Heads of School - link here
Executive Committee - link here
Observers - link here
CHULS began as a committee of the Society of Public Teachers of Law. Its first meeting
was held under SPTL auspices at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS),
part of the University of London, on 27th September 1974, when the President of
SPTL, Professor C F Parker, was appointed to the Chairmanship of CHULS. At its fourth
meeting on 28th November 1975, it was agreed that CHULS should cease to be a committee
of SPTL and should be constituted as an autonomous body.
CHULS developed initially as a committee whose members represented all law schools
in universities financed by the University Grants Committee which taught a law degree.
Representatives of what were then designated as polytechnics, plus the Inns of Court
School of Law and the College of Law, were thus excluded. In September 1984 the
Committee agreed on the desirability of holding joint meetings with the Heads of
Polytechnic Law Schools, who had formed their own Committee to represent institutions
offering Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) degrees carrying exemption
from the academic stage of professional education. On February 11 1992, and following
the grant of university status to polytechnics, a meeting was held to discuss a
merger of the two Committees. The merger finally took place on 30 November 1992,
with the creation of a newly constituted CHULS consisting of an Executive Committee
with powers to appoint sub-committees as required. Membership was open to all institutions
currently in membership of the two earlier committees, and other institutions of
higher education which were in receipt of funding from the Higher Education Funding
Council and which offered their own law degrees recognised by the professional bodies
as giving exemption from the academic stage of legal education were made eligible
to apply. Officers of the reconstituted Committee consisted of a Chairman, Vice-chairman,
Secretary and Treasurer. In 1996 the two latter offices were amalgamated.
CHULS Constitution - link here
CHULS Archive - link here