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The School of Law at the University of Glasgow provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Law, and awards the degrees of Bachelor of Laws (Legum Baccalaureus, LLB), Master of Laws (Iuris Vtriusque Magistrum, LLM), LLM by Research, Master of Research (MRes) and Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophiæ Doctor, PhD), the degree of Doctor of Laws being awarded generally only as an honorary degree.
With a history dating back to 1827, the faculty was the first law school in England to admit students regardless of their religion, the first to admit women on equal terms with men, the first to award a law degree to a woman, Eliza Orme, and appointed one of the first three female law professors in the UK, Valentine Korah, who pioneered the ...
The Faculty of Law, Cambridge is the law school of the University of Cambridge.. The study of law at the University of Cambridge began in the thirteenth century. The faculty sits the oldest law professorship in the English-speaking world, the Regius Professorship of Civil Law, which was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year for which the holder is still chosen by The Crown.
The PhD in law is required to teach at the university level as a maître de conférences (approximate to the German docent, British reader or Commonwealth systems' associate professor). To become Professor of Law, holders of a PhD in law have to meet additional requirements such as passing an additional competitive exam: the agrégation de droit.
Candidate of Sciences (Candidatus scientiarum – CSc., replaced by common Ph.D. in the Czech Republic in 1998 and by PhD. in Slovakia in 1996); Doctor of philosophy (Philosophiae doctor – Ph.D. or PhD., awarded since 1998 and 1996, respectively; requires at least 3–5-year doctoral study and coursework of 120-180 Credits)
Oxford's Law Faculty is currently ranked second in the UK and fourth in the world in the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings under the law subject. [19] Its average acceptance rate was less than 5% in between 2016 and 2019. [20]
Among the most prestigious and selective law schools in the world, it is currently ranked in the global top 15 [3] [4] and fifth in both Europe and the UK. [5] Following a donation of £20 million by Dickson Poon in 2012, the school was renamed in his honour. [6] The current dean of the school is Professor Dan Hunter. [7]
Cheng Kin Ku Building, seat of the LSE Law School. LSE Law School is the law school of the London School of Economics (LSE). It was founded in 1919 with the appointment of H. C. Beveridge as Professor of Law. David Kershaw is the current dean of the LSE Law School. It is one of the LSE's largest departments, with over 60 academic staff.