York Law School
Project information
- Completed
September 2010- Architect
BDP- Contractor
BAM Construction LtdImages and documents
, 107kb)The York Law School occupies a new state-of the art building, shared with the York Management School, on the Heslington East development.
The building houses the Law School’s departmental and research offices together with knowledge transfer facilities.
Lecture and seminar spaces, including a Harvard style lecture theatre, and a coffee bar are on the ground floor.
The innovative Problem Based Learning suite on the first floor has been specially designed to facilitate the teaching style of the Law School, consisting of a large flexible space, with 10 syndicate rooms for the law ‘firms’ opening onto it.
About York Law School
York Law School was launched in 2007 and welcomed its first students in the autumn of 2008.
The development of a new department of Law at the University of York comes at an exciting time. There are few aspects of modern life that are unaffected by legal rules. Dealing with criminal offences, making (or breaking) contracts, relationships between employers and employees, the conduct of governmental and other public bodies, and company mergers all depend on the existence of legal frameworks and raise complex legal issues.
The study of law has never been more exciting than now, as the law develops to respond to the challenges of an increasingly global and information-based society. The new programme at York will be particularly stimulating.
Project sponsors
The University has been fortunate in securing some £17.5 million from the European Regional Development Fund in Yorkshire and the Humber. The funds, managed through Yorkshire Forward, provide £15.5 million for capital development on Heslington East and a further £2 million supporting two University biodemonstrator research projects. The investment forms a critical part of a major £19.4 million infrastructure project sponsored by Science City York, enhancing links between York's world-class science base and industry.
