Returning to St Andrews
St Salvator's College, St Andrews © 2018 Jane Elizabeth Lambert: All rights reserved: Jane Lambert It is often forgotten that law was once taught at St Andrews though not always in the town itself. St Andrews lost its law school in 1967 when Queen's College in Dundee became a separate university. Many St Andreans continued to make their way to the law after 1967 but they obtained their legal education elsewhere. In 2015. an Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research was established at St Andrews. According to its website, it is "the home of outstanding cross-disciplinary research in the fields of law, legal history and constitutionalism." The Institute's website also states that the University is home to a vibrant student law society . I visited that society's website and noticed that its partners included several leading law firms but no English or Welsh chambers or Scottish stables. Curious as to why that should be, I contacted the soci...