Labeled by the Times Good University Guide as the best university in the U.K. for studying law, Cambridge has offered a number of competitive and prestigious law programs for prospective lawyers and law teachers since the 13th century. The Cambridge Faculty of Law is especially renowned for its focus and excellence in international and comparative law, jurisprudence and legal history.
Cambridge University offers five different law degrees: the B.A., LL.M., M.Litt, Ph.D. and LL.D. Additionally, Cambridge Law offers an M.Phil. in criminology and criminological research, and diplomas in legal studies and international law.
The faculty boasts more than 70 teaching staff, around 700 undergraduate students---the largest of any law school in the U.K.---including 125 LL.M. students and 100 graduate research students.
Cambridge University's Law School prides itself in producing graduates prominent in the judiciary and in the legal profession, with alumni including a former U.S. president, as well as a current member of the International Court of Justice.
University of Cambridge Faculty of Law
10 West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DZ
United Kingdom
011 44 1223 330033
law.cam.ac.uk
Being a federation of 30 different law schools, Oxford University's Faculty of Law is one of the largest law school in the U.K. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 7:1, Oxford University's Faculty of Law admits, supports and teaches an international body of exceptional legal students.
Oxford's prestigious Faculty of Law stands out by offering several uniquely taught degree programs. The Faculty's BA in jurisprudence in taught in pair tutorials, while its graduate degrees--BCL, M.Jur. and master's in law and finance--are, unlike any other law school in the world, taught both in classes and in tutorials.
The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
St Cross Building, St Cross Road
Oxford OX1 3UL
011 44 1865 271491
law.ox.ac.uk
The London School of Economics and Political Science's (LSE) Law School is one of the largest faculties in the school, and since its establishment over a century ago, has played a major part in the education of the country's best lawyers and law teachers.
LSE's Law School teaches legal students from across the globe and heavily influences the structure and curricula of legal education in a number of common law countries. A number of LSE's Law Faculty members were founders of the international legal scholarship journal, the Modern Law Review.
LSE offers a number of legal degrees, such as the undergraduate LLB and LLM programs, the gaduate MSc law and accounting and LLM master of laws programs, and its prestigious Ph.D., M.Phil. and Visiting Research Students programs.
London School of Economics and Political Science Law Department
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE
011 44 20 7955 7688
lse.ac.uk