The University
The University of Essex is one of the UK's leading academic institutions. In the 2008 national assessment Essex was ranked ninth out of 159 universities and colleges for the quality of its research - and top in the social sciences - while the quality of teaching was ranked eighth in the UK in the 2008 Sunday Times University Guide. Founded in 1964 at Wivenhoe Park in Colchester (and therefore a Robbins university in the '1994' Group), the University has grown in both reputation and size, developing a worldwide reputation for top quality teaching and research. There are now more than 10,000 students. Essex is the UK's most internationally diverse campus university, with students drawn from more than 130 countries.The Law School
The School of Law was founded in 1980, and has developed an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. At postgraduate level, we offer a range of LLMs including International Human Rights Law, International Trade Law, European Law, Internet Law, Public Law and European Business Law (the PALLAS programme). The School organises its research through research centres for Commercial Law, Human Rights, and Comparative and European Law.
The Human Rights Centre received the Queen's Anniversary Prize in Human Rights in 2009, reflecting its leading international reputation (www.essex.ac.uk/news/event.aspx?e_id=1362). The award recognises the University’s pioneering role in ‘advancing the legal and broader practice of international human rights’. The Human Rights Centre, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, has since trained more than 1,500 students from more than 100 countries. They work for international organisations such as the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and in non-governmental organisations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Centre graduates also work in the field to safeguard human rights in conflict-torn countries including Bosnia, Kosovo, Nepal and Sudan.
The Program
Essex boasts the longest-established postgraduate degree in international human rights law in the UK, which was one of the first in the world, established in 1983 in the then Department of Law (now School of Law). The International Trade Law LLM has been established for over 15 years, and is the second-largest LLM in the School. Its international faculty have built reputations on four continents, and it has particular strengths in trade, electronic commerce and banking law. Its faculty are members of the Centre for Commercial Law.
The Internet Law LLM was created in 2002, and is welcoming its tenth cohort of students in 2011. Visiting speakers include regulators and computer scientists, adding practitioner elements to its leading internationally reputed faculty, with specialisms in cybercrime, data protection law and telecommunications - notably net neutrality. Its faculty are members of EXCCEL.
The European Union Law LLM was created in the 1990s, and has seen the 2011 development of the EXCCEL Centre to host faculty research. Its faculty are also members of EXCCEL. Essex School of Law academics are world-renowned experts on European data protection and privacy (Professor Peers, Dr Koutsias), labour law (Professor Peers), cybercrime (Dr Guinchard), Internet, media and telecoms regulation and competition (Dr Marsden).
European Business Law (PALLAS) LLM has a pan-European consortium structure and a uniquely pan-European professorial cohort, with an intensive programme of lectures which provides twice the contact hours of a normal LLM. It also features an annual spring trip to the European institutions and courts and extensive networking with alumni - known as PALs. PALs have their own alumni LinkedIn group.
The Faculty
The School of Law has 37 full-time staff. Their activities can be viewed at the Law School website (www.essex.ac.uk/law/) and Facebook pages:
Human Rights Centre www.facebook.com/EssexHRC
EXCCEL www.facebook.com/exccel1
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