Year Abroad
Have you ever wanted to live abroad, discover a new culture, improve your language skills and study in depth the laws of a different legal system? If so then the Erasmus/exchange programme might be exactly what you are looking for.
The Law School has an extensive exchange programme with over 30 prestigious Law Schools across Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. Law students are permitted to study abroad in their Junior Sophister year. Students are expected to study abroad for the full academic year, with the exception of a one-semester exchange in Emory University and Fisher College of Business.
Students continue to pay Trinity fees, in so far as these are required, but pay no fees to the host university. An Erasmus mobility grant is provided for students studying in a European university. There is no financial support for students attending universities outside the EU.
Law students have two options:
- Apply for European Erasmus and Non-European exchanges of the Law School (see partner universities)
- Apply for Non-EU College-wide exchange via the Academic Registry to Australian National University (Canberra), National University of Singapore, the University of Queensland and the University of Toronto.
Law and Political Science students have two options:
- Apply for European Erasmus exchanges via the Law School with the selected universities in Helsinki, Sciences Po Paris, Strasbourg, Bologna, Berlin.
- Apply for Non-EU College-wide exchange via Academic Registry to Australian National University (Canberra), National University of Singapore and the University of Queensland.
Law and Business students have two options:
- Apply for Non-EU and European Erasmus exchanges via the Law School with the selected universities in Ohio, Strasbourg, Uppsala, Madrid, Berlin.
- Apply for Non-EU College-wide exchange via Academic Registry to the University of Queensland for the full academic year and study Law and Business modules. Apply for one semester Michaelmas term exchange and study Business modules only in 14 non-EU Universities. The full list can be found on the Business School Study Abroad Webpage (scroll down to College-wide International Exchanges):
- Law and Language students:
- Only eligible to study in France or Germany and have to apply through law.exchange@tcd.ie, after consulting with the Law and Language Coordinators.
Partner Universities
For a list of the universities available to each law degree programme with the language of instruction and number of places available, please follow this link:
EUROPE
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
- Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne
- Paris II Pantheon Assas
- University of Bordeaux
- IEP/ Sciences Po, Paris
- Strasbourg
- Toulouse I
Germany
- Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Würzburg
- Universitat Hamburg
- Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz
- Philips- Universitat Marburg
- Friedrich Schiller- Universitat Jena
- Eberhard Karls Universitat Tübingen
- Ludwig-Maximilians- Universitat Munchen
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Italy
Spain
- Universidad de Granada
- Carlos III Madrid (open to Law and Business students only)
- ESADE Law School, Barcelona
Sweden
- Uppsala University (open to Law and Business students only)
Switzerland
The Netherlands
NON-EU
Australia
United States of America
- Boston College, Law School
- Emory University, Law School
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Maurer School of Law
- University of Notre Dame
- Washington and Lee University, School of Law
- Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University (open to Law and Business students only)
Canada
China
Eligibility and Requirements
Law, Law and Business and Law and Political Science
2018/19
2017/18
The Law School allocates places using a competitive selection process. It is primarily based on the results of Junior Freshman examinations. Applicant students are ranked in order of their JF results and offered the highest of their preference that is available to them. Candidates must also submit a motivational letter and CV when applying. Language skills are also taken into consideration if required. Interviews are only organised for Indiana University to select the best candidate. Studying abroad is demanding and requires high levels of academic ability and dedication in order to adapt, succeed and reap the rewards. The allocation of places is subject to the student attaining at least a II.I grade in their forthcoming Senior Freshman examinations. Students must also show adequate linguistic proficiency in the language of instruction, where required.
Students should understand that they will need to work hard while abroad. Our partner universities have very high standards, and the results which students attain abroad, will, after conversion into Trinity grades by the Law School’s Court of Examiners, count for a significant proportion of each exchange student’s degree. For Law, Law and Business and Law and Political Science students who choose to spend their third year abroad, just as for those who stay in Trinity, the Junior Sophister year counts for 50% of each student’s final degree mark. For these reasons, the year abroad must be taken seriously. However, experience has shown that the Trinity Law students who go abroad tend to be very able and motivated and acquit themselves very well, as well as enjoying all the other benefits of the experience.
Law and Language students
Law and Language students are required to take part in the exchange programme in their Junior Sophister year. Students will spend the year abroad studying legal or related subjects in a French or German university.
35 per cent of Law and Language students’ final degree marks will be awarded on the basis of grades obtained during this year.
2018/19
- Law and French Requirements
- Law and German Requirements
- Application Form
- Personal Declaration
- Grade Conversion
2017/18
How to Apply
Deadline: Students who wish to apply must complete two important steps by 1pm on Monday 15th January 2018*
1. Carefully read the following documents - :
2. If you agree to abide by the rules and requirements and personal declaration for study abroad, you must complete and send the following documents electronically to law.exchange@tcd.ie by 1pm on Monday 15th January 2018*:
a. Application Form 2018-19 / Law and Language Application Form 2018-19
b. Motivational Letter - max 500 words outlining key reasons why you wish to study abroad, both academic and personal, and why you would be a good ambassador for Trinity College Dublin (not applicable to Law and Language students)
c. CV (not applicable to Law and Language students)
d. Signed Personal Declaration for Study Abroad form
If you are applying to Indiana University, Bloomington, you will be asked to complete an interview in late January. Please include in your motivational letter why you wish to study at this university.
*Note Law and French students have an extended deadline of 1pm Monday 22nd January 2018 to apply for the Exchange Programme.
Contact
If you have any queries, your first point of contact is the International and Visiting Student Office in Room 0.1C in House 39. If you have an academic-related query, please contact the relevant Erasmus Coordinators below:
Administrative Queries
Celine Walsh - International and Visting Student Executive Officer
Office Hours:
Tuesday and Wednesday
11-1, 2-4
Friday
10.30-12.30
Room 0.1C: International and Visiting Student Office
Phone: 00353-1-896-2296
Email: law.exchange at tcd.ie
Academic Queries
Dr. Catherine Donnelly - Erasmus Coordinator for Outgoing Trinity Students
Office Hours:
By appointment
Room 2.11
Phone: 00353-1-896-8550
Email: catherine.donnelly@tcd.ie
Dr. Eoin O'Dell - Erasmus Coordinator for Incoming Visiting Students
Office Hours:
Wednesday
10-11
Room 5015 Arts Building
Phone: 00353-1-896-1178
Email: odelle (at tcd.ie)