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Law and Business
Course Overview
The four-year Bachelor of Civil Law and Business allows students to combine the study of a full law degree with principal commercial disciplines such as Business & Commercial Law, Accountancy, Economics, Management and Digital Business & Analytics. Graduates will understand not only the legal process but also the fundamentals of business. This will prepare graduates to work as lawyers in a corporate environment.
Students complete all the modules required to support them to undertake the entrance exams for the Law Society of Ireland, should they wish to qualify as a solicitor. Students who wish to qualify as a barrister will have the option of taking all the modules required by the Honourable Society of King’s Inns through the Legal Professions specialised stream.
Throughout the programme there is an emphasis on acquiring the fundamental practical skills required of lawyers – legal research, writing, oral presentation and advocacy.
Professional Work Placement or Study Abroad
In year three of this course students will have the opportunity to spend the academic year completing professional work placement or studying abroad. Students will have the opportunity to apply for a professional work placement in a leading law firm, a corporate organisation, a public sector organisation or other suitable legal placement. Study abroad is highly recommended for students who choose to study a language (Spanish, Legal French or Legal German) and are encouraged to study in our partner universities in Germany, France and Spain. We have also partnered with a number of leading universities who teach through English in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, India, Poland, Spain, The Netherlands, and the United States of America.
Note: Students who choose the optional specialist stream in Legal Irish will spend year three divided between one semester studying at NUI Galway’s Gaeltacht campus in An Cheathrú Rua and one semester of professional work placement in an Irish-speaking legal environment.
Specialist Streams
In final year students have the opportunity to shape their degree and focus on an area of study that interests them and develop special expertise in their chosen field. Students may choose one of the following specialist streams.
- Business and Commercial Law
- Public Law, Risk and Regulation
- Human Rights, Crime and Equality
- International, Comparative and Transnational Law
- Law and Innovation
- Language: Legal French, Legal Spanish, Legal German or Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish)
Applications and Selections
Who Teaches this Course
Requirements and Assessment
Key Facts
Entry Requirements
Minimum Grade H5 in two subjects and passes in four other subjects at O6/H7 level in the Leaving Certificate including Irish, English, Mathematics, and another language, and any two other subjects recognised for entry purposes.
Additional Requirements
Duration
4 years
Next start date
September 2023
A Level Grades (2022)
universityofgalway.ie/alevels
Average intake
60
QQI/FET FETAC Entry Routes
Closing Date
NFQ level
Mode of study
ECTS weighting
Award
CAO
GY250
Course code
Course Outline
Course and module offerings and details may be subject to change.
Year 1 (60 credits)
This year focuses on building skills with strong foundational teaching. The module ‘Understanding the Law’ builds a platform of essential skills and helps students to transition to the expectations of a university degree. In addition to the core law modules, students gain a good basic foundation of accounting by completing two introductory accounting modules. Students do not need to have previously studied accounting and the accounting modules are optional in year two. Students also choose optional modules in Digital Business, Economics or a Language.
Compulsory Core Modules (50 credits)
- Introduction to Financial Accounting (5 credits)
- Introduction to Management Accounting (5 credits)
- Understanding the Law (10 credits)
- Constitutional Law (10 credits)
- Contract Law (10 credits)
- Tort Law (10 credits)
Optional Modules (10 credits)
Digital Business
- Information Management for Business (5 credits)
- Business Information Systems (5 credits)
Economics
- Principles of Microeconomics (5 credits)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (5 credits)
Language
- Spanish, Legal German, Legal French or Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits)
Year 2 (60 credits)
In second year students develop their skills further with modules such as ‘Mooting’ which helps develop communication and advocacy skills. In addition to core law modules students can choose from a wide range of optional modules in Accounting, Economics, Digital Business, Management and a Language.
