Dundee LLB to offer cross-UK potential
10 Apr 08
Students will be able to qualify in any UK jurisdiction
The University of Dundee is to offer law students the opportunity to become qualified to practise in all of the UK’s jurisdictions.
From September 2008 students on the Scots Bachelor of Laws (LLB) programme will be able to pursue a course of study that allows them to take all the professional subjects required by the Law Societies of Scotland, England & Wales and Northern Ireland as prerequisites for qualifying in each country.
Dundee is already the only law school in the UK to offer degree programmes in both Scots and English law.
Stuart Cross, senior lecturer in the School of Law, said: “This will give our students a greater understanding of law across the UK and allow them to decide which jurisdiction they wish to go on to qualify in professionally.”
Students on the English LLB programme will be able to continue to select Scottish qualifying modules as part of their programme.
The law school has also created a new joint masters programme with the Law Faculty at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (UCP) in France, which again starts in September. Students will gain an in-depth knowledge of a wide range of contemporary commercial law subjects from both a common law and civil law perspective. They will graduate with an LLM in International Commercial Law from Dundee University and an LLM in Business & Taxation Law or Law & Business Ethics from UCP.