Second Year in London
The London Program has been in continuous operation since 1968. All courses and instruction are in conformity with the standards of the Association of American Law Schools and the American Bar Association. Each year about 30 second-year students from Notre Dame who have successfully completed all their first-year courses elect to study in England in course and seminar work under American and English teachers. The curriculum in London changes with the needs and interests of our students. For example, during the past year participants could enroll in such standard American courses as Business Associations, Commercial Transactions, Property II, Evidence, and Jurisprudence. In most of these classes a comparative law element from one or more foreign systems is added to the base of the American law. The other half of the curriculum consists of international and comparative law electives such as Public International Law, European Community Law, and International Regulation of Trade and Business.
London Experience Reflections
Time 1:40
In addition, a student may engage in most of the co-curricular credit giving activities of the Law School including writing for one of the School’s several legal reviews. Participation in moot court activities and an extensive program of externship placements with British barristers or solicitors, or local American law firms is also available.
Instruction is given in Notre Dame’s own Law Centre. Students make their own individual arrangements for housing.
Library research can be initiated in the core collection in the London facility which also offers a computer lab and unlimited access to Lexis/Nexis. More extensive research can be conducted in the library of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, one of the finest legal research facilities in Europe, and with which Notre Dame has made arrangement for the accommodation of its students.
Most students take advantage of the opportunity to observe and visit the Old Bailey, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords while they are in London. Legislative sessions and debates in Parliament, both in the Lords and Commons, are open to the public, and many students take time in the afternoon or evening to see some key measure debated in this “Mother of Parliaments.”
Tuition is the same on the London campus as at the Notre Dame Law School. Classes normally begin in late September and end in June to coincide with the British academic calendar.
Learn more about the Second Year in London program:
Academic Calendar (PDF File Format)
Calendar (PDF File Format)
Color Map (PDF File Format)
Course Descriptions
Course Schedule 2007-2008 (PDF File Format)
Facilities
Letter of Intent to Attend 2008-09 Program
London Faculty
Scholarship Opportunities (PDF File Format*)
Survival Guide – Look here for helpful information about London.
Visa Requirements
Cost of Attendance
| Tuition | $37,190 | |||||||||
| Fees | 460 | |||||||||
| Room & Board | 8,300 | |||||||||
| Books, Supplies | 1,350 | |||||||||
| Personal | 4,350 | |||||||||
| Transportation | 2,250 | |||||||||
| Abroad Personal & Travel | 14,670 | |||||||||
| Total | $68,570 |
