http://www.llm-guide.com/board/12199 en CITY UNIVERSITY REPUTATION - LLM GUIDE Discussion Board Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:45:00 +0200 http://www.llm-guide.com/board/12199/last#12199 Cathy, I am not saying that the rankings are irrelevant but they do not focus on LLM degrees per se and its important to be aware of that ( I suppose I could say we came 13th in the Guardian, got a 5 in the RAE and are rated excellent for our professional courses and have 4 British Prime Ministers and the founders of India and Pakistan as alumni-but all that information would not be that relevant to the LLM). Second I doubt there are many law schools that offer 100s of electives on LLM courses at least in Europe. Again my understanding is that London University Colleges offer around 150 courses and thats the biggest in Europe if not the world. That is a pretty unique offering-and for reasons I don't understand some of the colleges are splitting up and offering separate LLMs which will reduce the overall number of electives on offer. The point is very few indeed offer 100s of electives. As for where you have done your LLM. How important is it? Well, yes an Oxbridge LLM is very positive-but it depends what you want to do. If you want to become an EU official doing EU law in Brussels with the Commission I would recommend the College of Europe in Bruges and not Oxbridge. At LLM level it depends on what you want to do-the place can be secondary to the course. Clearly doing an Oxbridge degree or its equivalent is valuable- but if you want to specialise on public procurement law I would go and talk to Sue Arrowsmith at Nottingham. If you want to do competition law then talk to me, Richard Whish at KCL or Barry Rodger at Strathclyde-Maritime Law then Southampton or City where we have a group of people teaching Maritime Law. As for recruitment most major law schools have very strong links to private practice. City is no exception. Dr. Alan Riley Director LLM Programme City Law School Electronic Mail: alan.riley.1@city.ac.uk