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The Dickson Poon School of Law (also known as King's College London School of Law) is the law school of King's College London in England, and one of the nine Schools of Study of the College. It is situated on the Strand in central London at Somerset House, close to legal firms and the four Inns of Court. It is a premier law school in the United Kingdom and ranked 17th in the world in the QS University Rankings 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2015/law-legal-studies#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search= )〕 On 18 December 2014, it was announced that The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London was ranked top in the UK for world-leading research in the Research Excellence Framework 2014.〔http://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/newsevents/newsrecords/2014-15/officially-top-in-the-UK-for-world-leading-research.aspx〕 King's has the highest GPA across all UK law schools, with the highest quality submission and the highest proportion of world-leading 4 * research. The Dean of the school is David D. Caron, formerly of the University of California at Berkeley. Caron is the first dean of the school and his appointment follows the renaming of the school and its new focus on transnational law. The school is also one of the ten international law schools that are members of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS). Caron describes the typical graduate of the school as ''"a transnational, global, lawyer with () roots in the historic tradition of the English common law that has influenced, and in turn been influenced by, much of the world, and in the more recent tradition of European Union law. They 'think global' because we teach them with a transnational perspective."'' ==History== Law has been taught at King's since the college opened in 1831. It was originally taught within the Senior Department. In 1839 teaching transferred to the Department of General Literature and Science in response to the need for a greater differentiation of the syllabus for students of the Senior Department at the College.〔 Law became part of a broad faculty of subjects and classes that provided a core liberal syllabus in the arts and sciences available to all students of King's.〔 From 1893, it was known as the Division of Laws and Economics under the Faculty of Arts.〔 The Faculty of Laws was founded in 1909 and became known as the School of Law in 1991.〔 The school took its current name in 2012 in recognition of Hong Kong businessman Dickson Poon, who made a gift of £20 million to the school. It is thought to be the largest-ever donation to a British or European law faculty. The school is in the heart of legal London. It was originally located in the buildings adjacent to the Strand and Embankment along the River Thames. It was announced on 7 December 2009 that the school would relocate to the east wing of Somerset House, a prominent example of neoclassical architecture, designed by Sir William Chambers in the late eighteenth century on the site of an earlier Tudor palace. Negotiations for the new lease are said to have taken some 180 years. In February 2012 the refurbished east wing was officially opened by the Patron of the College, Queen Elizabeth II. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Dickson Poon School of Law」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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