Herbert Smith Freehills – Inside the HeadlinesEvent

Herbert Smith Freehills – Inside the Headlines

Date: Tuesday 8 October 2019

Venue: Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel, Edinburgh, EH2 4HQ

Time: 6-9pm

Dress code: Smart Casual

 

Do you want to find out more about a global elite law firm that works with some of the world’s biggest and most ambitious organisations?

 

If so, the Herbert Smith Freehills team will be holding a presentation for your university and would like to meet you. We’ll talk you through what went on behind the scenes of two of our many headline-grabbing deals and we’ll tell you all about the roles and responsibilities of trainees working on these projects.

 

You’ll have the chance to network over drinks and canapés with partners, associates and trainees and you can find out more about our vacation schemes, training contracts and international opportunities.

 

Sign-up link: https://forms.akkroo.com/events/hsf/258540?type=preregister&background=ffffff&font=00a0bc&page=ffffff

12-month placement in Human Resources for 2020/2

Are you looking for a 12-month placement in Human Resources for 2020/21? Do you want real responsibility with the chance to influence household name coffee brands including Tassimo, Kenco, L’Or and Jacobs?

Global Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company (FMCG) JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE) is looking for year-in-industry students from all degree backgrounds to join their diverse, global team of over 12,000 coffee champions, on a 12-month placement in Human Resources.

Company Jacobs Douwe Egberts
Location Hurley, Berkshire OR Banbury, Oxfordshire
Roles 12-month Year in Industry Placements in Human Resources
Salary £18,500 + £1,000 sign-on bonus
Assessment dates 26th November – 7th December 2019
Start Date July 2020
Apply here https://employers.sanctuarygraduates.co.uk/jde/job/hr-jde/?ref=DEPT
Deadline 9th November 2019

Who is the company?

– JDE is a €5 billion global business with around 15,000 associates based in 28 different countries, selling their brands in over 100 different countries around the world.

– Formed in 2015, JDE retains a start-up feel containing some of the leading brands in the Coffee and Tea industry including – Kenco, L’OR, Tassimo and Douwe Egberts to name a few.

– JDE UK is headquartered in Banbury, Oxfordshire, which is one of JDE’s global ‘Power Plants’ responsible for producing 20,000 tonnes of coffee per year across 9 production lines.

– The UK represents a top 5 global market for JDE and continues to be a growth engine for the category, driving premiumisation by leading the single-serve partition with the Tassimo brand and premiumising the instant coffee segment through Kenco, L’OR and the Douwe Egberts brands.

– JDE believes amazing things can happen over a cup of coffee and with values including Entrepreneurship, Solidarity, Accountability, Simplicity and Discipline working at JDE offers you an exciting opportunity to make an impact in the world’s largest pure play coffee company.

– JDE’s goal is simple but ambitious: a coffee for every cup.

Everyone deserves the coffee they love.

What are the roles?

– There are 2 very different HR placements available this year at JDE.

1.Talent Manager – Learning & Development (Hurley):

– Learning and development (L&D) play a key role in the development and administration of L&D programme

– Within Talent Acquisition, you will learn about sourcing and selection tools & techniques, and have responsibility for managing key aspects of JDE’s early-years recruitment

– You will be involved in student charities, raising funds and working across various parts of the business to develop your communication, project management and entrepreneurial skills

2.Human Resources (Banbury):

– You will work with the Manufacturing HR team, supporting the Senior HR Business Partner and 2 HR Business Partners with more traditional HR delivery.

– This will involve working on updating policies, employee relation cases, trade union communication, supporting change programmes, supporting engagement strategy, as well as day to admin handling such as new starters, on-boarding, updates etc.

Why should you apply?

Travel: JDE provide awesome opportunities to travel. Last year around half the placement students travelled abroad.

Fantastic perks: 25 days holiday, free hot beverages (not just coffee!) and even Barista training!

Student Charity Committee: Every Friday all the placement students get together for a fun charity meeting. Last year their charity work raised over £30,000 in total.

