Study carrels may be reserved by staff and postgraduate students. These new arrangements have provided significantly more seating space perstudent. Information Technology Information Technology is a powerful tool of learning and self developmentfor law students, by reason of its word processing and data retrieval capabilities. The subscription to this servicehas been made possible by virtue of collaboration with Paris, Smith andRandall, Solicitors. In addition the Institute has access to the WorldWide Web, FTP, and Telnet available on many of the student access PC'sfor use in research.
Every opportunity is taken to encourage students to use the technologyavailable.
Students can hire, for a small charge, a lap-top computer theycan take home in order to word process their assignments. One of the LevelM Pathways focuses on Intellectual Property, a central theme for all usersof information technology. There is also a considerable impact of informationtechnology on a number of areas of law studied in the other Units, bothsubstantive and adjectival. LLM students will be assigned to an specially designated member of the course team who has experience of mature students. Times of these 'surgery hours' are posted outside each tutor's office.