Program Overview

LLB Law Online

Our online law degree, known as an LLB or Bachelor of Laws, is equivalent to a BA or BSc. This degree will prepare you in part for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE1) or Bar Practice Course (to qualify as a barrister).

If you have set your sights on other careers, such as politics, business or journalism, the transferable skills you will learn on your law degree will provide an excellent launch pad for these ambitions and more. With our professionally focused qualification, you can expect to learn practical skills coupled with a focus on your future employability.

Studying with ULaw Online provides you with the perfect combination of a flexible study programme to fit around your other commitments together with the benefit of our expertise, experience, and employability focus.

Key Facts

Entry requirements

• A Level: BBB
• GCSE: English Language Grade C/4 or above, or equivalent

Duration options

• 3 years
• 4 years
• 6 years

Study mode options

• Full-time

Next start date

• September 2025

Course Details

LLB (Hons) Law Online

If you’re looking to pursue a career in the legal or wider commercial sector, but want to study in a more flexible way, then this 100% online law degree could be the course for you.

Just like the on campus version of the LLB, this course has a practical focus, with employability integrated into the programme. There is a high level of interaction and you will receive peer and one-to-one professional lecturer reviews, with over 90% of our lecturers being qualified solicitors and barristers.

The distance learning LLB law course aims to deliver an insight into critical legal topics and develop your knowledge and understanding of key concepts through practical activities and engaging content. You will develop skills in analysis, research, problem solving and communication.

When you study an online LLB degree with us you receive:

• The highest standard of online teaching from experienced professionals
• Access to loads of online resources to help your studies
• Access to a large specialist careers service and pro bono clinics
• A variety of specialist modules to enhance employment prospects
• High quantity and quality of individual feedback from lecturers

This degree will provide the foundation for Master’s degree study, or you can move into employment within the wider legal sector and other commercial or business fields.

Foundation Year

You can choose to take an additional Foundation Year (on a campus) before you start your online LLB. This introductory year focuses on developing the key skills required to study at degree level. Please note, the Foundation Year is only available as a September start.

Three Year Degree

Foundation Year (if applicable)

Semester 1

• Compulsory modules include:
  • Communication Skills
  • Digital and Research Skills
  • Sustainability and Society

Semester 2

• Compulsory modules include:
  • Foundation Year Project
  • Shaping Skills for Success
  • Core Concepts of Law
  • Choose one:
    • Core Concepts of Business
    • Core Concepts of Computer Science
    • Core Concepts of Criminology
    • Core Concepts of Psychology

Year 1

Semester 1

• Compulsory modules include:
  • Common Law Method and Ethics
  • Academic and Digital Skills
  • Contract Law

Semester 2

• Compulsory modules include:
  • The Law of Tort
  • Public Law
  • Criminal Law

Year 2

Semester 1

• Compulsory modules include:
  • Business Law 1
  • Critical Approaches in Current Legal Issues
  • Land Law

Semester 2

• Choose three:
  • Family Law
  • Employment Law
  • Access to Justice and Legal Services
  • Real Estate
  • Human Rights
  • Extended Essay
  • EU Law
  • Practising Law in a Digital World

Year 3

Semester 1

• Compulsory modules include:
  • Equity and Trusts
  • Choose two:
    • Civil Dispute Resolution
    • Graduate and Employability Skills
    • Business Law 2
    • International Commercial Law
    • Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law
    • Research Project (double module)

Semester 2

• Choose three:
  • Family Law
  • Employment Law
  • Real Estate
  • Wills & Succession
  • Human Rights
  • Graduate and Employability Skills
  • International Commercial Law
  • Civil Dispute Resolution
  • Legal Technology
  • Research Project (40 credits)

Four Year Degree

Year 1

Semester 1

• Academic & Digital Skills
• Common Law Method & Ethics

Semester 2

• Public Law
• Criminal Law

Year 2

Semester 1

• Contract Law
• Law of Tort

Semester 2

• Business Law 1
• Critical Approaches in Current Legal Issues

Year 3

Semester 1

• Land Law
• Equity & Trusts

Semester 2

• Choose two:
  • Access to Justice and Legal Services
  • Employment Law
  • Family Law
  • Human Rights
  • Real Estate
  • EU Law
  • Practising Law in a Digital World

Year 3 Summer

• Extended Essay

Year 4

Semester 1

• Choose two:
  • Business Law 2
  • Civil Dispute Resolution
  • Graduate and Employability Skills
  • International Commercial Law
  • Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law
  • Research Project (double module)

Semester 2

• Choose two:
  • Family Law
  • Employment Law
  • Real Estate
  • Wills & Succession
  • Human Rights
  • Graduate and Employability Skills
  • International Commercial Law
  • Civil Dispute Resolution
  • Legal Technology
  • Research Project (double module)

Year 4 Summer

• Criminal Litigation and Evidence

Six Year Degree

Year 1

Semester 1

• Academic and Digital Skills
• Common Law Method & Ethics (half)

Semesters 2

• Public Law
• Common Law Method and Ethics (second half)

Year 2

Semester 1

• Law of Tort
• Contract Law (half)

Semesters 2

• Criminal Law
• Contract Law (second half)

Year 3

Semester 1

• Critical Approaches in Current Legal Issues
• Business Law 1 (half)

Semesters 2

• Business Law 1 (second half)
• Choose two:
  • Access to Justice and Legal Services
  • Employment Law
  • Extended Essay
  • Family Law
  • Human Rights
  • Real Estate
  • EU Law
  • Practising Law in a Digital World

Year 4

Semester 1

• Land Law
• Level 5 Option (half)

