Law with Philosophy

About this course

Law with philosophy is a combination that takes one of the most practically significant professional disciplines and grounds it in the deepest questions about justice, rights, obligation and the nature of legal authority. Law as a discipline trains you to understand legal rules, to reason from precedent and statute, to construct arguments and to advise on the obligations and entitlements that legal systems create. Philosophy asks the foundational questions that law often presupposes but rarely examines directly, about what law is, what it should do, whether there is an obligation to obey it and how legal concepts such as rights, responsibility and justice can be justified philosophically. At the University of Essex, the LLB Law with Philosophy combines rigorous study of law with in-depth engagement in philosophy, giving you a qualification that trains you both for legal practice and for

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 55% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 20% of graduatescards →

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