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About Keele Law School
Keele Law School has a distinctive profile in UK legal education. We are known internationally for our combination of world-leading research with the provision of a high-quality legal education at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The legal education we offer is built on a foundation in excellence in core areas of Law and is enhanced by an outward looking approach that encourages the development of key legal skills, critical thinking, and knowledge, through inter-disciplinary perspectives, an engagement with the wider community and the legal profession, and a broad understanding of international legal issues.
Students at Keele Law School work closely with leading internationally recognised academics through lectures, tutorials and seminars. Our students also have the opportunity to work closely with leading members of the legal profession through our strong and active alumni networks. Keele thus provides a qualitatively different, and personal, legal education in a friendly, supportive, and dynamic learning environment. In just under fifty years, this has enabled successive cohorts of Keele graduates to build diverse careers in legal professions and many other sectors, including the police force, army, financial sector, teaching, retail and management. Keele alumni in the legal profession include partners of leading law firms, barristers, a recent president of the Law Society, and a current High Court judge. Our students continue to secure training contracts and pupillages in leading firms and chambers. Three Keele alumni (Michael Mansfield QC, Rosemary Whitfield-Jones, and Fiona Woolf CBE) were included in The Lawyer 's 20th Anniversary Hall of Fame
Academics at the Law School have been recognised in the latest Research Assessment Exercise as producing world leading research. 50% of all research submitted by Keele Law academics was rated as being World Leading (4*) or Internationally Excellent (3*) and 85% of all work as being of, at least, a quality that is Internationally Recognised (2*). This places us within the top 25 Law Schools in the country. The diverse research at Keele encompasses critical, socio-legal and doctrinal approaches, and more information about current and future projects can be found on individual staff profiles and on the research pages. Right from their first year, students coming to Keele will learn about Law from academics who are at the forefront of their discipline.
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