About the academy
A quieter standard
of legal education.
Lex Meridian was founded on the conviction that the study of law deserves the same care, slowness and beauty as the practice itself.
Muhammad — Principal & Founder
Our story
A practice, then a school.
Lex Meridian began, as most worthwhile things do, in correspondence. A handful of pupils, a handful of practitioners, and an agreement that the existing routes into the law had become noisier than they ought to be.
Twelve years on, we remain small by design. Cohorts are capped at forty. Seminars run for three hours. Our faculty have all stood in court within the present term. We do not livestream, we do not certify by attendance, and we do not believe in shortcuts.
What we do is read closely, argue carefully, and prepare our students to take their place at the bar — or wherever else a rigorous training in law might lead them.
Principles
Four commitments.
I.
Small cohorts
Forty students, six tutors. No more, no less.
II.
Practitioner faculty
Every tutor is a sitting barrister or solicitor of repute.
III.
Written examination
Closed-book, hand-written, marked anonymously by silks.
IV.
Lifetime correspondence
Alumni remain in dialogue with the academy for life.