About us

The Executive Dean, Professor Patricia Tuitt, welcomes you to the School of Law website:

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For students wishing to immerse themselves in all that academic study has to offer and for academics looking to engage with sociolegal research, the School offers much:

Our research culture

• Writer-in-residence programme
• Law on Trial
• Leverhulme Lectures 2012-13
• Dynamic programme of events
• Reading groups
• Faculty work in progress seminars
• Birkbeck Law Press
• Law and Critique

Our dynamic portfolio of courses

• Certificate-level programmes in Legal Methods, Legal Studies, and Criminology
• Our part-time triple-track LLB or LLM qualifying law degree programme.
• Full-time LLB law degree by evening study alone.
• Master's level, including our flagship programmes in Human Rights and International Economic Law, Justice and Development and our MRes (Postgrad Diploma in Research).
• Research (MPhil/PhD) degrees
• Quality Assurance and curriculum development

Our community of scholars

• Academic staff
• Visiting scholars
• Postgraduate students

Our support staff

• Administrative staff
• Academic support officer

In 2012, we will be celebrating our twentieth anniversary and look forward to continued growth.