About the Centre for Commercial

Law Studies (CCLS)

Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS)
Queen Mary, University of London,
67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London WC2A 3JB

About the Centre for Commercial Law Studies

(CCLS)
The Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary University of
London specialises in the knowledge and skills in commercial law that can be
placed at the service of government, public bodies, overseas institutions, the
legal profession, industry and commerce.

The Centre for Commercial Law Studies is based in the heart of legal London at
the postgraduate law centre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. CCLS and the Department of
Law are the two departments within the School of Law at Russell Group Member,
Queen Mary University of London.

The Centre was created in 1980 by Sir Roy Goode. Over the last thirty five years,
CCLS has developed an in depth expertise in specific areas of commercial law.
Having commenced with banking and finance and intellectual property law, CCLS
expanded to cover arbitration, information technology, new technologies, media,
international economic law, international institutions, tax, development, and
corporate governance. The Centre has recently developed insurance, energy and
shipping law specialisms. Its international profile has been further enhanced by
the establishment, in January 2013, of an LLM programme offered in Paris, and
in 2015 with the offering of an LLM in International Shipping Law at the Hellenic
Management Centre, Piraeus, Greece.

Through our specialist schools and institutes, we continue to maintain our lead as
one of the top commercial postgraduate law schools in the world. Combining
excellence in teaching and research, we strive to be at the forefront of legal
scholarship and law reform influencing the development and application of
commercial law.

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Staff
CCLS has 32 full-time academic staff and more than 50 practitioners, judges and
visiting academics contributing to the teaching, research and life of the centre.
Involving leading practitioners and business in the delivery of our courses
continues to ensure that the teaching and training we deliver is relevant and
practical whilst retaining the highest academic rigour. CCLS’s advisory
council (chaired by The Right Honourable Lord Justice Kitchin) and its
Development Board are comprised of judges, solicitors, barristers, general
counsel, business leaders and academics.

Teaching
CCLS has approximately 100 doctoral and 700 LLM and MSc students from
some 80 countries and has trained over 10,000 lawyers since its establishment.
Our students benefit from learning from leading academics who in turn involve
experienced practitioners in their teaching teams. View School of
Law postgraduate law programmes.

Research
Good teaching and the development of law depend on high quality research.
CCLS is a world leader in research in commercial law from an international and
comparative perspective. An example of this is the scholarly yet practical
research on Cloud Computing being undertaken by CCLS’s Institute of Computer
and Communications Law (made possible by a generous grant from Microsoft).
Read more about research at CCLS.

Contribution to policy
CCLS’s objective is to disseminate research on the practice and development of
law. The Centre’s academic staff contribute to the work of domestic and
international bodies undertaking law reform, acts as consultants to governments,
agencies and practitioners and engages in debate through seminars and
conferences, such as recent joint seminars with the Financial Services Authority
and the Bank of England.

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