概要
Law (Jurisprudence) at the University of Oxford is the three-year BA route under UCAS code M100, with AAA at A-level, IB 38 with 666 at HL and the LNAT for all applicants. The course uses tutorials, public exams in the first and final years, and a second-year Jurisprudence essay that contributes to the final degree result.
なぜOxfordでLawを?
Oxford is listed as #2 for Law in the Guardian University Guide 2026 and #4 in the Complete University Guide 2026 comparison table.
Section 01
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International Applicants
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Section 02
| Qualification | Typical Offer | Key Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| A-Level | AAA | For the standard three-year Law course there is no required subject; an essay-based subject can be helpful. Law with Law Studies in Europe has additional language expectations depending on the option. |
| IB Diploma | 38 (including core points) with 666 at HL | An essay-based subject can be helpful but is not required for the standard three-year Law course. Course II language requirements depend on the chosen European-law option. |
| Advanced Placement (AP) | For Oxford courses requiring AAA: either four APs at grade 5, or three APs at grade 5 plus ACT 31 or above or SAT 1460 or above. | An essay-based subject recommended. SAT/ACT: ACT 31+ or SAT 1460+ if presenting three APs rather than four APs..Oxford's US qualification guidance applies course-specific subject requirements where relevant; standard Law has no required school subject. |
Section 03
MAY 2026
Start UCAS preparation
Begin choosing your course and college preference, drafting your UCAS personal statement, and arranging your academic reference.
1 AUG — 15 SEP 2026
Register and book LNAT
Create your LNAT account and book a test appointment in time for Oxford's deadline. Registration and booking must be completed by 15 September 2026 to guarantee consideration.
1 SEP — 15 OCT 2026
Sit the LNAT
Oxford Law applicants must take the LNAT between 1 September and 15 October 2026. The latest valid Oxford sitting is 15 October 2026.
BY 15 OCT 2026
Submit UCAS
Submit the UCAS application by 6pm UK time on 15 October 2026. The academic reference must be completed before the application can be sent.
LATE NOV — EARLY DEC 2026
Receive shortlisting outcome
Oxford normally tells applicants whether they have been invited to interview between mid-November and early December. Law applicants should be ready for short notice.
EARLY — MID DEC 2026
Attend online Law interviews
Shortlisted applicants for 2027 entry will have online interviews. Oxford's 2026 Law-specific timetable was not yet published at the time of research, but Oxford states interviews take place in early to mid-December.
12 JAN 2027
Receive Oxford decision
Shortlisted candidates for 2027 entry will be told whether their application has been successful on 12 January 2027 via UCAS, followed by college communication.
MAY — JUN 2027
Reply to UCAS offers
Reply deadlines depend on when all your universities have made decisions. For the 2027 UCAS cycle, offer-holder reply deadlines include 5 May 2027 and 2 June 2027 depending on decision timing.
AUG 2027
Confirm results and meet offer conditions
A-level results are expected on 12 August 2027 according to a provisional awarding-body timetable; other qualifications, including IB and international results, may be released on different dates.
MAY 2026
Start UCAS preparation
Begin choosing your course and college preference, drafting your UCAS personal statement, and arranging your academic reference.
1 AUG — 15 SEP 2026
Register and book LNAT
Create your LNAT account and book a test appointment in time for Oxford's deadline. Registration and booking must be completed by 15 September 2026 to guarantee consideration.
1 SEP — 15 OCT 2026
Sit the LNAT
Oxford Law applicants must take the LNAT between 1 September and 15 October 2026. The latest valid Oxford sitting is 15 October 2026.
BY 15 OCT 2026
Submit UCAS
Submit the UCAS application by 6pm UK time on 15 October 2026. The academic reference must be completed before the application can be sent.
LATE NOV — EARLY DEC 2026
Receive shortlisting outcome
Oxford normally tells applicants whether they have been invited to interview between mid-November and early December. Law applicants should be ready for short notice.
EARLY — MID DEC 2026
Attend online Law interviews
Shortlisted applicants for 2027 entry will have online interviews. Oxford's 2026 Law-specific timetable was not yet published at the time of research, but Oxford states interviews take place in early to mid-December.
12 JAN 2027
Receive Oxford decision
Shortlisted candidates for 2027 entry will be told whether their application has been successful on 12 January 2027 via UCAS, followed by college communication.
MAY — JUN 2027
Reply to UCAS offers
Reply deadlines depend on when all your universities have made decisions. For the 2027 UCAS cycle, offer-holder reply deadlines include 5 May 2027 and 2 June 2027 depending on decision timing.
