Law

The LLB at Edinburgh is designed to prepare you for a career as a lawyer in Scotland, providing the ideal foundation for further professional study.

In accordance with the requirements of the Law Society of Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates, we will ensure you gain the legal skills and knowledge needed for a future as either a solicitor, or as an advocate, in the Scottish legal profession.

Non-legal career opportunities

The LLB is not only a gateway to practising law. Many of our graduates choose not to practise law. They find the LLB to be an excellent grounding for many other careers in areas such as:

* financial services

* politics

* journalism

* public policy

* government work

Learning outcomes

Our LLB programme will provide you with a range of useful skills in logic and rhetoric, which you can apply to other academic and professional fields.

This programme aims to promote advanced knowledge and understanding of the theory, concepts and rules of law in their socioeconomic, institutional, and historical frameworks.

While the programme is grounded in Scots law and the Scots legal system, you will also learn the law and legal systems in:

* the other parts of the United Kingdom

* the European Union

* the wider world