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Why Study Law Plus at UL?

The study of law is an enriching educational experience that provides intellectual stimulation and an exposure to decision-making and argumentative skills. The Law Plus programme allows you to choose elective subjects in other courses including Politics, History, Psychology, Economics, Maths, Irish World Music and Dance and languages. You can therefore expect to have a wide variety of options open to you upon graduation.

Law Plus places significant emphasis on the development of practical legal skills including oral and written communication skills, analytical and logical reasoning skills, negotiation, legal research, organisational and team work skills, particularly through the Lawyering Skills modules. The state of the art courtroom is utilised throughout the programme to develop these skills and ensure our students graduate equipped to deal with working in a legal environment. However, these skills are transferable and are of great benefit, even to those who choose a career outside of law.

You will also have the opportunity to study Advanced Dispute Resolution (ADR) with a focus on arbitration, mediation and negotiation skills, making Law Plus the only Law degree in Ireland to include ADR as a compulsory module. This is in recognition of the increasingly important role of ADR in the modern legal environment.

What You Will Study

The programme is of four years’ duration, of which seven semesters are spent on campus and one on Cooperative Education. In general, the programme consists of three law modules and two elective modules per semester. The law component of the course is designed to provide you with a mastery of the discipline of law through the study of the core legal subjects which are considered essential to an adequate legal education: Lawyering Skills, Contract, Torts, Criminal Law, Public Law, Equity and Trusts, EU Law and Land Law.

The elective component of the degree consists of a wide variety of modules, including additional Law modules, History, Psychology and Spanish. The electives serve to broaden the base of your legal studies and refine your knowledge of the wider world.

During the first half of Year 3, an eight-month period of Cooperative Education provides you with an opportunity to apply the knowledge that you have already acquired. Normally this will take the form of a work placement.

Career Prospects

Careers open to you with a Law degree include:

• Solicitor
• Barrister

A legal education gives you a number of career options. You may decide to enter the legal profession or you may engage in further study and become an academic. These are not the only options, as a law degree will give you a rich and invaluable education which may also interest those who intend to pursue a career outside the profession and academia, including administration, government and business. A law degree will provide you with life long skills that can be adapted to suit a wide variety of careers.

A law degree will provide you with life long skills that can be adapted to suit a wide variety of careers.

Follow-On Study

After finishing your Law degree, you may decide to stay on at University and pursue a Masters Degree where we offer a number of innovative and interesting postgraduate programmes:

• LLM in Human Rights in Criminal Justice,
• LLM General,
• LLM in International Commercial Law,
• LLM in European and Comparative Law.

During Year 4 you will take Advanced Lawyering modules that involve a variety of practically focused activities such as writing a research article, undertaking a moot trial, working in a business law clinic and participating in a convincing scenario.