University College London Law Faculty

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

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.

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" [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/good_university_guide/article526344.ece] . 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, a 4-year LLB with Another Legal System progamme (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.

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
*Maritime Law

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

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
*Dame Hazel Genn DBE QC - 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
*Daniel Alexander QC
*Anthony Aust
*Antonio Bavasso - Antitrust Group, Allen & Overy
*Tom Burke
*Richard Calnan - Partner, Norton Rose
*Winston Chu
*Michael Crystall QC
*Frederique Dahan
*Eileen Denza
*Alejandro Escobar - Partner, Latham & Watkins
*David S. Evans - Vice Chairman, LECG Europe
*Håkan Friman
*Cyril Glasser - Consultant Sheridans
*Vera Gowlland-Debbas
*Ron Harmer
*Judge Frederic Jenny
*John Kallaugher - Head of Competition Law, Latham & Watkins
*Antonio Parra
*Graham Penn - Partner, Sidley Austin
*Ned Swan
*Robert Volterra - Partner, Latham & Watkins
*Edward Walker-Arnott - former Senior Partner, now consultant, Herbert Smith
*Elizabeth Wilmshurst

Alumni

The following are some notable graduates of the faculty:
*Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi — Saudi Arabian politician; former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Bahrain (1984 to 1992); Ambassador to United Kingdom and Ireland (1992-2002)
*Justice A.S. Anand — former Chief Justice of India (1998-2001)
*Justice Gabriel Bach — Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
* Sir John Baker QC FBA — legal historian; Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge
*Peter Birks QC FBA — legal academic; former Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford
*Dame Margaret Booth — former High Court Judge (Family Division)
*Sir Ellis Clarke — Last Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago (1973-1976); First President of Trinidad and Tobago (1976-1986)
*Justice Samuel Azu Crabbe — former Chief Justice of Ghana (1973-1977)
*Terry Davis — current Secretary General of the Council of Europe
* Lord Dear — former Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary (1990-1997)
*Taslim Elias — Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria (1972-1975); Judge of the International Court of Justice (1976-1991); President of the International Court of Justice (1982-1985)
* Baroness Flather — British politician and first Asian woman to receive a peerage
*Daniel Fung SC (馮華健) — former Solicitor-General of Hong Kong
*Mahatma Gandhi — Indian Nationalist and Spiritual Leader
*Edwin Glasgow QC — Counsel in the Bloody Sunday Inquiry
*Lord Goldsmith QC — former Attorney General for England and Wales (2001-2007)
* Lord Hart — former Special Adviser to the Lord Chancellor (1998-2007)
*Chaim Herzog — former President of Israel (1983-1993)
*Hassan Bubacar Jallow — current Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2003-present);former Attorney-General, Minister of Justice and Judge of the Supreme Court of Gambia
*Sir George Jessel — English jurist; first Jewish Solicitor General for England and Wales (1871-1873); first Jewish regular member of the Privy Council; first Jewish judge in UK; Master of the Rolls(1873-1883)
*Joshua Jeyaretnam — Singapore politician and former leader of the Workers' Party of Singapore
* Lord Jones — British politician and businessman; Minister of State for Trade
* [http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E7%A6%8F%E5%96%84 Simon Li (李福善)] — former Vice-President of Court of Appeals (Hong Kong) and first ethnic Chinese High Court Judge (Hong Kong)
*Sir Gavin Lightman QC — High Court Judge (Chancery Division), England
*Julie Maxton - Registrar of the University of Oxford (first woman in 550 years)
*Leonard Sainer — Solicitor and retailer
*Baroness Scotland PC QC — current Attorney General for England and Wales (2007-present); first black woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel
*Thirugnana Sampanthar Sinnathuray — former Judge of the High Court of Singapore
*Rabindranath Tagore (did not graduate) — Bengali poet; Nobel Prize in Literature (1913); first Asian Nobel Laureate
*Tan Boon Teik — former Attorney-General of Singapore (1969-1992)
*Chao Hick Tin — current Vice-President of the Court of Appeal of Singapore; former Attorney-General of Singapore (2006-2008)
*Sir Alfred Wills (1828-1912) — former High Court Judge (Queen's Bench Division); presided over the trial of Oscar Wilde
*Lord Woolf — former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
* Sir Ti-Liang Yang (楊鐵樑) GBM — former Chief Justice of Hong Kong
* Lord Young — politician; Secretary of State for Employment (1985-1987); Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1987-1989)
*Wu Ting-Fang (伍廷芳) (1842 - 1923) — Senior Chinese diplomat, the first ethnic Chinese person to be called to the bar in England (1876, Lincoln's Inn)

External links

* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws Official website]