Law and Business
Law and business is a combination that reflects the reality of how legal and commercial life intersect. Business is conducted within legal frameworks that govern contracts, employment, intellectual property, competition, and regulation, and effective commercial practice requires at least a working knowledge of how the law shapes and constrains what organisations can do. Conversely, legal professionals advising businesses need to understand their clients' commercial world.
A degree that combines both disciplines develops you as someone who can operate confidently at that intersection.
At Birkbeck College, this part-time LLB provides a qualifying law degree alongside a grounding in business and management. You will study the core areas of law required for professional legal training, including contract, tort, criminal law, constitutional and administrative law, and land law, while also developing an understanding of key business and management concepts. Birkbeck has strong links with both the legal profession and the field of business and management, and the programme includes access to law clinics and progression agreements with major vocational training institutions.
The part-time structure makes the degree accessible to students who are already working in legal, commercial, or other professional contexts. These connections and the part-time model together make Birkbeck's law programmes particularly well suited to students who want to pursue a career change or professional qualification without setting aside their existing work.
Graduates from law and business programmes are well placed for careers in solicitors' firms, in-house legal teams in commercial organisations, banking and financial services, compliance, regulatory roles, and business development functions where legal awareness is valued. The LLB qualification provides the academic foundation for solicitor or barrister training. Postgraduate study in law, including LLM programmes, is a natural option for those who wish to specialise further.