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CPE/Graduate Diploma in Law Course

The CPE (Common Professional Examination) Graduate Diploma course is designed to enable non-law graduates to reach the same level as law graduates for the purposes of professional qualification to practice law. It fulfils the requirements of the Law Society for the academic stage of legal qualification.

The CPE course is open to graduates who do not hold a qualifying law degree, but who wish to become solicitors or barristers. Students on the CPE course have a wide range of backgrounds and experience, with first degrees from institutions all around the country and from abroad. Keele Law School takes about twenty full-time students on this course each year, and a smaller number of part-time students. The CPE is a lively and cohesive group within the School, taught in lectures and in separate small group tutorials.

Keele Law School is known for its friendly and relaxed atmosphere in which graduate students receive individual attention. A review by external assessors remarked on the 'collegial culture' of the School, where the free exchange of ideas is both expected and supported. The School is highly rated for research. Our research strengths lie in interdisciplinary and contextual approaches to the study of law, as well as in doctrinal legal research, and so Keele is an excellent environment for graduate students to undertake an intensive Law conversion course of this sort. Our aim is to build upon your existing graduate skills, and to develop them in the exciting study of law.

Interested? Need more information? LATEST NEWS January 2012 - Learn more at the CPE Open Afternoons - 24th Jan and 14th Feb 2012 - CPE open afternoon 140212

Take a look at the course structure, assessment and application procedure.