Strathclyde Law School

Strathclyde Law School

Type	Law school
Established	1964
Head	Professor Bryan Clark
Location	Glasgow , Scotland
Affiliations	University of Strathclyde
Website	www.law.strath.ac.uk

Strathclyde Law School was established in 1964 and operates within the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Law School currently operates from the Graham Hills Building having been temporarily relocated from the Lord Hope Building (named after Lord Hope of Craighead, Chancellor of the University and Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court) until the summer of 2014.

The Law School offers a full range of undergraduate and postgraduate taught and research degrees.

Courses offered

Undergraduate
LLB (Honours and Pass)
LLB in Law and a Modern Language
LLB Part-time
LLB Graduate Entry (2 years Accelerated Course)
LLB (Clinical) LLB Dual Qualifying in Scots and English Law LLB English Law (from 2016-17 - subject to professional accreditation)

BA (Honours and Pass)

Post-Graduate
Diploma in Professional Legal Practice
LLM/PgDip in Climate Change Law & Policy LLM/PgDip in Construction Law
LLM/PgDip/PgCert in Internet Law and Policy (distance learning only)
LLM/PgDip/PgCert in Human Rights Law
LLM/PgDip/PgCert in International Law and Sustainable Development
LLM/PgDip/PgCert in International Economic Law
MSc/PgDip/PgCert in Mediation and Conflict Resolution LLM/MSc/PgDip/PgCert in Criminal Justice and Penal Change LLM in Professional Legal Practice

PhD/MPhil by Research

Research Centres
The Centre for Professional Legal Studies
The Centre for Law, Crime and Justice
The Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law The Centre for Internet Law and Policy Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance

Heads of Department

Period
1964–1976	Isaac Miller
1976–1985	Campbell Burns
1985–1990	Joe Thomson
1990–1994	Robert Burgess
1994–2000	Alan Paterson
2000–2001	Kenneth Miller
2001–2007	Kenneth Norrie
2007–2013	Mark Poustie
2013-present	Bryan Clark

Teaching awards

Professor Kenneth Norrie was awarded Scottish Law Lecturer of the Year 2007 at the Law Awards of Scotland, and the Law School obtained more nominations than any other law school in 2007, with Professors Norrie, Robson and Rodger being nominated.

The nominations for the 2008 award also included two Strathclyde Law School lecturers: Professor John Blackie and Professor Donald Nicolson.

In the 2009 New Year Honours List Professor Alan Paterson was awarded an OBE for services to law and legal education.

The Law Clinic

University of Strathclyde Law Clinic

Formation	2003
Location	Lord Hope Building, Glasgow, Scotland
Key people	Other officers:Professor Donald Nicolson (Director) Helen Donnelly(Student Director)
Parent organization	Strathclyde Law School
Website	lawclinic.org.uk

The University of Strathclyde Law Clinic was set up in October 2003 by Professor Donald Nicolson, and was the first University-run Law Clinic in Scotland. The Law Clinic offers free legal advice and help to residents of Glasgow and the surrounding area who cannot afford a solicitor or do not qualify for legal aid. Dealing mainly with employment law and small claims issues, the Clinic has branched out in recent years into planning, environmental, and landlord and tenant areas of law.

The current Law Clinic offices are located on Level 5 of the Graham Hills Building, on the University of Strathclyde John Anderson campus.

In March 2009, the University of Strathclyde Law School won Best Contribution by a Law School for the work and success of its Law Clinic at the LawWorks & Attorney General Student Awards in London. The Law Clinic was also shortlisted in two other categories: the Best Contribution by a Team of Students category and the Best Contribution by an Individual Student category.

In 2014, Jacqueline Wall won best contribution by an individual student and the clinic was nominated for best contribution by a group of students.

Mooting

The Law School has an active mooting society, which organises an internal competition for Strathclyde students and competes in various Scottish and UK external competitions. The moot final of the 2014-15 competition will be held in the UK Supreme Court in London, after the Mooting Society successfully entered a competition to have their final held there.

The University of Strathclyde Mooting Society also has a strong record in both national and international moots. Fiona Malone and Lucy Brunton won the final of the inaugural NSLS Scottish Cup in the Court of Session in January 2015. Drew Long and Jonny Brown reached the semi-finals of the Alexander Stone Moot 2015, and Clara Smeaton and Drew Long won the annual Sheriff Cup Moot against the University of Glasgow, judged by Lady Wolffe from the Court of Session, in April 2015.

In 2014, a team consisting of Drew Long, Clara Smeaton, Shaun Alexander and Chris Miller represented the University of Strathclyde in the Children's Rights Moot in Leiden (The Netherlands), in a moot organised as part of the 25-year anniversary celebrations for the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In April 2015, the University of Strathclyde Mooting Society was asked to provide a team to represent the UK in the Commonwealth Moot Competition 2015, which was held in Glasgow, when one of the teams had to pull out at the last minute. Victoria Macintosh and Naomi Duffy-Welsh mooted on a point of Maritime Law against teams from South Africa and Australia.

Also in 2014, Clara Smeaton and Vanessa Puthucheary were runners-up in the ICLR mooting competition after successfully beating over 20 English university teams, on points of English law, to reach the final.

A team made up of Andrew Ross and Mark Leiser finished second in the 2011 OUP Mooting Competition, which was based on English law, and Strathclyde won the UKELA Student Moot competition in 2009, and also won the Alexander Stone Moot in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013.

A Strathclyde team was the 2009 European Champion of the international Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot and represented Europe at the world finals in South Korea in October 2009.

The winners of the Strathclyde internal mooting competition 2013-14 were Chris Miller and Cameron Smith, who narrowly beat Mike Reilly and Ruairidh Leishman in the Glasgow High Court in front of Lord Brodie, from the Court of Session.

The University of Strathclyde Mooting Society Committee for the year 2014-15 consists of:

Clara Smeaton (President) Rowan Simpson (Vice President) Chris Miller (Training Officer) Fiona Malone (Fundraiser/Treasurer) Mike Reilly (Communications Officer) Rachel Shaw (General Committee Member)

The Society can be contacted on Twitter at @StrathUni Moot; on Facebook.com/StrathUniMoot and on YouTube.com/StrathUniMoot.

Alumni

• Elish Angiolini QC, Lord Advocate
• William Bain, MP for Glasgow North East
• Alastair Campbell, Lord Bracadale, Senator of the College of Justice
• Dougie Donnelly, Journalist and Broadcaster for the BBC
• Annabel Goldie, MSP, Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party
• Paul Laverty, Screenwriter
• Paul G. McBride QC, Vice-Chairman of the Faculty of Advocates
• Ann McKechin, MP for Glasgow North
• Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin
• Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland
• Iain Peebles, Lord Bannatyne, Senator of the College of Justice

See also

• University of Strathclyde
• Legal education in the United Kingdom
• Scots Law

External links

• Strathclyde Law School
• University of Strathclyde Law Clinic