The University of Texas at Austin

Semester in London

Queen Mary University London

General Information

Admission Requirements

Number of Students

Term Dates

Courses

Exams

Credits

Tuition and Fees

Financial Aid

Scholarships

Exchange Rate

Housing

Health Insurance and Medical Facilities

Library and Computer Facilities

Passport/Visa

Location

Airports/London travel

Orientation

Social Events

Applications

Contacts

General Information

The School of Law operates from two locations — the Queen Mary Mile End Campus and the Postgraduate Law Centre (CCLS) located at Lincoln's Inn Fields. QMUL’s School of Law, is located at 67 - 69 Lincolns Inn Field. The nearest tube stop is Holborn. Law students from the University of Texas, Austin are able to spend the fall semester studying at CCLS.

The program has been running for over twenty years and UT students have the opportunity to attend CCLS LLM classes and receive credits towards their JD degree as the majority of CCLS courses have been approved by the American Bar Association.

Admission Requirements

Admission requirements to QMUL are based on academic merit, interested students are able to apply during the first term of their second year of studies. GPA requirement is 3.00.

Number of Students

Semester in London-UCL program is open to twelve students each fall semester.

Term Dates

Mandatory induction (orientation) normally is in the last week of September, with exams right before the December holiday vacation.

Courses

Students are required to take five courses from the LLM courses which are ABA accredited.

Syllabus (LLM course list)

Please note: Not all courses will be available each teaching year.

QLLM001 Advanced Equity and Trusts Law (also in two half-subjects: Commercial Trusts Law and Equity and the Home)
2 Commercial Trusts Law (half course)
3 Equity and the Home (half course)
4 Advanced Land Law
5 Advanced Medical Negligence
6 Alternative Dispute Resolution
7 Banking Law
8 Challenging Public Power: Advanced Administrative Law
9 Commercial Law Written and Oral Advocacy
10 Communications Law
11 Company Law
12 Comparative Class Actions
13 Comparative Commercial Law
14 Comparative Immigration and Nationality Law
15 Comparative Law in non-Western contexts
16 Comparative US and EC Anti-trust Law
17 Computer Law
18 Consent (in contemporary medicine)
19 Constitutional Law and Constitutional Rights in the USA
20 Contract Law in the European Union
21 Corporate Governance
22 Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and Globalisation
23 Courts in Comparative Perspective
24 Discrimination Law
25 E-commerce Law (replaces Internet law - split between this and Internet Regulation)
26 Environmental and Planning Law
27 Ethnic Minorities and the law
28 EU Financial Law
29 EU Justice and Home Affairs
30 EU Social Law and Policy
31 European Community Competition Law
32 European Community Tax Law
33 European Internal Market
34 External Relations Law Of The European Union
35 Gender, Law and the State: Current Legal Issues
36 Global Policy & Economics Of Intellectual Property Law
37 Globalisation, International Community and New World Order: Law beyond the Nation State
38 Human Rights of Women
39 Information Law
40 Intellectual Property
41 Intellectual Property Aspects of Medicine
42 Intellectual Property in the Digital Millenium
43 International and Comparative Commercial Arbitration
44 International and Comparative Competition Law
45 International and Comparative Law of Copyright & Related Right
46 International and Comparative Law of Patents, Trade Secrets And Related Rights
47 International and Comparative Social Justice
48 International and Comparative Law of Trade Marks, Designs and Unfair Competition
49 International and Comparative Trust Law
50 International Commercial Law
51 International Commercial Litigation - Commercial Conflict of Laws
52 International Construction Contracts And Arbitration
53 International Criminal Law
54 International Economic Law
55 International Environmental Law
56 International Law and Development
57 International Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force
58 International Law of the Sea
59 International Law on the Rights of the Child
60 International Merger Control
61 International Protection of Human Rights
62 International Tax Law I
63 International Tax Law II
64 International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement
65 Internet Regulation
66 IP Transactions
67 Judicial Protection In The EU
68 Law of Economic Crime
69 Law of Finance and Foreign Investment In Emerging Economies
70 Law of Insurance Contracts and Regulation
71 Law of Treaties
72 Legal Aspects of EU Foreign Economic Policy
73 Legal Aspects of International Finance
74 Legal Problems of International Trade and Intellectual Property Law
75 Legal Theory in the Common Law Tradition
76 Media Law
77 Medical Jurisprudence
78 Mental Health Law
79 Modern Legal History
80 Multinational Enterprises and The Law
81 New Medical Technologies and the Law
82 Regulation Of Financial Markets
83 Remedies in Contract and Tort
84 Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions
85 Securities Regulation
86 Taxation of Corporate Finance
87 Taxation Principles and Concepts
88 The Law of Succession
89 Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources
90 UK Business Taxation
91 Youth Justice (half-course)
92 European Tort Law
93 The Law on Investment Entities

Exams

Students will be expected to either take an examination during the last week of term in December or write an essay for each course between 3,000 – 3,500 words long which will be submitted by email usually by the last day of term in December

  1. Essays and Examinations are marked on a pass/fail basis, percentage is available on request
  2. In January/February students will be provided with an in-house Centre for Commercial Law, Queen Mary Certificate.

Credits

Students must take and pass five classes and will receive 12 credits for the semester.