AUG 2027
Confirm results and meet offer conditions
A-level results are expected on 12 August 2027 according to a provisional awarding-body timetable; other qualifications, including IB and international results, may be released on different dates.
Section 04
Oxford Law applicants must take the Law National Admissions Test (LNAT), with Oxford's course page currently writing the name as Law National Admissions Test and the LNAT provider using Law National Aptitude Test branding.
The LNAT is managed by the LNAT Consortium and administered by Pearson VUE under contract to LNAT.
The test has two sections rather than selectable modules: multiple-choice questions and an essay.
For 2027 entry, registration opens on 1 August 2026, Oxford applicants should register and book by 15 September 2026, and the Oxford test window is 1 September to 15 October 2026.
Oxford reports Law interviewed 31%, successful 10% and intake 187 on the 2023-25 three-year average; these are overall admissions figures, not LNAT-specific pass rates. The LNAT is used alongside the UCAS application, qualifications, personal statement and interview performance.
For international applicants, the test gives Oxford a common comparison point across very different school qualifications. Prepare for the multiple-choice reasoning and essay as separate tasks, because the essay is also read by Oxford tutors.
LNAT完全対策ガイド | 試験形式・採点・戦略・練習リソース。
LNATガイド →Section 05
Interview Invitation
Late Nov
Arrival to Interview
Early Dec
Technical Question
Mid Dec
Decision
Early Jan
Interview Invitation
Late Nov
Arrival to Interview
Early Dec
Technical Question
Mid Dec
Decision
Early Jan
Question Types You’ll See
Oxford's Law interviews for this cycle are online and take place in December 2026; the Law-specific timetable had not yet been published at the time of research.
The interview style is tutorial-style legal reasoning rather than a test of memorised legal knowledge.
The evidence tested includes academic potential, prior academic achievement, logical and analytical reasoning, clear verbal communication, motivation for Law and the ability to think independently about unfamiliar ideas.
Typical question types include short legal, moral or public-policy scenarios, applying a rule to new facts, comparing competing arguments and commenting on a short text or pre-reading extract.
We recommend practising aloud with unfamiliar material. A good answer shows how you move from first reaction to a more careful position when the tutor changes the facts.
無料のLaw面接練習問題バンクで本番さながらの問題を練習しましょう。
無料練習問題 →
Section 06
Oxford Law decisions are made holistically from the interview, LNAT, academic record, predicted grades, personal statement and academic reference.
The estimated highest-weight evidence is interview performance and LNAT performance, followed by prior academic attainment and predicted grades.
Personal statement, subject motivation, academic reference and context act as supporting evidence rather than a replacement for academic performance.
Our recommendation · weighting of admission factors
Oxbridge Mentors recommendation, drawn from observed offer patterns. University of Oxford does not publish official weightings — exact balance varies by college, course and year.
Section 07
For Law (Jurisprudence), avoid opening with a generic claim that law is important. Show how you analyse arguments: take a judgment, statutory provision, legal controversy or jurisprudence question and explain what changed your view.
A strong paragraph might start from a specific legal distinction — for example, how a court interprets statutory wording or how two judgments reason differently from similar facts — then show the objection you considered and how you refined the argument.
Do not try to sound like a junior barrister. Oxford's stated criteria across the application include academic potential, reasoning and motivation for Law, not professional polish at age 17; the personal statement should support that wider academic picture rather than carry it alone.
専門家による一行一行の解説付き完全例文を見る。
Law PS例文 →Section 08
A good Law project should leave you with something you can explain under pressure: a case note, a statutory interpretation comparison or a balanced argument on a rights issue. The point is not to produce a long essay; it is to practise legal reasoning clearly.
Section 08
Other supercurriculars should support legal reasoning, not pad the application. Use them to practise extracting issues, distinguishing evidence from opinion and responding to counterarguments.
These are support, not substitute.
Judgment reading:
Read short Supreme Court or Court of Appeal judgments and practise extracting issue, rule, reasoning and outcome without relying on summaries first.
LNAT-style argument practice:
Use timed critical-reading practice to identify assumptions, evidence, counterarguments and flawed inferences in dense prose.
Legal philosophy and political theory:
Read introductory jurisprudence, constitutional theory and ethics to build comfort with abstract argument rather than rote legal knowledge.
Debate, mooting or mock trial:
Practise making concise oral arguments, responding to challenges and changing your mind when the reasoning requires it.
Current legal affairs tracking:
Follow a developing legal issue over several weeks and keep a short research log distinguishing law, policy, evidence and personal opinion.
