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Neapolis University Pafos Department of Law Bachelor of Law – LLB English Law 4 years Campus based

At Neapolis University Pafos, each programme is divided into courses. The LLB English Law is a 4-year programme in which you will take a combination of compulsory and elective courses (each course is worth 6 ECTS) to total 240 ECTS. Therefore, each year you need to take courses totalling 60 ECTS (i.e. 10 courses spread across the two semesters (Fall and Spring)).

Year 1

Compulsory Courses Fall Semester

  • Introduction to Legal Research and Legal Reasoning
  • Tort Law I
  • Criminal Law I
  • EU Law I
  • Legal English and Legal Writing

Spring Semester

  • English Legal System
  • Tort Law II
  • Criminal Law II
  • EU Law II
  • Jurisprudence

Elective Courses There are no elective courses for this programme in Year 1.

Year 2

Compulsory Courses Fall Semester

  • Contract Law I
  • Public Law I
  • Commercial Law I
  • Company Law I

Spring Semester

  • Contract Law II
  • Public Law II
  • Commercial Law II
  • Company Law II

Elective Courses You must choose either International Protection of Human Rights I (Fall Semester) and International Protection of Human Rights II (Spring Semester) or Family Law I (Fall Semester) and Family Law II (Spring Semester).

Year 3

Compulsory Courses Fall Semester

  • Land Law I
  • Banking Law
  • Intellectual Property Law I
  • Public International Law I

Spring Semester

  • Land Law II
  • Competition Law
  • Intellectual Property Law II
  • Public International Law II

Elective Courses You must choose 12 more ECTS from the following list of courses (provided they have not already been taken in previous years):

  • Family Law I (Fall Semester)
  • International Protection of Human Rights I (Fall Semester)
  • International Criminal Law (Fall Semester)
  • Comparative Law (Fall Semester)
  • Family Law II (Spring Semester)
  • International Protection of Human Rights II (Spring Semester)
  • Criminology (Spring Semester)

Year 4

Compulsory Courses Fall Semester

  • Equity and Trusts I
  • Law of Evidence I
  • Dissertation I

Spring Semester

  • Equity and Trusts II
  • Law of Evidence II
  • Dissertation II

Elective Courses You must choose 24 more ECTS from the following list of courses (provided they have not already been taken in previous years):

  • Family Law I (Fall Semester)
  • International Protection of Human Rights I (Fall Semester)
  • International Criminal Law (Fall Semester)
  • Comparative Law (Fall Semester)
  • International Energy Law (Fall Semester)
  • Employment Law (Fall Semester)
  • Family Law II (Spring Semester)
  • International Protection of Human Rights II (Spring Semester)
  • Criminology (Spring Semester)
  • Medical Law (Spring Semester)
  • International Environmental Law (Spring Semester)

* Please note that courses which are offered as ‘I’ and ‘II’ (i.e. Family Law I & II and International Protection of Human Rights I and II) must be taken together: thus, a student cannot choose Family Law I but not Family Law II and cannot choose International Protection of Human Rights II but not International Protection of Human Rights I. ** A list of non-legal courses and languages which can be chosen as elective courses can be provided upon request.

Our new LLB English Law – designed and taught by experts with long experience in UK legal academia – is taught entirely in English and follows a regular English Law LLB curriculum. Like all English Law degrees, the programme includes the seven main subjects of the foundations of legal knowledge, namely Contract Law, Tort Law, Criminal Law, Equity and Trusts, Land Law, EU Law and Public Law. The programme aims to enable you to develop a critical awareness of the common law legal tradition and to apply problem-solving skills to a range of legal and non-legal settings. During your studies you will establish the building blocks of legal knowledge whilst, in parallel, you will cultivate important skills such as research, resourcefulness, writing, constructing a reasoned argument and independence. The objective of our LLB English Law is not, simply, to require you to memorise the law but to teach you to engage with the law skilfully. Therefore, you will learn transferable skills which can be applied in any country and in any career route you decide to follow.

The programme is designed to help you stand out with employers, whatever your career goals. It offers you flexibility in what you study as it combines a number of compulsory and elective subjects which enable you to tailor your degree to your interests and career ambitions. Our degree gives you the opportunity not only to study English Law subjects but additionally to study the international context of law. Our elective courses include traditional legal subjects (such as International Environmental Law, Family Law, Employment Law and International Protection of Human Rights) as well as non-legal subjects and languages. During your time at Neapolis, you will also have many opportunities to build your skills, confidence and professional CV through a range of extra-curricular activities.

