  • Public Law

    In this module, you’ll dig into Public Law, and gain key legal knowledge for your degree. You’ll explore both constitutional and administrative law, including:
    • the relationship between the three key elements of the state - the executive, the legislature and the judiciary 
    • the relationship between the state and its citizens
    • civil liberties and human rights.

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Company Law for Sustainability

    In this module, you’ll learn how sustainability relates to corporate law. You’ll gain excellent practical knowledge for your later module, Business Governance and Human rights. This module also gives you an alternative approach to running a business, if you’ve studied Tort Law for Business.

  • European Union Law

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with the European Union (EU) and its foundations. 

    You’ll examine the history of EU Law and its key institutions such as

    • the European Parliament
    • the Council of the European Union
    • the European Commission.

    You’ll then focus on Union Law, how it relates to national law, and the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union. You’ll explore substantive law, including that relating to free movement of goods and people.
     

  • Land Law

    In this module you’ll get to grips with English Land Law and its key concerns. You’ll explore:

    • the nature of property and land
    • legal and equitable interests in land
    • freeholld and leasehold interests
    • land registration
    • co ownership and trusts.

    You’ll also consider the significance of the Human Rights Act 1998 for Land Law. 

  • Tort Law

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with the law relating to civil wrongs or torts. You’ll explore:

    • the tort of negligence 
    • employers’ liability
    • trespass to land
    • public nuisance
    • trespass to the person
    • defamation
    • privacy
    • vicarious liability.

    You’ll also investigate the significance of human rights law in this area.

Optional modules

  • Employment Law

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with employment law. You’ll look at the difference between a self-employed person and an employee. You’ll analyse:

    • the contract of employment
    • the relationship between employer and employee
    • employment rights, including: 
               - protection against unfair dismissal
               - redundancy rights
               - discrimination.

  • Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

    In this module, you’ll gain a strong knowledge of enterprise, and develop a wide range of relevant entrepreneurial skills. You’ll get to know the rich variety of meanings in enterprise and entrepreneurship. You’ll learn new and innovative ways of thinking about business, increasing your ability to think creatively and effectively for your Law with Business degree. You’ll consider topics including,

    • entrepreneurship
    • intrapreneurship (when an employee acts like an entrepreneur within an organisation)
    • Business spin-offs, including technological ones
    • Social and public enterprise.

  • Environmental Law

    How do societies react to environmental crises? How do we use the law to address environmental problems? In this module, you’ll look at the law relating to environmental protection. You’ll also look beyond the law, and consider the historical, political, ethical and technological context within which environmental law operates. You’ll examine:

    • anthropocentrism vs ecocentrism
    • environmental rights and environmental justice
    • ecology and conservation
    • climate change and risk
    • the ethics of environmental law.

    You’ll develop key critical skills as you consider the fascinating interaction between the law, society and one of the biggest issues facing humanity - the environment.

  • International Business Law

    In this module, you’ll gain a strong understanding of International Business Law. You’ll gain key knowledge of the legal environment of business organisations throughout the world. You’ll gain excellent analytical skills as you compare and contrast these environments, and consider how they affect trading between states. 

  • International Law

    In this module, you’ll explore the key laws of the international community. You’ll examine the origins and basis of international law. You’ll also look at sources of international law, including treaties and customary norms. You’ll enhance your critical skills as you analyse the relationship between international and national law.

    You’ll consider core principles relating to the use of force, and the way armies behave. And you’ll look at the law of state responsibility, individual accountability and violations of international rules.

  • International Markets and Competition

    In this module, you’ll consider the different exchange rate regimes, both in theory and in practice. You’ll also explore theory of international trade, the costs and benefits of protectionism, national and international measures to encourage competition. You’ll also be able to understand how to prevent anti-competitive behaviour and their rationale, and study the international organisations that control and regulate free trade.

    You’ll be able to analyse international data from a variety of sources, and explain international trade patterns including trading blocks and the role of MNCs and FDI. 

  • Organisational Behaviour and Management

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with organisational behaviour and management. This is when we analyse the behaviour of people in organisations, and apply certain principles to our interaction with them. You’ll understand the key elements of organisational behaviour and management, and understand how to apply it practically. You’ll gain core skills in critiquing and evaluating research, allowing you to become a better user of information and evidence.

  • Understanding Criminal Justice

    In this module, you’ll dive into the criminal justice system, and engage critically with its flaws and shortcomings. You’ll gain key critical skills as you explore how well the system achieves its aims. You’ll explore specific areas such as:

    • punishment
    • sentencing
    • crime prevention
    • community safety
    • policing
    • youth crime
    • prisons
    • the criminal court system.

