LLB Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
The Faculty of Law, U.C.C., offers the traditional law courses such as Tort Law, Immovable Property Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Company Law. Beside these traditional courses, there are some new and unique courses that are being offered. This includes Education Law, Medical Law, Local Government Law, Transport Law and Sports Law. The Faculty also offers a one credit hour course known as Professional Development (PD) in every semester of the programme. This course enables students appreciate and function effectively in the wider society and to develop continuous learning by the law student.The LLB programme is a full-time three year programme which is designed to award a Bachelor of Laws degree to students upon a successful completion of the programme.
Course Features
The features of the LLB programme include:
1. Professional Development: Through this segment of the programme, the Faculty aims at providing students learning experience to complement their legal studies and to equip them with learning and life skills and to prepare them for lifelong learning. The student is also armed with communication and reasoning skills, management, emotional intelligence, research training, ethics and advocacy. Areas covered in the Professional Development course, apart from Legal Methods are Logic, Business Studies, Criminology, Psychology, Guidance and Counseling and Vocational Skills. This course was planned to enable students appreciate and function effectively in the wider society. Guest lecturers are routinely invited from the Bar, Bench and Academia to interact with students. This is course done every semester of the programme.
2. Community Engagement: there are faculty-student-community engagement programmes by way of seminars, conferences, and workshops for the various sections of society. The Faculty, through the Law Clinic, also offers supervised legal services to identifiable needy members of society such as remand prisoners.
3. Unique Courses: apart from the regular courses available in typical law programmes such as Contract Law, Property Law and Constitutional Law, elective courses such as Medical Law, Education Law, Local Government Law, Transport Law and Sports Law are offered. Other elective courses that are offered include Natural Resources Law and Environmental Law. There are elective concentrations in Business Law, Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Industrial Law, and Intellectual Property Law, among others.
4. Information and Communications Technology (ICT): the students are introduced to legal software and databases. Class delivery is aided by ICT, and assignments are given to and presented by students in electronic format. Students are therefore required to have personal computers and some competence in the use of computers. They will be supplied with software containing Ghanaian legislation and reported cases.
Besides the typical lecture format, classes will be highly interactive, problem-based learning and learner-centered rather than teacher-centered. Tutorials will be compulsory and students’ assignments, presentations, demonstrations, site visits, guest lectures and moot courts will be typical learning.
The Faculty creates a study environment that maximises learning efficiency and fosters productivity in its students. All students are encouraged to take advantage of all the available resources at the Faculty and within the wider university. The LLB curriculum is organised in such a way that students who pass all their courses will meet the course requirements for admission to the Ghana Law School, subject to the School’s own entry requirements.
In the first year, students take five core courses. In addition to four core courses, second year students select at least one elective and at most three elective courses from a wide range of options in both semesters. Third year students take three core courses, and at least two or at most three elective courses per semester. In addition to the core courses, The Faculty of Law also offers a compulsory non-credit Professional Development course for all its LLB students in all six semesters of the programme.
The objectives of the programme are to:
1. equip students with a sound understanding of the foundations of legal knowledge, enabling them to transition into the vocational training programme should they so desire;
2. offer students the opportunity to study law from an extensive catalogue of elective courses covering the entire range of legal knowledge;
3. develop students’ analytical and research skills, thereby equipping them with the skills they will need in their future careers;
4. enable students develop the skills to carry out research deploying both electronic and library-based sources, of critical analysis and through independent and team learning;
5. expose students to a wide range of disciplinary approaches to legal study, encouraging them to reflect on the complexity of legal practice and of the variety of ways of understanding the role of the Law in contemporary society;
6. present students with opportunities to have a detailed understanding of the Constitution, legislation, case-law and ‘soft law’ applicable to the relevant areas of law;
7. enable students to gain an understanding of, and be able to critically assess the social, political, cultural and economic problems from the legal point of view;
8. enable students to develop the aptitude to respond with competence and confidence to contemporary problems and issues in the field of law.
Pedagogical Methods
The delivery of courses will be done through a combination of pedagogical methods, including:
- material delivered in the form of course materials and lectures to help students to hone their skills in organising information;
2. class discussion and tutorials to develop critical thinking and analyses of legal issues, and
3. student-led seminars and group presentations based on material prepared by students in advance in order to develop presentation and interpersonal skills and the spirit of teamwork.
Grading system
Regarding assessment and grading, The Faculty follows the University of Cape Coast’s grading system
Admission Requirements :
Admission to any programme of study in the Faculty of Law, UCC is open to Ghanaians and other nationals with the requisite qualifications. For the LLB programme, applicants must be first degree holders in any discipline from a recognised university with a first class or a good second class degree. Qualified applicants take an entrance examination. Shortlisted candidates are then interviewed and those who pass are offered admission to the LLB programme.
Level 200
| First Semester | ||
| Course Code | Course Title | No. of Credits |
| LAW 201 | PRFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | 1 |
| LAW 203 | GHANA LEGAL SYSTEM | 3 |
| LAW 205 | LAW OF TORT I | 3 |
| LAW 207 | LAW OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY I | 3 |
| LAW 209 | LAW OF CONTRACT I | 3 |
| LAW 211 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND HISTORY I | 3 |
| Second Semester | ||
| Course Code | Course Title | No. of Credits |
| LAW 202 | PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | 1 |
| LAW 204 | LEGAL RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION | 3 |
| LAW 206 | LAW OF TORT II | 3 |
| LAW 208 | LAW OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY II | 3 |
| LAW 210 | LAW OF CONTRACT II | 3 |
| LAW 212 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND HISTORY II | 3 |
Level 300
| First Semester | ||
| Course Code | Course Title | No. of Credits |
| LAW 301 | PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (GUIDNACE & COUNSELLING) | 1 |
| LAW 303 | CRIMINAL LAW I | 3 |
| LAW 305 | LAW OF EQUITY | 3 |
| LAW 309 | COMMERCIAL LAW I | 3 |
| LAW 311 | PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW I (Elective) | 3 |
| LAW 315 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW (ELECTIVE) | 3 |
| LAW 316 | ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (Elective) | 3 |
| LAW 317 | EDUCATIONAL LAW (Elective) | 3 |
| Second Semester | ||
| Course Code | Course Title | No. of Credits |
| LAW 302 | PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (DISPUTE RESOLUTION) | 1 |
| LAW 304 | CRIMINAL LAW II | 3 |
| LAW 306 | LAW OF SUCCESSION | 3 |
| LAW 310 | COMMERCIAL LAW II | 3 |
| LAW 312 | PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW II (Elective) | 3 |
| LAW 319 | NATURAL RESOURCES LAW (Elective) | 3 |
| LAW 320 | MEDICAL LAW (Elective) | 3 |
Level 400
| First Semester | ||
| Course Code | Course Title | No. of Credits |
| LAW 401 | PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CRIMINOLOGY, CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE) | 1 |
| LAW 403 | JURISPRUDENCE I | 3 |
| LAW 407 | LAW OF TAXATION I | 3 |
| LAW 409 | INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT LAW (Elective) | 3 |
| LAW 411 | INDUSTRIAL LAW (Elective) | 3 |
| LAW 412 | BANKING LAW (Elective) | 3 |
| LAW 413 | PETROLEUM LAW (Elective) | 3 |
| LAW 415 | INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (Elective) | 3 |
| Second Semester | ||
| Course Code | Course Title | No. of Credits |
| LAW 402 | PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (BUSINESS STUDIES) | 1 |
| LAW 404 | JURISPRUDENCE II | 3 |
| LAW 408 | LAW OF TAXATION II | 3 |
| LAW 414 | INSURANCE LAW | 3 |