Law with Financial Management Bachelor of Law (with Honours) - LLB (Hons)

Study the latest developments in legal practice alongside gaining valuable skills in financial management. This course is your first step to qualifying as a solicitor or progressing to a career at the Bar. It also prepares you for roles in the financial and commercial sector, developing your understanding of the principles that underlie the preparation, analysis and interpretation of financial information.

Course accreditation

All our LLB courses cover the Foundation of Legal Knowledge subjects and satisfy the requirements set by the Bar Standards Board for the academic component of Bar training. Upon successfully completing the LLB with a minimum grade of 2:ii, graduates who wish to qualify as barristers will be able to progress on to the Bar training course.

Facilities and specialist equipment

* Recently refurbished Moot Court, equipped with digital technology to ensure it reflects an actual court-room environment

* Leading legal research databases used by professionals, including LexisNexis, Westlaw and HeinOnline

* Oxford Law Trove, an online platform giving students access to the wealth of legal educational materials published by Oxford University Press

* New business analytics suite featuring £300K of industry-standard hardware and software, including Vensim simulation software for an immersive experience

* London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) trading room offering the chance to experience what it’s like to be on the trading-room floor, reacting to live ‘stock-market’ data

* Financial databases such as Sage (via Sage Cloud), LSEG data platform, SPSS Statistics and econometrics tools such as STATA

Career-powered links

We have strong links with local law firms such as Macfarlane, Machins, Greystone and Solomon as well as at Luton County Court and the Crown Prosecution Service.

You can also gain professional supervised practice via our three law clinics: family law, criminal law and law related to asylum seekers.

Your student experience

Opportunity to complete work experience at law firms such as Macfarlanes LLP and Machins Solicitors LLP as well as at Luton County Court and the Crown Prosecution Service. This work experience counts towards your qualification as a solicitor.

Gain professional supervised practice via our three law clinics: family law, criminal law and law related to asylum seekers.

Widen your experience through field trips to the Inns of Court in London, the Houses of Parliament, the UK Supreme Court and Luton Crown Court; you also have opportunities to take part in mooting competitions.

Attend research events organised by our Centre for Research in Law (CRiL) and guest talks by prestigious speakers including arbitrators, judges, renowned academics, Members of Parliament and leading legal practitioners from City law firms.