Norwich Law School
Encyclopedia
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...
, dedicated to research and teaching in law. It is located in Earlham Hall, a seventeenth century mansion situated on the edge of the UEA campus.
Students and courses
Some 760 students are registered in the Law School of whom about 590 are studying for one of the LLB degrees, 28 for the diploma in legal studies and just under 100 are doing taught postgraduate programmes.Undergraduate Degrees
- LLB Degree in Law
- LLB Law with European Legal Systems
- LLB Law with European Legal Systems Spanish Exchange
- LLB Law with French Law and Language
- LLB Law with American Law
Master Degrees
- LLM General
- LLM Media Law, Policy and Practice
- LLM Employment Law
- LLM International Commercial and Business Law
- LLM with Research Methods Training
- LLM International Trade Law
- LLM Information, Technology and Intellectual Property Law
- LLM International Competition Law and Policy
- LLM by Research
PhD degree
Postgraduate Certificate in Employment Law
CPE/Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies'
Academics
UEA Law School is a medium sized law school. It has 23 full-time members of faculty who are assisted by 12 part-timers. The Head of the School is Professor Alastair Mullis. The Professors are Morten HviidMorten Hviid
Morten Hviid, MA , Cand Oecon , PhD , is Professor of Competition Law at the University of East Anglia. He has previously held posts in the Economics Departments at University of Copenhagen and University of Warwick and in the School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia...
, Alastair Mullis
Alastair Mullis
Alastair Mullis, LLB LLM , is Professor of Law at the University of East Anglia. He taught at King's College London from 1989-1999, where in 1996 he was appointed senior lecturer. He joined the University of East Anglia in 1999 and became Dean in September 2001...
, Rosemary Pattenden
Rosemary Pattenden
Rosemary Pattenden, BComm, LLB DPhil , is Professor of Law at the University of East Anglia. She joined UEA in 1979 on the completion of a doctor of philosophy degree at the University of Oxford and has successively held the posts of lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and, since 1998, professor at...
, Chris Wadlow
Chris Wadlow
Chris Wadlow, Ph.D , is Professor of Law at the University of East Anglia. He qualified as a solicitor in 1981 and practised with Simmons & Simmons in London until joining the University of East Anglia full time as a Reader in 2004. He was appointed to a Chair in 2008...
and Owen Warnock.
Honorary doctorates
The Rt Hon the Lord Browne-Wilkinson (2001); Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-SlossElizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss
Anne Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, GBE, PC is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and, until 2004, was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom. Until June 2007, she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess...
(2001); Shami Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti CBE , has been the director of Liberty, a British pressure group, since September 2003. Chakrabarti is the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.-Early life:...
(2007); His Honour Judge Paul Downes (2008); Professor Sir Roy Goode
Roy Goode
Sir Royston Miles "Roy" Goode CBE QC is an academic commercial lawyer in the United Kingdom. He founded the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He was awarded the OBE in 1972 followed by the CBE in 1994 before being knighted for services to academic law in...
(2003); (Justice) Sujata Manohar
Sujata Manohar
Justice Sujata Manohar is an Indian judge and a member of the National Human Rights Commission of India.Ms. Manohar was born into a family with a strong legal background - her father would later become the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Gujarat...
(2004); The Rt Hon the Lord Oliver of Aylmerton (1991); The Rt Hon the Lord Steyn of Swafield (1997); His Honour Sir Stephen Tumim
Stephen Tumim
Sir Stephen Tumim was an English judge, and was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons from 1987 to 1995.Tumim was the son of a barrister, and was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and Worcester College, Oxford...
(1994)
Research
The 2008 Research Assessment ExerciseResearch Assessment Exercise
The Research Assessment Exercise is an exercise undertaken approximately every 5 years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British higher education institutions...
rated 80% of the research as being at international level, and 40% as being of either world-leading or internationally excellent quality. The School has research centres or groupings in the areas of Competition Law, Media and Internet Law and International Company and Commercial Law. Additionally, members of the School have international reputations for research in Intellectual Property Law, Public Order law, Evidence, Criminal Justice and Procedure, Comparative Private Law, Contract, Tort and Restitution, and Family law. In addition to these School-based research clusters, many researchers in the School belong to formal networks which go beyond the Law School. For example, the School's competition lawyers are members of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy [CCP] and Professor Morten Hviid of the Law School takes over from Catherine Waddams as director in September 2010. The School's Media and Internet lawyers play a central role in media@uea and Professor Alastair Mullis is a co-director, with Professor John Street.