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Full time | Birkbeck, University of London | 1 year | 30-SEP-24

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

30-SEP-24

Key information
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Qualification type

Graduate Diploma

Subject areas

Law

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

COURSE OVERVIEW

Our Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) enables you to gain the legal skills necessary for the best possible preparation in beginning vocational training for a career in legal practice. The GDL teaches you the seven foundations of law as required by the Bar Standards Board for the vocational training for barristers. It also equips you to embark on the necessary preparation for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination. You will develop the ability to:

critically engage with sources of law, including cases, and scholarship from law and related fields

apply principles of law

engage in basic legal research using specific legal resources.

If you already have an undergraduate degree and want to gain the skills to help you qualify, but are not yet ready to commit to a full master's degree, this GDL is for you. Birkbeck’s GDL is unique in teaching you to understand and apply the law, as well as teaching you about the law in its political, social and economic context. We want our graduates to not only go on to be successful lawyers, but also to be able to participate in important contemporary debates at the junction of law and public life.

Modules

In law schools throughout the world ?public law? (or 'constitutional and administrative law') is concerned primarily with the legal rules and processes that structure and regulate a country?s government, i.e. the relations amongst its key institutions, and between these institutions and the individual citizen. On this module you will also study the historical and contemporary social and political facts and values which qualify the function of such rules. We will look at legal rules in terms of the effect one rule may have on another, as well as how they came about and who actually uses the rules, when, and with what results.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£10,840

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£16,000

Entry requirements

A second-class honours degree (2:2) in a subject other than law. Applicants with less than a 2:2 will be considered on a case-by-case basis.