Program Overview

Program Details

Key Information

Start Date

September

Duration

3 years

Attendance Mode

Full-time

Location

On Campus

Fees

Home: £9,535 International: £22,870

Course Code

M100

Entry Requirements

AAA Contextual: ABB

Course Overview

The SOAS Law degree programme produces 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.

Why Study Law at SOAS?

• SOAS is ranked 14th in the UK for Law (QS World University Rankings 2025)
• We're ranked 12th in the UK for Academic Reputation (QS World University Rankings 2025)
• Our research publications have been rated first in the UK - and our School of Law rated sixth in the UK - in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.

Structure

Students take 120 credits per year composed of core and optional modules, which allows for students to design their own intellectual journey while maintaining a strong grasp of the fundamentals.

Year 1

• Criminal Law - 30 credits
• Introduction to Law and Legal Processes - 30 credits
• Contract Law - 30 credits
• Property I - 30 credits
• Public Law - 30 credits

Year 2

• Law of Tort - 30 credits
• Property II - 15 credits
• Legal Systems of Asia and Africa I - 15 credits
• Guided options: Minimum of 30 credits from Law options list.

Year 3

• Introduction to EU Law - 15 credits
• Legal Systems of Asia and Africa II - 15 credits
• Guided options: 60-90 credits from guided options.

Teaching and Learning

Modules are taught through a combination of lectures and tutorials, usually two hours lecture and one hour tutorial a week. Depending on the size of the class, some intermediate and final-year modules are less strictly divided between a formal lecture and a tutorial discussion.

Fees and Funding

• Fees for 2025/26 entrants per academic year
  • BA, BSc, LLB
    • Home students: £9,535
    • Overseas students: £22,870
  • BA/BSc Language year abroad
    • Home students: £1,385
    • Overseas students: £11,430

Employment

SOAS Law graduates leave SOAS as civic-minded and critically engaged individuals who can effectively contribute to their communities and societies. Recent graduates have been hired by:

• Allen & Overy
• Baker McKenzie
• BLM Law
• BloombergNEF
• British Medical Association
• Clifford Chance
• DAC Beachcroft LLP
• Department for Work and Pensions
• EY
• Gibson Young Solicitors
• HM Treasury
• Latham & Watkins
• Legal Cheek
• Linklaters
• Lloyds Banking Group
• PwC LLP
• Simpson Millar Solicitors
• Slaughter and May
• The Economist
• Travers Smith
• United Nations
• Vodafone
• World Cancer Research Fund

Research

The School of Law is dedicated to the legal systems and challenges of the developing world, with complementary strengths in human rights, international law and institutions, environmental law, and international trade and commerce.

Some of the research projects include:

• Addressing the multi-scalar dimensions of sectoral water conflicts: Lessons from South Asia (WATCON)
• Food security and the governance of local knowledge in India and Indonesia (2018–2023)
• Fostering ecocentric community-led river restoration and conservation in the Ganga Basin (2022–2023)
• Conflicts over Access to Water and Land: Evolving dimensions (2022–2025)
• Carceral Policy, Policing and Race
• Sanitation in India: Understanding a complex and controversial human right (2016)
• Legal Issues Related to Water Sector Restructuring in India (2006–2009)
• UKIERI: Climate change and groundwater management in India (2013–2015)
• Rule of Law in Thailand
• Age of consent and child-marriage in the British Empire
• HURIME Project: Human Rights in the Post-Uprisings Middle East
• SOAS Influencing the Corridors of Power project

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• NLUD-SOAS Joint LLM/MA in Environmental Justice in South Asia
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