Bachelor in Law and Business

Course Overview

Law and Business at Trinity College Dublin is a four-year joint honors degree programme which aims to give students a firm grounding in the disciplines of both law and business. From a law perspective the student will be given a firm foundation in law through which they will a develop a critical understanding of both the legal framework of business activity and the economic and commercial context in which law operates. In contrast, the business studies course suite will look to provide the student with a firm understanding of business and organisation together with the functional areas that make up modern business management.

Students will have the opportunity to focus upon the many areas of overlapping interest between the two disciplines, for example, the structure of companies and other forms of business organisation, competition law and regulation of markets, consumer law, labour law, finance and financial markets, taxation, the protection of intellectual property and international perspectives on law and business.

Is this the right course for you?

Historically, the disciplines of business and law have been closely associated in both the public and private sector. In our global economy, businesses now deal with more complex issues concerning government regulations and international trade policies. Conversely, the law has had to grapple with constantly evolving commercial organisations and business practices. With the growth in the size of legal practices and the expansion of the work of the legal profession into areas of mergers, acquisitions and taxation, the work of legal graduates and business graduates have blended in many aspects.

Special Entry Requirements: OC3/HD3 Mathematics Leaving Certificate
Grade B Mathematics Advanced GCE (A-Level)

 

Programme Structure

In the Freshman (first two) years you will study a variety of legal and business subjects (three discipline both years). The law modules (also taught on the LL.B. degree programme) include The Irish legal system, Torts, Constitutional law I, Criminal law, Contract law and Land law. These lectures are complemented by compulsory law seminars (4 per module) and modules in legal skills in the Junior Freshman (first) year and mooting (mock trials) in the Senior Freshman (second) year.

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Junior Freshman Modules

Law Modules

• The Irish Legal System (including Legal Skills) (10 ECTS) (Semester 1)
• Tort (10 ECTS) (Semester 1)
• Contract (10 ECTS) (Semester 2)

Business Modules

(for information on all Business Modules please visit the BESS website)

• Introduction to Management (10 ECTS) All Year
• Introduction to Economic Policy (10 ECTS) All Year
• Students may choose one (10 ECTS) module from:
  Mathematics or Statistics or
  a language module (French, German, Spanish, Russian or Polish) or
  Central and Eastern European Studies  

 

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Senior Freshman Modules

Law Modules

• Constitutional Law (10 ECTS) (Semester 1)
• Land Law (10 ECTS) (Semester 1)
• Criminal Law (10 ECTS) including Mooting Programme (Semester 2)

Business Modules (for information on all Business Modules please visit the BESS website)

• Organisational behaviour (5 credits)
  
• Marketing management (5 credits)
  
• Introduction to accounting (5 credits)
  
• Financial analysis (5 credits)
  
• Introduction to finance (5 credits)
  
• Introduction to operations management (5 credits)

Students may choose one (10 ECTS) module from:

• Business or a language module (French, German, Spanish, Russian or Polish)

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Junior Sophister Modules

In the Junior Sophister year students take a combination of modules totalling 60 ECTs of which 20 must be from the School of Law (EU being a compulsory module) and 20 from the Business School.

The remaining courses may be drawn from a list of optional courses from either law or business:

Law Modules

For details of Law Modules please consult the LL.B. Sophister Modules page. In addition to the Sophister modules students may also take Administrative Law, Constitutional Law II and European Union Law

Business Modules (for information on all Business Modules please visit the BESS website)

• Marketing Management (10 ECTS)
  
• Financial and Management Accounting (10 ECTS)
• Applied Finance (10 ECTS)
• Organisation Theory and Change (10 ECTS)
  
• Operations Management: Theory and Practice (10 ECTS)
  
• Human Resources Management (10 ECTS)
• Globalising Civil Society (10 ECTS)

Note: All business modules in the Junior Sophister Year carry 10 ECTS each

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Senior Sophister Modules

In the Senior Sophister year students may choose from a range of course modules and may choose to either combine law and business modules, or alternatively, to specialise entirely in either law or business. Course modules include:

Law Modules

(for details of Law Modules please consult the LL.B. Sophister Modules page.

In addition to the Sophister modules students may also take: Administrative Law, Constitutional Law II and Equity

Business Modules (for information on all Business Modules please visit the BESS website)

• International Business (15 ECTS)
• Exploring new product development (15 ECTS)
• Financial reporting and analysis (15 ECTS)
• Advances in marketing theory and practice (15 ECTS)
• Managing non-profit organisations (15 ECTS)
• International finance and risk management (15 ECTS)
• Entrepreneurship: a commercial and social perspectiv (15 ECTS)

Note: All business modules in the Senior Sophister Year carry 15 ECTS each

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Programme Outcomes

Having successfully completed this programme, students should be able to:

• Use appropriate legal and business and other relevant social science theories, doctrines and concepts to identify, formulate, analyse and solvelegal, business and management problems within national and international contexts;
• Apply the relationship between law and business and society, including the role of law in promoting and responding to social change and the business-society relationship in the context of business ethics, corporate social responsibility and corporate understanding;
• Conduct effective and targeted research in case law, legislation and academic legal commentary at both the national and international levels;
• Communicate effectively in oral and written modes in professional and academic settings and work effectively as an individual and in teams in multi-disciplinary settings;
• Engage in the pursuit of knowledge in greater depth and over time in support of life-long learning, either as a practitioner or an academic;
• Use appropriate ICT tools in analysing, solving, and communicating a variety of problems in law, business and the social sciences;
• Demonstrate flexibility, adaptability and independence in order to engage productively with a changing social, cultural and technological environment.

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European Credit Transfers

Students reading for any law degree at Trinity College Dublin must study 240 ECTs over the duration of the four years. Generally this entails 60 ECTs per year.

The ECTS weighting for a module is a measure of the student input or workload required for that module, based on factors such as the number of contact hours, the number and length of written or verbally presented assessment exercises, class preparation and private study time, classes, and examinations. There is no intrinsic relationship between the credit volume of a module and its level of difficulty.

In Trinity College Dublin, 1 ECTS unit is defined as 20-25 hours of student input so a 10-credit module will be designed to require 200-250 hours of student input including class contact time, private study and assessments.

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Contacts

Law Co-ordinator:

Dr. Catherine Donnelly

Business Co-ordinator:

Dr. Norah Campbell

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