£6m investment aims to create country’s most modern law school building

Leeds Law School at Leeds Beckett University is moving to an improved location in Queen Square, in the city centre.

The £6m project will expand its facilities and further strengthen the school’s position as an educator of future legal professionals.

The university is working with Tilbury Douglas to deliver the project with construction costs expected to reach £3m.

It will involve creating specialist teaching spaces, a courtroom, reading rooms, hybrid teaching facilities and one-to-one meeting rooms.

There will also be dedicated quiet spaces and access to online resources to allow all students and academics to excel in ground-breaking legal research.

Professor Deveral Capps, Dean of Leeds Law School, said: “The Law School has grown considerably in recent years. We have now reached a size where we want to give our students and staff a real sense of place, and for them to have somewhere amazing they can call home.

“This huge investment means we will have the most modern law school building in the country, and this fills me with great pride.

“We’ve been teaching law at Leeds Law School since 1924 and settling into modern, state-of-the-art facilities by 2024 gives us a sense of great achievement and presents opportunity for our students and staff.”

Work on the school’s refurbishment is expected to start in September 2022 and be finalised mid-2023, in time for the start of the academic year 2023-2024.