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UCL's Alexander Murugasu; Daria Popescu; Yannick Hefti and Boris Sterk and Affiliate students from France - Isabelle Lemoynes de Forges and Anne-Sophie Verd produced excellent performances to triumph at the Annual French Law Moot, held at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Wednesday 10th March 2010.
UCL's Cassandra Heugh, Dimitris Katsikis, Laura Thompson and Saara Idelbi produced excellent performances to win the UK rounds of the Telders International Law Moot Competition.
The UCL Jessup team beat 19 other teams at the UK Nationals of the competition over the weekend to become the UK Champions. Having beaten Kings College in the Semi-final, UCL went on to face Oxford University in the Grand Final where they appeared before a panel of 6 judges, including Sir Michael Wood and Professor Robert McCorquodale. Jennifer Lim also received an award for the best oralist in the Grand Final.
Juries in England and Wales have been found to be fair, effective and efficient by the most in-depth study into the issue ever undertaken in this country, conducted by Professor Cheryl Thomas at the request of the Ministry of Justice.
Professor Cheryl Thomas has been appointed as the United Kingdom representative on the European Commission Lifelong Learning Project "Menu for Justice".
We are delighted to announce that the School of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has elected Professor John Lowry a Distinguished Global Jurist and appointed him a Visiting Professor.
UCL Carbon Capture Legal Programme to host a 'Global Legal Symposium on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)', in conjunction with New York University School of Law, on the 15th- 16th of March 2010.
The UCL Jurisprudence Review, the UK's first academic student law review, welcomed previous editors and contributors to its first Alumni Reunion. Editor-in-Chief, Yuvraj Joshi, welcomed alumni on behalf of the editorial board, which has grown from two students in 1994 to twenty this year.
Professor Philip Schofield will give a lunch hour lecture on 11 February which explains and explodes some of the myths surrounding Jeremy Bentham, whose corpse resides in UCL's South Cloisters, and explores the jurist, philosopher and legal and social reformer's remarkable life and work. View a mini-lecture here
Profesor Dawn Oliver has been elected Deputy Treasurer of the Honourable Society
of the Middle Temple and has also been elected President of the Study of Parliament Group.
