Nic Madge Interviewed By Sahana Karthik and Majd Mansour His Honour Nic Madge started off his illustrious career as a human rights lawyer before transitioning into a more judicial role. He became a successful district judge before moving on to become a circuit judge, trying criminal cases that involved serious and highly emotional offences. As…
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A Series: Public Interest Careers Pt.3 (JLAP Interviews)
James Harper Interviewed by Sahana Karthik James is currently the Legal Director of Global Projects for LexisNexis, a prominent global provider of legal, government and business information sources. He is also the Executive Sponsor of their Rule of Law and Corporate Social Responsibility projects and has previously referred to the rule of law as being the…
A Series: Public Interest Careers Pt.2 (JLAP Interviews)
Walker Syachalinga Interviewed by Brendon Yik Walker began his successful career at the University of Kent where he studied an undergraduate degree in law, alongside a volunteer role at the Kent Law Clinic which played a key role in his career progression. After passing the Bar Professional Training Course, he embarked on a Master of…
A Series: Public Interest Careers Pt.1 (JLAP Interviews)
Pascale Bird Interviewed by Sahana Karthik and Brendon Yik Pascale began her illustrious legal career in Brussels, studying Law there before embarking on a Master of Laws Course at LSE in International Business Law. She then joined Simmons & Simmons as an associate in the EU and Competition Law department, advising on EU and UK…
Bridging the gaps in the fight against Hate Crime
By Nicole Pearson Starting a conversation & focusing on the bigger picture: missing pieces of current hate crime prevention measures It’s of no contention that the numbers of reports of hate crimes have been consistently increasing over the last decade, reaching over a hundred thousand reports in 2018/19 according to official Home Office statistics. But these…
Reflections on the relationship between the law and disadvantaged sectors of society
By Ayesha Sohanpal Ayesha is a 2nd year law student on the LLB course at UCL. Here she reflects on her experience of participating in the Homelessness case study as part of Laws Connections, UCL’s 2-week law course aimed at introducing first year undergraduates to the study of law and its role in addressing social…
The Inhumanity of Homelessness Law
By Laura Beaumont “Home is where the heart is” but, if that logic follows, around 320,000 hearts are lost in Britain currently. By bringing this housing crisis to my attention, Laws’ Connections prompted me to look beyond the black letter of the law and to evaluate legislation through human eyes. To exemplify this, the article shall…
UCL Laws student members of LWOB contribute to advocacy against gender-based violence in Namibia
By Emma Ziegler Steen and Jenna Tan The Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB) Student Division at UCL has for the past six years been engaging in research, fundraising, and publicity work to aid Lawyers without Borders’ humanitarian efforts in upholding the rule of law internationally. As part of the UCL Division’s work, its Research Team took part in LWOB’s Rule…
Volunteering: ‘You know your Housing Rights Project’
By Caroline Jixin Gao A second year UCL Law student, was one of eight students to volunteer for the pilot project, in partnership with Haringey Citizens and Hodge Jones & Allen. In this blog post, she reflects on her experience delivering public legal education on housing law in Haringey and the wider implications of the…
Reflecting on my experience as a Grassroots Project Volunteer
By Ila Tyagi In this blog post Ila Tyagi, an LLM student at UCL, reflects on her experience volunteering for the Grassroots Human Rights Project and how the education system in the UK compares to the education system in her home country, India. When I first entered the state school in Eastlea, I couldn’t believe…