ELSA London

The following Young European Movement event is open to all With over 20% of Europe’s youth now unemployed, and with austerity threatening to undermine welfare provision across the continent, this generation of young people faces the dual crisis of youth unemployment and economic insecurity. This Young European Movement, European Alternatives and UCL European Society event [...]

The CPS is pleased to announce the relaunch of its Legal Trainee Scheme (LTS) offering 15 pupillages or training contracts for those seeking to complete their legal training and qualify as fully practicing lawyers. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 9 May 2012 The recruitment process opened on the 19th April 2012 to those prospective candidates who have already completed their [...]

Do you have an unpaid internship lined up or are you planning to do some pro bono or voluntary work? If lack of funds is an issue for you, why not consider applying for a bursary from the Human Rights Lawyers Association? Every year our colleagues at HRLA offer 5 bursaries (approx £1000 each) to [...]

Part of the series of Legal Treasures Tours (SOAS) The second port of call is the India Office Records at the British Library, which is the repository of the archives of the private and public foreign bodies that governed India from the East India Company (1600-1858) onwards. The collection also covers some neighbouring countries. If [...]

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL SARAJEVO 2012 “Tailoring Transitional Justice” 18 – 28 JULY 2012 The PRAVNIK Association (Bosnia) in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Trust (Germany) is pleased to announce the annual transitional law summer school in Sarajevo. Applications from graduates interested in transitional justice and the rule of law as it obtains in South East Europe [...]

An event organised by  UCL’s Institute for Global Law The moribund state of Doha Round WTO negotiations has heightened concerns about the impact of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on the progress of global trade liberalization. PTAs have proliferated over the past two decades. There are approximately 300 PTAs now in force, and all but one [...]

Current Legal Problems Lecture Series (UCL) Why in the 21st century is there such a lack of understanding and scholarly research in this country about one of the key institutions of the state – the judiciary?  Recent work with juries has dispelled the myth that the law prevents research with and about juries.  This lecture [...]

What is the appropriate role of international human rights and humanitarian organisations in the “developing world”? If international human rights and humanitarian actions are to genuinely be a strategy for solidarity, what should be their premises and their rules? Are there cases where solidarity in defence of human rights is “wrong” or unhelpful? Are there [...]