Compulsory Core Modules (35 credits)
- Criminal Law I & II (10 credits)
- European Union Law I & II (10 credits)
- Company Law I & II (10 credits)
- Mooting (5 credits)
Optional Modules (25 credits)
Accounting
- Management Accounting I (5 credits)
- Business Finance I (5 credits)
- International Financial Reporting I (5 credits)
Economics
- Applied Microeconomics for Business (5 credits)
- Macroeconomics and the Business Environment (5 credits)
- Principles of Microeconomics (5 credits)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (5 credits)
Digital Business
- Business Information Systems (5 credits)
- Information Management for Business (5 credits)
- Cybersecurity (5 credits)
Management
- Employment Relations (5 credits)
- Management (5 credits)
Language
- Spanish, Legal French, Legal German or Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits each)
Year 3 (60 credits)
Customise your experience by choosing either professional work placement or study abroad.
Caithfidh na mic léinn a dhéanann Teanga an Dlí seimeastar amháin ag staidéar ar champas Gaeltachta Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh ar an gCeathrú Rua agus seimeastar amháin eile ar shocrúchán oibre i dtimpeallacht lán-Ghaeilge. (Students who study Legal Irish will spend one semester studying at NUI Galway’s Gaeltacht campus in An Cheathrú Rua and one semester of professional work placement in an Irish-speaking environment.)
Year 4 (60 credits)
Students will have the opportunity to shape their degree by choosing a specialist stream. Students will also complete a ‘Guided Research Essay’ on a topic of their choice and will be supported by an academic mentor. Module selection is subject to timetable clashes and availability.
Compulsory Modules (30 credits)
- Equity Law
- Land Law
- Commercial Law
- Legal Business & Ethics
- Guided Research Essay
Specialist Streams (30 credits)
Students will have the opportunity to shape their degree by choosing a specialist stream. Students may choose one of the following specialist. Certain specialist streams have prerequisite modules which must be passed before choosing the stream in the final year.
Economics
Compulsory modules for this stream:
- Microeconomics and Public Policy
- Macroeconomics and Public Policy
Optional Modules for this stream:
- Econometrics
- Health Economics
- Money & Banking
- Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
- Development Economics
- Economics and Philosophy
- International Economics
- Economics of Financial Markets
- Public Economics
- Marine Economics
Accounting
- Management Accounting II
- International Financial Reporting II
- International Financial Reporting III
- Business Finance I
- Business Finance II
The Legal Professions
- Administrative Law I
- Jurisprudence I
- Evidence I & II
- Choose a module from another stream
Management
- Labour Law I
- Labour Law II
- Human Resource Management
- Work in a Global Context
- Business Strategy
Digital Business and Analytics
- Database Technologies
- Decision Modelling and Analytics
- Business Intelligence & Analytics
- Implementing Digital Innovation
- Advanced Research Topics in Information Systems
- Law and Innovation
Law and Innovation
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Language
Students who choose a language must also choose 20 credits worth of modules on other streams to meet credit requirements.
- Legal Spanish/ Legal German/ Legal French/ Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits)
General
Define your own degree by selecting modules from the list below or from any of the other streams to meet the requirement of 25 credits. Module selection is subject to timetable clashes and availability.
- Applied Microeconomics for Business (5 credits)
- Macroeconomics and the Business Environment for Business (5 credits)
- Economics of Public Policy (5 credits)
- Introduction to Public Policy (5 credits)
Curriculum Information
Curriculum information relates to the current academic year (in most cases).Course and module offerings and details may be subject to change.
Glossary of Terms
- Credits
- You must earn a defined number of credits (aka ECTS) to complete each year of your course. You do this by taking all of its required modules as well as the correct number of optional modules to obtain that year's total number of credits.
- Module
- An examinable portion of a subject or course, for which you attend lectures and/or tutorials and carry out assignments. E.g. Algebra and Calculus could be modules within the subject Mathematics. Each module has a unique module code eg. MA140.
- Subject
- Some courses allow you to choose subjects, where related modules are grouped together. Subjects have their own required number of credits, so you must take all that subject's required modules and may also need to obtain the remainder of the subject's total credits by choosing from its available optional modules.
- Optional
- A module you may choose to study.
