LLB Law and German
Entry requirements
A level: from A*A*A to A*AA (required: English Literature, English Language or combined English at B) IB: from 40 points with 766 at HL to 37 points with 666 at HL
About this course
LLB (Hons) in Law and German, a Law and German degree offering combined studies across legal frameworks and language disciplines. Core topics include Legal Analysis. This four-year course includes a compulsory year abroad during the third year at an institution where teaching is conducted in German. The first year covers the foundations through Scottish Legal System, Contract Law, Family Law and Public Law of the UK and Scotland. The second year progresses with Property Law, Criminal Law, Delict and Jurisprudence alongside language instruction in translation and grammar. The fourth year includes advanced legal study in subjects such as Commercial Law and Criminology, alongside German-to-English translation of literary and journalistic texts, essay and précis writing, and specialized literature topics including Goethe and Schiller.
Modules
- Scottish Legal System
- Critical Legal Thinking
- Contract Law
- Family Law
- Public Law of the UK and Scotland
- European Union Law
- practise professional communication
- discover the value of languages in the workplace
- gain insights into possible career options
- Property Law
- Jurisprudence
- Public Law and Individual Rights
- Delict
- Criminal Law
- Revenue Law
- International Private Law
- Business Entities
- Commercial Law
- Evidence
- Succession and Trust Law
- translation
- grammar
- writing different types of texts in German
- Researching Disability in German Literature and Society
- Culture, Modernity and the City in the Weimar Republic
- Reading Antisemitism in Modern German Literature
- The Contemporary Short Story in German
- Screening Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity on the German Screen and Beyond
- German Colonialism: History, Memory, Controversy
- Commercial Law
- Property Law
- Family Law
- Criminology
- spoken German
- essay and précis writing
- German-to-English translation of literary and journalistic texts
- Bertolt Brecht
- From Girls in Uniform to Men in Drag: Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity on the German Screen
- Goethe and Schiller
- Identity and Self in Contemporary German Literature
- The Third Reich in Literature and Testimony
- Vulnerability and the City: German Literary Cartographies of Danger and Refuge