The Legal Cheek View
In 1838, the University of Westminster was founded as London’s inaugural polytechnic institution, with the purpose of providing education to the city’s labour force. Nowadays, the University continues to build on its established reputation, providing a wide variety of practice-based courses. The Westminster Law School is no outlier, offering a range of full and part-time courses within the heart of Central London.
The Law School’s undergraduate offerings include the classic LLB, as well as LLB variations which give law students the chance to spend time abroad, such as the Law with French Law LLB and the European Legal Studies LLB. At postgrad, Westminster Law School candidates can choose between ten different interesting LLM options, all of which are available both full-time and part-time. These include Entertainment Law LLM, International Commercial Law LLM, and Law and Technology LLM to name a few, all of which offer postgrad students the chance to specialise and spend a year carving out their research niche.
For students interested in preparing for qualification, Westminster Law School also offers a number of legal practice degrees run both part-time and full-time. Law graduates can go for either the Legal Practice Postgraduate Diploma, a one-year course priced at £12,500, or its LLM counterpart priced at £14,500 which includes an added dissertation. For non-law graduates, there’s a dedicated Professional Legal Practice Postgraduate Diploma, and its LLM counterpart, also priced at £12,500 and £14,500 which both provide a solid foundation into the legal industry over the course of a year. One particular bonus of the LLM programmes, outside of carving out a research specialism, is that students on the course are eligible for student financing.
The Westminster Law School facilities aren’t too shabby either. Located between Fitzrovia and Marylebone, and a stone’s throw from the trendy bars and restaurants of Great Titchfield Street, it’s fair to say that the law school has a prime location. The building isn’t bad either, an art deco gem opened by the then Queen in 1929. Inside the law school is split over 10 floors, including two large lecture theatres, multiple smaller seminar rooms, a mock court room and an audio-visual suite, as well as multi-faith prayer rooms and a quiet room. The ground floor cafe apparently does a decent flat white and is better value than some of the fancy nearby cafes. For students looking to do some shopping between lectures, Oxford Street is just a five-minute walk away.