Law Student Handbook
Your handbook
This handbook should be used together with the Academic Regulations and www.arcs.qmul.ac.uk/students. This handbook provides information specific to the School of Law, while www.arcs.qmul.ac.uk/students gives information common to all students at Queen Mary. The Academic Regulations provide detailed information on progression, award and classification requirements.
Foreword
Welcome
I am delighted to welcome you to the Department of Law at QMUL and many congratulations on securing a place to study here.
We are a globally outstanding law school (ranked in the top 40 of the world’s law schools (32nd in the latest QS rankings) in a globally outstanding university. As a Department we are
committed to delivering world leading and pioneering research and an exceptional research-led teaching and learning experience. Additionally, we have unrivalled national and international links with the legal profession, the public sector and civil society. At the forefront of intellectual legal and criminal justice research, our academic staff investigate and impact upon many of the world’s most challenging problems including global warming, the refugee crisis, genocide, political governance and human rights.
Studying for a law degree requires intellectual strength, a questioning and agile mind, critical powers of analysis, clarity of expression and the ability to argue effectively. It also, importantly, requires a capacity for hard work, considerable self-discipline, commitment, application and endurance. Our standards are high and we expect you to live up to them. In turn we are committed to supporting you through every stage of your degree.
While you are with us you will have the opportunity to acquire all the intellectual skills necessary for a highly successful career. The hard work and ability you have already displayed in order to gain a place at QMUL indicates that you have already demonstrated great potential. Work hard, be open to new ideas, engage with all the opportunities we offer, challenge yourself and you will certainly realise that potential.
It will take time to find your way around Queen Mary and to become familiar with the Department’s academic and administrative staff, its rules and practices. Navigating all the information that now confronts you might seem a little overwhelming. This handbook is designed to help in that navigation and to provide you with basic but essential information about the
Department of Law. It contains information about academic and professional services staff, the Department’s procedures and activities, some important warnings, and much more besides: read it carefully and keep it for reference.
Once again, welcome to Queen Mary. We hope the intellectual adventure you are now embarking upon with us will be exciting, inspiring and rewarding.
Professor Penny Green Head of Department
