Best UK University for exchange?

[Okeanos]

to be honest okeanos u need to shut up u think u know more about uk than any of us that live in the uk actually do
kardan is right lets leave it at that xxx

Firstly, you are quite wrong to say that people from the UK must know more about their country than anyone else, as you have demonstrated, the UK has a lot of ignorant people. Secondly, I am British you moron. Kardan is not right.

[myles]

Firstly, you are quite wrong to say that people from the UK must know more about their country than anyone else, as you have demonstrated, the UK has a lot of ignorant people. Secondly, I am British you moron. Kardan is not right.

kardan speaks more sense than u do
he wos only talking about a university that he probably lives close to. i am 99.9 percent sure u have not studied at all of them so who are u to judge and make up ur own judgements for each one. i know some may have a bad rep but unless u have been there/ studied there i dont really think u have a right to say anything

[Mark]

Glasgow is a phenomenal university for law, I'd choose there for sure! The nightlife is good and with the commonwealth games next year there will be lots to do. Okeanos doesn't know what he's talking about when he says it's different to common law as they both have their similarities. I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you.

[Okeanos]

Glasgow is a phenomenal university for law, I'd choose there for sure! The nightlife is good and with the commonwealth games next year there will be lots to do. Okeanos doesn't know what he's talking about when he says it's different to common law as they both have their similarities. I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you.

Wrong. Habbox users make a habit of showing themselves up when talking about me, you really aught to read a few books before you try to contradict me. Scotland has a very different legal system to England, a Scots law LLB is completely useless in England or any other country whose legal system is based on English common law (like Australia).

[Daltron]

Incredibly useful information in this thread. Very valuable stuff to think about when researching as review websites and the universities themselves can only give so much online.

+rep to all who have helped!

I have neg'd you for something in the past @Okeanos; so I will +rep you when it lets me (even if you are arguing it is somewhat beneficial to questions at hand).

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If it's any help to this debate I will most likely be studying Equity, Trusts and Advanced Torts. All of which I think have developed from English common law minus adv torts which is all over the place.

At the end of the day it's not a huge deal in actual content per university as my university wouldn't be offering these places for exchange if they didn't have corresponding units I could claim credit for in Australia.

[Chippiewill]

I disagree. Good research means good staff, only with good staff can you have good courses. If the courses arent good then the students sure as hell wont be.

Firstly, the good researchers will not do many lectures - if at all. Why? Because they're good at research. Secondly the good lecturers will not do as much research. Why? Because they're so good at lecturing.

Sure, there is a general correlation that shows better research means better experience over all. But whilst research is an indirect indication of the quality of the course, the league tables are a DIRECT indication of the course quality.

[Okeanos]

Firstly, the good researchers will not do many lectures - if at all. Why? Because they're good at research. Secondly the good lecturers will not do as much research. Why? Because they're so good at lecturing.

Sure, there is a general correlation that shows better research means better experience over all. But whilst research is an indirect indication of the quality of the course, the league tables are a DIRECT indication of the course quality.

Good researchers do run courses, teach, lecture and take seminars at very good universities, actually. I would be very surprised if anyone at Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial, Durham or Edinburgh wasn't taught by excellent researchers.

League tables are not a direct indication of course qauality, they are an indicator of have content students are - just because a student from Surrey is happy with their uni/course doesn't mean it is any good.

[Chippiewill]

If you bothered to look at league tables you'd notice they take into account more things than student satisfaction

[Foregetfuhl]

University of Essex is an awful uni, plus you will be in Essex which lets face it isn't the highlight of England

[GommeInc]

If it's any help to this debate I will most likely be studying Equity, Trusts and Advanced Torts. All of which I think have developed from English common law minus adv torts which is all over the place.

At the end of the day it's not a huge deal in actual content per university as my university wouldn't be offering these places for exchange if they didn't have corresponding units I could claim credit for in Australia.

That's a bit here and there - many of the primary authorities for tort law come from abroad. Australia gave us the dicta that "... direct perception of some of the events which go to make up the accident as an entire event, and this includes … the immediate aftermath" with regards to secondary victims and psychiatric injury, which helped develop the British Tort law and helped set a precedent in McLoughlin that the wife and mother of the victims in a car crash can claim damages from a defendant IF she witnesses the aftermath of an accident e.g. the news that her daughter had died in an accident AND the trauma her surviving family members were going through. I believe the case was Benson v Lee that was sat in the High Court of Australia. I'm not sure what Donoghue v Stevenson is as an international authority for tort law (it pretty much created it) but that might be what you're thinking of

Also Okeanos is right - studying Law in Scotland is useless as the Scottish have a different legal system to the legal system of England and Wales.

University of Essex is an awful uni, plus you will be in Essex which lets face it isn't the highlight of England

Nothing wrong with the University of Essex