Why Study Law at Reading?

Reading is a well-established Law School with an excellent national and international reputation. Students who come to Reading to study Law benefit from the following:

• A world class reputation for research by acknowledged experts giving you a respected honours degree. The School of Law is ranked joint 7th, along with Cambridge, for world-leading research and international excellence and 11^th out of all UK Law Schools in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008)
  
  
• Excellent teaching: staff have, for example, been nominated for the Law Teacher of the Year Award in both 2009 and 2010 and regularly receive awards for outstanding contribution to teaching and learning.
  
  
• Committed and sustained employability skills development with careers preparation and advice led by a senior member of the academic staff; organised career events and support in obtaining work experience.
  
  
• A wide range of co-curricular activities supported by our Community partners; Pro bono (for the good of the community) work, Citizens Advice Bureau Training, Community Mediation and in-house dispute resolution training, Streetlaw project, Mooting, Negotiation, Commercial Awareness Workshops.
  
  
• Innovative and exciting course design with a range of assessment methods and a wide choice of optional modules in your third year. Students consistently confirm a very high level of satisfaction with their choice of the Law programmes in the National Student Survey.
  
  
• The opportunity to develop crucial transferable skills as well as in-depth subject knowledge.
  
  
• Strong academic and personal support; a Law School Student Support Advisor, personal tutors and student peer support.
  
  
• Excellent learning resources: integration of IT and e-learning in the curriculum, together with the availability of the Blackboard Virtual learning Environment (VLE); well-resourced library and electronic legal databases.
  
  
• An inspiring working and living environment: beautiful parkland campus with Foxhill House (PDF 56.0KB) the School of Law, a listed building overlooking Whiteknights Lake. Many of the Halls of Residence are situated on or very close to Whiteknights Campus.
  
  
• A great place to study Law:- being ranked 8^th in the UK for the subject of law by the Times Good University Guide and The Complete University Guide.