This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills, experiential learning and knowledge to enter the legal industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 4 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Computer literacy
- Information literacy
- Legal skills
- Family law
- Historical foundation in SA Private Law
- Introduction to law
- Law of persons
Second year subjects:
- Constitutional law
- Consumer protection
- Human rights
- Labour law
- Law of contract
- Law of succession
- Legal interpretation
- Legal pluralism
- Specific contracts
Third year subjects:
- Administrative law
- Entrepreneurial law
- Insolvency law
- Insurance law
- Intellectual property law
- Law of delict
- Law of evidence
- Law of negotiations instruments
- Law of things
- Legal philosophy
- Legal practice
Fourth year subjects:
- Civil procedure
- Criminal law
- Criminal procedure
- International law
- Law of damages
- Tax law
- Third party compensation law
Careers: legal advisor, legal representative, attorney, judge.
Source: www.up.ac.za