Come along to ELSA’s pub night  on Monday 13th February, 7 pm at The Waterfront bar, King’s College Student’s Union and join the ELSA Social Committee for drinks. We realise that this is Reading Week for many people  which is why we are postponing the Speed Dating event . However, if you are around an feel like mixing for a few student priced drinks, please come to KCLSU this evening (Mon 13 Feb). This event is free and everyone is welcome. Just bring your student ID.

The Waterfront bar is based in the Student Union, Macadam Building, Surrey St WC2. If you’ve never been to King’s, the bar gives you a great view of the river, London Eye, Parliament, Southbank etc.

All are welcome!

No cost involved (you buy your own drinks, of course).

The Waterfront
2nd Floor, Macadam Building
Surrey Street
WC2R 2NS

Nearest tube TEMPLE (2 mins) HOLBORN (15 mins), Charing X (15 mins)

MAP click here

Hope to see as many of you there as possible!
Please register on the event-brite page if you intend to come so we can get a rough idea about numbers. Thank you!

http://elsa.eventbrite.co.uk/

ELSA has arranged a series of  visits to the Supreme Court in Parliament Square. Due to last minute cancellations, there are THREE (3) places left for the visit on Wednesday 15 February at 10.45. Book online now.

Each tour should last around 45 minutes and will include an introduction to the Supreme Court, why it has moved from the House of Lords, The Constitutional Reform Act, The separation of powers between legislatures and judiciary.  It will also explain the type of cases which are dealt with at the Supreme Court, what is meant by a point of law with some examples of cases explained. Finally the tour guide will talk about the current building and its connections with Middlesex as well as the new art work of the building.

After the educational part of the visit, you will be able to sit in court to watch a hearing. Cases for this term are listed here. http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/docs/michaelmas_term_2010.pdf

DATES:

• Weds, 15 February @ 10.45am – 3 places left
• Mon, 27 February @ 1.45pm – 1 place left
• Weds, 7 March @ 10.45am – 10 places available
• Mon, 9 March @ 1.45pm – 22 places available
• Mon, 2 April @ 1.45pm – 23 places available
• Thurs, 19 April @ 1.45pm – 20 places available

Cost £5 / FREE for members!

USEFUL LINKS

• Supreme Court website
  
• Supreme Court blog
• How to get to the court

ADDRESS: The Supreme Court, Parliament Square, London SW1P 3BD

REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE

Abstract: ‘Conventional accounts of freedom, and predominantly liberal debates about the concept of freedom, continue to maintain a distinction between negative, positive, or republican accounts of what it means to both be at liberty as an agent, and to have a certain type of political liberty as a citizen. This seems to hold whether you are interested in the concept historically or analytically. It seems to me, however, that the predominant account of freedom that are extant in the liberal tradition of thinking about liberty are themselves misunderstood if they are thought of in these terms. That is not a particularly novel thought in itself, but what I will try to show is how there was in fact a rather mainstream way of thinking about freedom that did unite major thinkers who are foundational to modern liberalism, but the account of individual and political liberty that they offer conceives of freedom as a form of propriety. What the study of Locke, Montesquieu, Smith, Mill and T. H. Green suggests is that by regulating one’s passions internally, and by being judged to act appropriately in public, a form of governed conduct is equated with the state of being able both to act freely, and to be understood to be a free person. So, the historical unity of a liberal tradition might well be upheld, but only when its historical and normative foundations are adequately reconsidered.

Date: Wednesday, 8 February, 2012
Time: 5-7 p.m.
Venue: Pyramid Room, K4U.04, Strand Campus, King’s College London

All welcome. Registration is not necessary.

About the speaker:
Dr Rosemary Hollis is Professor of Middle East Policy Studies and Director of the Olive Tree Scholarship Programme at City University London. She was formerly Director of Research at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) from 2005 to 2008, a post she assumed after serving as head of their Middle East programme for a decade. She graduated from King’s College London with an undergraduate degree in history and an MA in war studies before lecturing in Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, Washington DC (where she also completed a PhD in political science) throughout the 1980s. From 1990-95, she was head of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies’ Middle Eastern Programme.

