Bachelor of Laws LLB (Hons) Online
Empowering Future Legal Innovators: Blending Law, Business, and Practical Skills for Global Success
Study a flexible, affordable degree built for online learners. Aston University empowers you to enhance your employability and tackle real-world problems with a curriculum enriched by strong links to industry.
Programme Overview
Our Law LLB (Hons) programme is designed to provide you with a comprehensive exploration of topics that will assist you in the pursuit of The Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) as well as prepare you for a diverse range of other professional pathways.
With a focus on the business of law, the future of law, and the law of business, this programme will give you a strong foundation of legal knowledge to enable you to succeed in any legal career. Whether you want to be a solicitor, a barrister or are seeking a business role after graduation, this programme will give you the skills you need.
Our close links with Aston Business School and a strong employer network will help you increase your employability potential, as will our emphasis on real-world application and putting theory into practice.
Triple Gold: Aston University has been awarded Triple Gold – the highest possible rating for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023.
Satisfied Students: Aston University was ranked Top 20 in the UK for ‘student satisfaction’ (Law; Complete University Guide, 2024).
Excellent Prospects: Aston University was named runner-up in the University of the Year for the Graduate Employment Award (Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024).
Earn More: Our graduates are among the highest paid in the country, earning on average £36,100 five years after graduating (Longitudinal Education Outcomes, 2023).
Aston Law students can join the Law Society as student members.
What You Will Learn
- Legal Foundations and Business Focus: Develop your understanding of core legal topics with an emphasis on their application within the business world.
- Practical Legal Skills: Apply your new practical skills through problem-solving, critical thinking, and client advising activities that use real-world examples and opportunities.
- Innovation and Technology in Law: Explore the relationship between law and technology, including the impact of emerging technologies on legal practice and the legal implications of digital business environments.
- Commercial Awareness and Legal Project Management: Gain insights into the role of commercial lawyers and the principles of project management, as well as their application in corporate transactions to develop your commercial awareness and employability skills.
Why Study Online With Aston University?
Aston Online offers various advantages, making it an appealing choice for prospective students globally.
Flexibility and Convenience - Fit your studies into your work/life balance.
Built for Online - Interactive, engaging, and purpose-designed curriculum available 24/7.
Affordable - Spread the cost, pay monthly or in instalments, and earn as you learn.
Supported - Dedicated student support, online tutors and award-winning Careers team.
Expert tutors - Staff with industry experience and experts in their fields.
Empowering Creativity - complimentary full access to Adobe Creative Cloud tools for developing dynamic multimedia content and presentations through video, graphics and audio.
Transparent pricing – apply for free, with no hidden costs.
Ready for work and life – rigorous academic standards and curriculum focusing on the skills sought by employers (for now and the future)
I decided to pursue an online programme with Aston University as it would allow me to be immersed in world-class online platforms and surrounded by experts who share their knowledge and expertise through collaboration.
Programme Outcomes
Aston’s close links with law firms, businesses, industries, and social enterprises mean that Law with Aston University has a strong focus on successfully enabling your employability readiness and career development.
This programme is ideal if you aim to become a solicitor or barrister, as it has been designed to help you acquire the knowledge and skills you need to become a successful legal practitioner. In addition, this law degree provides an excellent foundation for other careers where legal knowledge is important, like taxation, human resource management, accountancy, regulation, and compliance.
Our graduates work across multiple sectors for organisations, including IBM, Hilton Worldwide, NatWest, Hays Legal, Shoosmiths, Irwin Mitchell, Capita, Shoosmiths LLP, Rolls-Royce, Pinsent Masons and Citizens Advice.
Recent graduates have gone onto roles including:
Negotiations Case Handler: Manage and resolve negotiation cases, achieve favourable outcomes and mediate between conflicting parties to settle terms efficiently and amicably.
Corporate Client Accounts Support: Provide crucial backend support to corporate account managers, ensuring client needs are met with exceptional service.
Trainee Solicitor: Advise clients about the law and act on their behalf in legal matters.
Cybersecurity Consultant: Identify problems, evaluate security issues, assess risk, and implement solutions to defend against threats to companies' networks and computer systems.
Litigation Consultant: Provide expert advice on legal disputes to ensure solid case preparation.
Immigration Paralegal: Conduct research, prepare legal documents, and give legal advice to clients.
Trainee tax consultant: Conduct tax research, summarise findings and ensure corporations are tax compliant.
