Nottingham Law School | |
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Parent school | Nottingham Trent University |
Established | 1964[1] |
School type | Public |
Location | Nottingham, England, United Kingdom |
Enrollment | 2,664[2] |
Faculty | 100 |
Website | www.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]