University College London Law Faculty

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The Faculty of Laws of University College London is a law school situated in the Bloomsbury area of Central London.

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[edit] History

The Faculty of Laws is a founding faculty of University College London and was founded in 1826. It was the first to offer a systematic university education in common law in England predating even Oxbridge. John Austin, a pupil of Jeremy Bentham, became the first Professor of Jurisprudence and Andrew Amos, a successful barrister and respected Recorder, became the first Professor of English Law and later Professor of Medical Jurisprudence.

[edit] Present day

The law faculty is consistently ranked as one of the top law faculties in the UK. According to The Times, it is "tipped by insiders as the best law faculty in the United Kingdom" [1]. The faculty is well known for embracing modern legal methods and forms of education more readily than many other law faculties. The faculty is also heavily involved in cutting edge legal research and has an exceptional reputation for jurisprudence and legal theory. It also publishes the UCL Jurisprudence Review, which is the only academic student law journal in the United Kingdom.

The faculty currently offers a 3-year LLB programme, a 4-year LLB with Advanced Studies programme (usually involving a year spent in a foreign university) and two 4-year double degree programmes with Columbia Law School and University of Cologne. It also has exchange links with many law schools around the world.

UCL is one of the founding members of the National Admissions Test For Law (LNAT) consortium and requires all applicants to undergraduate law programmes to take the LNAT.

[edit] Specialisms

  • Antitrust, Regulation & Competition Law
  • Commercial and Corporate
  • Comparative and Foreign (European, Russian and CIS, and Japanese Law)
  • English Private and Criminal Law
  • Environmental Law
  • European Law
  • International Business and Trade Law
  • Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
  • Public International Law
  • Public Law
  • Socio-Legal Studies

[edit] Research Centres

  • Institute of Global Law
  • The Jevons Institute for Competition Law & Economics
  • Centre for Commercial Law
  • Centre for Empirical Legal Studies
  • Centre for Law & the Environment
  • Centre for Law & Governance in Europe
  • Centre for International Courts & Tribunals
  • The London Shipping Law Centre

[edit] Professors

  • Eric Barendt - Professor of Media Law
  • Ian Dennis - Professor of English Law
  • Ronald Dworkin - Bentham Professor of Jurisprudence
  • Joerg Fedtke - Professor of Comparative Law
  • Ian Fletcher - Professor of International Commercial Law
  • Michael Freeman - Professor of English Law
  • Hazel Genn DBE and Professor of Empirical Legal Studies
  • Stephen Guest - Professor of Legal Philosophy
  • Jeffrey Jowell QC - Research Professor of Public Law
  • Valentine Korah - Emeritus Professor of Competition Law
  • Sir Hugh Laddie QC - Professor of Intellectual Property Law
  • Maria Lee - Professor of Law
  • Andrew Lewis - Professor of Comparative Legal History
  • John Lowry - Professor of Law
  • Richard Macrory CBE - Professor of Environmental Law
  • Hiroshi Oda - Professor of Japanese Law
  • Dawn Oliver - Professor of Constitutional Law
  • Pascoe Pleasence - Professor of Empirical Legal Studies
  • Philip Rawlings - Professor of Law
  • Rick Rawlings - Professor of Public Law
  • Catherine Redgwell - Professor of International Law
  • Philippe Sands QC - Professor of Law
  • Philip Schofield - Professor of History of Legal and Political Thought
  • Joanne Scott - Professor of European Law
  • Robert Stevens - Professor of Commercial Law
  • Robert Sullivan - Professor of Law
  • Tim Swanson - Professor of Law and Economics
  • William Twining - Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence
  • Lord Woolf - former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales


Visiting Professors

[edit] Alumni

The following are some notable graduates of the faculty:

[edit] External links

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