Law & Law with Law Studies in Europe
On average, St John's accepts 8 Law students per year.
St John's welcomes applications for Law with Law Studies in Europe.
Students applying to study law should be able to formulate and evaluate arguments and adapt them to changing information and circumstances. A good law student is articulate, precise and enjoys being challenged.
The entry requirements for this course are determined by the University’s Faculty of Law
More information about applying to study Law at Oxford can be found on the Faculty’s website.
General advice about applying to St John’s can be found here.
- St John's students are part of a thriving and supportive community.
- The tutorials for most of the compulsory core modules are delivered by fellows of the College.
- Law students have their own well-resourced Law Library in College, in a purpose-built setting in the new Kendrew Quadrangle.
- The St John's College law society, the Holdsworth Society, includes students, tutors and alumni. Each year this holds dinners and other social events and organises the popular Holdsworth Mooting Competition.
- Hogan Lovells, a major firm of solicitors, sponsors a prize for the best performing second year lawyer.
- By studying law you will develop valuable skills. The tutorial system ensures you are able to produce clear written and oral arguments. You will learn to apply what you have studied to concrete situations, and to think both with and about law, from a range of diverse perspectives.
- Law alumni from St John's include the former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair, Sir Stephen Richards (former Lord Justice of Appeal), Lord Hamblen (Justice of the Supreme Court), Nigel Carrington (former Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts, London), Alistair Burt (former MP and Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa), and Shaheed Fatima KC (barrister, awarded the Liberty/JUSTICE ‘Human Rights Lawyer of the Year' 2007). Many others have gone on to notable careers as barristers, solicitors and legal scholars, as well as a broad range of careers outside the legal profession.
