Legal scholarships

King’s College London’s Dickson Poon School of Law has launched the biggest ever scholarship programme for law in the UK and the rest of Europe.

It will offer 80 scholarships, worth more than £2m in total, aimed at students who demonstrate leadership potential and life ambition, as well as academic excellence. Five of the scholarships, worth £90,000 over three years, may go to law PhD students enrolling in 2013, with the rest going to undergraduates.

Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist Dickson Poon has given the School £20m. Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Vice Principal of King’s, says the scholarship programme was “the best and largest of its kind for law in this country”.

Mr Poon says: “The scholarships will help to enable exemplary students with academic agility and unlimited ambition to develop into future global leaders in all areas of law, business, education and civil society.”