Semester 2

• Level 5 Option (second half)
• Level 5 Option
• Level 5 Options are:
  • Access to Justice and Legal Services
  • Employment Law
  • Extended Essay
  • Family Law
  • Human Rights
  • Real Estate
  • EU Law
  • Practising Law in a Digital World

Year 5

Semester 1

• Equity & Trusts
• Business Law 2 (half)

Semester 2

• Business Law 2 (second half)
• Choose two Level 6 modules:
  • Family Law
  • Employment Law
  • Real Estate
  • Wills & Succession
  • Human Rights
  • Graduate and Employability Skills
  • International Commercial Law
  • Civil Dispute Resolution
  • Legal Technology
  • Criminal Litigation and Evidence

Year 6

Semester 1

• Civil Dispute Resolution (half)
• Level 6 option
• Choose one level 6 option:
  • Civil Dispute Resolution
  • Business Level 2
  • Graduate and Employability Skills
  • International Commercial Law
  • Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law

Semesters 2

• Civil Dispute Resolution (second half)
• Level 6 option
• Choose one level 6 option:
  • Legal Technology
  • Criminal Litigation and Evidence
  • Human Rights
  • Real Estate
  • Wills & Succession

Module details

Common Law Method and Ethics

This module introduces you to the English legal system and looks at how to interpret statutes and the doctrine of precedent. Also, how law is created and the structure of the English court system. These enable you to understand how laws are created and interpreted. Within Ethics, you will consider different approaches to ethical issues, including the social and ethical context of the legal profession.

Academic and Digital Skills

This module underpins all of the other modules on the LLB & MLaw. It develops the academic and digital skills which you will need for both your studies and the workplace, including using the University’s VLE and other relevant platforms and software, legal research and referencing, academic integrity, communication skills, and how to analyse and answer legal problems.

Contract Law

In this module you will consider the elements of a contract, different types of contractual terms, remedies for breach of contract and the circumstances when remedies can be excluded. You will also look at connected areas such as misrepresentation, duress, and undue influence.

The Law of Tort

Tort is a key area of law and considers acts and omissions that give rise to injury or harm to another and amount to a civil wrong. You will consider topics such as trespass to the person, negligence, product liability, employer liability, occupiers’ liability, trespass to land and private nuisance. You will also look at the remedies available when an action in Tort succeeds.

Public Law

This module looks at sources of the UK constitution and principles such as the rule of law, separation of powers and parliamentary supremacy. Also, how the lawfulness of decisions and actions made by public bodies are challenged through exploring the grounds for judicial review and the remedies available. You will learn about the place EU Law has within the UK constitution and consider the key rights and freedoms incorporated into UK law through the Human Rights Act.

Criminal Law

This module gives an overview of the criminal justice system and helps to develop an understanding of the principles of criminal liability. You will look at different criminal offences, including homicide, criminal damage, assaults, sexual offences, theft and robbery, and drugs offences. You will consider what defences may be available and the law in relation to secondary participation and attempts to commit certain offences.

Business Law 1

This module introduces you to different forms of business organisation such as partnerships and companies and how to choose the most appropriate format to run a business. You will explore company law in more detail, exploring the separate legal personality of a company and its limited liability status and company constitutions. You will look at the different parties involved in a company such as the directors and shareholders.

Critical Approaches in Current Legal Issues

Designed to further develop the academic skills which you developed during your Level 4. Equipping you with the skills which you need to succeed as you progress through the programme. Through topical areas of law, you will develop your critical thinking and evaluation skills, ability to solve legal problems, and research skills. You will be challenged through debating controversial areas of law and presenting arguments, in order to develop your ability to reflect and understand the views of others.

Land Law

We look at the nature of land, how the ownership of estates and interests in land operate and the formalities for creating and disposing of those estates and interests. It looks at important topics such as: the protection and enforcement of third party interests in land, the distinction between registered and unregistered land, trusts of land and co-ownership, leases, easements, covenants, and mortgages.

Equity and Trusts

In this module you will study the core principles of equity and trusts law which arise in a range of personal, social and commercial contexts. You will look at the distinction between a gift and a trust and how trusts are created. You will explore the management of the trust through the powers and duties of trustees and the rights of the beneficiaries before considering what remedies are available if there is a breach of trust.

Course Start Dates

September 2025

• Law (LLB)
  • Full-time: Online

January 2026

• Law (LLB)
  • Full-time: Online

What about the SQE?

The SQE is being phased in to become the new centralised way to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales

Continue your journey with ULaw

After you’ve completed the LLB, you can go onto study one of our postgraduate law courses to become a solicitor or barrister.

If you want to become a barrister, you can study our Bar Practice Course.

If you want to become a solicitor, we suggest studying our LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2).

You can still study the Legal Practice Course (LPC) if you’ve completed, started, accepted an offer, or paid a non-refundable deposit to study the LLB by 21 September 2021.

If you want to specialise in a particular area of law, we also offer a range of academic Master of Law (LLM) courses, covering subjects from human rights to banking.

At The University Law, we want to help you reach your ambitions with our range of alumni discounts. Be rewarded for your hard work and loyalty when you stay on to study another course with us through our Alumni Loyalty Scheme.

Fees and Applying

How to Apply

Applications for all our undergraduate courses are open. You don't need to apply through UCAS to study one of our online courses.

Fees and Funding

• 2025/26 Course Fee:
  • 3 year and 4 year full-time online: £9,535 per annum including £250 deposit; £5,760 (with Foundation Year - 1st year only, rising to £9,535 from 2nd year*)
  • 4 year part-time online: £7,145 per annum
  • 6 year part-time online: £4,764 per annum

*Fees for future study years will change in line with government changes.

If you need to fund your studies with a student loan you can apply via Student Finance.

International

We have students from over 120 different countries throughout our campuses, with a dedicated team to help international students.