Bachelor of Laws LLB

at University of Canterbury

• UC has a specially designed Moot Court room, regularly used for client interviewing, witness examination, mooting, and negotiation competitions.

• Get work experience through internships, clinical, and community work opportunities.

• Many student clubs including LAWSOC, Women in Law, Te Pūtāiki Māori Law Students’ Association, Law for Change, and UC Animal Law Association.

• The structure of this degree allows you to do a double degree or switch degrees if you’re unable to advance to 200-level LAWS or prefer not to continue with the LLB.
   

  The Bachelor of Laws is made up 480 points:

   

   

• 210 points of compulsory Law courses

• 195 points of optional Law courses

• 75 points of non-Law courses from other degrees.

• The degree takes 4 years of full-time study, or can be studied part-time for up to 10 years.
   

  Limited entry into second year
   

  With good grades in the compulsory courses LAWS101 and LAWS110 in your first year (normally at least a B grade), you will be able to advance into the 200-level Law courses, all of which are subject to limited entry.

  Completed courses from the LLB can be credited to other degrees eg, the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Criminal Justice, if you are unable to, or choose not to, continue with an LLB.
   

  Bachelor of Laws with Honours
   

  If you achieve a satisfactory standard in your first two years of study for the Bachelor of Laws, you may be invited to enter the honours programme. If you meet the criteria, you will enrol in three additional Law courses in fourth year:

• LAWS410 Advanced Research Skills

• LAWS420 Honours Research Paper

• LAWS430 Honours Dissertation
   

  Compulsory courses
   

  Year 1

• LAWS101 Legal System: Legal Method and Institutions

• LAWS110 Legal Foundations, Research and Writing

• Five 100-level non-law courses of your choice (excluding ACCT152, ACCT252, and CRJU150)
   

• Year 2

  Entry into the second year of the degree is limited to students that have achieved good grades (normally at least a B) in the two compulsory Law courses from first year.

   

• LAWS203 The Law of Contract

• LAWS204 The Law of Torts

• LAWS205 Land Law

• LAWS206 Public Law
   

• Year 3

   

• LAWS202 Criminal Law

• LAWS301 Equity and Trusts

• The remaining five courses in this year are made up of optional 300-level LAWS courses, in topics such as international human rights, environmental law, family law, and many others.
   

  Year 4

  The final year of the LLB is made up of another eight optional 300-level LAWS courses.

  if you are wanting to later be admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor, you will need to include LAWS398 Legal Ethics as one of your options.

Law studies do not require a background in any specific subject at secondary school, and entry to the first year of the LLB is open to everyone with University Entrance.
 

You will need to have good reading, writing, and analytical skills. Subjects such as English, drama, economics, te reo Māori, languages, history, and classical studies are useful preparation.
 

English language requirements for undergraduate qualifications
 

If you want to study towards a Bachelor Degree (excluding teaching degrees), Certificate of Proficiency, Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma, or Graduate Certificate or Diploma you must have one of the following:
 

Tuition Fees for Overseas Students per year:
NZD$35,725

• UC has Law Internship courses letting you gain skills through community and clinical work experience.

• Gain necessary legal skills in research, writing, analysis, and reasoning for a range of careers beyond law.

• Graduates are working as lawyers, policy analysts, Māori development advisors, foreign affairs officers, and journalists.