SOAS School of Law
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| Established | 1947 |
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| Dean | Paul Kohler |
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Administrative staff
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50 |
| Undergraduates | 210 |
| Postgraduates | 130 |
| Location | Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom |
| Website | www |
The SOAS School of Law is the law school of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. It is based in the Bloomsbury section of London, United Kingdom. The SOAS School of Law is one of Britain's leading law schools and the sole law school in the world dedicated to the study of legal systems in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
The School of Law has over 400 students. It offers programmes at the LL.B., LL.M. and MPhil/PhD level. International students have been the majority at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level for many years.
It publishes a number of journals, including the Journal of African Law, the Journal of Comparative Law and the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law. Along with the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), it produces the Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD Journal). An independent student law journal is also published by undergraduate and graduate students, the SOAS Law Journal, and includes unique scholarship from faculty, students and alumni.
Notable alumni of the school of law include David Lammy MP, former President of Ghana John Atta Mills, Supreme Court justices from Nigeria and Sri Lanka, and Iranian human rights activist Ghoncheh Ghavami.
The SOAS School of Law was established in 1947 with Professor Vesey-Fitzgerald as its first head, and as such is one of the 20 oldest law schools in England. Initially, the School of Law only hosted post-graduate students. In 1975, under the leadership of Antony Nicholas Allott, the school developed a uniquely comparative undergraduate LL.B. Honours programme that thrives to this day. In 2012, the Head of the Law School, Professor Mashood Baderin, was appointed as Special Independent Expert to Sudan by the United Nations Human Rights Council. In 2013, Professor Paul Kohler assumed the role as Head of the SOAS School of Law following the retirement of Professor Baderin.
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