Tuition and Fees

Tuition fees for the Semester in London program at QMUL for 2008/2009 is 4500 GBP per person (for five classes).

Financial Aid

Students who participate in the study abroad program may be eligible for financial aid and are encouraged to apply (primarily in the form of federally guaranteed loans). Students must complete the financial aid forms by March 31 of each year to be considered for assistance. All financial aid documents are to be turned into Linda Alba, in the Student Services Suite (Room 2.125). Questions about Financial Aid should be directed to Ms. Alba at 232-1130 or lalba@mail.law.utexas.edu. Visit their website online at http://www.utexas.edu/law/depts/finaid/.

Scholarships

Global A$$ist is a single application for all available scholarships. http://www.utexas.edu/student/abroad/funding/globalassist.html

To access the scholarship application, you need to click on the GET STARTED banner on the page you reference.

System Highlights for the Students:

Exchange Rate

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Housing

Most students are not happy with QMUL housing at Mile End and recommend finding your own flats.

University Housing:

  1. Accommodation – This is dealt with centrally by the Accommodation Office (http://www.ccrs.qmul.ac.uk/residences/), Mile End Campus. Housing is very restricted especially as students only require accommodation for three months and most accommodation, private or QM, prefer to have tenants for 6 or 12 month contracts.
  2. We strongly suggest that when making your application for accommodation that you read the information provided on the accommodation website very carefully.
  3. When making your accommodation application you are requested to state your preferred hall of residence. Please beware that the accommodation office will do their best to provide this but as accommodation is handled on a first come first serve basis and is very limited, it is NOT guaranteed that you will get your preferred accommodation and you may be housed in the next best available accommodation.
  4. We recommend for accommodation you state your preference for the Intercollegiate Halls – either International Hall http://www.london.ac.uk/226.html or Lillian Penson Hall.
  5. If you are not offered your stated preferred accommodation you may be housed at the QM campus in Mile End so please review their accommodation http://www.ccrs.qmul.ac.uk/residences. QM accommodation is generally new or recently refurbished.
  6. Please remember that all University of London students are being housed in the same accommodation and not just UT students.

Private Flats:

http://www.gumtree.com/
http://london.craigslist.co.uk/
http://www.nidolondon.com/#

Health Insurance and Medical Facilities

You are NOT eligible for free healthcare. You will need to make sure you obtain suitable health insurance that covers Medical, repatriation and evacuation from a foreign country.

Library and Computer Facilities

The School’s law library holds all the main English and many foreign law reports and periodicals as well as having a good holding of textbooks. The Centre for Commercial Law Studies has a specialist intellectual property library and is developing a specialist commercial law library. It already has one of the best commercial law collections in the country.

You will have access not only to the College library, which is a European Documentation Center and houses some 500,000 volumes, but also to the excellent law library at London University’s Institute of Advanced Legal studies (17 Russell Square, London WC2), which is one of the three major law libraries in the United Kingdom. The IALS library offers many services including access to the electronic law library and legal databases.

Computers facilities are available at several locations, including at the postgraduate law building of CCLS, some for 24 hours a day.

Passport/Visa

Immigration laws have changed and so have the requirements to enter the UK. Click the link below and read the guide to assist you in answering some of those FAQ’s regarding visas.

http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1018721067373

Location

The new School of Law building in Lincoln’s Inn Fields is in the heart of ‘legal London’ and conveniently located for the University of London, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its postgraduate library.

School: http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/contact/Map%20-%20LIF.pdf
tube map/Oyster: http://cache.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/pdfdocs/colourmap.pdf

Airports/London Travel

Tubes/Underground - One of the first things you should buy when you get to London is a London A–Z. This is a map book of the whole city and each street is listed alphabetically. You will find this essential for living in London and getting around the city. You can buy an A–Z at most newsagents or bookshops. All street listings have the post code.

The London Underground is a popular and safe way to travel around London. Roads are very busy and it is often quicker to travel on the underground or “tube” as it is known. The tube system is arranged into zones for ticketing purposes and you must buy a ticket that covers all the zones you will be traveling through. Zone 1 is the University zone. The most economical way to get around London is with an Oyster card which can be bought at all tube and rail stations. You will need a photo card to obtain your Oyster card. Take two passport photos along to any ticket outlet for the free photo card. The email address for all details on the Oyster card is www.oystercard.com. When you go to register at the Mile End University campus, you should go to the Student Union to get forms for a student discount on your travel.

Orientation

(Attendance mandatory) Orientation includes coffee/tea and lunch and will enable you to meet lecturers from the Queen Mary School of Law, to ask any questions you may have regarding your time program and to get to know each other. Full details on each class offered to UT students will be given along with the timetable. There will also be a talk on the English Legal System.

Social Events

The following excursions are typically part of the program and are free:

Applications

Applications will be emailed to you as an attachment from the law school ISP Office.

Deadline for applications: paper applications must be completed and returned to Michelle Dean via email with attachments no later than March 31.

Michelle Dean will send your letters of acceptance to our ISP for distribution, please keep this with your passports.

Contacts

Michelle Dean

Michelle Dean, Administrator
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8099
email: m.dean@qmul.ac.uk

Loukas Mistelis

Professor Loukas Mistelis
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8075
email: l.mistelis@qmul.ac.uk

School of Law (Lincoln's Inn Fields Campus)
Queen Mary, University of London
67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3JB