University of Bristol Law School
LLB Law and Modern Languages
Bristol, United Kingdom
LLB
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Our top-ranking law degree will give you a solid foundation of legal knowledge and an opportunity for you to explore a wide range of legal topics. You will be taught by world-leading academics, in the vibrant and diverse city of Bristol, who actively impact law, policy and practice.
An understanding of more than one legal tradition, language and culture can open up a world of opportunity. On this four-year, joint honours course, you will study either French, German or Spanish to degree level alongside Law.
Starting from A-level standard (or the equivalent) in your chosen language, you will develop your language and cultural knowledge to degree level, as well as take core units in civil and common law - the world's most prominent legal traditions. You will spend your third year at a partner university in a country in which your language is spoken. To find out more about studying abroad, visit the Centre for Study Abroad.
Choosing the LLB in Law and Modern Languages at Bristol will enable you to progress onto the Bar Practice Course or prepare, in part, for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), helping you to develop core legal skills and understanding of the seven foundations of legal knowledge. Get a head start in your legal career by gaining Qualifying Work Experience (QWE) through one of our law clinics.
A broader cultural experience, advanced language skills and the ability to articulate both the distinctive and common features of different legal systems will see you graduate with a valuable skill set, ideally tailored to the globalised workplace.
Course structure
The course is structured to help you think, write, reason and argue like a lawyer with an international outlook while gaining a rich understanding of language, literature, history and culture. It will also help you develop key skills in research and analysis.
Second-year units in law provide the opportunity to deepen your legal knowledge. On the language side of your degree, you will have opportunities to develop your linguistic skills and to choose an optional unit that furthers your understanding of your chosen language and the cultures in which it is spoken.
Typically, you will spend your third year abroad in a country in which your chosen language is spoken, studying units in the law of that country through the medium of the target language.
An exciting range of optional units will help you specialise further in your final year at Bristol, alongside your continued study of language and culture. Inspired by their year abroad, many law and language students choose units suited to global law firms and international organisations, on topics of banking and commercial law, environmental, human rights or IT law – subjects that may open doors to prestigious careers across the world. Your Independent Research Project will illustrate your ability to undertake legal research and critically engage with your chosen topic area.
University of Bristol is 8th in the UK and 51st in the world (QS World University rankings 2026)