Editorial selection · unranked · reviewed 1 November 2026
Best LLB Programs
This page highlights first law degrees from several legal systems, including common-law LLBs, India's integrated BA LLB, civil-law licence-type and state-examination courses, and international law degrees. It is an unranked selection from the directory, not a league table; read each entry with the destination country's own entry rules in mind.
Unranked editorial selection, not an exhaustive league table; no school paid to be included. How this was chosen · Full methodology
Australia
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
LLB / first law degree: Bachelor of Laws (Honours)
The UQ Bachelor of Laws (Honours) offers placement courses and a Pro Bono Centre roster for practical experience, a dedicated moot court, and domestic and international mooting. Its program page stresses research-informed content and an honours qualification that may lead to further research.
Placement coursesPro Bono CentreMootingOn campus · 4 Years (or part time equivalent) · English
Canada
McGill's integrated BCL/JD awards two degrees, in common law and civil law, through transsystemic courses that teach legal traditions comparatively. It is bilingual (English and French) and has a mandatory first-year course on Indigenous legal traditions, a distinctive design among first law degrees.
Common law and civil lawTranssystemic teachingBilingualIndigenous legal traditionsOn campus · English, French
Colombia
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
LLB / first law degree: Pregrado en Derecho
Los Andes' pregrado en Derecho shows a published high-quality accreditation resolution (7589 of 8 May 2023, ten years) on its programme page, a legal clinic (consultorio juridico) with a new curriculum, and an explicit research strand in which students design and run a project. It represents Latin American licenciatura/abogacia-style first law degrees.
High-quality accreditationConsultorio juridicoResearch trainingOn campus · Nueve semestres, tiempo completo · Spanish
Germany
Bucerius, a private law school in Hamburg, structures its law course in ten trimesters leading to the LL.B. while preparing students for the first state examination. The course adds two internships, a trimester abroad, legal foreign-language training and an economics programme to the core curriculum.
Staatsexamen preparationTrimester abroadInternshipsForeign legal languagesOn campus · zehn Trimester · German
Hong Kong SAR
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
LLB / first law degree: Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
HKU's four-year LLB lets students specialise (for example commercial law, Chinese law, international trade and economic law) or add a non-law minor, and sends third- and fourth-year students on exchange. The faculty also lists clinical programmes and international mooting, and separate double-degree routes with Zurich, UBC and others.
Specialisation tracksChinese lawExchange and clinicsOn campus · 4-Year LLB programme · English
India
National Law School of India University
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
LLB / first law degree: 5-Year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.)
NLSIU runs a five-year integrated B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) entered through the national CLAT, with a trimester structure and a teaching method built on reading packs, case studies, moot courts and project work with field investigation. It is included as the reference point for the Indian integrated model, where law is studied alongside non-law subjects from the first year.
Integrated 5-year BA LLBMoot courts and projectsTrimester systemOn campus · five-year
NALSAR (Hyderabad) offers its BA LLB (Hons.) on a choice-based credit system where students assemble electives, seminars and clinical courses. The named clinics, including Legal Aid, Access to Justice from Prisons, Animal Law and Land Rights, give the degree a practice-facing strand, and it reports exchange MoUs with more than 38 foreign universities.
Clinical coursesChoice-based creditsStudent exchangeOn campus · five-year
Ireland
Trinity's Single Honours Law builds from a first-year Foundations of Law module (analytical thinking, legal writing, advocacy) to a compulsory final-year research dissertation called the capstone. Advanced years combine the modules needed for progression to professional training with a wide list of options, and students can take modules outside law.
Capstone dissertationFoundations of LawCommon law IrelandOn campus · English
Israel
Tel Aviv University - The Buchmann Faculty of Law
Tel Aviv, Israel
LLB / first law degree: LL.B. (Hebrew)
Tel Aviv University's Hebrew-language LL.B. runs three and a half years (141 credits) followed by a one-year articled clerkship, with mandatory foundations in year one and over 200 electives, seminars and law clinics. Students must complete a pro-seminar and a research seminar in their chosen concentration.
Law clinicsResearch seminarsConcentration tracksOn campus · three-and-a-half years (seven semesters), followed by a one year articled clerkship · Hebrew
Italy
Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
Milano, Lombardia, Italy
LLB / first law degree: Bachelor in Global Law
Bocconi's Bachelor in Global Law is taught in English and aimed at advisory and paralegal-type roles in international organisations and companies rather than at a national qualifying law course. Selected as an interdisciplinary, internationally oriented first law degree; applicants should check separately how it relates to professional entry in any country.
Taught in EnglishGlobal and comparative lawInterdisciplinaryOn campus · 3 yrs · English
Malaysia
Universiti Malaya, Faculty of Law
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
LLB / first law degree: Bachelor of Laws (Honours)
The UM LLB (Hons) is a four-year, 160-credit degree combining academic and professional components, with a Malaysian-law core (legal system, tort, contract, Islamic legal system, family law). The faculty lists overseas exchanges, placements or internships and mooting, and also runs a clinical legal education programme.
Malaysian law coreIslamic legal systemExchange and mootingOn campus · Conventionally 4 academic years
United Kingdom
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
LLB / first law degree: BA in Jurisprudence
Oxford's three-year BA in Jurisprudence is taught largely through weekly tutorials of a tutor with two or three students, and includes a summer jurisprudence essay that counts toward the final result and a choice of optional subjects in the last year. It is the faculty's own equivalent of an LLB.
Tutorial teachingJurisprudence3-year honours law degreeOn campus · 3 years · English
The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London
London, England, United Kingdom
LLB / first law degree: Law LLB
King's LLB Law is a London undergraduate law degree whose published offer includes a professional skills portfolio with a legal clinic and mooting programme, and teaching partly by practitioners from global law firms. It is a useful contrast to Oxford's tutorial model for applicants who want structured skills modules inside the degree.
Legal clinicMootingProfessional skills modulesOn campus · Three years · English
How this was chosen
Programmes were chosen from the directory pool using the institution's own published pages: distinctive degree structure, clinics, moot and advocacy programmes, exchange and specialisation options, research components and published accreditation. The list is unranked, does not rely on how complete our data is, sponsorship plays no part, and our research is partial.
Criteria
- Distinctive, documented degree structure
- Clinics, placements or pro bono components
- Moot and advocacy programmes
- Exchange, joint or double-degree options
- Research or dissertation component
- Published accreditation or approval where stated
Limitations
Subject-ranking pages could not be verified from fetched text, so no ranking references are shown. Evidence for much of Africa, Francophone Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia was not reviewed here in depth, and many pool schools (including strong ones) were not assessed for lack of time or because pages were JavaScript-only or moved. Nothing here states that a degree qualifies anyone to practise; check each regulator.
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Sources (13)
- National Law School of India University
- NALSAR University of Law
- University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
- The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London
- School of Law, Trinity College Dublin
- The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law
- The University of Queensland
- McGill University Faculty of Law
- Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
- Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de los Andes
- Tel Aviv University - The Buchmann Faculty of Law
- Universiti Malaya, Faculty of Law
- Bucerius Law School