The Law School of King’s Inns provides the course of education by successful completion of which one may be admitted to the degree of Barrister-at-Law and thereby entitled to be called to the Bar of Ireland. Admission to the course is restricted to university law graduates and other candidates who have passed the Society’s Diploma in Legal Studies examination which is to degree standard.
Commencing in 2002 all applicants who are eligible for entry to the Barrister-of-Law degree course will be required to sit an entrance examination in five subjects namely: Jurisprudence; Criminal Law; Company Law; Law of Evidence; and Constitutional Law.
University College Dublin Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law was established in 1908 when University College Dublin became a constituent College of the National University of Ireland. It is the largest law school in the State and is housed in Roebuck Castle on the College's Belfield campus.
The Law School include a full time teaching staff of thirty; the Irish Centre for Commercial Law Studies; the publication of The Irish Jurist; a Visiting Scholars programme; an Adjunct Faculty; a Judge-in-Residence programme; formal exchange programmes with the University of Melbourne (Australia) and the De Paul Law School (Chicago, U.S.A.) and the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis); extensive participation in the ERASMUS SOCRATES exchange programme; and a rich and varied range of course and subject options at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Trinity College Dublin School of Law
As Ireland's oldest Law School, Trinity is strongly committed to the service of society through education, research and public service activities.
The Law School's commitment to rigourous legal scholarship has placed it at the forefront of legal research in Ireland, with staff members involved in writing and editing leading textbooks, casebooks and commentaries on administrative law, constitutional law, European Union law, environmental law, equity, family law, human rights law, land law, private international law, torts and trade union law.
In addition, the Law School is home to one of the Ireland's leading periodicals, the Dublin University Law Journal and to the Trinity College Law Review published by the student members of the College's Law Society.
University College Cork Faculty of Law
The Law Faculty is one of the original faculties of Univeristy College Cork (which was founded in 1845. The Faculty has offered the undergraduate Bachelor of Civil Laws (BCL) degree since its inception. Entry to this three year degree course is highly sought after. The Faculty also offers the BCL (Law and Irish), the BCL (Law and French) and the BCL (Law and German). These four year degree courses allow students to combine the study of law with language and cultural studies. The Faculty also offers a four year part-time Evening BCL degree.
At the Postgraduate Level the Faculty offers a taught LLM degree which gives students the opportunity to choose from a wide range of subjects and to prepare a minor thesis on a topic of their choice. The post-graduate programme also includes the LLB degree which enables students to pursue options not taken at undergraduate level and to write a dissertation on a topic of their choice.
Two noteworthy aspects of the LLM programme are the opportunity to engage in research in the area of Medical Law and Ethics, and the option of undertaking a Clinical Criminal Law Programme, unique in Ireland, where students are placed with personnel working in criminal justice and are encouraged to pursue theses in the criminal law area.
University of Limerick School of Law