Introduction
The
London Program has been in continuous operation since 1968.
All courses and instruction are in conformity with the standards
of the Association of American Law Schools and the American
Bar Association. Each year about 30 second-year students from
Notre Dame who have successfully completed all their first-year
courses elect to study in England in course and seminar work
under American and English teachers. The curriculum in London
changes with the needs and interests of our students. For
example, during the past year participants could enroll in
such standard American courses as Business Associations, Commercial
Transactions, Property II, Evidence, and Jurisprudence. In
most of these classes a comparative law element from one or
more foreign systems is added to the base of the American
law. The other half of the curriculum consists of international
and comparative law electives such as Public International
Law, European Community Law, and International Regulation
of Trade and Business.
In addition, a student may engage in most of the co-curricular
credit giving activities of the Law School including writing
for one of the School's several legal reviews. Participation
in moot court activities and an extensive program of externship
placements with British barristers or solicitors, or local
American law firms is also available.
Instruction is given in Notre Dame's own Law Centre. Students
make their own individual arrangements for housing.
Library research can be initiated in the core collection
in the London facility which also offers a computer lab and
unlimited
access to Lexis/Nexis. More extensive research can be conducted
in the library of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,
one of the finest legal research facilities in Europe, and
with which Notre Dame has made arrangement for the accommodation
of its students.
Most students take advantage of the opportunity to observe
and visit the Old Bailey, the High Court, the Court of Appeal
and the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords while they
are in London. Legislative sessions and debates in Parliament,
both in the Lords and Commons, are open to the public, and
many students take time in the afternoon or evening to see
some key measure debated in this "Mother of Parliaments."
Tuition is the same on the London campus as at the Notre Dame
Law School. Classes normally begin in late September and end
in June to coincide with the British academic calendar.
In addition, since 1970 Notre Dame has operated a separate
summer program for credit in London for its own students and
students from other American law schools. The course offerings
cover international, comparative, and American subjects, all
of which comply with the standards of the Association of American
Law Schools and the American Bar Association regarding the
content, number and duration of classes.
For
the complete London Faculty list, see the London
Programme Faculty.
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