- Required
- A module that you must study if you choose this course (or subject).
- Required Core Subject
- A subject you must study because it's integral to that course.
- Semester
- Most courses have 2 semesters (aka terms) per year, so a three-year course will have six semesters in total. For clarity, this page will refer to the first semester of year 2 as 'Semester 3'.
Year 1 (60 Credits)
Optional MS120: Business Information Systems - 5 Credits - Semester 1Optional EC139: Principles of Microeconomics - 5 Credits - Semester 1
Optional SH102: Spanish Language I (Beginners) - 10 Credits - Semester 1
Optional SH140: Intermediate Spanish Language - 10 Credits - Semester 1
Optional GR106: Legal German - 10 Credits - Semester 1
Optional GA1101: Gaeilge & Scileanna Cumarsáide 1_Teanga an Dlí - 10 Credits - Semester 1
Optional GR1104: Beginners German for Law Students - 10 Credits - Semester 1
Required LW3120: Understanding the Law - 10 Credits - Semester 1
Required AY104: Introduction to Financial Accounting - 5 Credits - Semester 1
Required LW262: Tort - 10 Credits - Semester 1
Required LW117: Constitutional Law - 10 Credits - Semester 1
Required LW118: Contract - 10 Credits - Semester 1
Optional MS1100: Information Management for Business - 5 Credits - Semester 2
Optional EC141: Principles of Macroeconomics - 5 Credits - Semester 2
Optional LW109: Legal French - 10 Credits - Semester 2
Required AY105: Introduction to Management Accounting - 5 Credits - Semester 2
Year 2 (60 Credits)
Optional SH224: Spanish Language II (Law/IT) - 10 Credits - Semester 3Optional GR208: Legal German - 10 Credits - Semester 3
Optional LW213: Legal French I - 10 Credits - Semester 3
Optional EC2100: Applied Microeconomics for Business - 5 Credits - Semester 3
Optional AY207: Management Accounting I - 5 Credits - Semester 3
Optional MS120: Business Information Systems - 5 Credits - Semester 3
Optional MG524: Management - 5 Credits - Semester 3
Optional EC139: Principles of Microeconomics - 5 Credits - Semester 3
Optional GA2113: Gaeilge & Scileanna Cumarsáide 2_Teanga an Dlí - 5 Credits - Semester 3
Required LW437: Moot Court - 5 Credits - Semester 3
Required LW427: European Union Law I - 5 Credits - Semester 3
Required LW301: Criminal Law I - 5 Credits - Semester 3
Required LW229: Company Law I - 5 Credits - Semester 3
Optional EC2101: Macroeconomics and the Business Environment - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Optional AY208: Business Finance I - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Optional AY209: International Financial Reporting I - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Optional MS2100: Cybersecurity - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Optional MG325: Employment Relations - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Optional EC141: Principles of Macroeconomics - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Optional GA2114: Teanga an Dlí - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Optional MS1100: Information Management for Business - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Required LW231: Company Law II - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Required LW304: Criminal Law II - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Required LW428: European Union Law II - 5 Credits - Semester 4
Year 3 (60 Credits)
Optional LW3125: Professional Work Placement - 60 Credits - Semester 5Optional LW3144: International Study Abroad Exchange - 60 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3145: Erasmus Language Exchange (French) - 60 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3146: Erasmus Language Exchange (Spanish) - 60 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3147: Erasmus Language Exchange (German) - 60 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3148: Erasmus Exchange (Non-Language) - 60 Credits - Semester 5
Optional GA3114: Teicneolaíochtaí Aistriúcháin agus Teanga - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional GA3115: Pobal na Gaeltachta sa lá atá inniu ann - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional GA3203: Gaeilge & Scileanna Cumarsáide 3: Teanga an Dlí - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional GA3202: Córais Faisnéise & Feidhmchláir - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional GA209: Inniúlachtaí Gairme - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional GF306: Dlí, Eiticí agus an Córas Poiblí - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional PS334: Applied Behaviour Analysis - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional AJ2102: Power without Responsibility - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional AJ1103: This is the News - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3135: Professional Work Placement - Semester 1 - 30 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3142: Applied Legal Research Project - 20 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3143: Professional Legal Skills - 10 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3133: Study Abroad Semester 1 - 30 Credits - Semester 5
Optional TI216: Aimsir Agus Aeraid/ Weather And Climate - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional CN1104: Fairytales and Children - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional CN2104: Marginalised Children's Groups in Ireland - 10 Credits - Semester 5
Optional CN2105: Understanding Children’s Medicine - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional CN2107: European Educational Approaches, Policies and Practices - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional TI2102: Introduction To GIS - 10 Credits - Semester 5
Optional TI229: Political & Cutural Geography: Identity, Race & the Nation - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional TI235: Biogeography - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional TI254: Space, Place and the Irish Landscape - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional TI303: Coastal Dynamics - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional TI3113: Long-term Environmental Change - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional TI3127: Critical Geographies of Children - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional TI326: War & Representation: Spaces & Politics of the Media - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional TI369: Geographical Perspectives on Rural Change - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional PS338: Theories of Personality - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP158: Introduction to Politics & Sociology - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP216.I: European Politics - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP219: Political Sociology - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP234: International Relations - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP235: Social Issues and Policy Responses - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP3101: 'Community' - Significance and Change - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP3103: European Union: Political Theory and Pol. Economy - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP3116: Ocean and Marine Politics - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP3120: Degrees of Freedom: The Politics of Poverty, Welfare and Punishment - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP3134: Human Rights Advocacy: Concepts, Law and Practice - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP3195: Equality, Diversity and Collective Action - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP404: Development And Change - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP406: Principles Of Political Theory - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP493: Environmentalism - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP698: Transforming Children's Services - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP705.I: Revisiting Violence - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SPL304: Women, Men & the Economy: Critical Explorations of Theory & Policy - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SPL314: Theories of Nationalism - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW339: Independent Research - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3104: Applied Legal Theory - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW215: Commercial Law - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW333: Comparative Competition Law - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW357: Environmental Law I - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3130: European Human Rights Law - Systems & Themes I - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3151: Equality and Law - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW356: Industrial And Intellectual Property Law - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW383: Information Technology Law - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3127: International Protection of Human Rights I - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW212: Labour Law I - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW3122: Law and Innovation - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional LW379: Legal & Business Ethics - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional GA3204: Taithí Oibre (Dlí) - 30 Credits - Semester 6
Optional TI338: Palaeoecology - Reconstructing Past Environments - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional CN1100: Children and Health - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional AJ2107: Sports Journalism - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional AJ2103: Reporting and Writing - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional AJ2100: Online and Social Media: Theory and Practice - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional AJ1102: Introduction to Media and Communication Studies - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional MG2101: Entrepreneurial Venture Development - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW3134: Study Abroad Semester 2 - 30 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW3136: Professional Work Placement - Semester 2 - 30 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP212: Classical Social Thought - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP215.II: Modern Political Thought - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP3133: The Northern Ireland Conflict - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP3139: Comparative Government and Politics - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP405: Contemporary Social Thought - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP721: Ocean and Marine Politics - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional TI151: Principles of Physical Geography - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional TI2104: Marine Spatial Planning - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional TI230: Economic Geography - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional TI252: Theory & Practice in Geography II - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional TI258: Rural Environments: Sustainability & Management - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional TI311: Advanced Gis - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional TI3117: Migration, Mobility and Belonging - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional TI324: Urban Geography: Planning the Modern City - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional CN1105: The Child in Film - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional CN2100: Adolescents in Ireland: Healthy and Risky Behaviour - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional TI248: Coastal Environments - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional PS428: Social Psychology - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP159: Concepts and Practices of Politics & Sociology - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP220: Methods For Social And Political Science - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP305: Comparative Public Policy - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP3119: Green Political Thought - 5 Credits - Semester 5
Optional SP3129: Sexualities, Genders and Diversities - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP3137: Youth and Society - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP3141: Socially-Engaged Art and Relations of Power - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP419: Marxist Theory - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP420: Sociology Of The Environment - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP3192: Sociology of Religion - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SP618: Welfare Words: Key Words in Social Work & Social Welfare - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional SPL315.II: Smart & Liveable Cities and Suburbs - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW4104: Administrative Law II - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW371: Alternative Dispute Resolution - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW370: Comparative Disability Law - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW365: Criminology - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW358: Environmental Law II - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW3131: European Human Rights Law - Systems & Themes II - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW419: Health and Safety Law - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW232: Housing Law & Policy - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW3128: International Protection of Human Rights II - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW364: International Trade Law - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW216: Labour Law II - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW3152: Law and Analytics - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Optional LW3153: The Protection of Prisoner Rights under International Law - 5 Credits - Semester 6
