The Dickson Poon School of Law

The study of law provides students with the means to consider and examine matters that affect human societies; the divisions between power and powerlessness, between the wealthy and the poor, between those who are free and those who are constrained.

Law as a discipline is not simply a body of knowledge but also possesses its own methodological approaches, culture and language. One of our goals is for students to know both the distinctiveness of the legal approach and to engage their critical judgement as to the value of that approach.

Law has been taught at King’s since 1831. The School is recognised globally as one of the UK’s premier law schools, with one of this country’s most distinguished research reputations. All staff are active in research and many are among the leading international experts. Particular areas of expertise include commercial law, criminology, European law, civil liberties, property and trust law and international law.

We offer three-, four- and five-year programmes, all of which are qualifying single or dual law degrees recognised by the Law Society and the Bar Council. Many of them offer you the opportunity to study abroad at one of our prestigious partner university institutions, such as Columbia University in New York, University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Humboldt University in Berlin amongst others.

All of our programmes focus on the study of law as an intellectual discipline. They can form the first major step towards qualifying for practice as a solicitor or barrister, and represent appropriate preliminary training for a range of other careers in which legal knowledge is an asset. They are suitable for anyone who has a general interest in law but wants to find out more about it before deciding on a particular vocation.