Southampton Law School

News

JD Pathway available to LLB Accelerated degree students

8 May 2013

The Southampton Law School is delighted to announce that from the start of the 2013/14 academic year, M101 Accelerated programme students can choose to enrol onto the JD Pathway.


Advising world leaders on cybercrime

22 April 2013

Leading expert on cybercrime and ILAWS member, Professor Sylvia Kierkegaard addressed delegates at a major international conference about a new European initiative to improve definitions of cybercrime and potential punishments for cybercriminals.


Legal aspects of trust on the Internet

8 April 2013

Law lecturers Dr Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon and Roksana Moore from the Southampton Law School ILAWS Research Centre are part of a major European Union project, which is examining questions of online trust and trustworthiness.


The NHS in crisis? Legal aspects of the Mid-Staffs inquiry into needless deaths

7 April 2013

Senior NHS managers and lawyers joined academic staff and students at a Southampton Law School event to learn more about what happened at Stafford Hospital that led to many needless deaths and poor quality patient care.


Taking on the best in the UK

6 March 2013

Southampton law students have taken on some of the best would-be barristers in the country in a competition to test their skills in legal argument.


Law in action

6 March 2013

Law students saw how courts and tribunals operate in real life as part of the Southampton Law School’s Employability Skills Programme for second years.


How to succeed in a career at the Bar

6 March 2013

Many law students dream of a career at the Bar. But it is not easy to gain a place in Chambers. The highs and lows of advocacy in the courts were graphically described by barrister James Wakefield in one of the Southampton Law School’s Employability Skills Programme.


Careers at a top London law firm

6 March 2013

Second year law students got the inside track on life in a city law firm at a talk by two lawyers from Allen & Overy as part of the Southampton Law School’s Employability Skills Programme. Both were Southampton alumni; Partner Don McGown graduated in 1979 and trainee Adam Baldwin in 2009.