Year 4 (60 Credits)
Optional EC3101: Microeconomics and Public Policy - 5 Credits - Semester 7Optional EC3105: Econometrics - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional EC345: Health Economics - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional EC369: Money And Banking - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional EC388: Environmental And Natural Resource Economics - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional AY321: Management Accounting II - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional AY325: International Financial Reporting II - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW337: Administrative Law I - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW513: Evidence I - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW212: Labour Law I - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional MG328: Human Resource Management - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional MS218: Database Technologies - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional MS5107: Business Modelling and Analytics - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional MS414: Business Intelligence and Analytics - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW3122: Law and Innovation - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional GR317: Legal German - 10 Credits - Semester 7
Optional SH325: Spanish Language III (Law) - 10 Credits - Semester 7
Optional EC2100: Applied Microeconomics for Business - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW3104: Applied Legal Theory - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW333: Comparative Competition Law - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW357: Environmental Law I - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW3151: Equality and Law - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW339: Independent Research - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW356: Industrial And Intellectual Property Law - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW383: Information Technology Law - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW379: Legal & Business Ethics - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional LW3150: Family and Child Law - 10 Credits - Semester 7
Optional EC8100: Economics of Public Policy - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional MS222: Decision Modelling and Analytics - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Required LW263: Equity I - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Required LW225: Land Law I - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Required LW215: Commercial Law - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Required LW3129: Guided Research Essay - 5 Credits - Semester 7
Optional EC3102: Macroeconomics and Public Policy - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional EC3100: Economics and Philosophy - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional EC362: Economics Of Financial Markets - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional EC386: Public Economics - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional EC429: Marine Economics - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional EC3106: Behavioural Finance - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional AY322: Management Accounting III - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional AY326: International Financial Reporting III - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional AY208: Business Finance I - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional AY314: Business Finance II - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW3119: Jurisprudence - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW514: Evidence II - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW216: Labour Law II - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional MG3102: Work in a Global Context - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional MG3103: Business Strategy - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional MS4101: Implementing Digital Innovation - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional MS4100: Advanced Research Topics in Information Systems - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW380: Legal French II - 10 Credits - Semester 8
Optional EC2101: Macroeconomics and the Business Environment - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW371: Alternative Dispute Resolution - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW3153: The Protection of Prisoner Rights under International Law - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW365: Criminology - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW358: Environmental Law II - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW419: Health and Safety Law - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW232: Housing Law & Policy - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW364: International Trade Law - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW3152: Law and Analytics - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional AJ2101: Introduction to Wrongful Convictions - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional MS2101: Managing Digital Transformation - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Required LW265: Equity II - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Required LW226: Land Law II - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Optional LW420: Clinical Placement - 5 Credits - Semester 8
Further Education
Graduates of this course may complete further study to become a barrister or solicitor. Graduates will have completed the modules examined in the solicitor entrance exams at the Law Society of Ireland and will have the option to complete the modules required for the barrister entrance exams at The Honorable Society of King’s Inns.
