Ulster University School of Law

The School runs a range of Law degrees at both Magee and Jordanstown campuses. Degrees at Jordanstown include Law; Law with Politics; Law with Criminology; Accounting and Law. Magee degrees include Law, Law with Irish, Law with Accounting, Law with Marketing. All degrees are qualifying law degrees in England and Wales, and Northern Ireland. They can be studied on a full-time or part-time basis. The School offers the possibility for students to study abroad as part of the Erasmus and Study USA programmes.

The School at Jordanstown offers masters programmes in Human Rights and Transitional Justice, and Gender, Conflict and Human Rights. The Ulster Law Clinic offers a masters programme in Clinical Legal Education in Jordanstown and Belfast. At the Magee campus the School runs a masters in Commercial Law.

The School has 20 doctoral students, most working with the Transitional Justice Institute or Ulster Law Clinic. The Faculty of Social Sciences Research Graduate School supports all doctoral students in the Faculty.

The School offers several short courses including Law and Technology; Copyright and the Information Society,[4] and Gender and Transition in Jordanstown.

The Transitional Justice Institute also runs an international summer school on transitional justice every year in June.

The Transitional Justice Institute supports research on transitional justice, conflict, human rights, international law and gender equality. The School also supports research on a range of doctrinal and sociolegal topics, especially access to justice.

The School is run by the Head of School who reports to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences. The School is home to the Ulster Law Clinic. It works closely with the Transitional Justice Institute, one of the Faculty's two research institutes.

The School was established in 1992.[7]

• Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is concurrently the Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a professor of law at the University of Ulster's Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her 2006 book, Law in Times of Crisis (Cambridge University Press), was awarded the Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship in 2007, the American Society of International Law's preeminent prize. She has been nominated twice (2004 and 2007) by the Irish government to the European Court of Human Rights, the first woman and the first academic lawyer to be thus nominated. She was appointed by the Irish Minister of Justice to the Irish Human Rights Commission in 2000 and served until 2005.[11]
• Professor Cath Collins was the Chatham House Research Fellow for Latin America (2005-2007) [12]
• Professor Louise Mallinder was awarded the 2009 Hart SLSA Early Career Award and jointly awarded the 2009 British Society of Criminology Book Prize[13]
• Professor Eugene McNamee was awarded the Fulbright Northern Ireland Public Affairs Scholar Award in 2014.[14]
• Professor Gráinne McKeever is on the UK's Social Security Advisory Committee.[15]
• Dr Catherine O'Rourke was awarded the 2010 Basil Chubb Prize for the best PhD produced in any field of politics in an Irish university.[16]
• Dr Venkat Iyer is a member of the Northern Ireland Law Commission.[17]
• Mrs Amanda Zacharopoulou was awarded the University’s Distinguished Teaching and Learning Fellowship in 2011.[18]
• Ulster Law student Duncan McGregor beat more than 5000 undergraduates from across Ireland to be crowned the 2013 gradireland National Student Challenge winner.[19]
• Ulster graduate Mark Bell is Regius Professor of Laws (Dublin) Trinity College Dublin[20]
• Former Head of School Professor Brice Dickson was the first Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
• Visiting Professor Les Allamby was appointed the fourth Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in 2014[21]

• Ulster Law School