Do More With Law
We believe every student is unique - with different strengths and ambitions. We offer diverse undergraduate units, a rich portfolio of LLMs, a senior-status MA and many opportunities to explore careers within or beyond law. Supported by academics and alumni that are leaders in their fields, studying here will enrich your learning experience and see you do more with law than you ever imagined possible.
Why Bristol?
- A Top 60 university in the world (QS World Rankings 2023)
- Fourth most targeted university by top UK employers (High Fliers 2023)
- A Top 10 UK law school (Complete University Guide for Law 2024)
- Ninth best European university for teaching (THE 2019)
- Top three UK university for excellence in legal research (REF 2021)
- One of the largest legal centres outside of London (Chambers Student)
- Home to a diverse range of internationally recognised centres of research excellence and world-renowned experts.
- Exciting opportunities for real-life experiences of law through our numerous law clinics, exclusive placements and mentoring schemes.
Get a stand out education
The Law School provides an intellectually demanding, research-informed legal education. Combining teaching and research excellence to deliver a challenging and rigorous curriculum makes our graduates stand out - able to demonstrate excellent legal, analytical and reasoning skills and empowered to pursue top flights careers. Watch our Head of School intro to the Law School to find out more.
Explore diverse career options
With a rich calendar of career-focused activities and a strong collaboration between the School, our alumni, student organisations, international law firms and community partners, you will graduate with the skills, knowledge and contacts to fulfil your career aspirations with many opportunities to excel in and out of law. Find out more about the career paths possible with a law degree from the University of Bristol.
Gain recognised, real-life experience of law
Through our Human Rights Law Clinic and student-led Pro Bono legal service you can gain recognised, real-life experience of law that employers in a wide range of sectors will value. Alongside this, we offer students the opportunity to be mentored by lawyers in commercial practice, in the UK or abroad with our Professional Mentoring Scheme and International Mentoring Scheme. You can explore more diverse areas of law outside of the corporate and commercial sectors through our Law in Society Mentoring Scheme. Find out more about all of these schemes on our mentoring pages.
Bristol is extremely diverse and this is perhaps what makes the university and indeed the city, great. Engaging with people from such diverse backgrounds and all parts of the world expands my mind and allows me to grow both professionally and personally.
I am from the US and decided to move to Bristol for university because I loved the city, the people, and the academic rigour of the law degree. I originally wanted to live in London, but after visiting Bristol, I realised how safe and welcomed I felt in a city that was large enough to be exciting and entertaining yet small enough to make me feel at home.
Doing more with law
Our Student Employability Blog is the best place to discover what life is like for students here in the Law School with contributions from volunteers in our law clinics, prize-winners, international competition participants, those that have been part of our mentoring and internship programmes and alumni who talk about how study here has propelled them into exciting careers. Find out more.