Undergraduate Study

Law (Jurisprudence)

Undergraduate

Law (Jurisprudence)

Studying law will help you pursue a career as a solicitor or barrister. It will also help you develop a diverse set of skills which you will be able to apply in many different situations.

You will learn to assimilate and analyse complex information, construct arguments, write with precision and clarity and think on your feet. The Oxford Law degree aims to develop all these skills, but its particular strength is in teaching you to think for yourself.

Students are expected to read a good deal, mostly from primary sources (ie cases and statutes), and to develop views not simply about what the law is, but also about why it is so, whether it should be so, and how it might be different.