Career Prospects

Our LLB English Law graduates will be able to find employment in a diverse range of roles, both inside and outside the legal profession: they will be able to work as in-house lawyers for companies, barristers, solicitors, paralegals, legal executives, teachers, legal academics, civil servants, business directors, managers, politicians, journalists and media professionals and in international organisations.

With our LLB English Law you will be able to qualify as a lawyer and ultimately go into legal practice in any country which has a common law system. In order to do so, though, as is the case with every Law degree, you will need to also complete the vocational training process of the relevant country.

University of Central Lancashire (UCLan Cyprus) School of Law Bachelor of Laws LLB (Hons) 4 years Campus based

Year 1

Compulsory

  • Public Law
  • Contract Law
  • Legal System
  • Lawyers’ Skills & Personal Development
  • Introduction to Academic Study: Written Assessments
  • Foundations of English & Cypriot Law*

Optional

  • Foundations in Human Rights
  • Introduction to current legal issues in Cyprus*
  • Personal Development Planning
  • The Classical Foundations of Modern Law
  • Thinking & Arguing Law
  • Comparative Law
  • English for Law
  • Writing Skills 
  • Street Law
  • Introduction to Business Law
  • English for IELTS
  • English Language 1
  • English Language 2
  • Family Relationships and the Law
  • An introduction to War Crimes Trials

Year 2

Compulsory

  • Legal Research and Reasoning Skills and Personal Development

Optional

  • Law of Biodiversity
  • Thinking and Arguing Law
  • Foundations in Human Rights
  • Student Initiated Module
  • The Classical Foundations of Modern Law
  • Beginners’ French Language and Culture
  • Beginners’ Russian Language and Culture
  • Introduction to Accounting and Finance

All modules on the LLB are taught in English.

*For modules that are concerned with the law in Cyprus, significant emphasis is placed on Greek terminology. These are all optional modules.

Year 3

Compulsory

  • Tort Law
  • Criminal Law
  • European Union Law

Optional

  • Private International Law
  • Family Law
  • Human Rights in Context
  • Criminology
  • Cyprus Evidence Law
  • Intermediate French
  • Advanced French
  • Intermediate Russian
  • Advanced Russian Language
  • Cyprus Civil and Criminal Procedure*
  • Employment Law
  • Consumer Law
  • Mooting & Legal Debating
  • Cyprus Public Law and System*

Year 4

Compulsory

  • Land Law
  • Trusts and Equity
  • Lawyers’ Skills: Interviewing & Advising, Negotiation & Personal Development

Optional

  • Company Law
  • Medicine and the Law
  • Human Rights in a European & International Law Context
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Criminal Evidence
  • EU Law in Judicial Review
  • EU Single Market Law
  • Jurisprudence
  • Placements
  • Dissertation
  • Project
  • Law Clinic
  • Cyprus Property Law*
  • Cyprus Succession Law*
  • Commercial Law
  • Public International Law
  • French Language

The course, unique to Cyprus, blends the English legal heritage with current English and Cyprus law. For the benefit of our local students, education on the two systems is combined within the modules and, in those instances where the law is very different, separate Cyprus law modules are provided. Thus, our local students will graduate not only with an outstanding knowledge of both English and Cyprus law, but also have knowledge of all legal terminology in both English and Greek, besides fluency in both languages – essential in an ever more globalised world. It is important to note that the course has been designed in such a way so that students can avoid if they want all instruction in Cyprus law, be taught entirely in the English language and follow a regular UK LLB curriculum. Like with any other UK LLB degree, the seven foundations of legal knowledge (Criminal Law, Equity and Trusts, Law of the European Union, Contract, Tort, Land Law and Public Law) are compulsory for all.

The theory of law is well represented at various levels, charting 2,500 years of legal philosophy, teasing out the classical foundations of modern law, including through Latin legal terminology and a deep explanation of common law principles. At the same time the LLB at UCLan Cyprus is extremely modern and skilful, placing strong emphasis at various levels on English laws, skills and practices of commercial contracts and companies which rule today’s global business world.

The compulsory module European Union Law is supplemented at various levels, including with EU Single Market Law for those wishing to acquire detailed knowledge of the single market and the regulation of anti-competitive conduct in the EU. International Law is well served with modules in both Public International and Private International Law. In addition, human rights modules examine not only the European and International, but also the municipal legal architecture in the area of human rights as well as its applications in other fields such as Public Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Employment Law or Medicine and the Law. Finally, conscious of Cyprus’ continued international outlook and the increasing transnationalisation and modernisation of legal relations, modules are offered in Comparative Law, Consumer Law, Commercial Law, Business law and Company Law at various levels of the curriculum.

