Law

Understand legal frameworks & shape innovation

Master the complex interplay of law and business with the BA (Hons) in Business (Law) degree, a dynamic program designed to equip you with essential legal insights and business skills. You’ll explore the laws governing commerce, employee relations and corporate governance, ensuring you’re fully prepared to excel in careers related to business law and beyond.

Learn how to:

• Analyze business operations within legal frameworks
• Manage compliance & employee relations effectively
• Develop strategic leadership & management skills
• Navigate complex corporate & commercial law
• Implement ethical decision-making in business practices

Program structure

This is a full-time, three-year, six-semester EQF level 6/NFQ level 8 honors program (180 ECTS).

In the first year of this honors degree course, you will be given a thorough grounding with core courses in management, organization, marketing, finance, IT and economics as they relate to business. In the second and third years, you will build on this knowledge to gain an advanced understanding of these key areas, as well as acquire specific knowledge and skills relating to the legal framework within which businesses must operate to be compliant. Your studies culminate in a final year capstone research project.  

Learning outcomes

The BA (Hons) in Business (Law) prepares students for future careers in global business ventures and large international organizations. 

In addition, after graduating, students will competently:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the various areas of law and underlying principles relating to a business context in addition to an understanding of the legal environment, the impact of law on society and business and the need for reform and development.
• Apply legal rules and principles relevant to a business context to hypothetical scenarios to reach a conclusion or suggest a resolution.
• Assess knowledge and information, tools, and techniques in a critical way to confidently adapt to changing business environments.
• Evaluate data and information derived through research to ensure relevant new knowledge is continually incorporated to enhance business planning and decision making.
• Demonstrate interpersonal skills of effective listening, negotiation, persuasion, and presentation in individual and group situations.
• Display an in‐depth understanding of the inter‐relationships between business functions and business processes and their impact on product and service provision.
• Apply diagnostic and creative skills in the solution of business problems showing an interdisciplinary approach to resolution.
• Demonstrate a capacity to contribute to business development and enhanced strategic decision-making.

Degree awarded

On successful completion of this program, you will earn:

• A state-recognized Dublin Business School BA (Hons) in Business degree awarded by Quality & Qualifications Ireland (QQI).

Awarding Body
Quality and Qualifications, Ireland (QQI) is the Irish State body responsible for the Quality Assurance of all education and training services in Ireland. QQI sets quality assurance criteria for the sector and regulates and approves programmes of study. For more information about QQI, click here.