About Us

A lecture As well as our long established history, Newcastle Law School boasts a number of recognised international and national experts in a wide variety of areas of legal scholarship. These range from Common and Chancery law to International and European law, as well as contextual, socio-legal and theoretical legal studies.

It has been recognised for excellence in teaching and research by external bodies:

  • In 2002-03, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Teaching Quality Audit, 'warmly commended' the quality of the taught programmes.
  • In December 2008, an independent Internal Subject Review showed that the Law School had improved on the very high standard of provison identified in the 2003 audit.
  • The latest national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) published in December 2008 showed 85% of Newcastle Law School's research reached international standards of quality. In the previous RAE in 2001, the School was awarded a grade 5 for its research.
  • The 2010 National Student Survey found that 98% of Newcastle Law School students were satisfied with the quality of their course.

The Newcastle Law School is one of nine schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle University.