Culture: At JDE they have a friendly, hands-on environment where everyone is encouraged to contribute and all opinions are valued. There is also a strong mentoring programme and you will be periodically reporting to senior business stakeholders and interacting with other placement students.

Corporate Social Responsibility: From sourcing ingredients responsibly with internationally recognised standards, to partnering directly with suppliers to improve working conditions and protect natural resources, and aiming to make all manufacturing sites landfill free by 2020, at JDE they are driven by their passion for coffee & tea, care for people and respect for the environment.

Who is best suited to this role?

– Applications from any degree background are welcome.

– We’re looking for students who want to get stuck in and be proactive, who can work well in a team, are well organised and have good attention to detail.

– You must be an undergraduate looking for a 12-month Year-in-Industry placement from July 2020 to July 2021.

Click here to apply now: 

https://employers.sanctuarygraduates.co.uk/jde/job/hr-jde/?ref=DEPT

It only takes 30 seconds to register your interest in these roles, and we’ll support you throughout the full application process.

Wellbeing Week Reminder – 15th-18th October

Dear Students,

There is still time to book your place on our Wellbeing Week sessions.

Please see the Wellbeing Week Full Programme poster for the full Wellbeing Week Schedule.

Therapets and Yoga are now fully booked, however we will let you know if there are any cancellations and we will operate a waiting list on the day of the sessions. More details about this will be announced next week.

These events are designed with your health and wellbeing in mind, we want to help you de-stress and have fun. Take some time out to re-charge and re-energise.

Events still available:

Tuesday 15 October – 1-2pm: Student Wellbeing Session – Student Support Services
Find out about the support services the University offers at this friendly, informal Q&A session. Representatives from Student Disability Service, Student Counselling Service and Nightline will provide information and answer your questions about support and volunteering opportunities.  Info leaflets and healthy snacks provided. Book here

Wednesday 16 October – 1-2pm: Student Wellbeing Session – Edinburgh Sports Union
At this energising and interactive session, discover the benefits of exercising to support your studies, health and wellbeing. Michael Webster from the Sports Union will guide you through the diverse range of sports and fitness activities within the University. Book here

Friday 18 October – 4-6pm – Relaxing Movie Afternoon!
End the week with a relaxing film showing of ‘Little Miss Sunshine’. Book here

We look forward to seeing you at a Wellbeing Week event soon!

Best wishes,

Edinburgh Law School

Want to learn more about a global firm with enterprise-transforming transactions

Want to learn more about a global firm with enterprise-transforming transactions? If yes, this is the event for you!

Join CLS for an evening of networking, drinks, and canapés with the world’s second highest-grossing law firm, Latham & Watkins! This is the first time the American firm is visiting Scotland, so don’t miss out on this opportunity!

Hear from Associates, Partners and Graduate Recruitment!

When – 6:30pm, 7th October, Monday.

Where – MacLaren Stuart Room, Old College.

 

Register your interest at – https://forms.gle/GGfvveh1Sjh7fPd47

Jolyon Maugham QC in conversation

Jolyon Maugham QC in conversation

6pm Monday 7th October, 2019

Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College

 

Jolyon Maugham QC is a barrister practising in tax law and in recent years has become a key figure behind a series of landmark cases testing fundamental principles in the legal system as it deals with the aftermath of the 2016 EU referendum vote and Brexit. As founder and director of the Good Law Project he is the man behind the Wightman case on whether Article 50 could be revoked, the Cherry case on prorogation of Parliament, and currently is co-petitioner with Dale Vince OBE and Joanna Cherry QC MP is petitioning the Court of Session to seek to enforce the Prime Minister’s statutory obligations to avoid a no deal Brexit.

 

Hear him in conversation on Monday 7th October discussing the Good Law Project, the Brexit cases, and why he is raising these actions in the Scottish courts. There will be an opportunity for questions afterwards.

 

All staff and undergraduate and postgraduate students are welcome.

