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About Lancaster University Law School
Lancaster University is rated in the top 10 in the UK by all major league tables ( The Times, The Independent and The Guardian) and, year after year, as the number 1 in the North West by all university league tables and is consistently rated in the top 200 universities in the world. The Law School is rated in the top 20 in the UK, and is the top ranking Law School in the North West. The Law School has an outstanding reputation for its research, which ranges from traditional "black letter" law to critical, socio-legal and interdisciplinary research. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise 90% of Lancaster University Law School's research was rated as of international standing.
The School has around 24 established academic staff and around 450 undergraduate and 50 postgraduate students. Its compact size relative to other law schools means that the School, whilst big enough to offer a wide range of optional subjects (wider than many much bigger law schools) is more intimate than most, with easy relations between students and academics, who are highly accessible. The School also enjoys some of the best class sizes in the country, with first year seminar groups of around 10 students, and second and third year groups not normally exceeding 15. An exceptionally high proportion of teaching is undertaken by established academic staff compared with other leading law schools, and our professoriate is fully engaged with undergraduate as well as postgraduate teaching and supervision.
Students of Lancaster University Law School enjoy a wide range of extra-curricular activities. Apart from the many social events run by the student Law Society, students have the opportunity of engaging in competitive mooting including an inter-collegiate mooting competition organized by the society. (There is even a course based around participation in the Jessup International Moot competition, which can count towards your degree - though places are limited and highly sought-after.) Our students also undertake pro bono work through Citizens Advice Bureaux, the Streetlaw Project and the Innocence Project (in which students, under expert supervision, assist prisoners who claim to be victims of miscarriage of justice to have their cases reopened and launch appeals). Lancaster law students can enhance their commercial awareness through Lawyers Aware, a scheme forming part of Students Into Free Enterprise and backed by Allen & Overy, one of the world's leading law firms. There are regular careers events and the School has its own careers adviser among the academic staff as well as a law careers expert on the staff of the university's careers service, CEEC, which also organizes commercial awareness events, training in how to give your best in selection centres and interviews, and can provide advice on CVs and on the wide range of careers law graduates can consider besides the legal profession. The human scale of the School gives every student the maximum opportunity to become involved in all activities and make the most of his or her time at the University.
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