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About the school

UEL’s School of Law and Social Sciences offers students a unique set of degree programmes: of high academic quality, strongly employment-focused, research-based, and student-centred. It is a highly successful provider of LLB and LLM degrees, international law, criminology, anthropology, international development, international politics, innovation, refugee, psychosocial and sociology studies.

Student success and satisfaction is key to our school ethos; our academic staff are committed to delivering teaching that is relevant and challenging, and in many cases influenced by the cutting-edge research that is conducted within the school.

Our degree programmes are distinguished by their

  • academic rigour
  • research-led teaching
  • intensive tutoring
  • supervised placements
  • training in transferable skills such as research methods and quantitative analysis
  • opportunities to get involved in research throughout your degree
  • student and alumnus mentoring.
  • a global outlook, with students and staff from many national backgrounds, and transnational expertise

We have a strong suite of postgraduate courses that are taught in an environment that has been recognised for its exceptional research. This research strength, alongside our teaching programmes, makes for an extremely rich and progressive academic environment.

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