Everything you need to know...
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What is the fee?
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How long will I study?
3 / 4 Years
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Where will I study?
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What are the entry requirements?
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What is the UCAS code?
M100
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When do I start?
September 2025
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Placement year available?
Yes
Where will I study?
Course summary
- Develop critical understanding of the law and its practices.
- Explore how justice and order is fostered in societies.
- Gain experience at our Legal Service Clinic and Hubs and work on live client cases.
- Work with law firms and legal and social-justice providers.
- Consider the global reach of law, with opportunities for UK and international placement.
On this course you’ll learn and apply the law practically. You’ll gain valuable experience in at least one of the following settings: the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, on-campus legal service providers, or with external organisations. While developing excellent legal knowledge and skills, you’ll shape your degree around your interests, values and aspirations – preparing you for graduate careers in and beyond the legal sector.
Employability
99% of our graduates are in work or further study fifteen months after graduating (2021/22 Graduate Outcomes Survey).
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Student View
Law and Criminology student Fozia Sultana won an Inspirational Student Award for her work on Manifest Diversity, a staff and student collaborative which is helping to make law more diverse, inclusive and accessible.
How you learn
At Sheffield Hallam, all our courses are designed to engage you with the world and challenge you to think in new ways. You’ll get to collaborate with others, and you’ll be taught in a supportive environment where you can thrive.
On this course you’ll learn how to understand, critique and create knowledge and information. You’ll also develop and practise key skills and attributes essential for future work – challenging and confirming your personal and professional values to become an active citizen within a diverse society. This approach will prepare you for challenges and opportunities across our global society.
Our award-winning tutors are experts in their fields. You’ll be taught by a range of lecturers who are experienced legal researchers and who have years of experience in the legal profession as solicitors or barristers.
You learn through:
- Lectures and interactive workshops
- Independent research
- Case studies in both simulated and live client environments
- Work placements
Key Themes
At every level of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to learn the law and the personal and practical skills required to apply the law to a variety of simulated and real-life cases.
You’ll collaborate with legal professionals and rights and justice practitioners to challenge law and its application, engaging with projects and initiatives which are making a difference in Sheffield, nationally and globally. With a thorough grounding in the foundational areas of legal knowledge, you’ll be able to demonstrate what you’ve learned in theoretical and practical contexts.
Course Support
You’ll be supported in your learning journey towards highly skilled graduate employment in a number of ways. These include:
Support throughout your studies from your own dedicated academic adviser, committed to your personal and professional development as a confident, reflective and autonomous learner.
Access to our Skills Centre with one to ones, workshops and online resources to help you to plan and structure your assignments.
Employability opportunities such as project work, networking and field trips – and expert advice and guidance from our careers and employability team.
Our student and staff led steering group Manifest Diversity ensures the inclusion and promotion of minority student voices and leads to opportunities such as attendance at UK Black Business Week and projects focusing on our student offer.
Course leaders and tutors
Rebecca Hartley
Senior Lecturer in Law and CriminologyI am Module Leader for the Law in Practice, Legal Skill and Research and the Dissertation modules on the LLM in International Commercial Law. I am also the Module Le … Read more
Kingsley Udofa
Lecturer in LawDr Kingsley Udofa is a lecturer in law at Sheffield Hallam University
Applied learning
Your course has been designed to embrace real-world challenges and provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to be successful within your chosen sector.
Work Placements
You’ll have the opportunity to arrange a year-long work placement in between your second and third years. This gives you valuable work experience to prepare you for your future career – and allows you to graduate with an Applied Professional Diploma to add to your CV.
As part of your course you’ll have opportunities to undertake a range of placements with our legal and social-justice service providers. These include major national and international law firms – such as Irwin Mitchell and DLA Piper – and international legal practitioners such as attorneys’ firms, public defenders and miscarriage of justice projects in the USA.
Live Projects
Throughout the course you’ll gain vital industry experience working alongside lawyers and other professionals on real projects. The course is designed to develop your practical legal skills to support and prepare you to participate in work with legal service providers and their clients.
Social Justice
Our department is committed to advocating for those who don’t have or can’t afford representation. You can get involved in a range of legal advice initiatives supporting access to justice – including local court helpdesks and our Refugee Rights Hub.
You’ll have the opportunity to assist with reuniting families of refugees, work with the miscarriage of justice organisation 'Appeal', and attend small claims hearings to provide legal advice and representation to self-represented litigants.
Networking Opportunities
As the course offers a wide range of extra-curricular activities, you can develop invaluable employability knowledge and skills throughout your degree.
There are regular opportunities to develop connections with professionals both within and outside of the legal sector – through trips and visits, our annual Law Careers Fair, careers talks, panel events, conferences, mentoring schemes and networking sessions. These often involve our fantastic and educated alumni community.
Field Trips
During the course there will be opportunities to get involved in a range of national and international trips. In recent years these have included an annual Lawyer in London trip involving a mock trial at the Royal Courts of Justice and a visit to a major international commercial law firm with an opportunity to network with recent trainees.
Students have also assisted with human rights and social justice projects in Lesotho and visited Auschwitz. Our student attendance at UK Black Business Week, London provides inspiration to minoritised students, who said “Overall, the event was eye opening i never knew how much sectors I could really go into in law, this event allowed me to really plan my future”.