    You’ll observe the criminal justice system, first hand. You’ll then devise a social-science experiment to test your understanding of the system you’ve studied. 

Year 3

Compulsory modules

  • Commercial Law

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with commercial law. You’ll dive into key topics, including: 

    • the nature and sources of commercial law 
    • how we classify transactions 
    • obligations of the buyer and seller in a contract for the sale of goods
    • the passing of ownership 
    • the passing of property (risk)
    • remedies.

  • Equity and Trusts

    In this module, you'll consider the historical foundations of equity before moving on to explore the law of trusts. You'll engage with the following areas:

    • Private trusts and private purpose trusts
    • Charitable trusts and cy-pres
    • Resulting and constructive trusts
    • Trustees' duties and powers
    • Breach of trustee and fiduciary duties
    • Tracing and following trust assets to establish proprietary remedies
    • Personal claims against strangers to a trust.

  • International Trade Law

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with international trade law and its key elements from an English law perspective. You’ll understand how international sales transactions are structured and operated in practice. You’ll gain valuable key critical skills as you analyse the key English law applied to international trade such as:

    • international commercial terms
    • maritime transportation
    • international payment
    • case histories
    • dispute settlement procedures.

    You’ll also explore:

    • the relationship between domestic law and international rules
    • international trade agreements such as the World Trade Organisation.

    You’ll discover how these rules can (or can’t) resolve certain problems in international trade. And you’ll develop the ability to advise on international trade practices, and other rights and obligations.

Optional modules

  • Business Ethics

    How do we do business in an ethical way? In this module, you’ll discover how to make moral decisions, both as a member of a business organisation, and as a human being. You’ll gain key analytical skills in business, as you understand, analyse and evaluate the ethical choices of others. You’ll also gain core critical skills as you evaluate the ethics of different systems of production, distribution and exchange.

  • Business Governance and Human Rights

    Why should businesses be socially responsible? Why is it our responsibility to make sure others don’t suffer as we make money? In this module, you’ll dive into the different corporate regimes which ensure that we hold businesses to account for their actions. 

  • Computer Law and Artificial Intelligence

    Technology features in many aspects of our lives. Through technology, we connect, we learn, and we're entertained. In a digital age, lawyers need to understand technology and associated legal challenges. In this module, you'll evaluate the techniques used to regulate digital technologies. You'll scrutinise strategies for combating online harms. You'll consider how memes are created and shared. And you'll examine how artificial intelligence is set to transform society.
     

     

  • Crime and Society

    In this module, you’ll explore the ways we define and measure crime. You’ll develop core critical skills as you explore theories about the causes of crime. You’ll dive into the following topics:

    • crime and the media
    • criminal behaviour 
    • critical criminology: race and gender.

    You’ll think about crimes and criminality in a wider sense than simply ‘innocence’ or ‘guilt’. You’ll look at the social contexts of crimes, and what causes people to commit them.    

  • Independent Study Module

    This module gives you the chance to do research on a topic that fascinates you. You’ll work independently, with the support of our expert academic team, and will carry out work on a specific project of your choosing. You’ll gain core skills for work, including in:

    • enquiry
    • research 
    • analysis 
    • evaluation.

  • International Human Rights Law

    How can we effectively protect human rights? In this module, you’ll get to grips with international human rights law. You’ll gain key critical skills as you analyse arguments and ideas about human rights, and the ideas behind them. You’ll also consider their current legal and political meaning through examining: 

    • relevant laws
    • current debates
    • case studies. 

  • Equality Law

    In this module, you will focus on the Equality Act 2010, and other legislation. In particular,
    how the Equality Act 2010 aims to protect individuals from direct discrimination, indirect
    discrimination, harassment, and victimisation with reference to their protected
    characteristics, including (but not limited to):

    • age
    • disability discrimination
    • race
    • religion & belief
    • sex
    • sexual orientation.

    You will explore how courts interpret the Equality Act, and how it impacts services, schools,
    and in particular, the workplace. You will look at how it interacts with the law of the European
    Union, and how we might extend equality law.

  • Law in Action

    In this module, you’ll gain core practical experience in law, as you apply your knowledge and skills to a practical legal activity. You’ll gain fantastic skills for work and boost your legal career, as you do a placement in an environment related to legal work. You’ll understand how to transfer your law studies from an academic discipline, to practising it in the real world. 

  • Leading and Managing Change

    After completing this module, you will have an understanding of the nature of change and key theories, frameworks, principles and practices relevant for the management and leadership of change. You'll be able to evaluate critically the actions taken by those leading change. You will be better prepared to lead and manage change in your own managerial careers and have an increased awareness of your own potential for ongoing personal development in leading and managing change. 

