I am trying to find any law school in the UK which offers lectures as audio or video files for downloading. Does anyone know of any law schools which offer something along these lines? Does anyone know any distance learning programmes which offer this?

The Univeristy of Edinburgh, School of Law's LL.M Innovation, Technology and the Law, (http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/distancelearning/) offers some lectures via downloadable or streamed audio, and we are building our library as we go along. We are working toward recording lectures with video too, and may have some for next year, though will keep the audio only option.

Our distance learning students have found this to be very useful. Someone commented that it meant they could take a walk round the park whilst listening to their MP3 of the lecture and not feel as if they are completely avoiding their studies. Part-time distance learners like it also, because they can listen to the lecture while they are heading in to work.

We have found that by offering the variety of media on our programme, we help maintain interest levels and also add to the sense that our distance learning students are very much part of the School of Law here, despite being - in some cases - on the other side of the world.

If you're interested in intellectual property, information technology and medical ethics and law, all via distance learning then perhaps it'd be worth looking at our programme?