BPP Law School appoints Professor Barry Rider as first Director, LLM programmes

BPP College of Professional Studies Limited announces today the appointment of Professor Barry Rider as its new Director of LLM programmes.

The role of Director of LLM programmes is a new one for BPP Law School and will involve teaching, developing the LLM programmes and managing the department.

Professor Rider, who will start at BPP on 1 April 2008, has held many senior academic appointments including the Directorship of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. He has taught law, particularly at the graduate level in numerous universities around the world, including Cambridge, London, Hong Kong, China, South Africa and the USA. He has also worked for a number of inter-governmental organisations including the IMF.

Professor Rider said: “BPP Law School is in a unique position in legal education in the UK. Its ability to design and offer new and highly relevant masters degrees in law, in areas of the law that practitioners both want and increasingly need to have specialised knowledge, is both a challenge and opportunity that I am delighted to be part of.”

Peter Crisp, dean of the Law School and chief executive of the College said:

“I am delighted that Professor Rider will be joining BPP Law School. He brings a huge amount of experience and will continue to build on the College’s reputation as a leading provider of legal training and education.”

BPP Law School will be offering three LLM programmes, LLM in Professional Legal Practice from May 2008 and LLM in Commercial Law and LLM in International Business Law from September 2008. These are the first LLM programmes to be launched since the Privy Council granted degree awarding powers to BPP College.