Tuesday 7 February 2012
18:00-19:30
Old Anatomy Theatre, Strand Campus, King’s College London

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence invites you to the next Seminar:

by Dr. Waltraud Schelkle (LSE, European Institute)

Waltraud Schelkle is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the European Institute and has been at LSE since autumn 2001, teaching courses on the political economy of European integration at MSc and PhD level. She is an Adjunct Professor of economics at the Economics Department of the Free University of Berlin where she did a post-doctorate degree (Habilitation) in 1999 with a thesis on “The new theory of monetary integration” (published in German in 2001). Dr Schelkle is also a (non-resident) Senior Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. and member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Social Policy Research (Zentrum für Sozialpolitik) in Bremen.

She has previously worked as a development economist, from 1989-2002 as a staff member of the German Institute of Development in Berlin with a research focus on the financial system in development and doing her first PhD on India’s development as a monetary economy since Independence (London 1994). Other earlier appointments include two Research Fellowships at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, and Visiting Professor of International Economic Relations at the Free University of Berlin before coming to London. Her research interests are the evolving economic governance of EMU and the role of the EU in member states’ welfare state reforms.
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
5 – 7pm
Room K6.63, King’s Building, Strand

All welcome!

You can:

• Talk to chambers’ pupils, tenants and members of pupillage committees and get all your answers to life at the Bar
• Talk to representatives from law schools and other course providers about all things course-related
• Compare different sets and course providers to make the best career match
• Attend talks given by leading barristers about careers at the Bar – a chance to gain insights from among the best in the profession
• Find out how to finance your career at the Bar
• Pick up your must-read copy of the Pupillages Handbook and, if you haven’t got a copy already, the leading sector-specific advice publication TARGETjobs Law.

It’s the only national pupillage fair and contains representatives from the broadest areas of practice.

Pre-register here to fast-track your entry and get to the chambers just that little bit quicker.

Oxbridge-London Biotech Roundtable Presents:

Two professionals with extensive experience in advising their clients on how to protect their ideas and create value from them are joined in a panel discussion by the recent founder of a medical imaging company. Focusing on the biotech sector, they will be discussing the critical importance of IP, potential pitfalls, how to know how much one’s ideas are worth and much more.

Speakers:

Quinton Fivelman is the Business Development Manager of IP Pragmatics, who help their clients identify, manage and create value from a broad range of intellectual property assets through a combination of value creation and cost management services. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as well as the Director and co-founder of the education provider Enter-rise Ltd as well as a member of the non-profit research group DevelopMed.

Janita Good is a partner at the Reading office of the law firm Osborne Clarke and head of the Life Science Sector (Thames Valley). Her work focuses on corporate and intellectual property transactions, especially in the biotechnology sector, underpinned by her D.Phil. in biochemistry. She is a member of a range of professional bodies and sits on the IP advisory board for the Bio Industry Association.

When: 6 pm, Thursday 9 Feb 2012 
Where: Imperial College London, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Building LT408, SW7 2AZ

Please sign-up

Careers Event

Speakers:

Jonathan Knight, Chatham House
Alexandra Crossley, Senior Researcher at Center for Social Justice
Tina Soria, Research Analyst at RUSI
Elvira Thissen, SustainAbility

About:
The purpose of the occasion is to answer the multiple queries of our students regarding how to enter a think tank, what kind of work to expect and why it is a valuable career path. The event will start as a regular presentation where panellists can each present their own think tank and present their current position and their areas of expertise, their previous experience, how they entered the think tank world and the good skills required to work in a think tank. The second part of the event will be followed by a wine reception and 1-to-1 discussions with students to allow them to ask specific questions directly to the speakers.

When: Monday, 6th of February 2012,
Time: 6 -7.30pm
Where: Great Hall, Strand Campus, King’s College London

Please RSVP