Law

Law is the system of rules through which societies organise relationships, resolve disputes, and exercise public power, and studying it at degree level means engaging with both the technical content of legal rules and the broader questions of justice, rights, and authority that law raises. The discipline develops close reading of statutes and judicial decisions, the ability to apply legal principles to factual scenarios, and the critical perspective to evaluate whether law achieves its stated aims fairly and effectively.

At the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, this three-year, full-time programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad, and a work placement, making it one of the more experientially rich law degrees available. The placement gives you direct exposure to legal or legally adjacent professional settings, whether in a solicitors' firm, a barristers' chambers, an in-house legal team, or a public sector organisation, while the year abroad provides the opportunity to study law in a different national and jurisdictional context. Northumbria has a strong law school with a particular reputation for applied legal education and connections to the legal profession in the North East.

You will study the core qualifying law subjects: contract, tort, criminal law, land law, equity and trusts, and public and EU law, alongside research skills, professional ethics, and access to the law in practice through Northumbria's student law clinic. A typical entry tariff of 120 UCAS points indicates the academic expectations for entry.

Law develops analytical rigour, precise written expression, the ability to argue from authority, and awareness of how legal rules operate in real contexts.

Graduates enter the legal profession as solicitors or barristers, and also pursue careers in finance, the civil service, compliance, consultancy, journalism, and policy. Many proceed to the vocational stage of legal training or to postgraduate study in specialist areas of law.