Widening access and increasing outreach
The Exploring Law Conference 2025
The Faculty is committed to actively working to ensure that the student body at Cambridge accurately reflects the diversity of our society, both ethnically and socially. This means that we seek to engage students from disadvantaged or underrepresented backgrounds, and to ensure that they have the necessary tools to make the strongest possible application to Cambridge. The Faculty recognises the importance of this challenge, and hopes to be instrumental in shaping future lawyers and university students across the country, not just within the bounds of the Faculty.
Access and widening participation partners
The Faculty's access and widening participation activities are made possible by the generous support of our partners:
Supporters
We are also grateful for the additional support from:
Goals
- Facilitate student exploration of Law as an academic subject;
- Encourage bright students to apply to Cambridge to study Law, particularly those from disadvantaged or underrepresented backgrounds;
- Ensure that students from all backgrounds have the tools to make a strong application.
How we aim to achieve these goals
We’re proud of the work that we do to increase access to legal study and to Cambridge University, but we know there is still more to be done. With the support of our Access and widening participation partners, we are working to increase awareness of law as a career with younger students, increase access to legal careers for mature students and career-changers, and encourage applications from students from all backgrounds.
Contact
Rosalind Boswell, our Outreach, Widening Participation and Communications Coordinator, is the Faculty's first point of contact for students, teachers, and advisors interested in Law at Cambridge.
If you are organising an event such as a careers fair, subject taster day, or a teachers’ conference, you can contact Ros about the possibility of involving the Faculty of Law in your event.
Please note that admissions and funding are managed by the Cambridge Colleges. If you need in-depth or individual advice, please contact the admission team at the college that you are interested in applying to.
If you haven’t yet chosen a college, or if you are considering making an open application (non-college specific), the central Student Admissions and Access team (formerly the Cambridge Admissions Office) can help at admissions@cam.ac.uk.