Reflective writing:
After each reading or event, write a 200-word reflection focused on what made the argument persuasive or weak, not just what the conclusion was.
Section 08
Competitions are not required, but they can stretch your reading, writing and argument discipline. Choose one that forces you to reason rather than merely describe.
None are required; one or two done well beats five half-attempted.
Section 09
Year
01 / 03
1
Foundations
The first two terms focus on the Law Moderations subjects: Criminal Law, Constitutional Law and A Roman Introduction to Private Law, alongside the Legal Research Skills and Mooting Programme. Oxford currently examines these three substantive subjects at the end of the second term; after passing Moderations, students move into the Final Honour School stage, which runs from Year 1 Term 3 to the end of Year 3.
Year
02 / 03
2
Core legal analysis
Year 2 sits inside the Final Honour School stage rather than a separately modular second year. Students continue the compulsory law subjects that Oxford lists across Year 1 Term 3 to Year 3 and develop the jurisprudential and legal-research work that counts toward the final degree.
Year
03 / 03
3
Finals and options
The final year completes the compulsory Final Honour School subjects and adds two optional subjects chosen from the Faculty's available options. Oxford notes that not every option runs every year, so the live Faculty list should be treated as the authoritative option menu for a given cohort.
Section 10
Start with sources that show what studying law feels like before you move into harder theory. What About Law?: Studying Law at University introduces core legal subjects through concrete problems, while Letters to a Law Student explains what the academic transition into law study involves.
For public law and legal method, The Rule of Law gives a short account of a central constitutional idea, and Learning Legal Rules is useful for precedent, statutory interpretation and legal reasoning.
If you want jurisprudence-adjacent thinking, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? builds ethical and political reasoning useful for rights debates.
Use the embedded videos for official Oxford Law course, taster, interview and LNAT context, then use audio selectively to hear legal argument in motion. The useful starting points are Oxford Law Faculty materials, UK Supreme Court hearings or summaries, and accessible legal podcasts rather than long lists of passive content.
For topical listening, Oxford Law Vox, Law Pod UK andThe Law Showcan help you track how lawyers explain legal issues to non-specialists.
For structured beginner courses, Starting with law, Introduction to English Common Law, English Common Law: Structure and Principles and What is Law? are useful ways to test whether legal study interests you.
Section 11
39 colleges offer this subject. around 20% of applicants submit an open application. around 33% of places come through the pool.
Oxford Law applications are college-based, but colleges and the Law Faculty work together before and during interviews so strong candidates can be considered beyond their first-choice college.
Applicants may be reallocated before interview, interviewed by more than one college, or receive an open offer where the final college is confirmed after results.
Oxford has 39 colleges, and around 20% of applicants make an open application.
Around one third of successful applicants receive an offer from a college they did not specify.
A practical college choice is based on fit: accommodation, location, size, access arrangements, atmosphere, library provision, support and whether the college offers Law.
Section 12
Oxford Law outcomes are strongly legal but not exclusively legal: Discover Uni reports 88% of surveyed graduates were in work and/or study 15 months after the course, with 80% of employed respondents in highly skilled work, and Oxford's Law Faculty says graduates also pursue government, business and education.
The careers data source is Discover Uni Graduate Outcomes for students graduating in 2022-23, with employment-status data from 75 students representing 52% of those asked and occupation data from 35 students representing 50% of those asked.
Section 13
Oxford uses contextual data to understand applicants' achievements in light of school performance, neighbourhood measures and individual circumstances.
For UK applicants, contextual information can include school performance, postcode-based measures, experience of care, eligibility for free school meals since age 11 and widening-participation information supplied through UCAS.
Applicants identified as most disadvantaged are strongly recommended for interview where they are likely to meet the conditional offer and meet suitable admissions-test criteria.
Contextual information does not replace course requirements; it helps tutors interpret achievement, potential and educational opportunity.
Applicants should use the UCAS reference and any relevant extenuating-circumstances process to explain disruption, subject availability or major educational disadvantage clearly and factually.
Watch & Learn
学生ブログ・模擬面接・講義体験・入試アドバイス。
Oxford Law Faculty overview of the BA in Jurisprudence course with student and faculty perspectives.
Oxford Law Faculty taster session focused on how legal arguments work.
Edited Oxford Law Faculty taster day including a session on how to study law.
Mock or explanatory Oxford Law interview video useful for understanding interview style.
Oxford Law Faculty Q&A addressing the interview process and LNAT preparation.
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Further Reading
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