Law and Taxation (1BLT1)

The four-year Bachelor of Law and Taxation degree allows students to combine the study of a full undergraduate law degree with taxation.

Taxation is a key component of global business in today’s commercial world. Law firms are expanding their practice in the area of taxation, creating an increased demand for law graduates with a knowledge of taxation. This degree will provide students with the knowledge and skills for legal practice, taxation or both.

Year 1- Compulsory Core Modules (50 credits)

Understanding the Law (10 credits)
Contract Law (10 credits)
Constitutional Law (10 credits)
Tort Law (10 credits)
Introduction to Financial Accounting (5 credits)
Introduction to Management Accounting (5 credits)
Optional Modules (10 credits)
- Digital Business

- - Information Management for Business (5 credits)
  - Business Information Systems (5 credits)

- Economics
  - Principles of Microeconomics (5 credits)
  - Principles of Macroeconomics (5 credits)
- Language

- - Legal French/ Legal German/ Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits)

Year 2- Compulsory Core Modules (45 credits)

Criminal Law I & II (10 credits)
European Union Law I & II (10 credits)
Company Law I & II (10 credits)
Taxation I & II (10 credits)
Mooting (5 credits)
Optional Modules (choose 15 credits)
Accounting
- Management Accounting I (5 credits)
- Business Finance I (5 credits)
- International Financial Reporting I (5 credits)
Economics
- Applied Microeconomics for Business (5 credits)
- Macroeconomics and the Business Environment (5 credits)
- Principles of Microeconomics (5 credits)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (5 credits)
Digital Business
- Business Information Systems (5 credits)
- Information Management for Business (5 credits)
- Cybersecurity (5 credits)
Management
- Employment Relations (5 credits)
- Management (5 credits)
Language
- Legal French/ Legal German/ Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits)

Year 3- placement/study abroad

Year 4- Compulsory Core Modules (35 credits)

Revenue Law I & II (10 credits)
Guided Research Essay (5 credits)
Land Law (10 credits)
Equity Law (10 credits)
Optional Specialist Streams (25 credits)

Students will have the opportunity to shape their degree by choosing a specialist stream. Students may choose one of the following specialist streams including the ‘General’ stream which allows students to choose modules from multiple streams. Certain specialist streams have prerequisite modules which must be passed before choosing the stream in the final year.

Business and Commercial Law

Banking Law (5 credits)
Alternative Dispute Resolution (5 credits)
Labour Law I (5 credits)
Labour Law II (5 credits)
Commercial Law (5 credits)
International Trade Law (5 credits)
Law and Economics (5 credits)
Industrial and Intellectual Property Law (5 credits)
Comparative Competition Law (5 credits)
Law and Innovation (5 credits)
Economics

Compulsory modules for this stream:

- Microeconomics and Public Policy (5 credits)
- Macroeconomics and Public Policy (5 credits)

Optional Modules for this stream:

- Econometrics (5 credits)
- Health Economics (5 credits)
- Money & Banking (5 credits)
- Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (5 credits)
- Development Economics (5 credits)
- Economics and Philosophy (5 credits)
- International Economics (5 credits)
- Economics of Financial Markets (5 credits)
- Public Economics (5 credits)
- Marine Economics (5 credits)