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Cardiff University: School of Law and Politics

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/subjects/law/

Cardiff University

Cardiff University, School of Law and Politics
Law is a subject that applies to every aspect of our lives and our LLM programmes give you the chance to explore areas of interest to you or your future ambitions.

Why study law at Cardiff University?
You’ll find us at the heart of Wales’ capital city, and on the edge of a beautiful civic centre. Our neighbours include the Welsh Government, the Crown Court and a range of barristers' chambers and legal firms.

  • We’re Wales' only Russell Group university and the only university in the group to offer a range of professional legal training courses for those who wish to become a solicitor or barrister.
  • We placed 19th in the UK for law in the Complete University Guide 2025.
  • We’ve been teaching law for 55 years building an international reputation for teaching and research excellence in academia and in the legal sector.
  • Our students and academics come from around the globe, creating a community that is diverse in perspective and composition.
  • Our internationally renowned team regularly advise practitioners and policy makers in governments, think tanks and NGOs including the International Panel on Climate Change, Home Affairs Select Committees, the UN, NATO and G7.
  • We’re located a few minutes' walk from the city centre where you’ll find shops, restaurants, theatres and of course Cardiff castle. Cardiff Bay is a 15-minute train ride away and London by train is only 2 hours.

Our LLM offering
We currently offer a range of LLMs to suit you, your interests and your chosen career path.

Our general LLM in Law is designed to give you the greatest flexibility to pursue advanced legal study in any area that you wish. While the rest of our offering allows you to specialise and hone your knowledge on a particular area of law.

Professional courses
We're the only Russell Group university in the UK to offer a wide range of professional legal training courses for those who wish to become a solicitor or barrister.

We think our Solicitors Practice Course is the best way to prepare you for the centralised SQE. Not only will you be taught the areas assessed in the SQE, but you’ll also be working at a master’s level and will undertake a research project where you will learn how to write, critically reason, engage with your readers and reflect on your experience.

Supporting your employability
From the minute you join us, your future is our priority. We provide a dedicated law Careers Manager who is based in the school 2.5 days per week. This means that once you’re a student with us, you can book confidential appointments whenever you’re ready to start talking about your plans. Our Careers Manager can help with CVs, applications, LinkedIn, preparing for interviews and much more. The support we offer and our commitment to your future career is reflected in consistently high employability rates.

Turning skills into practice - pro bono
In addition to the careers advice and support we offer you can also take advantage of hands-on practical experience as a postgraduate student via our range of pro bono schemes.

Volunteering on the schemes can give you the opportunity to help members of the community with legal matters, completely free of charge. Working with lawyers and a variety of organisations, you’ll get a head start in your legal career by developing skills in client care, legal research, writing and public speaking by working on real and simulated cases, and policy work.

You’ll be supervised by qualified solicitors in areas of law and practice which have included environmental regulation, miscarriages of justice, support for people with learning disabilities, family law, representation for asylum seekers and recovery of wrongly paid care home fees.

The schemes change each term depending on supervisory resource, capacity and funding but there is something for everyone depending on which area of law is of interest to you.

Jack studied at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels with us and was a huge advocate for pro bono schemes.

"I think the main selling point [of pro bono] is the exposure that you have to different areas of law and particularly niche practice areas that you wouldn’t necessarily come across in an ordinary high street law firm.”
Jack Furse, Law and French (LLM) and Bar Training Course (BTC)


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Scholarships and funding
We believe that education should be something that everyone can benefit from but know that sometimes added financial support is needed. We offer a range of scholarships and bursaries.

If you're already a Cardiff University graduate, you could be eligible for our 20% alumni discount scheme.

Worth £3,000 and awarded in the form of a tuition fee discount.

We also offer other scholarships, funding and bursaries that might help you fulfil your postgraduate study ambitions. Visit our website for details.
Contact us
Contact our admissions team: lawpladmissions@cardiff.ac.uk
Visit our website.

School of Law and Politics
Cardiff University
Law Building
Museum Ave
Cardiff
CF10 3AX

Telephone: 02920 874343

 

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