Courses

The Course

Cambridge students who take part in the Erasmus scheme are offered the opportunity to study law in Poitiers, Regensburg, Utrecht or Madrid for a full academic year. They can do so between their second and third years of study in Cambridge. A few students going to Poitiers are also given the opportunity to obtain the French licence, which is the diploma that students normally get at the end of their third year of study in a French University.

Examinations

Outgoing students must pass the exams that are set in the partner universities. These exams take place at the end of the academic year and sometimes at the end of each term as well.

Incoming students from Poitiers, Regensburg, Utrecht and Madrid can either study three options, chosen amongst Groups I to IV or offer two papers and in addition participate in a seminar course and submit an essay on a subject prescribed by the Faculty Board of Law or chosen by the candidate from a number of subjects so prescribed.

However, studying law in Cambridge for a year does not provide for the relevant professional exemptions. It is to be noted that the Erasmus scheme differs in this sense from the exchange scheme set up by the Cambridge Law Faculty and the University of Paris II, which does provide for such exemptions (more information on this exchange scheme is available).