University of Portsmouth
School of Law
The School of Law
The School of Law is one of five departments within Portsmouth Business School, which has in the region of 4,000 students (including nearly 1,000 postgraduate students). The 135 academic staff and 10 professors are engaged in research, consultancy and delivering a wide range of courses and PhDs. It is a full-service school offering degree awards and executive education across legal, business and management disciplines.
Postgraduate programmes
Academic/research strengths
- Access to justice
- Clinical legal education
- Company law
- Consumer law
- Corporate governance
- Discrimination, harassment and employment law
- Employment law compensation and representation
- Environmental law
- Human rights
- Impact of the Employment Relations Act on collective labour law
- International business law
- International commercial arbitration
- International law including human rights, criminal law, humanitarian law and public law
- Low pay and marginal workers wages councils
- Racism in sport
- Transfer systems and freedom of movement in football clubs
Learning environment
We welcome both law and non-law graduates onto our programmes. The courses are designed to provide our postgraduate students with option choices to allow focus on areas of interest. Our research and teaching strengths in business and law in both a national and international context provide students with a relevant and attractive curriculum.
Our MA and LLM in Corporate Governance and Commercial Law programmes are accredited by the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and allow graduate status of this professional body.
An innovative mentoring programme and a specialist law careers fair are some of the student support features that ensure the postgraduates are fully involved in the activities of the School of Law. Postgraduates are also encouraged to take part in our pro bono activities, such as work with the Citizens Advice Bureau and Street Law, for which the School is building a national reputation.
The curriculum of our taught master’s is informed by the research activities of the staff. The work of our active academic researchers feeds directly into our teaching. Postgraduates are integrated into these research activities through dissertation supervision and involvement in the regular research seminars and workshops.
The city
All of the University’s buildings are within easy walking distance of the historic dockyard, waterfront and beach, making it a delightful place to live as well as study. Portsmouth is one of the liveliest and most cosmopolitan cities on the south coast of England. It offers good road and rail links to other major cities, including London, which is just an hour and a half away by train. It is also only a 30-minute drive to Southampton Airport, where you can get flights to other parts of the UK as well as Europe. Being on the south coast, there is also easy ferry access to the continent.
Contact
Postgraduate Centre
School of Law
University of Portsmouth
Richmond Building
Portland Street
Portsmouth PO1 3DE
T +44 (0)23 9284 4220
+44 2392 84 3488 (international and EU students)
E bus-pgrad@port.ac.uk
international.office@port.ac.uk (international students)
eu.students@port.ac.uk (EU students)
W www.port.ac.uk/pbs
