King's College London School of Law

The Dickson Poon School of Law,
King's College London

Former names	Faculty of Laws, King's College, London (1909–1991) King's College London School of Law (1991–2012)
Established	1831
Parent institution	King's College London
Dean	Benjamin Bowling
Students	1,920
Location	Somerset House East Wing, London, United Kingdom
Website	kcl.ac.uk/law

The Dickson Poon School of Law (also known as King's or KCL Law) is the Law school of King's College London, and one of the nine Schools of Study of the university. It is situated on the Strand in the East Wing of Somerset House, near many law firms, the Royal Courts of Justice and the four Inns of Court.

The Dickson Poon School of Law is one of the world's most prestigious law schools and is ranked 17th in the world according to the QS University Rankings by Subject 2016. It is also one of the most highly ranked law schools in the UK.

Following a gift of £20 million by Sir Dickson Poon, the School was renamed and the most generous scholarship for Law in the UK and Europe was founded to strengthen its place as a global legal powerhouse. In early 2016, students from The Dickson Poon School of Law beat over 550 Law schools from over 80 countries to win the 57th annual UK championships of the Philip C . Jessup International Moot Court Competition, which is one of the largest moot court competitions in the world.

The Dean of the school is David Caron, formerly of the University of California, Berkeley. Caron is the first Dean of the School and his appointment follows the renaming of the school and its new focus on Transnational law. The school is also one of the ten international Law schools that are members of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS). Caron describes the typical graduate of the school as "a transnational, global, lawyer with [...] roots in the historic tradition of the English common law that has influenced, and in turn been influenced by, much of the world, and in the more recent tradition of European Union law. They 'think global' because we teach them with a transnational perspective."