The School of Law is consistently ranked amongst the top Law Schools in the United Kingdom and it is among the leading centres for legal research and teaching in the world. Many of the staff in the School have very high international reputations in their fields and all the staff are active scholars and teachers.

Our teaching was rated as excellent and our research was rated as internationally outstanding (Grade 5A) when the Higher Education Funding Council last assessed the School.

The popularity of the University of Nottingham's LLM degrees has been growing steadily since their introduction in 1987, and now form an essential part of the portfolio of courses offered by the School of Law .

The University of Nottingham recognises the close and important relationship between high quality research and teaching, especially at postgraduate level. Teaching is undertaken by academic staff who are informed and enthused by the latest research advances in their subject. The LLM courses offered are rigorous and interesting and cover a diverse range of subjects within the broad area of international law.