Law (Graduate Entrant) (Clinical)

Course description

Throughout the world and increasingly in the UK, clinical legal education is becoming central to legal education.

Why study Law (Graduate Entrant) (Clinical) at Strathclyde?
By taking this world-leading degree, you’ll gain the unique opportunity to enhance your theoretical understanding of law, by applying it in real life contexts.
You’ll observe how law actually operates in practice and gain valuable professional skills and an appreciation of professional values before graduating.
The course involves taking the standard LLB and in addition, undertaking:
skills training
ethical education
work on actual legal cases
You’ll reflect on the skills, ethics and justice and on your cases in designated classes (core clinical classes).
In addition, you’ll be assessed on the basis of reflection on Law Clinic cases, alongside existing forms of assessment on the standard syllabus of selected standard LLB classes (clinically available classes).

Your Career
Opportunities are available in law firms, legal departments of local and national government, and numerous large organisations which often have in-house legal teams.

Recent graduate job roles include:
solicitor (Scotland) - this can be in a private practice, local or national government or in-house
advocate (Scotland)
company secretary

Subjects

• Law