The University of Law

The University of Law

The University of Law (founded in 1962 as The College of Law of England and Wales) is a for-profit private university in the United Kingdom, providing law degrees, specialist legal training and continuing professional development courses for British barristers and solicitors; it is the United Kingdom’s largest law school.[1][2] It traces its origins to 1876.[3][4]

The College of Law had been incorporated by royal charter as a charity in 1975, but in 2012, prior to the granting of university status, its educational and training business was split off and incorporated as a private limited company. This became The College of Law Limited and later The University of Law Limited.[5] The college was granted degree-awarding powers in 2006, and in 2012 changed its name to The University of Law (ULaw) when it became the UK’s first for-profit educational institution to be granted university status.[6][7][8]

The charitable branch, which remained incorporated by the 1975 royal charter, became the Legal Education Foundation.[9]Shortly after the granting of university status and being renamed The University of Law in 2012, The College of Law Limited was bought by Montagu Private Equity.[10] Three years later, Montagu sold the company to its present owner, the Netherlands-based company Global University Systems.[11]

The university has nine campuses in the UK in Birmingham, Bristol, Chester, Guildford, Leeds, London (Bloomsbury and Moorgate), Manchester and Nottingham, as well as an international branch in Hong Kong.