Kent Law School

Kent Law School
The Kent Law School (KLS) is widely recognised as one of the leading Law Schools in the United Kingdom. The School is at the forefront of innovation in legal education,pioneering new approaches to the study, teaching and research of law. KLS is unique in the range of resources and opportunities it offers its Law students. These include:
Teaching Quality KLS was rated 'EXCELLENT' in the 2003 Teaching and Learning Quality Review. It was also 'HIGHLY COMMENDED' in six areas including the Kent Law clinic, its Training in and use of Electronic Legal Resources and the First Year Law Foundation Programme. Further, Nick Jackson, the Convenor of the Property Law course, was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for his teaching excellence in 2002. The first lawyer to receive this Award. Research Quality The excellence of our teaching is enhanced by the internationally and nationally acclaimed research which has won KLS a grade 5 (on a scale of 0 to 5). In other words you will be taught by teachers who are leading figures in their subject areas. The Kent Law Clinic* KLS is the only UK Law School to have developed a ‘clinical legal studies programme as part of its undergraduate curriculum The Kent Law Clinic, based on the Canterbury campus, gives you a unique opportunity to practice law (under qualified supervision) while you are still an undergraduate. Students represent clients in a wide range of areas enabling them to acquire vital legal and practical skills such as interviewing, case anagement, negotiating and advocacy. These skills can only be learnt through ‘real' practice. In 1998, the Clinic was the joint winner of the Times/Justice Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Civil Justice. Competition for the award included Queens Counsel, major solicitors firms and civil liberties organizations. The then Masters of the Rolls, Lord Woolf, was a member of the Awarding Committee. Employers are particularly impressed by the skills developed in clinical work and the ability of our students to obtain training contracts and pupillages has been considerably enhanced. Library and Electronic Legal Resources The KLS Library is one of the best in the UK. However, it is particularly distinctive in offering to students access to world class electronic legal resources. KLS ’s Lawlinks pages are recognized as the best electronic legal resource web site in the UK (www.ukc.ac.uk/law/).Lawlinks has won many awards including the Lex Websites Prize for the best Electronic Information Resources (internationally)and also the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians Prize. All modules have their own Web sites and core modules include audio versions of lectures using MP3 software. We have mailing lists and bulletin boards that you can use for discussion with other students and staff.You can sample some of our lectures by visiting our website and taking an introductory IT tour of the Law School.(www.ukc.ac.uk/law) An International Law School Our students come from 72 different countries world wide which creates a rich and exciting cosmopolitan atmosphere in the School. Our staff are also drawn from many countries
Undergraduate Degrees Three Year programmes -Single Honours Law -Law with French or German Language -Joint Honours including: -Law and Business Administration, -Law and Criminology, -Law and Politics and many others All recognised as Law Qualifying Degrees by the English Law Society and Bar. Four Year Degrees -English and French Law with year at Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne Paris X Nanterre Bordeaux or Grenoble -English and Spanish Law with year in Madrid or Bilbao -English and German Law -English and Italian Law -European Legal Studies with year in Amsterdam, Maastricht, Copenhagen etc (taught in English) -Law and Psychology (with dual professional recognition) -Law and Accounting & Finance (with dual professional recognition) -Law and English Literature (with professional recognition)	Postgraduate Degrees Taught Master's Degree Programmes (LLM) -Criminal Justice -European Law -International Commercial Law -Medical Law -LLM in International Law (with International Relations) taught in Canterbury and/or at the University’s Brussels School of International Studies -Environmental Law and Policy -M.A in European Integration -International Economic Law Research Programmes (LLM,MPhil,PhD) -Law -Law and Philosophy -Social-legal studies -International Law -Environmental Law and Policy -Criminal Justice -Medical Law -Feminist Legal Studies
For further details contact: The Director of Studies, Ian Grigg-Spall Recruitment & Admissions, Kent Law School Eliot,University of Kent, Kent CT2 7NS Tel:+44 1227 823 425. Fax:+44 1227 827 831. Email:i.m.grigg-spall@ukc.ac.uk Internet: www.ukc.ac.uk/law