Competitions
Training in mooting skills and chances to take part in internal and external mooting competitions are offered through the Law and Advocacy Society. Our students also frequently participate in national negotiation and interviewing competitions, supported by staff.
Future careers
This course prepares you for careers in:
- The legal profession (including as a solicitor or barrister)
- Business and entrepreneurialism
- Human resources
- Financial services
- Teaching
- Higher education
- Public sector
- Regulatory services
- Law enforcement and probation
Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for:
- The Probation Service
- Crown Prosecution Service
- DLA Piper
- Environment Agency
- Lincoln House Chambers
- South Yorkshire Police
- NatWest
- Slaughter & May
- Begbies Traynor
- Aquinas College
- CMS
Graduate View
LLB (Hons) Law graduate Tabitha works as a barrister in criminal law representing both prosecution and defence cases in Crown and Magistrates court. She has worked on many interesting cases and hopes to one day become Queen's Counsel.
Where will I study?
You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.
City Campus
City Campus is located in the heart of Sheffield, within minutes of the train and bus stations.
City Campus map | City Campus tour
Adsetts library
Adsetts Library is located on our City Campus. It's open 24 hours a day, every day.
Learn moreLearn more about your department
Take a tour around the School of Law facilities with student Ellie.
Equipment and facilities
On this course you work with:
- Library services and study spaces
- Our on-campus legal and social justice service providers
- Moot court and other collaborative learning spaces
- Digital access to the latest legal material, commentary and analysis through our subscriptions to practitioners' databases
- Specialist software to manage client case-work
We’ve invested over £100m in new facilities to help you study how and when you want. This means 24-hour libraries and study spaces designed by our students.
360 tour - Moot Court
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Students working in the Hallam Legal Advice Centre and Justice Hubs
Entry requirements
All students
UCAS points
- 120-128
This must include at least two A levels or equivalent BTEC National qualifications. For example:
- BBB at A Level.
- DDM in BTEC Extended Diploma.
- Merit overall from a T level qualification.
- A combination of qualifications, which may include up to two AS Levels, EPQ and general studies.
You can find information on making sense of UCAS tariff points here and use the UCAS tariff calculator to work out your points.
GCSE
- English Language or English Literature at grade C or 4
- Mathematics at grade C or 4
• Access - at least 45 credits at level 3 and 15 credits at level 2 from a relevant Open College Network accredited course
• Grade B from CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma.
If English is not your first language, you will need an IELTS score of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.5 in both reading and writing and 5.5 in all other skills, or equivalent.
We also consider other qualifications from the UCAS tariff. Applicants with alternative qualifications or a combination of qualifications and work experience will also be considered. We welcome applications from people of any age. Please contact us for further advice.
Meeting the qualifications on the entry criteria does not guarantee you a place. You should ensure that you submit a personal statement and reference as these will also be considered as part of the selection process. Guidelines on personal statements and references can be found on the UCAS website.
Please note that if you have a criminal conviction and want to become either a solicitor or barrister that you speak with the relevant regulatory body to determine if this will have any implication for your chosen career path. This is in order to ensure students are notified of regulator requirement for entering the legal profession.
Please note that we do not accept direct entry into 2nd or 3rd year for this course.
Additional information for EU/International students
If you are an International or non-UK European student, you can find out more about the country specific qualifications we accept on our international qualifications page.
For details of English language entry requirements (IELTS), please see the information for 'All students'.
Modules
Important notice: The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.
You will be able to complete a placement year as part of this course. See the modules table below for further information.
Year 1
Compulsory modules
Applied Human Rights & Justice
Criminal Law
Introduction To Law & Legal Practice
Principles Of Contract Law
Year 2
Compulsory modules
Land Law
Legal Environments And Professional Skills
The Law Of Trusts
Tort Law
Elective modules
Study Abroad - Institute Of Law And Justice
Year 3
Optional modules
Placement Year
Final year
Compulsory modules
Professional Practice Experience
Elective modules
Commercial Law
Company Law
Criminal Justice Theories And Realities
Employment Law
Extended Professional Practice
Family Law
Immigration Law
Intellectual Property Law
International Criminal Law And Justice
International Human Rights
Law And Medicine
Law Of Evidence
Public Interest Law And Judicial Review
Public International Law
Sports Law
Fees and funding
Home students
Our tuition fees for UK students starting full-time undergraduate study in 2025/26 are regulated by the UK government and are yet to be confirmed. For an indication, our tuition fee for UK students starting full-time undergraduate study in 2024/25 is £9,250 per year. During your placement year you will pay a reduced fee of £1,200.
If you are studying an undergraduate course, postgraduate pre-registration course or postgraduate research course over more than one academic year then your tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with Government regulations or UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published fees. More information can be found in our terms and conditions under student fees regulations.
International students
Our tuition fee for International/EU students starting full-time study in 2025/26 is £17,155 per year. During your placement year you will pay a reduced fee of £1,200.
Financial support for home/EU students
How tuition fees work, student loans and other financial support available.
Additional course costs
The links below allow you to view estimated general course additional costs, as well as costs associated with key activities on specific courses. These are estimates and are intended only as an indication of potential additional expenses. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.
General course additional costs
Additional costs for Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice (PDF, 141.3KB)Legal information
Any offer of a place to study is subject to your acceptance of the University’s Terms and Conditions and Student Regulations.
Financial support for home/EU students
How tuition fees work, student loans and other financial support available.
