Nottingham Law School

Nottingham Law School
Parent schoolNottingham Trent University
Established1964[1]
School typePublic
LocationNottingham, England, United Kingdom
Enrollment2,664[2]
Faculty100
Websitewww.ntu.ac.uk/nls

Nottingham Law School (also known as NLS) is a law school in the UK with over 100 full-time lecturers and over 2,500 students.[3] It is an academic and professional institution, part of Nottingham Trent University.

The institution specialises in different fields of education in law.[4] Nottingham Law school's main goal is to provide their students careers that they are guaranteed after the completion of their graduation.[4]

The faculty of Nottingham Law School was known for developing and creating the Legal Practice Course that includes the training and schooling of law designed courses that deal with the actuality of the legal system, demonstrating the different skills required for indulging with law in the year of 1990s.[5] With the development of the new designed course, the professors and teachers of the Nottingham Law School decided to take the initiative of enrolling more students into the program.[5] The law school also took the stance on initiating part-time students into the course, as well as raising the number of seats in the course for students enrolled in full-time study.[5]

Nottingham Law School participated in running the Law Society Final Examination with a number of 150 students enrolled in the course.[5] It is not to be confused with the School of Law at University of Nottingham.[6]

Nottingham Law School has been given the top 'Excellent' rating by the Law Society and comparable ratings by the Bar Standards Board of England and Wales every year since its inception. It also has a significant reputation for research, particularly in insolvency and international criminal justice, with 60% being judged as of international standard in the most recent 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

Since 1977, Nottingham Law School has also produced its own annual law journal; the Nottingham Law Journal.[7]

  1. ^ "Nottingham Law School - Celebrating 50 years". Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Annual Report 2013, p36" (PDF). Nottingham Trent University. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Nottingham Law School - Nottingham Trent University".
  4. ^ a b [1]. Nottingham Trent University. Retrieved on 2 April 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d "Awards; Design and Build the Legal Practice Course at Nottingham Law School Solution". Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  6. ^ School of Law, Nottingham University
  7. ^ "Nottingham Law Journal". Nottingham Trent University. Retrieved 5 May 2015.