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FROM A FORMER LAW LECTURER

To Help You Survive Law School

​Karolina Sieler, Former UK LLB Lecturer

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How to Choose the Right Law Modules for Your LLB Degree

Selecting the right law modules is one of the most important decisions you'll make during your LLB degree. With a wide range of options available, LLB module selection can feel overwhelming, but it’s a crucial step in shaping your academic success and future legal career. Whether you're aiming to specialise in a particular area of law or seeking a broad understanding of the legal system, choosing law modules strategically is key.

In this guide, we’ll explore the best law modules UK universities have to offer, provide insights into the LLB course arrangements, and share law school tips to help you make informed decisions. From balancing core and optional modules to aligning your choices with career aspirations, this article will equip you with the knowledge to navigate your law degree modules with confidence.

By the end, you'll have a clear understanding of how to tailor your module choices to achieve both academic excellence and professional goals.

9 First Class Law Essay Conclusion Examples from a Lecturer

Writing a conclusion to a law essay can be quite challenging if you don’t know what you’re doing. I have previously written a guide on how to write a law essay conclusion. But if you feel like you could use more help with your conclusion, here are 9 examples of first class law essay conclusions in various modules.

How to Write UK Law Essays and Exams: The Ultimate LLB Guide

Discover how to write UK law essays and exams with expert tips on planning, argument and writing style. Learn to master essay-style and problem-style questions, critically evaluate sources and format your essays to achieve top grades.

Top Secrets on How to Revise for & Pass Law Exams

If you are wondering how to pass your law school exams with flying colours, you are not alone. Revising several law modules at the same time can be quite daunting, especially if you don't have a proper revision strategy in place. You can easily end up spending a lot of time on things that aren't important, leaving you with little time to focus on things that actually matter. But you can make the revision process far less stressful by following the tips below on how to study for and pass law school exams.

How to Answer Law Exam Questions to Get a First: Guidelines

Not sure how to answer your law exam questions? In this post, I will show you how to write a law exam answer step-by-step, including recognising different types of law exam questions, structuring your law exam answers and using the legal writing style during your exams.

Essential Tips for Writing Effective Law Assignments

If you are a law student, the question that no doubt pops up in your mind quite a lot is “How do I write my law assignments?”. As a former LLB law lecturer and a current law tutor, it is my mission to help law students get a first in their essays. That’s why I have created this free guide which covers the basics of writing law assignments. You will find here a range of topics, starting from recognising the type of question asked, through how to write a law assignment introduction and conclusion, and writing the critical analysis in the main body of your paper, to referencing and using the legal writing style. I hope you will find it useful!

How to Reference Law Essays (Quick Guide to OSCOLA Style)

If you're anything like most law students in the UK, you will find the idea of formatting your footnotes and bibliography according to the OSCOLA referencing style just dreadful. This particular aspect of law essay writing tends to be very tedious and time-consuming. Unfortunately, it's absolutely necessary that you know how to reference UK law essays properly in order to get a first. If you're confused about what the OSCOLA referencing style is and how to reference your essays using it, this article will help clarify a few things.

How to Use the Legal Academic Writing Style in Law Essays

Many students who fail to get a first in their law essays make the same mistake - they don’t apply the legal academic writing style guidelines. As a result, their essays tend to look unprofessional and not really academic. If you want to learn how to avoid that mistake, check out this advice on what is the legal writing style, how to use it in your law essays and why it is important to do it.

How to Take Notes From Law Textbooks (Law Lecturer's Tips)

As all law students, you must be absolutely overwhelmed with the number of pages which you are required to read for each of your modules every week. What’s more, you are probably struggling to condense all those pages into something that can be considered a “note”. If those words resonate with you, you are in the right place. This article will talk you step-by-step through how exactly you should take notes from law textbooks.

How to Learn Law: Reading & Understanding Law Effectively

​If you Google “how to learn law” you will immediately see a range of articles explaining very complicated systems which you should follow to understand law. Going through most of those articles can make you want to give up on law school altogether. In reality, understanding and learning law can be easy and straightforward. All you need to do is follow the four steps below (nothing more, nothing less).