The UCD College of Business and Law embraces two schools, the UCD School of Business and the UCD School of Law. The UCD School of Business is Ireland’s premier business school and enjoys an international reputation of the highest standards. The UCD School of Business is comprised of an undergraduate school, the UCD Quinn School of Business on the Belfield campus, and the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business in Blackrock where taught and research postgraduate studies are conducted.

 

The UCD School of Business consists of six main subject areas: Accountancy; Banking and Finance; Industrial Relations and Human Resources; Management; Management Information Systems; and Marketing.

 

The UCD School of Law is the largest and most richly diversified law school in Ireland and currently has over 1,000 students. A new building is under construction to facilitate the expansion in postgraduate education. It has a full-time teaching faculty of 30.

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is Ireland’s leading business school and research centre. We offer a wide range of postgraduate business programmes that equip students to become the business leaders of the future. Our success is down to an unwavering commitment to excellence. We are one of less than 50 schools worldwide to hold triple accreditation from the US, Europe and the UK accrediting bodies.

At our Blackrock campus, close to the centre of Dublin city, we have superb facilities for postgraduate education and research. This makes UCD Smurfit a leader: not just in Ireland but in Europe; not just among Irish employers but among global multinationals and the world’s leading organisations; not just for high achievers in Ireland but for those from every country and every continent.

 

UCD School of Law

UCD School of Law is the leading centre for legal education and research in Ireland, where law has been taught for over 100 years. It is the largest and most diversified law school in the country. Taught by faculty with international reputations in their field, the School has unrivalled breadth and quality of programmes at graduate studies level.

Institute for Criminology

The aims of the Institute for Criminology is as follows:

• To undertake high quality research on crime, criminal justice and the penal system in Ireland which contributes to the development of policy and practice and advances criminology as an academic discipline.
• To enhance public understanding through the dissemination of the results of research by various means, including the provision of training and formal education.

To achieve these aims by collaborating with national and international organisations, including government departments, other research institutes, the community and voluntary sector.

 

The UCD Commercial Law Centre

The UCD Commercial Law Centre is located in the School of Law in University College Dublin. Established as the Irish Centre for Commercial Law studies in 1989 under the Directorship of A. Vivion Gill, the Centre exists to promote conferences, seminars and workshops on issues in national and international commercial law, including financial services law, commercial property law and employment law. The Centre provides for a unique complimentary relationship between University College Dublin and the legal and business communities, as well as discharging the CPD functions of the School of Law.