Prologue: My LLM Year at King’s College London — The Pandemic Edition
Welcome to this blog!
I recently graduated from Leiden University, where I specialized in international business law. The next 12 months I’m attending the LLM program at King’s College London. This blog series will be regularly updated with my impressions — good and critical ones — of the LLM course, the Dickson Poon School of Law, and student life in London.
Crises have a way of exposing what people are really made of. Good crisis leadership exerts bounded optimism, meaning “mixing confidence and hope with realism.” I think the same holds for excellence in legal education. Unlike most US and some UK law schools, King’s has confidently opted for blended learning with “small group teaching as frequently as possible offered in person.” It remains to be seen how successful King’s will be at implementing this principle in practice.
The law school has provided the additional option of online learning. However, in my view, fully online programs do not weigh up against the experience of attending university in person, especially given the high tuition fees (home/EU: £17310; overseas: £27390). As an EU citizen, I also have a special interest in (physically) attending university this calendar year due to Brexit. But this is a topic I will save for a dedicated blog post in the future.
So, in a few weeks, I’m packing my neon page markers and moving to London.
Fun fact: The first human coronavirus was discovered at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, now part of King’s.
If you would like to see specific topics covered throughout the year, feel free to connect on LinkedIn and drop me a message.
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