HI, I have received an offer from both King's College and Queen Mary. I will study IP law. I know that King's in general has a slightly better reputation than Queen Mary, but yet again in IP Law, Queen Mary seems to be stronger in terms of research and courses offered.
I am leaning towards Queen Mary. I visited both King's and Queen Mary's campus last week and i was chocked at the lousy facilities at king's. You would assume that such a well reputed university would have excellent facilities, but no not king's. The law building is run down, claustrophobic with small stairs, small hall ways, old dirty rugs covering the floor and ugly painted walls. To say the least, i was chocked. The computer rooms were also very small with only 5-6 computers in each room. Basically, King's has a good name, nothing else. Facility-wise it's the worst uni i have seen.

Queen Mary seems to be the better option since it has a good reputation in IP law. What do you say?

Hi, I am going to apply to Queen Mary college for an LLM in Commercial Laws. Anyone having any relevant information about the college or any other better college may kindly reply or mail at soovankar@gmail.com
Thanks.
Soovankar

King's is a university with so many campuses. I assume that you've just been to the old Law building, while the teaching usually takes place at the main building and Waterloo campus which is excellent. The computer room you've been to is the old one and no body uses it. King's students always go to the Library on Chancery Lane, just a few minute walk from the main building, which is really good with full collections of law journals and books. King's also has another campus at London Bridge and opposite to Westminster (St.Thomas' hospital).

Overall, King's reputation is much better than QMW I have to say. For IP, it has Devid Llyewelline who is an excellent lecturer!

vowpallin - Are you a student at King's? I asked a student at king's about the location of teaching for law students. The reply i got was that most teaching is held in the old law building. A few lecures are held at the waterloo campus, while seminars and most lectures are held in the old law building.
I had a look at the library at chancery lane as well - very nice i must say. However, i got this really depressing feeling when i entered the law building. My initial reaction was "should i pay the rather expensive tuition fee just to study in this depressing dump?)
I just can't understand why they still have the law faculty in that shitty building. I have not visited the other campuses, so i don't know if they are better. However, i've seen some pictures of the waterloo and guy's campuses - they seem to be good.

About IP-law. from an objective perspective, Queen Mary seems to be stronger, given the fact that they have the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Reseach Institute, which has many prominent scholars and visiting professors (Including David Llewelyn).
I'm still not sure what do do. I am aware that king's has a stronger reputition in general, but do you think that a future job would depend on whether i have a degree from Queen Mary instead of King's? In my opinion, both King's and Queen Mary are very good universities.

dama3925,
I am also an undergrad at King's and I have to agree with Vow (btw if it is you then hey Vow! It's Amo - hope the revision's going well!) - in my three years here I have not had to spend much time in that grotty old building. The Chancery Lane library is where you'll do most of your independant study anyway, and the facilities there are very good.

IMO, Queen Mary's is the place to go if you know for definite that you want to specialise in IP or plan further research study in the area. They will give you a wider range of IP options. But IP teaching at King's is strong too and if you want to study a more diverse range of topics, I would suggest King's. (btw - which area of IP are you most interested in? Copyrights, Patents or TMs?)

Both law schools are indeed great. Whatever you do, don't make your decision on the basis of the rubbish building - you probably won't use it much anyway. Hope that helps.