Life at the Bar webinars: Tuesday 11 October – Thursday 13 October

Exhibition, CV clinic and seminars: Saturday 15 October, London

Free to attend

The Bar Council returns with our first in-person Pupillage Fair exhibition since 2019. Taking place at etc. venues, 133 Houndsditch, Liverpool Street, London, on Saturday 15 October 2022, you will be able to visit over 80 exhibitors and meet with representatives from a wide range of pupillage providers and experts from across the Bar. This year the Pupillage Fair will also include a series of online fringe events in the week leading up to the exhibition on Saturday 15 October 2022, through which you will be able to hear what life is like as a barrister working in different areas of practice and find out about joining the Bar as a career changer or an applicant with a disability.

Welcome to our new postgraduate research students.

10:30-11:30 - Coffee Morning: New PGR starters welcome session

11:30-12:30 - Coffee Morning: Mingling session with all PGR students and staff

Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

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Starting with lunch in Room S2.09 at 12:30pm followed by Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12.

Talk Title: 'Two Cheers for the Overborne Will'

To learn more about all of the opportunities available at EY

We will be joined by representatives from Linklaters. A great opportunity to find out more about different practice areas, develop commercial awareness and gain top tips ahead of applications!

Before submitting your scholarship application this year, you should attend our Inns of Court scholarship panel event, where you can hear all about the scholarship application process from representatives from the Inns, current Bar students who were successful in securing scholarships last year, and qualified barristers. Our panel will talk through what the Inns look for in scholarship applicants, and will be happy to answer any questions that you have.

Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

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Join us for an insight into the Bar where you will learn about the Inns of Court, scholarships, Qualifying Sessions and more, as well as a talk from a barrister, or recent student about their experience studying for the bar. There will be an opportunity to ask questions. Free to attend and open to all.

The first Colloquium will take place at 4:15-6:00pm, Wednesday 12 October in S0.17. The meeting will be in-person, with an online option for those who can't be on campus Note the slightly adjusted start time of 4.15pm for the first Colloquium.

 Speakers: Susana Monsó (UNED) & Eze Paez (Pompeu Fabra)

 Talk: Why death still harms animals who only half get it: Ethical implications of the minimal concept of death (w/ Eze Paez)

 Abstract: In a series of recent works (Monsó 2021; 2022; Monsó & Osuna-Mascaró 2021), I have defended the idea that the concept of death is not circumscribed to the human species, but rather that many animals can understand death, at least to some extent. The core of my argument is the idea that the ‘minimal concept of death’ (‘MCoD’) requires little cognitive complexity and that the cognition required for it is fairly common in the animal kingdom. However, the MCoD refers to the capacity that an animal has to understand what has happened when another has died, but does not indicate that the animal has any notion of her own personal mortality. As such, it is not immediately obvious what ethical implications follow from it. Indeed, accounts of the prudential badness of death that make it dependent on an individual’s concept of death hinge on the ethical importance of having an awareness of one’s own future death (e.g., Cigman 1981; Belshaw 2012, 2015; Rollin 2015), so the presence of an MCoD in animals might not alter the extent to which death is thought to directly harm animals.

In this talk (developed together with Eze Paez), I will show that, contrary to this first impression, the deintellectualised account of the concept of death that I have defended does modify how we ought to think about the badness of death for animals, even in those cases in which animals do not develop a notion of death as something that will inevitably befall them. I will develop this argument in three steps. First, I will summarise my theory regarding the distribution of the MCoD in nature. Second, I will give an overview of different accounts of the badness of death and how they relate to individuals’ understanding of death. Lastly, I will show how the truth of my analysis would entail that, even on the most stringent and demanding accounts, death harms many more animals than is often presupposed.

Are you interested in a 2023 Investment Banking Analyst, Associate or Internship position and would like to learn more about the job, Credit Suisse and first-hand experiences of bankers? Please join us for an evening of active learning as you participate in our virtual interactive taster sessions in Investment Bank: Securities Research, Investment Bank: Sales & Trading, and Investment Banking & Capital Markets.

At this session, join four of our current Hong Kong trainees as they discuss their path into law, their training contract so far and experiences at Clifford Chance. This is a great opportunity to gain a deeper insight into our firm, the training contract and to have your questions answered. Registration will close on Friday 7 October and all applicants will be emailed the access link in advance. Times are HK time.

Hear from past BIUCAC finalists on their journey into law and hints and tips to succeeding in the competition.