'[5] The majority of the School's courses are taught at the University of East London's Duncan House, near to its Stratford Campus,[6] however the Law School's Refugee Studies course is based at the University of East London's Docklands Campus.

[2] Based on the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, The Times Higher Education survey ranked the school 38th in the UK.

[7] The School offers several undergraduate courses, consisting of: Law LLB (Hons), Criminology and Criminal Justice BA (Hons) and Applied Criminology FdA (Foundation Degree).

The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict (CHRC) is a research centre based within the UEL School of Law[9] which was founded in 2006 by Professor Chandra Lekha Sriram.

The international research undertaken by the CHRC is evidenced by its collaborations with, the universities of Lund and Uppsala, Sweden; the Regional Centre on Conflict Prevention, Jordan; and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem among others.