The Universities & Environs

The University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide was founded in 1874 and is South Australia's oldest university. It enjoys an outstanding national and international reputation in both teaching and research in many fields of study.

Among the University's many distinguished graduates are Nobel prize winner Lord Florey and Dame Roma Mitchell, a graduate of the Law School, Australia's first female QC, judge, University Chancellor and Governor of South Australia.

With a student population of around 16,000, including more than 2,000 students from 70 countries. The University of Adelaide consists of four campuses. The main campus includes the Law School, along with most teaching departments and other central services and is located in the cultural, intellectual and commercial heart of the city of Adelaide. It is adjacent to the State Library, South Australian Museum, South Australian Art Gallery, Festival Theatre, Zoological Gardens and Botanical Gardens, in the parklands which surround the city's business and shopping district.

The University of Adelaide is linked with many of the world's best universities for both student and staff exchange, for teaching and research. These links may be broad-based across the University, or at a discipline level. In the latter category, the University's Law School has established links with the Faculties of Law at Philipps University Marburg and the University of Mannheim in Germany; the University of Poitiers in France; the University of Victoria in Canada; and Pace University and the University of Oregon in the USA.

Students and staff at the University of Adelaide have access to state-of-the-art facilities. Laboratories, classrooms and teaching suites contain up-to-date computing and audio-visual equipment.

The University's extensive support services cater for students' cultural sporting and social needs. Counselling, health and welfare assistance is available, as well as study skills and English language tuition.

The University of Mannheim
The University of Mannheim is located at the place where Elector Karl Theordor founded the Academy of Sciences of the Palatinate in 1763. The elector's palace where the university is situated represents one of the most marvellous university buildings in Germany. With its city front extending over 450m in length and its more than 1400 windows it is even larger than Versailles. With a population of 325,000, Mannheim today is the second largest city in Baden-Wurttemberg and the economic and cultural hub of the Rhine-Neckar-triangle. It can easily be reached by means of almost 100 long-distance trains per day and is close to Frankfurt's Rhine-Main Airport, the largest on the European continent. Mannheim also offers excellent possibilities for shopping, an internationally renowned cultural scene covering all branches of arts, remarkable museums and galleries and one of the loveliest parks in Europe.

By German standards, Mannheim is a relatively small university offering a more personal atmosphere. Approximately 13,000 students are enrolled, 1,400 of them in the Faculty of Law. Within the University, legal and economic studies are predominant. The Faculty of Law is located in the heart of Mannheim. Most of the city's scientific and cultural institutions and the shopping district are within walking distance.

The University of Mannheim maintains close contacts with universities in France, Great Britain, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Australia, USA, Canada, Hungary and China by specific partnership agreements. Several exchange programs provide for a cosmopolitan composition of the academic community with respect to both students and researchers.

The 1.5 million volumes of the University library satisfy all demands and good technical equipment facilitates research. Internet and all major legal databases are directly accessible from the law library.