Programme Structure
Our Law LLB (Hons) programme course comprises of 12 compulsory modules designed to furnish students with a comprehensive grounding in the English legal system and its application, establishing a foundation for diverse legal careers. The programme nurtures independent and collaborative working skills, promotes lifelong learning, and prepares students with the ethical insights necessary for today’s legal and business landscapes.
Each credit of study is equivalent to 10 learning hours (e.g. 15 credits reflects 150 hours of learning). The learning hours may include but are not limited to online activity, reading, other independent study, and reflecting on assignment feedback.
Modules
Liability in Crime and Tort
30 credits
This module will deliver an important overview of English tort and criminal law, including the principle of negligence, the role of tort within the business environment, elements of criminal liability relating to businesses, and the role of prosecuting bodies, other than the Crown Prosecution Service, in the regulation and prosecution of businesses/business people. This module will introduce you to the English Legal System and English Legal Method. To challenge preconceptions of legal systems and the study of law, you will become equipped with the knowledge of the legal system necessary for success in more detailed legal study now and in future years.
Legal Systems and Skills
30 credits
This module will introduce you to the English Legal System and English Legal Method. To challenge preconceptions of legal systems and the study of law, you will become equipped with the knowledge of the legal system necessary for success in more detailed legal study now and in future years.
Introduction to Contract and Property
30 credits
This module will develop your understanding of administrative law and human rights law in the United Kingdom. You will also learn the key principles of European Union Constitutional Law that are relevant to the United Kingdom after Brexit as well as related aspects of ethics.
Public Law and Regulation
30 credits
This module will provide you with an understanding of contract formation, enforceability and terms. You will discover what happens when contracts are breached together with the remedies available, in particular damages. The module explores contractual risk and impossibility along with misrepresentation and exemption clauses. There is also an overview of property law in England and Wales.
Stage 1 Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this programme, students will be able to:
- Present a detailed knowledge of the principal features of the English Legal System, its institutions and procedures together with the law within the modules indicated.
- Interpret a variety of data sources, including primary and secondary material related to the studied modules which form the foundations of legal research.
- Communicate and evaluate relevant issues with regard to legal doctrine, policy, society and ethics.
Modules
Business, Technology and the Law
30 credits
This module will provide you with an understanding of the principal legal features of business entities, including sole traders, partnerships and companies, and the key distinctions between them. You will also consider other obligations imposed on businesses. You are going to explore the interaction between law and modern technology as we look at the evolutionary relationship between legal rules and technological change, before considering the real substantive and ethical problems at the interface between them.
Land Law
30 credits
You will have the opportunity to develop a critical understanding of the key concepts of land law, particularly the resulting consequences of the distinctions between legal and equitable rights, personal and proprietary interests and registered and unregistered land. Engaging learning content will allow you to develop a critical appreciation of such concepts in a political, social, cultural and financial context. The module will expose you to an understanding of land law development in relation to the major property legislation of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as in relation to substantive matters, including the ownership of family property, the regulation of leases and the law of easements.
Equity and Trusts
30 credits
Through this module, you will gain an overview of English law of equity and trusts, focusing on the core development of equitable doctrines and the ever-increasing role that equity plays in commercial and social life.
Commercial Law
30 credits
This module will further develop your understanding of contractual principles and introduces a number of important and interrelated areas of domestic commercial law including the law of contract in the commercial context, sale of goods, agency, and dispute resolution. You will develop a portfolio of important skills linked directly to employability in this profession.
Stage 2 Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this programme, students will be able to:
- Critically enquire as to the operation and application of the rules, principles and concepts studied within the modules.
- Critically analyse primary and secondary sources of material relating to the studied modules through legal research.
- Critically reflect upon and communicate the importance and development of employability skills to their graduate aspirations.
- Critically understand the appropriateness and application of different approaches to legal problem solving.
Modules
Regulated, but also newer developments in the field. The module will also introduce students to the institutional, constitutional and substantive law of the European Union. To highlight the key features of the European legal order and its links with the UK legal system post-Brexit.
Competition and Regulation (incorporating EU Law)
30 credits
You will learn how corporations and financial markets function both locally and internationally, and under what circumstances the regulation of competition may benefit consumers. A variety of mechanisms exist to ensure that pro-competitive measures are adopted (and sometimes enforced) in the marketplace. You will be introduced to these concepts and mechanisms, by not only looking at the most common traditional forms of anti-competitive conduct and how they are regulated, but also newer developments in the field. The module will also explore the institutional, constitutional and substantive law of the European Union to highlight the key features of the European legal order and its links with the UK legal system post-Brexit.
