Aberdeen lays down law at Indian summer school

Top legal brains from the University of Aberdeen will fly out to India later this month to set up a new summer school in Bangalore.

School of Law staff members will teach a specialist course in International Commercial Law to qualified Indian lawyers interested in practicing in the EU or global market.  

It is hoped the course, which runs from August 17-19, will act as a stepping stone for Indian students interested in undertaking a postgraduate law degree (LLM) in the Granite City. 

The three day summer school has come about following a partnership agreement between the University, McGrigors LLP – Scotland’s biggest law firm – and the Bangalore Management Academy. 

It is part of a wider initiative called International Legal Education Scotland (ILES) set up by the School of Law – recently ranked 2^nd in the UK in The Good Universities Guide – to outreach its excellence in legal education.  

Mr William Craig, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies for the LLM programme, is one of four staff members making the trip to India. 

He explained, “ILES is designed to provide expert legal education for practitioners in a variety of locations throughout the world using the expertise of the Law School in conjunction with our partners in the legal profession and those in the locality. We will be operating in India and the UK to begin with but could potentially run our programmes anywhere in the world.  

“The initial pilot course in Bangalore represents an outstanding educational and networking opportunity for qualified lawyers in India who want to learn more about current issues in the global market place. And, of course, it also allows the Law School to highlight the advantages of the postgraduate degree experience at Aberdeen.” 

Additional courses on Oil and Gas Law and Intellectual Property Law will be added to the programme in the following years.