What is it like to study Law?

To be honest, it's the modules which I feel have the biggest bearing on the economic world which I am most interested in... I think it's a defensible statement.

Reply 22

cancelled_account_11

erm i was actually quite interested by property law/contract law after reading about them in my cousins textbooks (even though i didn't understand a lot of the terms) what are they actually like when you study the modules?

Reply 23

britishseapower

Threelions

erm i was actually quite interested by property law/contract law after reading about them in my cousins textbooks (even though i didn't understand a lot of the terms) what are they actually like when you study the modules?

I'm studying property law this year and I'm not a big fan of it to be honest, as for contract, it is combined with tort in my uni and it's not too bad, it's one of the subjects I got my highest grade in last year

Reply 24

britishseapower

Rosalily

Why is she transferring to it if it's really boring? :confused:

she was considering transferring to law and was discussing the option with a criminal justice lecturer who said that it was boring

Reply 25

Lady Narcissus

A lot of students underperform in tort even though when you are studying it, it seems fun. I walked out of my exam grinning from ear to ear, god knows why!!!

Reply 26

kclawyer

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Vicky88

Okay you pretty much sold it to me... and you study at Kings! Kings looks like the most amazing uni in the world and I'd LOVE to go there. So thanks so much for replying. :biggrin:

Your welcome!

lol..yeah...best combination: awesome course at an awesome uni!!!

According to some student statisfaction survey...Kings law students are the most satisfied students in the country. I think Kings is really popular because it has this grand yet down-to-earth feel...something you dont often find in most top law schools.

Reply 27

The general consensus is a dislike for property, and contract is generally regarded as the "hardest" of the standard first year modules. However, I quite liked both and got good grades in both (far better in property though cos I did crap in first year!)...

Reply 28

John Gardner

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I suspect that King's College London has the best undergraduate law degree in the country. Oxford, on the other hand, has the best postgraduate law degree (the BCL)! One reason why I am so confident about the King's undergraduate degree is that former King's students are typically very good on the BCL. We would like to recruit more of them.

Reply 29

Wow... that, from an OXFORD professor???????? I take back all my negative comments about them :s-smilie:

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Reply 30

fundamentally

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John Gardner

I suspect that King's College London has the best undergraduate law degree in the country. Oxford, on the other hand, has the best postgraduate law degree (the BCL)! One reason why I am so confident about the King's undergraduate degree is that former King's students are typically very good on the BCL. We would like to recruit more of them.

I suspect that your opinion might be tainted by the fact that you taught for several years at KCL :rolleyes:

Reply 31

John Gardner

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fundamentally

I suspect that your opinion might be tainted by the fact that you taught for several years at KCL :rolleyes:

Yes, but it's got better since I left!

Reply 32

Alan Smithee

Lewisy-boy

Wow... that, from an OXFORD professor???????? I take back all my negative comments about them :s-smilie:

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No doubt he only said it to shut you up. :biggrin:

Anyway, Cambridge > Oxford > King's.

I say this because academically King's might be better, but let's be honest, Oxbridge = Instant pupillage. Although I do know a very good family barrister from KCL.

Reply 33

You are right about the job thing, an inherent oxbridge bias is rife, but I think John meant in terms of creating academics.

Reply 34

Ethereal

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John Gardner

Yes, but it's got better since I left!

Is that a comment on your teaching ? :p:

Reply 35

Lady Narcissus

Well, to be honest and I won't be liked for saying this, but I've caught quite a few lazy people from institutions such as Kings. I am not a Law Professor but I don't rate it because of how loud and giddy some of the people from are there.

Reply 36

THey're the best type of clever people - you don't know they're clever because they're loud and a good laugh, then they sit an exam and make you all go "how the hell did he get that grade!".

Reply 37

Lady Narcissus