“I wrote 164 essays during the three years I was on my law degree. I’ve never written one since,” says Scott Slorach, the College of Law’s board member for innovation, design and production. Slorach planned the content of the institution’s new two-year LLB, which launches in September.
His unflattering appraisal of the university law degree echoes the private College of Law’s announcement of the course’s launch, which pointedly stressed that its focus on “employability” was “in contrast to many traditional academic law degrees”.
Another private institution with a professionally oriented two-year LLB is BPP. Having previously developed highly regarded Legal Practice Courses, for-profit BPP and the College of Law both have their own degree-awarding powers and both have wealthy owners (the charitable college recently announced