Foreign Fighters, Terrorists and Anyone Caught In Between – Guantanamo Military Commissions and the Distinction Principle

Foreign Fighters, Terrorists and Anyone Caught In Between – Guantanamo Military Commissions and the Distinction Principle

Tue 15 October 2019

17:30-19:00

Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College

 

This event will explore the principle of distinction as defined in international humanitarian law and how this impacts a variety of issues including: the obligations of non-state actors in armed conflict; the prosecution of different actors through military commissions; how the distinction principle has changed since the US War on Terror began; how to categorise intelligence and mercenary paramilitaries; human rights breaches linked to detention of individuals inappropriately categorised, etc.

The panel will feature both academics and practitioners, including two of the defense lawyers in the 9/11 military commission case taking place in Guantánamo Bay. Dr Kasey McCall-Smith will chair the event.

James Connell is an attorney detailed to represent Ammar al Baluchi on behalf of the Military Commissions Defense Organization. Mr. Connell began his career as a public defender in Las Vegas, Nevada and Fairfax. Virginia. After moving to private practice, Mr. Connell began to represent people against whom the government was seeking the death penalty. From 2003, forward, Mr. Connell has worked primarily on death penalty cases. His clients have included Darrell Rice (the alleged Route 29 Stalker, falsely accused of multiple murders in Virginia); John Allen Mohammad (the DC Sniper, executed in 2009); and Eddie Bell (whose case was heard in the Supreme Court before his execution in 2009). Mr. Connell first participated in the Guantanamo Bay military commissions process in 2008 and has been engaged full-time in the defense of Mr. al Baluchi since 2011.

Dylan Craig is senior professorial lecturer of International Relations at American University’s School of International Studies (SIS) in Washington, DC, and the author of “Sovereignty, War and the Global State” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). His current research projects concern proxy wars, the intermediarization of violence more generally, and the “sovereign interstices” to which these intermediarized forms of violence are adapted. Before joining the SIS community in 2004, he taught colonial and Cold War history at Rhodes University in South Africa.

Benjamin R. Farley is a trial attorney and law-of-war counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense, Military Commissions Defense Organization, where he represents Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the five codefendants in the 9/11 conspiracy case who face capital charges before the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. From 2013 until 2017, he served as a Senior Adviser to the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure at the U.S. Department of State. A 2012 Presidential Management Fellow, Mr. Farley received a J.D. with honors from Emory University School of Law, where he served as the editor-in-chief of the Emory International Law Review. Mr. Farley has published on topics including sovereignty, statehood, and international humanitarian law in various law and policy journals.

Katharine Fortin is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University where she teaches international humanitarian law, international human rights law and public international law. She is the author of The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Lieber Prize. Katharine has written widely about the framework of law that applies to armed groups in non-international armed conflicts and is an editor of the Armed Groups and International Law blog.

This event is free and open to all. Registration is required (below)

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/foreign-fighters-terrorists-and-anyone-caught-in-between-tickets-70894801259

Call for students interested in Price moot

Dear students,

Our Law School will be fielding a team at the Monroe Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition again this year.

The Price Moot Court is a unique competition organised by the University of Oxford focused on contemporary questions of freedom of speech, media law, social media and communications technologies. Traditionally regarded as one of the “grand slam” moot court competitions, the Price Moot gathers students and leading academics and practitioners from around the globe: regional rounds are established in South Asia, Asia Pacific, the Americas, South-East Europe, North-East Europe and the Middle East. The yearly final rounds in Oxford are an incredibly global and diverse experience! This is also an extraordinary opportunity for students to learn about a contemporary and expanding field of law in a practical and fun way, mingling with fellow students from other countries as well as with leading experts: in the past years, judges at the competition have included members of the European Court of Human Rights, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and legal counsels from prominent global law firms and companies such as Facebook and Google who shared their insights with the participants.

The website of the Price Moot Court is http://pricemootcourt.socleg.ox.ac.uk/ and contains lots of relevant information. You may wish to start checking this year’s Moot case and rules at: http://pricemootcourt.socleg.ox.ac.uk/case-and-rules/.

