Diana Goldau, Germany

Master of Laws 2008-2009

"As a practising lawyer in Germany for one year after my traineeship I realised I needed a broader knowledge of my field of law to succeed in the international market. Hence I was looking for a program to navigate me into the complicated professional sphere of tax and international commercial law.

When considering my alternative for a postgraduate program I was looking for a school that offered a range of options that suited my needs and challenged my academic skills. I chose Queen Mary because of its worldwide academic reputation and teaching staff as well as its outstanding results achieved by Centre of Commercial Law Studies.

To my mind the programme’s biggest assets were the professionals, including lawyers such as David Southern and Angie Raymond, as well as Senior lecturer Ann Mumford, who are the best amongst their fields of law. They brought their first hand experience of the financial world into the classroom. Further they knew how to balance between practice and theory on various foreign affairs and presented issues of the past and the present.

The teaching atmosphere was dazzling and the classes itself seemed to be a mixed cluster of intellectual minds. Since Queen Mary attracts various talents from all over the world, an international environment prevails, which helps to create a great mixture of different people and cultures. Hence, getting involved with all sorts of people made me benefit from a worldwide network"