In March 2013, Oxford Brookes announced its intention to end the practice of law at the end of the 2012/13 academic year, following a 50% drop in applications over the previous five years. [6] [7] The University of Law then agreed to take over the Oxford Brookes Legal Practice course. [6] The diploma is not a degree and does not confer a qualification for the practice of law. However, the degree programme is essentially derived from Oxford Undergraduate (BA) Law. During the three semesters at Oxford, diploma students study three subjects from a subset of those studied in the bachelor`s programme and take an examination in each of the three subjects at the end of the third semester (the same examinations as BA students the previous year). In addition, first- and second-semester students participate in the Faculty`s Legal Research Skills Program, which provides training in the processing of legal information resources (paper and electronic) and legal research, and verifies students` proficiency in information technology. Enquiries about the Diploma in Legal Studies should be directed to the Institute of European and Comparative Law The Oxford Institute of Legal Practice was founded in 1993 by the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University as an Oxford-based law school specialising in the delivery of the Legal Practice Course (LPC), culminating in the award of the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice. OXILP degrees were awarded jointly by the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University. Its students had access to the facilities of both universities and were alumni of both schools. It was based at King Charles House on Park End Street in central Oxford. [1] Students apply and are selected by their home university. It is not possible to submit an independent application. Students choose three courses from the following list: In 2000, OXILP was one of three LPC providers selected by a group of eight municipal law firms to offer a new business-oriented LPC.
[2] [3] In 2008, the University of Oxford decided to abandon the provision of LPC, and from 2008 OXILP became part of the Oxford Brookes School of Social Sciences and Law and moved to Headington Hill Hall, a Grade II listed mansion built in 1771 owned by Oxford Brookes. [4] The Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (OXILP) was a law school based in Oxford, England, specializing in teaching the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, also known as the Legal Practice Course (LPC). In March 2011, a former OXILP student who had failed her LPC course lost a claim for damages in the Supreme Court for what she called „clearly negligent“ teaching. [5] The Diploma of Legal Studies is a one-year, full-time program. It is only open to students who come to the faculty via one of our exchange agreements with our partner universities in continental Europe. Our current partner universities are located in France (Panthéon-Assas University), Germany (Universities of Bonn and Munich), Italy (University of Siena), the Netherlands (Leiden University) and Spain (Pompeu Fabra University). More general information about arriving as an exchange student at Oxford The teaching method of the degree programme is identical to the teaching of the BA programme: The heart of the Oxford Bachelor of Laws programme is the `tutoring system`. A tutorial is a meeting between a single law professor and (usually) two or three students. In most subjects, the student has seven or eight tutorials, conducted either weekly (over one semester) or bimonthly (over two semesters). Some courses are taught through a combination of tutorials and seminars in large groups.
For each tutorial, the student receives a reading list for independent learning and is usually expected to write an essay or the answer to a problematic question. There are also a number of lectures on different aspects of each course.