The School of Law is one of eight academic schools at the University of East London

University of East London

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in East London

East End of London

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, England

England

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. The School is home to the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict. The School of Law teaches six undergraduate courses and ten postgraduate courses. The School is attended by over 1,000 students.' The majority of the School's courses are taught at the University of East London's Duncan House, near to its Stratford Campus, however the Law School's Refugee Studies course is based at the University of East London's Docklands Campus. Based on the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, The Times Higher Education survey ranked the school as 38th in the UK.

Fiona Fairweather is the current Dean of the School.

Undergraduate

The School offers several undergraduate courses, these being: Law LLB (Hons), Criminology and Criminal Justice BA (Hons) and Applied Criminology FdA (Foundation Degree).

Some of these courses are also offered using distance learning methods.

Postgraduate

The courses offered for postgraduate study include International Law LLM, International Law and Criminal Justice, International Law and World Economy, International Law and Financial Markets LLM, Human Rights LLM, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies LLM, the Law Graduate Diploma, Law General LLM, Terrorism Studies MSc, and Refugee Studies MA.

Partnerships

The School of Law has a partnership with ICS that allows it to deliver three courses by distance learning. These courses are in BA (Hons) in Psychology Studies and Criminology, BA (Hons) in Criminology and Criminal Justice and the LLB (Hons) in Law.

Research

The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict

Centre on Human Rights in Conflict

The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict is a research centre based within the University of East London School of Law directed by John Strawson. The Centre was founded in 2006 by Professor Chandra Lekha Sriram...

 (CHRC) is a research centre based within the UEL School of Law which was founded in 2006 by Professor Chandra Lekha Sriram.

The international nature of the research undertaken by the CHRC is evidenced by its collaborations with, for example, the universities of Lund and Uppsala, Sweden

Sweden

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; the Regional Centre on Conflict Prevention, Jordan

Jordan

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; and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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.

The researchers at the CHRC have been awarded grants from the European Union

European Union

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, the British Academy

British Academy

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, the Leverhulme Trust

Leverhulme Trust

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, and UEL's Promising Researcher Scheme.

Alumni

• Imran Khan, referred to as "Britain's best-known Asian Solicitor" by The Times
  The Times
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   (studied law at the North East London Polytechnic, which subsequently became part of the University of East London)

• Mark Stephens
  Mark Stephens (solicitor)
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  — media lawyer and human rights activist

Faculty

• Fiona Fairweather — Current Dean of the School; writer and lecturer on the subjects of police powers and suspects' rights