The City Law School has won an award in the Higher Education Student Volunteers Awards in respect of its groundbreaking course in partnership with The National Centre for Domestic Violence ("NCDV").

Lecturer Veronica Lachkovic collected the award earlier this summer at The Higher Education Academy's Annual Conference.

The partnership means that CLS students can train as McKenzie Friends, non-legally qualified advisers, with the NCDV - a UK charity providing free assistance to victims of domestic abuse.

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Sir Geoffrey, of Temple Garden Chambers in London, was a key figure in the prosecution of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic the notorious war criminal who died in his cell in 2000 awaiting trial for crimes against humanity.

Sir Geoffrey's presentation on the impact of The Legal Services Act formed the centrepiece of the three-day conference, which began earlier this month in London's historic Inner Temple.

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LILAC 2011 - Experiencing Legal Education

The Learning in Law Annual Conference 2011, which will take place from 28th to 29th January 2011 at the University of Warwick, has issued a call for abstracts.

The key themes of the conference will be:

• Better teaching
• Flexibility of learning
• Graduate impact

Law lecturers and students are invited to submit contributions which fit within these themes and in particular, but not exclusively, can be included in one or more of the following topics:

• The impact of the National Student Survey
• How we can improve student engagement
• Concerns about education for sustainable development
• The external examiner system

Proposals should be in the form of a 400-750 word abstract, along with the proposer's biography (150 words maximum). The abstract should contain: the title of the proposal; the contributor's name and professional affiliation; the intended format (e.g. paper presentation, interactive workshop, etc.); a summary of the proposal (with an indication of which topic(s) listed above form the focus of the proposal); and a statement (including brief references to the key literature) as to the intended contribution the proposal makes to the scholarship of teaching and learning law.

The deadline for submission is Friday 10th September 2010, and all abstracts will be peer reviewed.

To submit an abstract, or to find out more information, please contact the Senior Teaching & Learning Advisor at the UK Centre for Legal Education.