  • Medical Law

    In this module, you’ll engage with a range of key legal and ethical issues in medicine and healthcare. As well as learning the law, you will also draw on a range of ethical ideas and frameworks to discuss and evaluate it. You’ll explore topics such as:

    • access to health care and rationing
    • ownership of body parts
    • autonomy and consent
    • medical negligence
    • birth and its regulation
    • death and assisted suicide.

  • Nationality, Immigration and Asylum

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with nationality and immigration and asylum law and the historical, social and political factors that have shaped it. You’ll examine the key issues and policies around nationality, national identity and migration. You’ll gain a firm understanding of migration in the UK and abroad, as you debate critical issues of today. 

Work Experience/ International Study Exchange

Optional modules

  • Work Experience

    Through our LawID programme, you'll develop the real-world skills to thrive in legal and professional environments through a variety of experiential learning opportunities. Put your learning into practice through clinical legal experience, pro-bono opportunities, and our internationally renowned mooting and client interviewing opportunities. You can benefit from in-house and external mentoring schemes, work experience opportunities and a range of guest speakers, as well as supporting our local community through initatives with Flag DV, Citizens Advice and Asylum Welcome.

    Whether you want to become a barrister, qualify as a solicitor, progress as a legal executive or apply your skills in a successful career outside of legal practice - you'll gain the knowledge and skills to reach your goals.

  • International Study Exchange

    If you take this module you will study Law in a university outside the UK for an academic year, experiencing different educational and legal cultures. This will help you develop your knowledge, skills and understanding. After the *International Study Exchange year you will complete your final year with Oxford Brookes and then graduate. The International Study Exchange year is not credit-bearing.

    *To go on this exchange you must have completed all your Level 5 studies, and your exchange is dependent on the appropriate partner university's availability.

Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.

Careers

After completing the course, you’ll be ready to take the next steps towards a rewarding career. A law degree can lead to a variety of careers. You could take the Bar Course and become a barrister, or start your preparation for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam. 

Not all of our graduates go into the legal profession. Studying Law with Business at Oxford Brookes you will gain professional skills and knowledge that are valued by many industries. For example, graduates have joined the finance sector, Police and the Civil Service, and one is now a senior policy adviser in the Home Office. There will also be many opportunities open to you in the corporate world. Graduates have gone on to a wide range of roles at large companies like Aldi, Virgin Mobile, Intel and Yell, as well as innovative micro businesses in a range of industries.

Whatever your plans, you’ll have developed a range of skills which will make you a valuable employee.

To gain further specialist legal knowledge and carve your own career path, you could undertake one of our postgraduate LLM Master of Law pathways. 

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Entry requirements

Wherever possible we make our conditional offers using the UCAS Tariff. The combination of A-level grades listed here would be just one way of achieving the UCAS Tariff points for this course.

Standard offer

UCAS Tariff Points: 112

A Level: BBC

IB Points: 27

BTEC: DMM

Contextual offer

What is a contextual offer?

UCAS Tariff Points: 88

A Level: CCD

IB Points: 24

BTEC: MMM

Further offer details

Wherever possible we make our conditional offers using the UCAS Tariff. This combination of A-level grades would be just one way of achieving the UCAS Tariff points for this course.

Applications are also welcomed for consideration from applicants with European qualifications, international qualifications or recognised foundation courses. For advice on eligibility please contact Admissions: admissions@brookes.ac.uk

If you don’t achieve the required tariff points you can apply to join a foundation course or international foundation course to help to reach the required level for entry onto this degree.

International qualifications and equivalences

How to apply

Application process


Full time Home (UK) applicants
Apply through UCAS


Part time Home (UK) applicants
Apply direct to the University


International applicants
Apply direct to the University

Full time international applicants can also apply through UCAS

Tuition fees

Please see the fees note
Home (UK) full time
£9,535
Home (UK) part time
£1,190 per single module
International full time
£16,750
Home (UK) full time
£9,790
Home (UK) part time
£1,220 per single module
International full time
£17,250

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Tuition fees

2025 / 26
Home (UK) full time
£9,535
Home (UK) part time
£1,190 per single module
International full time
£16,750
2026 / 27
Home (UK) full time
£9,790
Home (UK) part time
£1,220 per single module
International full time
£17,250

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

+44 (0)1865 534400

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.

For further information please see our tuition fees FAQs.

Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.

The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support. 

How and when to pay

Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.

  • For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
  • For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

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On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.