Ulster University School of Law

The School runs a range of undergraduate LLB Law degrees, both single honours and major/minor combinations, at both Magee and Jordanstown campuses with an annual cohort of around 150 full-time students across the two campuses. Degrees at Jordanstown include Law; Law with Politics; Law with Criminology; Accounting and Law (double-degree programme opening pathway to professional qualification in either (or both) Accountancy and Law. Magee degrees include Law, Law with Irish, Law with Accounting, Law with Marketing. All degrees are qualifying law degrees in England and Wales, and Northern Ireland. They can be studied on a full-time or part-time basis. The School offers the possibility for students to undertake year-long study abroad as part of the Erasmus and Study USA programmes, as well as numerous shorter study abroad opportunities.

The School at Jordanstown offers LLM programmes in Human Rights and Transitional Justice, and Gender, Conflict and Human Rights. The School at Belfast offers an LLM programme in Access to Justice (involving practical advocacy experience with the award-winning Ulster Law Clinic) alongside LLM offerings in Employment Law and Practice, Corporate Law and Computing, and International Commercial Law and ADR.

The School has 20 doctoral researchers, most working with the Transitional Justice Institute or Ulster Law Clinic. The Doctoral College supports all doctoral students in the University.

The School offers several short courses including Law and Technology;,[4] Equality Law, and Gender and Transition in Jordanstown.

The Transitional Justice Institute also runs an international summer school on transitional justice every year in June.

The School supports research on a range of doctrinal and sociolegal topics, especially access to justice and more broadly law and social justice. The Transitional Justice Institute supports research on transitional justice, conflict, human rights, international law and gender equality.

The School is run by the Head of School who reports to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences. The School is home to the Ulster Law Clinic, Transitional Justice Institute, and Legal Innovation Centre.

The School was established in 1992.[7]

• Professor Cath Collins was the Chatham House Research Fellow for Latin America (2005-2007) [11]
• Professor Eugene McNamee was awarded the Fulbright Northern Ireland Public Affairs Scholar Award in 2014.[12]
• Professor Gráinne McKeever is on the UK's Social Security Advisory Committee.[13]
• Dr Catherine O'Rourke was awarded the 2010 Basil Chubb Prize for the best PhD produced in any field of politics in an Irish university.[14]
• Dr Venkat Iyer is a member of the Northern Ireland Law Commission.[15]
• Mrs Amanda Zacharopoulou was awarded the University’s Distinguished Teaching and Learning Fellowship in 2011.[16]
• Ulster Law student Duncan McGregor beat more than 5000 undergraduates from across Ireland to be crowned the 2013 gradireland National Student Challenge winner.[17]
• Ulster graduate Mark Bell is Regius Professor of Laws (Dublin) Trinity College Dublin[18]
• Former Head of School Professor Brice Dickson was the first Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
• Visiting Professor Les Allamby was appointed the fourth Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in 2014[19]

• Ulster Law School