Bachelor of Law - Law, Human Rights and Social Justice (Honours)

LLB (Hons) Law, Human Rights and Social Justice keeps the complete qualifying-degree foundation while directing optional study toward rights law and its social context: international human rights frameworks, discrimination and equality law, immigration and asylum, civil liberties, and the law’s relationship with poverty and protest. The degree suits students drawn to law as an instrument of protection rather than commerce.

The school’s clinical tradition is the course’s engine — supervised advice work through its pro bono clinics and community partnerships puts undergraduates in front of real clients with housing, welfare and immigration problems, and Leicester’s exceptionally diverse population makes the city itself a live seminar in the material. Final-year work commonly extends into refugee law, and the dissertation supports fieldwork-flavoured projects.

Leicester amplifies this degree in ways a prospectus undersells: the city’s refugee-resettlement history, its law centres and its community organisations give students a working rights-sector on the doorstep, and course volunteering placements have historically run through those local partnerships — meaning the CV-building the sector demands can begin in the first term rather than after graduation. Standard LLB fees of £16,800 apply.

The employment honesty this specialism demands: rights-sector salaries start low (£19,000–£23,000), competition for paid roles is intense, and the growing commercial adjacency — corporate human-rights due diligence and ESG compliance — is where demand and pay are rising fastest, a door this degree opens if students keep it in view. The honours award qualifies for the Graduate Route’s 18-month post-2026 term, with no dependants permitted on taught study.