STRATHCLYDE LAW SCHOOL'S EXPERTS RECOGNISED AS WORLD-LEADING

Strathclyde Law School is committed to excellence in both teaching and research as our recent rankings testify. We hold the highest grade possible (‘exemplary’) after the official independent review conducted by the Quality Assurance Agency. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 60 per cent of the Law School’s output received the highest gradings - 4* ‘world-class’ or 3* ‘internationally excellent’ – placing us seventh best in the UK (out of 67) and top in Scotland.

That is the finding of the much-awaited official assessment of the quality of research conducted by staff in all UK Law Schools. Published on the 18th December, the results are emphatic: Strathclyde Law School’s academic staff are among the top experts in their fields, whose research is recognised as being not just nationally but internationally excellent.

Welcoming the new results, Head of Strathclyde Law School Professor Mark Poustie said: “These are truly outstanding results of which all of our staff, students and graduates can be justifiably proud. What this means is that Strathclyde Law School academic staff are officially recognised as world-leading experts in their fields. Our undergraduate and postgraduate students are being taught by among the very best legal experts in the UK. The Law School continues to punch very much above its weight since Strathclyde is the smallest Law School to reach the top 15 in the UK and this is clearly a major achievement.”

RAE 2008 is the sixth such national exercise since 1992, with the aim of producing quality profiles for each submission of research activity. RAE enables the higher education funding bodies to selectively distribute public funds (in 2009-10) for research on the basis of quality. Most importantly, it is the principal means by which institutions assure themselves of the quality of the research they undertake. The Research Assessment Exercise is conducted jointly by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland (DEL). 

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The Law School houses several centres dedicated to the promotion of research and teaching in their fields:

• Centre for Sentencing Research
• Centre for The Study Of Human Rights Law

The Research Reading Group is an informal group of staff members and postgraduate students which meets every month to read articles/book chapters selected by group members on a rotating basis.