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| Undergraduates | 700 |
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| Postgraduates | 250 |
| Location | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Campus | Sidgwick Site |
| Website | www |
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The Faculty of Law, Cambridge is the law school of the University of Cambridge. The Faculty is one of the world’s oldest and finest law schools, renowned for the quality of its teaching and its cutting-edge legal research, particularly in international law. It is the best law school in the United Kingdom according to all reputable national league tables. It was ranked as the second best law school in the world in 2018.
Legal study at the University of Cambridge began in the thirteenth century and the Faculty sits the oldest law professorship in the English-speaking world, the Regius Professorship of Civil Law, founded in 1540. Today, the Faculty incorporates the Institute of Criminology as well as 11 Research Centres, including the world's leading research institute for international law, The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. The Faculty has 31 professors, six readers, and over 70 other University, Faculty and College Teaching Officers. The student body comprises about 700 undergraduate and 225 graduate students.
The history of legal education in Cambridge dates back to the thirteenth century, when the core subjects of legal study in all European universities were Civil law (the law of ancient Rome) and the Canon law of the Church. Early graduates of the Cambridge Faculty of Canon Law held the highest judicial positions in Europe in the Rota at Avignon. Notable alumni of the Faculty include William Bateman and Thomas Fastolf, who wrote the first known law reports in the ius commune tradition, and William Lyndwood, the principal commentator on medieval English Canon law.
During the English Reformation, King Henry VIII ordered the Faculty to stop teaching canon law in 1535. Nonetheless, the Faculty received some compensation when the same king appointed Thomas Smith as the first Regius Professor of Civil Law in 1540. Academical legal learning was cosmopolitan; Cambridge doctors of law practised in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, assisted the nation in foreign embassies, and discoursed on law, justice and government in philosophical and comparative terms.
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