BA Law and... Combined Honours Degree
SOAS University of London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 - 4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
GBP 9,250 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* full-time fees per academic year: UK £9,250; Overseas £20,350
Introduction
Mode of Attendance: Full-time
In an increasingly interconnected world, the law is no longer the preserve of single jurisdictions as legal issues are no respecters of national borders. A SOAS Law degree addresses this need by providing our students with an educational experience that equips them with a distinctive set of skills far beyond what is offered by most traditional Law Schools.
The SOAS Law Combined Honours Degree is a 3 or 4-year full-time degree, which aims to produce highly-skilled, civic-minded and critically engaged graduates, who can effectively contribute to their communities and societies through the knowledge and skills gained on this course.
The nature of the Combined Honours degree enables you to develop a specialist niche for yourself by studying a second subject.
The BA Law Combined Honours Degree is aimed primarily at those not wishing to become practising lawyers, but provides students with a wide range of analytical and transferable skills and is suitable for any profession in which a non-specialised degree is required. Although it is possible to switch to the LLB at the end of Year 2 or 3 provided the student has taken and passed all the required courses necessary to qualify for an LLB.
May be combined with:
- Those who are interested in combining the study of law, the economy and politics, please look at BA Politics, Economics and Law (PEL)
- Arabic+, MT16 BA/LWA
- Chinese+, MT11 BA/LWCH
- East Asian Studies
- History, MV11 BA/LWH
- Korean+, MTDL BA/LWKO
- Languages and Cultures
- Social Anthropology, LM61 BA/SALW
Why SOAS?
- SOAS is unique as the only higher education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asian, Middle East and North African (MENA) and Sub-Saharan African regions.
- We are specialists in the delivery of more than forty African and Asian languages. Your command of a language will set you apart from graduates of other universities.
- This programme will immerse you in the legal traditions and practices of a number of global regions, which will give you a critical understanding of the role of law in the world today.
- We specialise in key topics including international and transnational law, human rights, transnational commercial law, environmental law, comparative law and socio-legal method.
- Allows you to develop a specialist niche alongside your Law degree by utilising the global expertise of one of our other departments.
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Admissions
Curriculum
Structure
Students take 120 credits per year composed of core and optional modules, which allows students to design their own intellectual journey while maintaining a strong grasp of the fundamentals.
Students may take a maximum of 60 Law related credits and a minimum of 30 Law related credits a year on this programme.
In Year 1 students are introduced to the core elements and principles of the English legal system and provided with the key analytical skills necessary for undertaking a demanding law degree program.
In the second, third and fourth years’ our students will be even more fully immersed in the distinctively SOAS program. Our students can choose from a wide array of optional courses that draw on the unique research expertise of our staff. The emphasis we place on choice, and research-led teaching, will allow our students to pursue a number of distinct specialisms as their degree progresses, but whichever path they choose to focus on the courses they study will all be imbued with that distinctive SOAS dimension, that stresses critical engagement and understanding of the role of law in the world at large.
Year 1 - If taking two compulsory modules in the second subject
Compulsory Module
- Introduction to Law and Legal Processes
- Contract Law
- Criminal Law
and
Second Subject
Students take 60 credits in the second subject.
Year 1 - If taking three compulsory modules in the second subject
Compulsory Module
- Introduction to Law and Legal Processes
- Contract Law
and
Second Subject
Students take 90 credits in the second subject.
Year 2 - If Criminal Law not taken in year 1
Compulsory Module
- Criminal Law
- Legal Systems of Asia and Africa
and
Second Subject
Students take 60 credits in the second subject.
or
Choose modules from List of Modules below to the value of 60 credits.
Year 2 - If Criminal Law already taken in year 1
Compulsory Module
- Legal Systems of Asia and Africa
and
Second Subject
Students take 90 credits in the second subject.
or
Choose modules from List of Modules below to the value of 90 credits.
Year 3
Second Subject
Students take 120 credits in the second subject.
or
Choose modules from List of Modules below to the value of 120 credits.
List of Year 2 Optional Modules
- Law and Society in South Asia
- Islamic Law
- Introduction to EU Law
- Chinese Law
- Law of Tort
- Public Law
- Common-Law, Equitable and Comparative Property 1: Property Interests
- Introduction to Global Commodities Law
- Foundations of Human Rights Law
- Public International Law
- International Law of the Sea
- The Art of Advocacy
- International Environmental Law
List of Year 3 Optional Modules (subject to availability)
- Family Law
- Asylum and Immigration Law
- Law and Society in South Asia
- Law and Society in Africa
- Islamic Law
- Independent Study Project on a Selected Legal topic
- Company Law
- Chinese Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Law of Islamic Finance
- Advanced Comparative Administrative Law
- Commercial Law
- Law, Multiculturalism and Rights
- Law of Commercial Arbitration
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Introduction to EU Law
- Contract Law
- Law of Tort
- Common-Law, Equitable and Comparative Property 1: Property Interests
- Common-Law, Equitable and Comparative Property 2: Proprietary Relationships
- Public Law
- Introduction to Global Commodities Law
- Foundations of Human Rights Law
- Public International Law
- Law and Society in Africa
- Law, Terror and State Power
UoL Options
Up to one 30-credit level 5 or level 6 LLB module in Law taught at another University of London Law School - King’s College, LSE, QMUL, UCL and Birkbeck - subject to approval and provided that a similar module is not taught at SOAS.
Important notice
The information on the programme page reflects the intended programme structure against the given academic session.
Career Opportunities
Employment
The degree structure provides students with a combined law degree aimed primarily at those not wishing to become practising lawyers. It provides students with a wide range of analytical and transferable skills suitable for any profession in which a non-specialised degree is required.
Skills gained include:
- specialist knowledge of comparative law, human rights, environmental law and international law,
- choosing to study a combined degree programme will increase the breadth of your knowledge, and will develop additional skills,
- the ability to think laterally and employ critical reasoning,
- analytical skills,
- problem-solving skills,
- the ability to formulate sound arguments,
- ability to interpret and explain complex information clearly,
- communication and presentation skills.
SOAS Law graduates have gone on to pursue careers directly related to law or used their skills and expertise to get take up professional and management careers in both the private and public sectors. The Law degree programmes have also enabled graduates to continue in the field of research either at SOAS or other institutions
Graduates have gone on to work for a range of organisations including:
- Allen & Overy
- Clifford Chance
- Baker McKenzie
- United Nations
- Linklaters
- Lloyds Banking Group
- Gibson Young Solicitors
- Liberty UK
- Slaughter and May
- CMS Cameron McKenna
Types of roles that graduates have gone on to do include:
- Trainee Solicitor
- Barrister
- Finance Manager
- Legal Researcher
- Paralegal
- Financial Analyst
- Procurement Manager
- Tax Consultant
- Business Developer
- Recruitment Consultant
English Language Requirements
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