Graduates may be interested in completing a LLM (Master of Laws) or PhD programme. The School of Law offers a wide range of taught LLM programmes and LLM or PhD programmes by research.
Graduates may also decide to pursue further studies with the professional accountancy bodies’ to become an Accountant.
Why Choose This Course?
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the Law and Business programme will have a variety of career paths open to them, depending on the specialism they select in their degrees. All graduates will be well equipped to work in a corporate legal environment.
Graduates of this degree will be ready to sit the professional entrance exams for the Law Society of Ireland (solicitor). Graduates who completed the Legal Professions specialised stream will be eligible to sit the professional entrance exams for the Honourable Society of King’s Inns (barrister).
Who’s Suited to This Course
Learning Outcomes
Transferable Skills Employers Value
Work Placement
Our students will have the opportunity to gain a professional focus and real world experience through professional work placement. Students gain invaluable experience by putting theory into practice and developing new skills which can support and influence career direction. Students will have a range of CV and interview preparation supports available in advance of their work placement. Some of our current work placement partners include: Matheson, A & L Goodbody, Arthur Cox, William Fry, Maples Group, Damien Tansey Solicitors, Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ), AMOSS Solicitors, CIE, LK Shields, IBM, Irish Water and Coffey Group, Philip Lee, Alastair Purdy & Co., Telegael Teoranta and BSP Luxembourg.
Study Abroad
Students can study abroad at partner institutions around the world, giving them the opportunity to experience legal education in an international setting and to gain a different perspective on the law.
Access to World Class Academics
Our academic staff are nationally and internationally recognised experts in their fields and many are also industry experienced. Our students have access to academics who lead research projects and influence national and international policy making.
National and International Internships
In addition to professional work placement opportunities in third year, students in their final year will have the opportunity to apply for a limited number of national and international summer internships which are offered on a competitive basis.
Terence O’Malley DLA Piper Scholarship
Students on this course may be eligible to apply for the Terence O’Malley DLA Piper Scholarship. The scholarship fund will support Scholars throughout their four year degree to the value of €2,500 annually (total value of €10,000 per Scholar). The scholarship is awarded on the financial need and academic merit of the successful applicants. View full scholarship details.
Mooting
All students will complete the Mooting module and will have access to the NEW state-of-the-art on-campus Moot Court. Mooting is a simulated courtroom experience. The module is delivered through a taught component made up of lectures and an active component where students will participate in practical seminars and a mock trial. Past students described participating in mooting as ‘transformative’.
Related Student Organisations
Course Fees
Fees: EU
Fees: Tuition
Fees: Student Contribution
Fees: Student levy
Fees: Non EU
EU Fees are comprised of Tuition + Student Contribution Charge + Student Levy** €140. **Payable by all students and is not covered by SUSI. Further detail here.
Find out More
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School of Law webpage: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/law/
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Highlights from the School of Law Undergraduate courses: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/law/courses/undergraduatecourses/highlights.html
FAQs: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/law/courses/undergraduatecourses/faqs/
What Our Students Say

Niamh Gallagher | B Corp Law (now Bachelor of Civil Law and Business)
I was interested in the areas of law that focused on world business, markets and commerce. The Bachelor of Corporate Law (now known as Law (BCL) and Business) offered me the unique opportunity to study a combination of a language, business and law. It gave me the ability to tailor my degree to fit my areas of interest through the wide range of module choice. Throughout the course, there is a focus on independent, creative and critical thinking. Graduates have the advantage of understanding how the law interacts with the world around us in a business context. I would encourage students to make the most of University of Galway and the amazing city of Galway.
What Our Students Say

Louis Coleman | B Corp Law (now Bachelor of Law & Business)
The Bachelor of Corporate Law integrated two areas of study that were of strong interest to me,law and business. The lecturers were excellent at encouraging engagement and were very approachable. Through the School of Law connections with high profile internship opportunities, I completed an internship with the Office of the Irish Attorney General. This experience is invaluable for the working world.