Legal Project Management & Business Law in Context
30 credits
This module will provide you with an understanding of the role of a commercial lawyer, the principles of project management (organisational skill, risk awareness and management) and an example of their application in a corporate transaction. You will deepen your understanding of the business environment, enabling you to successfully practise in law or in the broader business environment with the necessary knowledge g of the corporate setting and your role within it. The module will offer you an opportunity to develop commercial awareness and core employability skills that reflect a contemporary view of innovation in legal services.
Intellectual Property and the Internet
30 credits
The module will enable you to build essential knowledge of the legal elements of intellectual property that are relevant to activity on the internet, and also establish your awareness of the key commercial issues of intellectual property in the context of the online commercial environment. The module also establishes the skills you will require to analyse the governance structure of new technologies and evaluate the emerging issues concerning new technologies (e.g. robotics, AI) concerning their legal, societal and policy implications (e.g. data protection, liability, ethics, consumer protection).
Fraud, Bribery and Corruption (including Advanced Criminal Law)
30 credits
This module will enable you to explore fraud, bribery, and corruption, from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Through a case study approach, the occurrence of fraud, bribery and corruption will be analysed to explore their meaning, cultural context, and impact on organisations and society. In terms of criminal law, the module will provide you with the principles of criminal law not covered in liability in Crime and Tort. You will consider a range of criminal offences, applying those principles, and also consider the practical application of criminal law to client advice and court procedures.
Stage F Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this programme, students will be able to:
- Communicate a systematic and conceptual approach to the rules, principles and concepts studied within the modules and their operation.
- Deploy advanced research and analysis of primary and secondary sources of law relating to the studied modules.
- Identify and where relevant appreciate ambiguity and uncertainty relating to relevant issues with regard to legal doctrine, policy, society and ethics as appropriate to the studied modules.
- Identify, analyse and critically apply principles, rules and concepts with regard to realistic factual matrices in order to provide advice and/or solutions.
Entry Requirements
A Levels
BBB (standard offer)
BBC (with EPQ or Core Maths minimum grade B)
BBC (contextual offer)
BTEC Extended Diploma - DDD (standard offer)
BTEC Extended Diploma - DDM (contextual offer)
The University also accepts the BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate/BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma and BTEC Level 3 National Diploma/BTEC Level 3 Diploma for entry into degree programmes, provided that they are studied in combination with other qualifications that are equivalent to three full A2 Levels.
31 points overall in the IB diploma with 5, 5, 5 in 3 higher level subjects.
You must also have Standard Level grade 4 in Mathematics and grade 5 in English Language.
The following T Levels are accepted qualifications for this course:
- Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction - Grade D
- Digital Production, Design and Production - Grade D
- Education and Childcare - Grade D
- Onsite Construction - Grade D
- Building Services Engineering for Construction - Grade D
- Digital Business Services - Grade D
- Digital Support Services - Grade D
- Health - Grade D
- Healthcare Science - Grade D
- Science - Grade D
- Accounting - Grade D
- Finance - Grade D
- Management and administration - Grade D
- Design and development for engineering and manufacturing - Grade D
- Maintenance, installation and repair for engineering and manufacturing - Grade D
- Legal Services - Grade D
Additional to our Level 3 requirement, you will also need to have achieved:
GCSE Maths Grade C/4 and English Grade C/4 and above.
Contextual offers
Aston Ready is our contextual offer scheme that could reduce your undergraduate offer by one or two grades. Assessed at the point of application, there are no additional forms to fill in.
Alternative entry requirements:
We take a holistic approach in evaluating applications. The information contained on this website details the typical entry requirements for this programme for the most commonly offered qualifications. Applicants with alternative qualifications may wish to enquire prior to application whether their qualifications are deemed acceptable. For less commonly encountered qualifications this will be judged on a case-by-case basis in consultation with the academic admissions tutor. The Admissions team will consider both prior accredited and experiential learning.
Please contact the Admissions Team prior to making your application: enquiries@astononline.ac.uk
International students:
Aston University is a diverse community and welcomes international students. Students from over 120 countries choose to study with us every year.
Please contact the Admissions Team to check qualifications in your country: enquiries@astononline.ac.uk
English language requirements
Applicants whose first language is not English will be required to provide evidence of an English language qualification.
Find Out If You Qualify
If you have any questions about your eligibility or the application process, please get in touch with the Aston Online Admissions Team:
Email: enquiries@astononline.ac.uk
Call: +44 (0) 121 824 6374
Our office is open Monday to Friday, 09:00-17:00 GMT
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