Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by His Excellency Bernard Emié
- Foreword by Sir Peter Westmacott
- Preface
- Part I Teaching and Training Partnerships
- 1 Why is the United Kingdom Important to Sciences Po?
- 2 Franco-Welsh Academic Partnerships: A Case Study Involving Transnational and Cross-sector Mobility
- 3 Double Diplomas: A Franco-British Training Route of Excellence for Teachers of French Worldwide?
- 4 The Entente Cordiale: A Grande École Engineering School Perspective
- 5 Links Between British Universities and French Instituts Universitaires de Technologie: New Forms of Collaboration
- 6 One Model: The Franco-German University
- 7 Raising Students' International Profile: How Do Universities Address This Issue in Europe?
- 8 Franco-British Academic Partnerships at the University of Provence
- 9 University College London and France: Teaching and Research Collaborations
- 10 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: An Overview of More Than 30 Years of Franco-British Partnerships
- 11 Towards a Vision for a Networked European Business School
- Part II Research Partnerships
- Part III Broader Perspectives
- Appendices: Addresses and Speeches at the Franco-British Academic Partnerships Seminar, French Institute, London, 5 February 2010
- Index
9 - University College London and France: Teaching and Research Collaborations
from Part I - Teaching and Training Partnerships
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by His Excellency Bernard Emié
- Foreword by Sir Peter Westmacott
- Preface
- Part I Teaching and Training Partnerships
- 1 Why is the United Kingdom Important to Sciences Po?
- 2 Franco-Welsh Academic Partnerships: A Case Study Involving Transnational and Cross-sector Mobility
- 3 Double Diplomas: A Franco-British Training Route of Excellence for Teachers of French Worldwide?
- 4 The Entente Cordiale: A Grande École Engineering School Perspective
- 5 Links Between British Universities and French Instituts Universitaires de Technologie: New Forms of Collaboration
- 6 One Model: The Franco-German University
- 7 Raising Students' International Profile: How Do Universities Address This Issue in Europe?
- 8 Franco-British Academic Partnerships at the University of Provence
- 9 University College London and France: Teaching and Research Collaborations
- 10 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: An Overview of More Than 30 Years of Franco-British Partnerships
- 11 Towards a Vision for a Networked European Business School
- Part II Research Partnerships
- Part III Broader Perspectives
- Appendices: Addresses and Speeches at the Franco-British Academic Partnerships Seminar, French Institute, London, 5 February 2010
- Index
Summary
The Faculty of Laws at University College London: One Step Away from France
Located a five-minute walk away from the Eurostar terminal at Saint Pancras, the Faculty of Laws at University College London (UCL) is geographically naturally prone to look towards France. The attraction to its spiritual father, Jeremy Bentham, of codification may also have been a reason for UCL to look beyond the Channel towards the French Napoleonic codified system. Reciprocally, the prestige of UCL Faculty of Laws – ranked third after Oxford and Cambridge according to a recent national survey of students – and its location in Bloomsbury were bound to raise interest among French universities and students. Links between UCL and France have therefore been long-standing, fruitful and active. These links take the shape of student programmes, teaching links and research collaborations.
Student Programmes
UCL's Faculty of Laws has student exchange programmes with numerous partner universities across the world but our programmes with France are the most important in terms of student numbers and teaching resources.
International student programmes feature prominently at UCL since about one-third of our undergraduate students are part of exchange programmes. Some are recruited by UCL, others by our partner universities, which send a selected happy few to UCL for a year as ‘affiliate students’. UCL Faculty of Laws has links with prestigious universities, many in Commonwealth countries, such as the University of New South Wales (Australia), the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore and Columbia University in the United States.
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- Franco-British Academic PartnershipsThe Next Chapter, pp. 77 - 84Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011