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What it’s like to be a law student turned legal secretary

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We recently caught up with Myfanwy Sequeira, a law graduate who now works at Brockbanks as a legal secretary. Myfanwy kindly shared the path she took as a student, her 3 key pieces of advice for aspiring legal professionals and an insight into life as a student and secretary. What path have you taken to study law?

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The Critical Role of Lawyers and Bar Associations in Achieving Net Zero

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Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Out Now: Bizer on Violations of Personality Rights on Social Media

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Based on a tweet by the ‘ enfant terrible of tech’, Elon Musk, Michael Douglas recently discussed ‘Conflict of Laws of Freedom of Speech on Elon Musk’s Twitter’ on this blog. Concerning tort law, Bizer is generally critical of the existing legal framework under Art. 4(3) Rome I.

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Court endorses private Section 1983 enforcement of spending clause enactments

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FNHRA, a law enacted under Congress’s spending clause powers, requires nursing facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid to “protect and promote the rights of each resident” as a condition of receiving funds. He warned of lurking question in this area of law, which HHC failed to develop and are “for another day.”

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New issue alert: RabelsZ 2/2021

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The Law and Economics of Extreme Sports Sponsoring in Comparative Perspective. This article investigates the law and economics of extreme sports sponsoring in a comparative perspective. It is based on 40 structured interviews with sponsored athletes from various common law and civil law jurisdictions.

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Review of: PP Penasthika, Unravelling Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Indonesia as an Illustrative Case Study (The Hague: Eleven Publishers 2022)

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Very recently, Indonesian private international law has attracted significant scholarship in the English language. [1] 1] Dr Penasthika’s monograph (‘the monograph’) [2] is one such work that deserves attention for its compelling and comprehensive account of choice of law in international commercial contracts in Indonesia.

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A day in the life of a future trainee associate

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I originally became interested in law due to the humanitarian work that I had been involved in, in Romania. This sparked an interest in human rights law. This was something that led to my pursuit of the law but it was also a subject that I thought would allow me to make a meaningful difference in the world.