The LLB at UCLan Cyprus is the only Law degree on the island validated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board of England and Wales. Exclusive in Cyprus, LLB graduates from UCLan Cyprus shall obtain the same qualifying law degree, with identical rights, privileges and entitlements, as any LLB graduate from an English or Welsh university. As a result, our graduates will have the opportunity to sit their professional law exams in London, for instance, without having to return to university in order to obtain a qualifying law degree first. During these challenging economic times, globally, it is important to know that a UK qualifying law degree is accepted by (law) professional bodies in a number of different countries around the world, including Cyprus and other countries of the Commonwealth.

Additionally, the LLB has also been recognised as a qualifying law degree by the Cyprus Legal Council.

University of Nicosia School of Law Law (LLB) 4 years Campus based

Semester 1

  • Εισαγωγή στην Επιστήμη του Δικαίου    
  • Συνταγματικό Δίκαιο
  • Οικογενειακό Δίκαιο
  • Γενικό Ενοχικό Δίκαιο
  • Φιλοσοφία του Δικαίου    

Semester 2

  • Δημόσιο Διεθνές Δίκαιο    
  • Δίκαιο Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων
  • Γενικό Ενοχικό Δίκαιο    
  • Οικογενειακό Δίκαιο    
  • Ιστορία του Δικαίου    

Semester 3

  • Ευρωπαϊκό Δίκαιο    
  • Γενικό Ποινικό Δίκαιο    
  • Ειδικό Ενοχικό Δίκαιο    
  • Διοικητικό Δίκαιο
  • Δίκαιο Διεθνών Διενέξεων    

Semester 4

  • Ειδικό Ποινικό Δίκαιο    
  • Εμπράγματο Δίκαιο
  • Διοικητικό Δικονομικό Δίκαιο
  • Δίκαιο Εμπορικών Εταιρειών
  • Εγκληματολογία

Semester 5

  • Αστικό Δικονομικό Δίκαιο I
  • Ποινικό Δικονομικό Δίκαιο Ι
  • Εργατικό Δίκαιο
  • Φορολογικό Δίκαιο
  • Ποινολογία

Semester 6

  • Αστικό Δικονομικό Δίκαιο ΙΙ
  • Ποινικό Δικονομικό Δίκαιο ΙΙ
  • Κληρονομικό Δίκαιο
  • Πτωχευτικό Δίκαιο
  • Εφαρμογές Διεθνούς και Ευρωπαϊκού Δικαίου

Semester 7

  • Δίκαιο Διανοητικής Ιδιοκτησίας
  • Εμβάθυνση Δημοσίου Δικαίου
  • Εμβάθυνση Εμπορικού Δικαίου
  • Διαιτησία-Διαμεσολάβηση
  • Ειδικοί Ποινικοί Νόμοι

Semester 8

  • Ιδιωτικό Διεθνές Δίκαιο
  • Εμβάθυνση Αστικού Δικαίου και Αστικού Δικονομικού Δικαίου
  • Εμβάθυνση Ποινικού Δικαίου και Ποινικής Δικονομίας
  • Εργατικό Δίκαιο (Συλλογικό)
  • Ιατρικό Δίκαιο και Βιοηθική

Aims

The aim of the programme is to enable students to acquire a first degree in law which would allow them to be admitted to the legal profession or to work as a legal consultant by developing skills and abilities pertinent to a lawyer, such as problem-solving, critical thinking, self-motivation and specialised knowledge of the law. The programme has been recognised by the Cypriot Legal Council for the purposes of professional recognition of the degree and other organisations. It collaborates with the University of London External Program and offers a joint LLM together with EAP in Greece and Loyola in the USA.

Objectives

  1. To provide students with a sound understanding of the foundations and socio-legal environment of law and to enable them to develop their analytical and research skills
  2. To provide students with a critical understanding and specialised knowledge of a wide range of core courses in law, as well as the opportunity to study law from an extensive catalogue of optional subjects, covering the entire range of legal knowledge
  3. To expose students to a wide range of disciplinary approaches to legal study, encouraging them to reflect on the complexity of legal practice and of the variety of ways of understanding law’s role in contemporary society.

Career Prospects

On successful completion of the programme, graduates will be able to be employed in fields relevant to the legal profession such as advocates, judges, notaries, legal consultants, private and public organisations, non-governmental organisations, private companies etc.

Access to Further Studies

Upon graduation, students may have direct access to further postgraduate studies (LLM or the Master in Law and Politics) or any other post-graduate