GDL course content and assessment
Getting started
You'll start with an online pre-course study programme on legal method, designed specifically to prepare you for the GDL without the need to attend summer school, so you're up to speed when you arrive.
Preparing for practice module
A unique module to provide you with practical, skills-based training and an opportunity to develop your commercial and ethical awareness. It includes:
- problem-based learning to help you think like a lawyer
- commercial awareness training
- a thorough grounding in company law to develop your business acumen
- practice-related activity such as mooting or pro bono work
- independent research work and a choice of an academic dissertation or a problem-based report, tailored to reflect the areas of law in which you intend to specialise
Foundation subjects
You’ll then study the seven key areas of law:
Assessment
Regular informal assessments and written and oral feedback from tutors will help you monitor your progress in preparation for the final exams.
Your final result is based on:
- a multiple choice examination on legal method
- two pieces of independent research: one on foundation subjects and a dissertation or problem-based report on a legal subject of your choice
- final examinations in each foundation subject
