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About the Law School
Lancaster University Law School offers a range of programmes at bachelors, masters and doctoral level. The School has especial academic strengths in business law and healthcare law, international and human rights law, socio-legal studies, and various areas of legal theory, but offers expertise across a very wide range of legal specialisms. The particular defining feature of Lancaster University Law School, however, is our size: with around 25 academic staff and 500 students, we are big enough to be a full-service law school and offer an excellent range of optional courses within a range of programmes, but unlike some law schools we have not grown so large as to become impersonal. Some law schools now have to arrange special "professorial lectures" because otherwise undergraduates would never get to see someone as senior as a full professor. This is not necessary at Lancaster, where all academic staff are engaged in teaching and supervision at all levels. Equally unnecessary at Lancaster are the overflow lecture theatres with video links now seen in some of the bigger law schools. At Lancaster, legal education remains a personal relationship.
Extra-Curricular Activities
The Law School provides a rich extra-curricular experience, when you have time spare from all that work. The Student Law Societyis the clearing house for many activities and itself organizes a wide variety of events, from the annual black-tie Law Ball, to careers trips (eg, to Law Fairs), and in 2008 a bargain weekend away in Paris.
Lawyers Aware is an initiative of SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise), and provides opportunities for law students to develop commercial awareness - a key attribute law firms look for in potential trainees - through business games like its negotiation exercise. It has also organized careers events such as a visit by Allen & Overy's recruitment team to discuss effective approaches to applications and interviews.
The Innocence Project is an exciting addition to the Law School, giving a group of students, under the guidance of an expert lecturer, the opportunity to assist prisoners who claim to have been wrongly convicted to marshall evidence and arguments to launch appeals. This is part of our wider commitment to Pro-Bono work, that sees students sharing their knowledge and skills with organizations such as Citizens Advice Bureaux and "street law" projects.
The Law School also runs an inter-collegiate Mooting Competition , in which students can represent their college in competitive mooting - the arguing of mock appeal cases, often before real judges or members of the Bar, with many moots being held in one of the historic courtrooms of Lancaster Castle (Britain's oldest working prison, with still-working courtrooms that witnessed such cases as the Pendle Witch trials and the trial of the Birmingham Six).
For students who still have time after all that, the University hosts scores of clubs, societies and sports teams (you can play sport for leisure or competitively at university level or inter-collegiate level), and there is an excellent sports centre with pool and gym for those seeking less organized physical recreation.
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