Based in the heart of the Bloomsbury district of London, close to the legal city, major library resources and the West End, UCL Laws makes a significant contribution to the academic, cultural and business life of the capital.
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Laws has a truly remarkable teaching and research community, demonstrated by
the talent and achievement of its students, faculty, and alumni. We are deeply
committed to the quality and relevance of the graduate education we offer.
At UCL you will be taught and tutored by internationally renowned academics, at the cutting edge of their fields, and leading legal practitioners from some of the major City firms.
Our LLM attracts students from all parts of the world, over the last few years more than 50 countries have been represented, providing students from the UK and abroad with unique opportunities for formal and informal critical comparative analysis.
Our active research community is co-ordinated by the eight institutes and centres within the Faculty:
The Institute of Brand and Innovation Law
The faculty’s new Institute of Brands and Innovation, directed by Professor Sir Hugh Laddie QC, reflects UCL’s strategy of expanding its activity in the field of intellectual property law. It has research themes in areas of contemporary importance such as: IP and European integration; comparative trade mark law; and intellectual property and the life sciences.
The Institute of Global Law
The Institute for Global Law was established in 2000. Its aim is to encourage teaching and research of law on a global basis, with the broader political aim of acting as a catalyst for closer links with foreign countries, their governments, judiciaries, and civil servants.
The Jevons Institute
for Competition Law and Economics
UCL has an internationally established tradition of teaching and research in antitrust law going back to Professor Valentine Korah’s pioneering work. This is enriched today with a wide range of courses on antitrust law, regulation and economics under the auspices of the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics. The institute aims to stimulate research and debate concerning the application of competition law and industry regulation to the marketplace; and promote interaction among academic scholars in law and economics, policymakers and enforcement officials, the judiciary, practitioners and business leaders.
Centre for Commercial Law
Commercial and corporate law form a major part of the faculty’s LLM and graduate research programmes under the auspices of the Centre for Commercial Law. The Centre for Commercial Law promotes excellence in the research and teaching of international commercial law. Through its published work and the many projects undertaken for UK, EC and international agencies, the centre’s aim is to contribute to the critical understanding of the socioeconomic and political dimensions of commercial transactions and regulatory regimes. An important aspect of the centre’s role is to bridge the gap between academic law and its practical application.
Centre for Empirical Legal Studies Professor Dame Hazel Genn DBE QC, established The Centre for Empirical Legal Studies in 1995. The emphasis in the work of the centre is on empirical research investigating the operation and effects of law within the context of the social, economic and political environment. Areas of current interest for research and teaching include access to justice, alternative dispute resolution (especially mediation), administrative justice, civil litigation, and tribunals.
Centre for Law and Governance in Europe
The Centre for Law and Governance in Europe, Directed by Professor Joanne Scott, is a research and teaching centre in all areas of EU law and governance. Scholars within the centre have a wide variety of research and teaching interests, including the constitutional law of the EU, Internal Market Law, European Social Policy and Employment Law, Competition Law and Policy, Intellectual Property Law, Immigration Law, European Private Law (especially Contract Law and Consumer Protection), Environmental Law, Regional Development Policy, External Relations, Agriculture, EU Development Policy, and EU/WTO relations.
Centre for Law & the Environment,
The faculty’s Centre for Law and the Environment, set up by Professor Richard Macrory CBE QC, provides a focal point for the faculty’s rapidly expanding interests in the field of the environment and law. The goals of the centre are to advance research and teaching, and to explore the role of law in meeting contemporary environmental challenges. There is a special emphasis on EC and International perspectives. The centre aims to develop into a key focal point for environmental law, addressing the relevance of law to coping with future environment agenda (climate change, transport, energy, resources) and fostering interdisciplinary approaches to research.
Centre for International Courts & Tribunals
The Centre on International Courts and Tribunals was established at the Faculty of Laws, UCL in 2002 by Professor Philippe Sands QC.It serves as the London home of the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT), which was established in 1997 by the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) in London and the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.
London Shipping Law Centre
The faculty has a long-established role as an internationally recognised centre for the study of maritime law. For many years its London Shipping Law Centre, under the Directorship of Dr Aleka Mandaraka-Sheppard, has been active in promoting interaction between the legal profession, the shipping industry and students studying shipping law at UCL. The centre provides a meeting place for exchange through public lectures and other functions.
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