The Ulster Universitys School of Law, is a School of Ulster University which is physically located at the Jordanstown and Magee campuses. Following the results of the Research Excellence Framework 2014 Ulster is ranked fourth for research in law in the UK, and first in Northern Ireland; Ulster was ranked first in the UK in the new "impact" category; and ranked 9th for research intensity.
The School runs a range of Law degrees at both Magee and Jordanstown campuses. Degrees at Jordanstown include Law; Law with Politics; Law with Criminology; Accounting 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 study abroad as part of the Erasmus and Study USA programmes.
The School at Jordanstown offers masters programmes in Human Rights and Transitional Justice, and Gender, Conflict and Human Rights. The Ulster Law Clinic offers a masters programme in Clinical Legal Education in Jordanstown and Belfast. At the Magee campus the School runs a masters in Commercial Law.
The School has 20 doctoral students, most working with the Transitional Justice Institute or Ulster Law Clinic. The Faculty of Social Sciences Research Graduate School supports all doctoral students in the Faculty.
The School offers several short courses including Law and Technology; Copyright and the Information Society, and Gender and Transition in Jordanstown.
The Transitional Justice Institute also runs an international summer school on transitional justice every year in June.
The Transitional Justice Institute supports research on transitional justice, conflict, human rights, international law and gender equality. The School also supports research on a range of doctrinal and sociolegal topics, especially access to justice.
In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) process in 2008, Ulster was ranked 13th out of 64 Law submissions in the UK.
In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework(REF) 2014 Law at Ulster University was ranked 4th overall in the UK (based on GPA). As a result, 88% of all work was deemed to be "internationally excellent or world leading". Concerning the new impact criterion, Law was ranked 1st in the UK, with 100% of impact rated as world-leading. In addition, 100% of research submitted was given an impact and environment rating of 3* or 4*. As a consequence, Ulster was described as a surprise strong-performer and a plucky Northern Irish upstart.
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. It works closely with the Transitional Justice Institute, one of the Facultys two research institutes.
The School was established in 1992.
The School has a legal clinic programme. The Ulster University Law Clinic is based in the Belfast campus. It offers free legal advice on social security and employment law. Students from the Clinical Legal Education programme manage the Clinic under staff supervision. The Clinic has won awards for its access to justice work: in 2014 the Law Clinic won the prestigious national award for the best new pro bono activity in the UK. The Law Clinic teaching team was awarded Ulster University’s Distinguished Teaching Fellowship (Team Award) 2014. In 2016 the programme won the GradIreland Postgraduate Law Course of the Year. The Clinic won Ulster University’s Best New Placement ProviderAward 2014. The programme has also been highly commended, being shortlisted for the LawWorks and Attorney General Award 2016, for best pro bono student activity in the UK andonly law school in the UK to receive a nomination for The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law ‘Justice Innovation’ 2014.
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