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Law: a student guide

A series for students considering studying law at undergraduate level
  • A student in a library

    Is there a life outside the lecture theatre for law students?

    Emily Allbon

    Emily Allbon: Extracurricular activities such as mooting, legal research and pro bono help law students develop transferable skills

  • Ally McBeal

    Twelve top TV lawyers

    Lawyers don't only join the profession for the intellectual challenge, the chance to right wrongs, and the money. They also do it because it looks good on TV

  • new underground safety poster

    Are you cut out for a law degree?

    Four legal academics (and Guardian Law's editor) pose legal dilemmas of the kind you'll face at interview - and which should intrigue any would-be law student
  • Barack Obama as a student at the school in Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Is studying law boring?

    Gary Slapper

    Gary Slapper: Law is often portrayed as a dull discipline pursued by the ethically dubious. Actually it governs everything from embryo to exhumation

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