In order to participate in the competition, a team will have to submit two memorials (one each for the applicant and respondent sides) in January and then take part in the oral rounds in Oxford from Tuesday 31 March – Friday 3 April 2020. Please note that, starting from this year, teams from Europe will qualify for the International rounds on the basis of the quality of their memorials.

We are seeking to build up a team of highly motivated, hard-working students willing to commit themselves to this challenging yet surely rewarding experience. You will be working along with your team members and coach on analysing the case, creating your arguments, filing your memorials and finally arguing in front of the judges. A team typically consists of four members although more participants can help with preparing for both the written submission and the oral pleadings. Participation is invited from both LLB and LLM students.

If you are interested in participating, please send an email to Dr Paolo Cavaliere [paolo.cavaliere@ed.ac.uk]. You will be invited to attend a brief interview with Paolo and the team coach Thomas Broderick on Thursday 10th October at 11am in room 2.348, Old College.

If you have any questions in the meantime, please feel free to get in touch with Paolo.

 

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Dr Paolo Cavaliere
Lecturer in Digital Media & IT Law
(He / Him)

University of Edinburgh Law School
Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL

Scotland UK
Tel. +44 (0)131 650 6957

Consent Collective – October 2019

Dear all,

After a very successful programme of events in 2018, The Consent Collective are working with The University of Edinburgh again later this month as part of our programme to tackle gender-based violence and sexual violence within the University community.

Upcoming events at The University of Edinburgh:

  • The film “Roll Red Roll” will be screened at 6.30pm on Tuesday 22nd October in Room G04 at 50 George Square (with panel Q and A afterwards).
  • The #MeToo Surviving University workshop will take place at 11.30am on Weds 23rd October in Room LG06 at the David Hume Tower.

Please see their website (https://www.consentcollective.com/edinburgh) for full details on these events and how to register for any events you are interested in attending.

Many thanks and we hope to see you there!

Edinburgh Law School

Law School Wellbeing Week Yoga

Dear Students,

We are delighted to announce bookings for our Law School Wellbeing Week Yoga are now open. Please click on the links below to book your place.

Please note spaces are limited – please only book one session to ensure as many students as possible get an opportunity. Thank you!

These events are designed with your health and wellbeing in mind, we want to help you de-stress and have fun. Take some time out to re-charge and re-energise.

Book now!

Wednesday 16 October – 3-5pm, Yoga – Ken Mason Master’s Hub, LG.07

Slow down your day with gentle, de-stressing and relaxing yoga. Yoga is an ancient practice that brings together body and mind. By incorporating breathing exercises, meditation and poses this practice encourages relaxation and reduces stress. These sessions aim to be inclusive and are suitable for both new and experienced yoga practitioners.

Yoga Session 1 – 3-4pm – Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yoga-session-1-tickets-74087893885

Yoga Session 2 – 4.15-5pm – Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yoga-session-2-tickets-74088226881

Mats will be provided, however please feel free to bring your own.

Please wear comfortable clothes and bring warm socks and a jumper for the relaxation part of the session.

Law Postgraduate Students please note: the Masters Hub will be closed from 2-5pm in order for us to hold these sessions which are part of the Law School’s Wellbeing Week. We thank you for your patience while we use the hub.  If you need a quiet study space during this time please go to Teaching Room 03 which will serve as a substitute PG study space for the afternoon. If you have any questions about this please contact the PG Office: pg.law@ed.ac.uk

There are still spaces on the following Wellbeing Week sessions – book your place now!

Tuesday 15 October – 1-2pm: Student Wellbeing Session – Student Support Services – Book here

Wednesday 16 October – 1-2pm: Student Wellbeing Session – Edinburgh Sports Union – Book here

Friday 18 October – 4-6pm – Relaxing Movie Afternoon! – Book here

We look forward to seeing you at Wellbeing Week event soon!

Best wishes,

Edinburgh Law School

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