MA Law

Our vibrant international community and diverse teaching methods enrich the postgraduate experience at the University of Bristol. You’ll engage with course materials and benefit from regular, in-depth interaction with tutors who are leaders in their fields, as well as with your peers, through a blend of lectures, seminars, bespoke skills workshops and structured independent learning.

In year one, you will study two core units in each of the two semesters. Each unit also starts by introducing you to the key legal skills that will enable you to research, think and write like a lawyer, preparing you for the substantive content you will study. Year two comprises the three final core units, with integrated skills teaching, plus a further optional unit of your choice.

• You’ll benefit from studying with peers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds who share your ambitions, interest in legal knowledge and the desire to pursue a legal career.
• The MA has been designed to give you time and space to develop legal reasoning and writing skills and a solid foundation of knowledge and understanding across seven foundation units.
• You also have the opportunity to explore a specialism by selecting an optional unit typically including Digital Technology in Legal Practice or Intellectual Property to Health Inequalities, Law and Society or Environmental Law, amongst many others.

Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for the MA in Law. 

You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in any discipline.

If you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date.

We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. Specific module requirements would still apply.

We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement.

If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have a relevant postgraduate qualification.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.