Client Interviewing Success for Surrey Law students

29 January 2010

A team of Law Students from the School of Law recently scooped the first and second prizes in a client interviewing competition between the University of Surrey, Kingston University and Guildford College of Law. The competition, started in memory of former local Solicitor Chris Andrews, is organised annually by the Surrey Law Society. This year it was hosted by the University of Surrey on 14 November 2009.

Prevention of Unsafe Abortion through Legal Reform

21 October 2009

Mekdes Libasie, a PhD researcher in the School of Law, published a monograph with German publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Saarkrucken in May 2009. The monograph’s title is Prevention of Unsafe Abortion through Legal Reform: International Human Rights Law and National Implementation in Ethiopia ISBN 978-3639135718. 

New book on International Trade in Timber

14 October 2009

Walters Nsoh, member of the Environmental Regulatory Research Group, is author of a new monograph on international trade in timber. Controlling Illegal Logging and the Trade in Illegally Harvested Timber: An Assessment of Forest/Timber Certification as an Instrument to Ensure Legal and Sustainable Timber Production (VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Saarkrucken, Germany 2009)

RM2 Sponsor University Boat Club

14 October 2009

After graduating with a Law degree from the University of Surrey, Victoria Scott, took a position with one of her placement companies, RM2. Throughout her time at Surrey, Victoria was an active member of the University’s boat club and  maintained regular contact with the club throughout her placement year. This led RM2 to offer to be a Club sponsor for  the 2008-2009 rowing season. 

School of Law joins Society of Legal Scholars Council

11 September 2009

Professor Alison Firth and Dr. Miriam Goldby presented papers at the centenary conference of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) which took place at Keele between the 7th and 10th September. Alison's paper was entitled Seizing False and Naughtie Wares - Livery Companies' Powers of Search from the 15th Century and Miriam's Expanding the Arsenal: New Weapons Against Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Under CTA 2008 - Will they Hit the Mark?