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 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.
Semester in London-UCL program is open to twelve students each fall semester.
Mandatory induction (orientation) normally is in the last week of September, with exams right before the December holiday vacation.
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.
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
Students must take and pass five classes and will receive 12 credits for the semester.
Tuition fees for the Semester in London program at QMUL for 2008/2009 is 4500 GBP per person (for five classes).
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/.
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:
Most students are not happy with QMUL housing at Mile End and recommend finding your own flats.
University Housing:
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.
UT requires all students going on an official UT program to purchase an International Student ID Card.
The International Student ID Card can be purchased at either STA or on the web.
STA: Location: Guadalupe, 479-7400
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.
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.
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
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.
(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.
The following excursions are typically part of the program and are free:
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.
Michelle Dean, Administrator
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8099
email: m.dean@qmul.ac.uk
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