The Sussex Law School (SLS) is a vibrant, exciting and ambitious department, responsible for all teaching and research in law at the University of Sussex.
Teaching in the Sussex Law School
All of our undergraduate programmes are qualifying law degrees. Students may follow the Single Honours LLB (Law) or combine their study of Law with another discipline. Students are encouraged to adopt a critical approach to their study of legal rules and to gain a deeper understanding by studying law in its social, political, historical and cultural context. Students also develop their legal and transferable skills equipping them for progression to a career in law or to a wide range of professions. The School also offers graduate entry conversion courses for non-law graduates wishing to pursue a career in law, including the one-year Common Professional Examination/Graduate Diploma in Law and, from October 2010, the two-year Graduate Entry LLB. SLS offers specialist, research-led postgraduate programmes in European law, child and family law and international law, including opportunities to specialise in law and international security, international criminal law and international trade law. Our interdisciplinary programmes are intellectually rigorous and engage with key issues of contemporary concern. There are also lots of opportunities for students to develop their skills outside the lecture theatre, by participating in mooting, client interviewing and negotiation competitions, and to enjoy themselves at events organised by the Student Law Body.
Research in the Sussex Law School
Law at Sussex was rated 16th in the UK for research in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). 100 per cent of our research was rated as internationally recognised or higher, and over half rated as internationally excellent or higher. Within SLS there are two research strands bringing together the research of individual members of faculty. The first, Legal Conceptualisations, brings together three groups of faculty whose research, across a range of areas of law, is informed by, or develops, concepts of responsibility, solidarity or security. The second strand, Practices and Transformations, explores governance through the perspective of citizenship and constitutions and reflection upon comparative legal systems and designs. In 2007, SLS created the Centre for Responsibilities, Rights and the Law to enhance and promote the doctrinal, theoretical, and empirical research within SLS into responsibilities, rights and the law nationally, in the European Union and internationally. The Sussex Law School has excellent links with local practitioners and City firms. Local firms support the mooting, client interviewing and negotation competitions by sponsorship, participation in the delivery of workshops and judging.
Head of Department
Professor Craig Barker
Professor Craig Barker
