LLB Law with Politics (Including Foundation Year)

On our four-year LLB Law with Politics (including foundation year), we work with you to help improve your language skills, to develop your subject-specific knowledge, and to improve your academic skills. You receive a thorough grounding in these areas during your foundation year (known as Year Zero) to prepare you for a further three years of undergraduate study at Essex.After successful completion of Year Zero in our Essex Pathways Department, you progress to complete your course with Essex Law School.

This course gives you a thorough training in the complementary disciplines of law and politics. You develop critical, reflective and analytical skills that are common to both disciplines. In addition to emphasising aspects common to both subjects, you explore the differences between them and the approaches taken within legal and political thought. You also develop a critical awareness of the nature of law within its social and political contexts.

Your optional topics may include:

• Copyright and trademark law
• International environmental law
• Law and literature
• Human rights
• Concepts in political science: state, laws, wars and political parties
• Obligations, freedom, rights and equality

At Essex we specialise in commercial law, public law, and human rights law. We are ranked 47th for Law in THE World University Rankings by Subject 2023, which is 9th in UK, and we are 3rd in the UK for research power in law (THE research power measure, REF2021).

Our Department of Government is one of the most prestigious in Europe, with an outstanding record of teaching, research and publication. We are ranked 9th in the UK for Politics and International Studies in the QS World University Rankings by Subject (2022).