Since 2014 the Faculty of Law has maintained successful pathways agreements with leading Law Faculties in Australia and, more recently, in South Africa. The Faculty is very pleased to announce the conclusion of another such agreement with the Law School of the University of Auckland | Te Wāhanga Ture o Tāmaki Makaurau commencing in 2022.
This new law pathways agreement allows students from Auckland, who either
- are enrolled in an undergraduate conjoint degree (comprised of an LLB or LLB(Hons) degree and a bachelor’s degree from another faculty); or
- are enrolled in an LLB degree or LLB(Hons) degree and who already have another bachelor’s degree
to apply for admission to the Cambridge LLM or Masters in Corporate Law (MCL) programme in their penultimate year of study at Auckland. Students from the conjoined degree can be admitted to these graduate degrees once they have undertaken four and a half years of law study at Auckland and completed the modules of their non-law degree, and LLB/LLB(Hons) students can be admitted after three and a half years of full-time law study at Auckland, provided they already hold an undergraduate degree. Successful completion of the one-year Cambridge degrees will normally be accepted by Auckland in substitution for the final semester of the Auckland degree programmes, meaning that these students complete the studies for their Auckland and Cambridge degrees at the same time.
Professor Jens M. Scherpe, the Cambridge Law Faculty’s Director of International Strategy and Partnerships, commented:
"It is wonderful that we now have extended out network of pathways agreements to include a world-class law school from New Zealand. We are looking forward to strengthening our ties with the University of Auckland and look forward to welcoming Auckland students to Cambridge."
