[11] The university has sixteen campuses in the UK in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London (Bloomsbury and Moorgate), Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield, Newcastle, Chester, Norwich, Exeter, Southampton, Egham, Reading, Liverpool, as well as, international branches in Hong Kong and Berlin (GISMA Business School) and an online campus.

The number of institutions approved to deliver the CPE gradually increased until by 2006 the BPP Law School and 27 universities, most of them former polytechnics, were also running the course.

[19] In the 1980s, The Law Society asked the college to produce a scheme for additional tuition in accounts for articled clerks (now trainee solicitors), combining distance learning with one-day's attendance at lectures.

[20] The Guildford campus of the college also established the Fresh Start distance learning course for solicitors returning to practice after a career break or those wishing to change their specialisation.

In March 2015, The University of Law (as the college is now called) obtained an alternative business structure licence, allowing it to expand its legal advice clinics.

[25][26] It also restructured its Legal Practice Courses to give students more choice and won contracts to develop law firm-specific LPC programmes for three magic circle firms – Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Linklaters.

However, by the end of 2014, it had retained only Linklaters, having lost the contracts with Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance, who moved to BPP Law School.

[27] The college was granted degree-awarding powers by the Privy Council in 2006, leading to development of its Bachelor and Master of Laws degree programmes.

In April of that year, Montagu Private Equity agreed to buy The College of Law Limited for approximately £200 million.

[30] The university began selling off its property portfolio on a leaseback basis in 2014, starting with the four buildings of its Bloomsbury campus.

[31] Critics had compared the purchase by Montagu Private Equity to the leveraged buyouts of Premier League clubs in English football.

At the time, The University of Law's ultimate parent company was L-J Holdco Ltd., which was incorporated in Guernsey and majority owned by Montagu-managed funds.

In turn, Platis stepped down in October 2016 and was replaced by Professor Andrea Nollent, who serves as both CEO and Vice-Chancellor.

[35][36][37][38] In September 2018, Lord Neuberger, the former president of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, was appointed to succeed Dame Fiona Woolf as the university's chancellor.

[39] On 4 January 2021, Legal Practice Course students complained that the university had given them an exam on a topic they hadn't yet been taught.

[41] The University of Law has campuses in the UK located in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London (Bloomsbury and Moorgate), Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield.

[20] In 2015, ULaw established a one-year foundation programme for international students wishing to progress to undergraduate legal study in the UK.