LLB Law

LLB Law at Exeter is built to give you genuine lawyering skills alongside the theory. You won't just learn the law, you'll learn how to research it, argue it, and apply it, using the same professional tools and databases that practising lawyers rely on every day. You'll have access to the Lasok Law Library, a purpose-built Moot Court, and industry-standard legal research platforms, all designed to get you thinking and working like a lawyer from year one. Here's what that looks like in practice:

• Specific software: you'll be trained in Westlaw UK and Lexis+ UK, the key legal research databases used across the profession, with the option to complete official certification in both to add to your CV.
• Mooting: Exeter's purpose-built Moot Court lets you practise advocacy in a simulated court environment, with coaching from staff and volunteer judges, backed by the university's international reputation for mooting success.
• Pro bono opportunities: through the Legal Assistance Programme you can get involved in the Community Law Clinic, the Stop Abuse for Everyone charity, the Student Appeals Project, or Judicial Shadowing, gaining real career experience while you study.
• Negotiation competitions: the Student Negotiation Society sends teams to the National Negotiation Competition, giving you a genuine platform to sharpen persuasive, real-world legal skills.
• Group work and seminars: you'll work through legal problems collaboratively in interactive seminars and workshops, not just sit through lectures, building teamwork and argumentation skills together.
• Library resources: the Lasok Law Library, located in the Forum, holds over 40,000 volumes and is open 24 hours a day, so you're never without the resources you need.
• Employer engagement: you'll have regular contact with the legal profession through workshops, skills sessions, networking events, internships, shadowing, and mentoring built into the course.
• Flexible study routes: you can choose variants like LLB Law with Professional Placement or LLB Law with European Study, gaining a year of real workplace or international legal experience as part of your degree.

LLB Law graduates from Exeter go on to build genuinely strong careers, backed by a course that's ranked Top 10 in the UK for Law Graduate Prospects. Past graduates have landed roles as trainee solicitors, paralegals, management consultants, and compliance analysts. Here's how Exeter helps you get there:

• Careers support: you'll have regular contact with the legal profession through workshops, skills sessions, networking events, internships, shadowing, and mentoring built directly into the course.
• Employment stats: Exeter is ranked Top 10 for Law Graduate Prospects, coming Joint 10th in the Complete University Guide 2027, reflecting genuinely strong outcomes for law graduates.
• University-industry partnerships: past graduates have secured roles at major law firms including Allen and Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Michelmores, Macfarlanes, and Nabarro, and the course features employer-led presentations from law firms to develop skills and improve opportunities.
• Broader employer links: graduates have also gone on to organisations like Microsoft, Barclays Bank PLC, EDF Energy, and UNICEF, showing just how far this degree can take you outside traditional legal practice too.
• Long-term accreditation value: this LLB covers the foundations of legal knowledge required for the academic stage of qualification as a solicitor or barrister, giving your degree lasting professional relevance well beyond graduation.
• Long-term reputation: Exeter is ranked Top 25 in the UK for Law, coming in 22nd in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026, with an excellent national and international reputation for mooting.
• Alumni network: you'll join a global alumni community that includes senior figures like His Hon Judge Phillip Waller CBE, Fiona Shackleton, Partner at Payne Hicks Beach, and Dato Ambiga Sreenevasan, President of the Malaysian Bar Council.
• Broad graduate outcomes: past graduates have gone into training contracts, pupillages, and roles spanning law, business, finance, and administration, showing just how versatile this qualification really is.

Further Academic Progression: Many LLB Law graduates move straight into the professional stage of legal training, such as the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law or the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, on their way to qualifying as a solicitor or barrister. If you want to specialise further academically first, Exeter graduates have also gone on to postgraduate study like an LLM at the University of Cambridge, a BCL at the University of Oxford, or Exeter's own LLM International Commercial Law. And for those wanting to branch out beyond pure legal practice, past graduates have pursued programmes like an LLM in International Relations and Diplomacy at Leiden University or an MA in European Community Law at the College of Europe in Bruges.