Law at Cardiff - Your opinions (I'm doing the LLB)

Hey...

I got a conditional offer for Law at Cardiff but I'm stuck between picking Cardiff or Warwick, I don't want to sound like a snob at all but Warwick is only because of the prestige and its law school is more highly rated.

Can anyone give me a guide as to what the Cardiff Law course involves? Preferably from current students. To be honest I prefer the look of the modules at Cardiff university...Warwick seems very restricted.

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What is the teaching like at Cardiff, are the teachers helpful when you are stuck?

How are the resources you have to study, are they decent? (Libraries/ICT etc)

Are the lectures/seminars good during the course?

Do you find that the opportunity to carry on and do the LPC after your degree at Cardiff a major factor in studying law.

Do you enjoy your lectures

Thanks

Reply 1

RightSaidJames

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I know a few law students and my perception is that it's taught and organised pretty well.

Reply 2

Jingers

15

I don't really know about Cardiff, but just to let you know about Warwick, it's, in fact, unrestricted in terms of its modules, e.g. you can do Shakespeare and Law and study movies to do with Law etc. It's a lot more flexible than most university courses (that's why I chose Warwick over Bristol).

Reply 3

tomlewis

dunney77

Hey...
Can anyone give me a guide as to what the Cardiff Law course involves? Preferably from current students. To be honest I prefer the look of the modules at Cardiff university...Warwick seems very restricted.

•

What is the teaching like at Cardiff, are the teachers helpful when you are stuck?

How are the resources you have to study, are they decent? (Libraries/ICT etc)

Are the lectures/seminars good during the course?

Do you find that the opportunity to carry on and do the LPC after your degree at Cardiff a major factor in studying law.

Do you enjoy your lectures

Thanks

I'm coming up to the end of my first year, and procrastinating here so might as well answer your questions.

First year consists of four modules: Legal Foundations (LeFo), Public Law, Contract Law and Tort.

Contract and Public are taught all throughout the first year, LeFo in the first semester and Tort in the 2nd semester. LeFo is examined in January through a 2,500 essay and a 3 hour exam (25 multiple choice questions and a case analysis test). All the others are examiend in the summer through a 3 hour essay-based exam).

The course is mostly based on self-motivation. You only spend roughly 10 hours at the Law School, but you're expected to spend up to 40 hours doing your own work reading and researching. For each module tutorials are as follow:

LeFo: Weekly 2 hour tutorial
Public and Contract: Fortnightly cycle where you have an hourly Public tutorial one week and contract the next.
Tort: Weekly 1 hour tutorial

I've found the lectures and tutors very helpful, available to question either face to face or by e-mail most of the time. Most of them know their stuff very well.

The resources available are top class. A very large law department in the library, up to date reports and books and plenty of space to do your work in peace and quiet. IT resources are top class as well, access to Legal databases, a lot of reports and books reproduced online.

Course is very well structured. You get the basic introduction to the work in lectures, you go off and read in to the subject, then you get to put that information in to practise by going to tutorials after pre-paring answers to set questions. Tutorials really help - they number from 6 - 16 in fellow students and you get to question tutors on things you're not sure on.

The LPC thing was another reason why I decided to come here.

Anything else you need to know, whether from the Law School and the course or the Uni, Accomodation and the city itself, just let me know :smile:

Reply 4

dunney77

OP

Cheers for the information mate, very helpful!

It has been a nightmare picking between Cardiff and Warwick! But I think I am going to pick Cardiff as the modules seen more interesting and the LPC is a major factor!

Are you personally enjoying the LLB? I do law at A-Level and I know it is nothing like a degree but I find it really interesting!

Would you say you have made the right decision in coming to Cardiff?

Reply 5

tomlewis

dunney77

Cheers for the information mate, very helpful!

It has been a nightmare picking between Cardiff and Warwick! But I think I am going to pick Cardiff as the modules seen more interesting and the LPC is a major factor!

Are you personally enjoying the LLB? I do law at A-Level and I know it is nothing like a degree but I find it really interesting!

Would you say you have made the right decision in coming to Cardiff?

I've really enjoyed the first year. It was a new subject for me, a fresh challenge. I've learnt a lot about politics as well as Law, so I've got a wider scope of how everything works now.

The LPC in Cardiff was important for me as it offers a module to do advocacy in Welsh. Definite the right choice for me, not just the course but the city as well.

Law at Cardiff - Your opinions (I'm doing the LLB)

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