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Dundee dual degree offers a unique choice

For most students, choosing whether to study in Scotland or England boils down to little more than personal preference. But when it comes to law, the choice of jurisdiction is crucial. Having a degree in Scots law will not be enough for students who later decide they want to practise in England or vice versa.

But now one enterprising Scottish law school has spotted a gap in the legal education marketplace. Dundee University is already the only law school in the UK to offer students a choice of doing the LLB degree in either Scots or English law, and it is now taking this a step further by setting up a dual LLB.

The two distinct LLB streams have been brought together and restructured to allow students to fulfil the professional requirements of both the Law Society of Scotland and the Law Society of England and Wales.

From September, students on the Scots LLB programme will be offered the chance to take modules in English law. This means that after graduating they will choose whether they want to follow the English or Scottish routes to qualification as a solicitor.

The move comes after teaching staff noticed that many students were keen to learn about the law in both jurisdictions, and often asked if they could swap between the English and Scottish courses as they progressed through their degree.

With teaching staff already delivering modules in both Scots and English law, Dundee already had the resources in place to set up the dual degree.

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