Law and Business

You'll study four core modules, four optional modules and select one law project option. This learning structure will enhance your academic and organisational skills, develop practical subject specific skills and knowledge and cover a good range of options across the disciplines of law, business and management. The course offers you the opportunity to work with external partners to support clients with legal problems, or to undertake a supervised research project on a legal area of your choice.

There is a natural focus on business organisations and legal transactions and the course seeks to develop professionality, effective collaboration, and precise communication. It also seeks to prepare you to initiate, lead and respond to change in various organisational contexts.

This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the programme document  for more information on which modules are core, required or optional.

Trimester one

You'll study two core modules:

• Legal Systems, Research and Skills
• Commercial Law

and choose two optional modules from:

• Obligations and Dispute Resolution
• Employment Law
• Strategic Management
• Governance and Risk Management
• Strategic Brand Management
• Digital Marketing
• Advanced Academic and Business Skills

Trimester two

You'll study two core modules:

• Business Law and Practice
• Leading Change and Innovation

and choose two optional modules from:

• The Professional Lawyer
• Cyberlaw
• Entertainment, Media and Intellectual Property Law
• Managing People
• Sustainability
• Corporate Financial Management.

Trimester three

You'll choose to take either the Legal Clinic or Legal Research Project module.

You'll be assessed using a range of methods including exams, tests, practical exercises, presentations, case studies, reports, essays and portfolio and dissertation writing.

You'll be taught using a mix of in-person seminars and practical skills workshops, supervision, clinical education and digital learning.

To find out more about how we teach and how you'll learn, please read our Learning and Teaching Delivery Statement.

You'll get the chance to engage with a range of guest speakers and legal practice stakeholders, and you'll have the opportunity to visit the Bath Law Clinic at the beginning of the programme.

The Legal Clinic module option offers experience, learning and support that will enhance your legal practice knowledge and future employability.

You'll develop a good range of transferable and subject-specific skills, enhancing your employability for a wide variety of law, business and management-related roles. The flexible range of module options enables you to tailor your study to support your specific career aspirations.

You'll have the opportunity to enter open competitions relating to debating and mooting.

The course is taught at our Newton Park campus, with an option to visit Bath Law Clinic.

Our library offers a wide range of business materials including electronic sources. This online material can be accessed on and off campus enabling you to work at times that suit you.