Kent Law School continues to be ranked as one of the best law schools in the world in the QS World University Rankings for law.<\/p>\n
In the QS World University Rankings by Subject<\/a>\u00a0table, published today, Kent is ranked\u00a019th out of a total of 30 UK law schools that made the global\u00a0list of top 200\u00a0institutions.<\/p>\n Within the global list, the Law School has risen\u00a0from 138th place in 2015\u00a0to a position of 136 this year. The School has featured in the list of\u00a0leading law schools since QS began ranking institutions by their subject areas in 2011.\u00a0Rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact with QS conducting surveys of more than 75,000 academics and 44,000 employers and undertaking\u00a0an\u00a0analysis of 28.5 million research paper\u00a0to determine this year’s results.<\/p>\n The news comes in a year which has seen the School enjoy a strong performance in the subject tables for law. Already ranked 13th in the\u00a0Times Good University Guide <\/em>2016, the School is also ranked 17th in The<\/em> Guardian University Guide<\/em> 2016.<\/p>\n In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, Kent Law School is ranked eighth\u00a0in the UK for research intensity. Almost all (99%) of the School’s research was judged to be of international quality with 79% judged as \u2018world-leading\u2019 or \u2018internationally excellent\u2019. The REF, an independent survey of UK universities, also ranks the School seventh\u00a0for research power with more than a third of the School’s research being given the highest 4* rating.<\/p>\n Kent Law School achieved excellent results in the latest National Student Survey (NSS) with 90% of final year undergraduate students reporting that they were satisfied overall and confirming that they continue to be amongst the most satisfied students in the UK.<\/p>\n Students have been also been achieving recognition this year at a national and international level for their skills in mediation, client interviewing, negotiation and mooting. Earlier this month a team of mediators from the School was\u00a0voted the best international team<\/a> at the 15th Annual International Law School Mediation Tournament held in Chicago and a team of two law students\u00a0proved they were one of the top client interviewing teams<\/a> in the country after finishing second in the national final of the Client Interviewing Competition for England and Wales. Kent was also proud to host\u00a0the UK final of the 2016 National Student Negotiation Competition<\/a> after law students Tomi Popoola and Sean Wells won the title of best student negotiators in the country in 2015. Later this year law students Melanie Lafresiere, Jas Cheema and Tom Bishop will be travelling to\u00a0Sri Lanka to compete in the 11th LAWASIA International Moot Competition<\/a> 2016. They will be following in the footsteps of\u00a0Law students Orestis Anastasiades, Elena Savvidou and Lizzie Virgo who secured a top ten finish in the 10th LAWASIA International Moot Competition 2015 held in Australia.<\/p>\n Kent’s Law Clinic, the oldest in the UK, is already well recognised, having won numerous awards, the most recent of which was the Ethical Initiative of the Year at The Lawyer Awards 2014. The Clinic and its students are routinely shortlisted for LawWorks Attorney General’s Awards, and (amongst other successes) were awarded the LawWorks Attorney General’s Award 2012 for the Best New Pro Bono Activity for the Clinic\u2019s Access to Land project. In 2007 the Clinic was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, with staff and students from the Clinic collecting the award from the Queen at Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n