SUBSTANTIVE LAW AND LEGAL SKILLS COMBINED
How we teach
We use a combination of lectures, interactive classes, workshops and practical exercises. This ensures that you learn how to actively apply the legal knowledge you acquire, rather than simply memorising it.
Our practical approach focuses on learning-by-doing, lively discussions, and continuous skills development. We combine the best elements of academic study and practical legal training.
A practical approach to learning law and skills
Understanding Our Teaching Approach
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Online Lectures
Over 150 hours of pre-recorded lectures are available for you to watch whenever suits you best.
Lectures are delivered by ther BLC Teaching Team, including our resident teachers ahd leading academics, judges, and practitioners.
We ensure both academic quality and practical relevance.
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Written Materials
You receive written workbooks prepared especially for the course.
They explain key legal principles, cases, and statutes. They also contain practice questions for you to assess your own progress.
Workbooks complement lectures and ensure that you come to classes ready to discuss the subject in a focused and informed way.
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Interactive classes
Small-group classes help you to move from passive learning (reading, watching) to active learning (discussion, problem-solving).
Our teachers explain how to apply your new legal knowledge to realistic scenarios, advising fictional clients. They also clarify legal issues which are difficult to understand.
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Skills Workshops
Practical exercises and workshops developing core legal skills through active learning.
Workshops include skills such as: case analysis, advocacy, negotiation, and contract drafting.
In workshops, you actively perform a skill, not merely listen to theory about how it should be performed.
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Written Exercises
Each substantive law module concludes with a written exercise in which you advise a client on the law discussed in that module.
Our assignments help you to assimilate your knowledge, while developing essential professional skills such as legal analysis, argumentation, and written communication.
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Feedback
We provide feedback on your in-class discussions, performances in skills workshops and written work.
Our feedback is not merely evaluative but developmental. It explains how you can continuously improve and develop.
Our feedback is moderated by an independent academic reviewer.
Why Study Our Diploma?
Experienced Teaching Team
Learn law and skills delivered via lectures and classes from our experienced teaching team.
Substantive Law
Study a range of core areas of English substantive law to broaden your comparative law knowledge.
Practical Legal Skills
Develop or improve core legal skills which are crucial for legal practice and also useful for non-lawyers.