LLB in Commercial Law
Course Overview
The LLB in Commercial Law at LSLPE is a three-year UK Level 6 honours degree with part-time and accelerated routes available. It is a rigorous commercial-track qualifying-style LLB that reads the substantive law businesses actually run on: contract, sale of goods, agency, commercial credit, security, banking, carriage and international trade. The syllabus is aligned with SRA and Bar Standards Board foundation-of-legal-knowledge expectations, though it does not itself qualify graduates to practise as solicitors or barristers.
By graduation you will have drafted heads of terms, sale-of-goods clauses, security agreements and letters of credit, argued moot points at commercial-court benches, produced disclosure and dispute-management analyses, completed a placement year in a City firm or in-house commercial team, and defended a final-year dissertation on a live commercial-law question.
Key Features
- Curriculum aligned with SRA and Bar Standards Board (BSB) foundation-of-law expectations.
- Moot-court practice in commercial-list style, judged by practising barristers.
- Placement year in a City firm, in-house commercial team, chambers or trade body.
- Guest workshops with practitioners aligned to CIArb arbitration standards.
- Weekly seminars in small, tutor-visible cohorts across every study mode.
- Careers days linking students to City firms, magic-circle recruiters and in-house counsel.
What You Will Learn
- Formation, terms, interpretation and remedies in the law of contract.
- Sale of goods under the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and Consumer Rights Act 2015.
- Agency, distribution and franchising arrangements.
- Banking, secured lending and the law of security interests.
- Carriage of goods by sea, air and road and international trade documentation.
- Commercial dispute resolution, litigation and arbitration.
- Company law fundamentals for commercial practice.
- Dissertation research and defence on a live commercial-law question.
Who This Course Is For
- School-leavers targeting City firms and in-house commercial legal roles.
- International applicants comparing their commercial systems against English law.
- Career changers from finance, procurement or trade into legal practice.
- Working professionals studying part-time through the distance route while in-house.
- Applicants planning postgraduate progression to an LLM in Commercial or Corporate Law.
Career Pathways
- Trainee Solicitor at a City or regional commercial firm.
- Pupil Barrister at a commercial chambers.
- In-house Counsel support inside a corporate legal team.
- Contract Lawyer running procurement, sale and services agreements.
- Compliance Officer at a regulated financial-services firm.
- Legal Adviser in a trade body or industry regulator.
- Corporate Counsel pipeline role at a multinational.
The LSLPE careers service coordinates the placement year and refreshes curriculum alignment annually against SRA and Bar Standards Board guidance.
Entry Requirements
- A-levels (or equivalent) at BBB or above, OR a UK Access to HE Diploma with 45 credits at Level 3.
- GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or equivalent).
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Two academic references and a personal statement demonstrating commercial-law interests.
- International applicants receive dedicated visa and accommodation support from LSLPE admissions.
Why Study at LSLPE
LSLPE is a specialist division of Harold International College of London that teaches law in permanent conversation with economics and politics. The LLB in Commercial Law is delivered in small, tutor-visible cohorts using the case-room and Inns of Court moot tradition, so students argue against evidence rather than absorb it in lectures.
Central London places the Rolls Building, the City firms, the London Court of International Arbitration and the Bank of England within a short tube ride of every classroom. The LSLPE careers service links students to City firms, in-house teams and commercial chambers, and three parallel study modes let progressors and working professionals complete the LLB without leaving employment.
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