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Extracurricular Skills

The School of Law supports a variety of extracurricular activities designed to provide students with opportunities to develop a range of useful skills. Some of these activities can be used to attain Future Ready accreditation.

MOOTING

Through participation in the Mooting programme students develop advocacy and research skills, communication and analysis skills, problem solving skills and develop the ability to think on their feet.  All skills which help with academic learning and enhance future career prospects. 

The programme, run in conjunction with the Student Law Society has is a long and successful history with previous successes including winners of the NSLS Mooting, finalists in the OUP Mooting competition and most recently winning The Belfast Moot Final which had a judging panel consisting of 5 supreme Court Justices.


STREET LAW

The emphasis in Street Law is on clinical legal education with students undertaking real or simulated legal work under supervision of practising lawyers and then given the opportunity to review critically that experience and reflect on the outcome.

Students on the programme also have the opportunity to identify a matter of legal concern, research relevant material with a view ultimately to presenting their findings to a selected audience in a user-friendly format.


LAWPOD

LawPod is an award-winning weekly podcast produced Richard Summerville , that gives students and staff a platform to explore law and legal research in an engaging and scholarly way. It provides reflective commentary on current events, insights into the current research being conducted within the school, and a forum for staff, guest speakers and students to share ideas. Staff and students collaborate in its creation, with students encouraged to take the leading roles.

The current Directors are Dr Rosie Cowan and Dr Peter Doran.

You can find the published output of the podcast, including details and recordings of more than 190 episodes, here http://lawpod.org


Exploring Law Forum

ELF aims to bridge the gap between black letter law and everyday life. We want to build a community in the School where students can think critically and creatively about the law, all while honing essential skills. ELF enables students to define their own interest in law and legal practice beyond textbooks. In practice, this means looking at how justice, equality work in the everyday and how the law can be changed, transformed, and critiqued. We do this through a variety of skill-based and creative activities, from voice coaching workshops, book clubs, film events and tech panels.

https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/exploring-law-forum/


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STUDENT LAW JOURNAL

The School of Law supports a student led, double peer reviewed, online student law journal.There are a number of roles, editorial and other, available for students on a yearly basis.

The journal accepts submissions from students for undergraduate work for which they have received a grade.

https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/studentlawjournal


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Clubs and Societies
Enjoy a fulfilling role in campus life

Queen's University Belfast has over 220 Clubs and Societies, and more than a dozen of them have direct links to the School of Law. From Mooting to Mediation, and Women in Law to Walkie Talk Girlies, there is a whole range of opportunities for you to play a full role in our school and campus life, learning skills that employers tell us they really value in our graduates. 

Our School of Law has a long tradition of establishing and developing clubs and societies, both to improve academic and employability, but also to make a societal difference and have some enjoyment along the way. Many of the societies were founded by School of Law students and draw their membership from our student cohort, but there are also some cross-disciplinary societies that our school students play a leading role in. 

 

The foremost society that many of our students join upon arrival is The Law Society, and you can discover more about that society at (this link). We are also proud that our Women in Law support group plays a thriving role in campus life. Connect with them (here). Our school has a long association with the Malaysian Society of Northern Ireland, who play a vibrant part in campus life, and we strongly encourage you to reach out to them (here).

Our academic societies have long offered our students a rich vein of progression in their skills, improving their employability and academic performance. The Mooting Society in our School has won many awards and cemented its reputation as pre-eminent (see here for more). Likewise, in recent years, our Alternative Dispute Resolution has grown in stature, winning accolades. You can find out more about our ADR society (here).

In recent years, new societies that have proved very popular have come to the fore. QUB Law Students played the leading role in the founding of the award-winning Walkie Talkie Girlies, who have had a crucial role in promoting women's safety in the local community.. 

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