Brighton Law School | School of Business and Law

Celebrating International Women’s Day at the School of Business and Law

On Wednesday 8 March – International Women’s Day, we welcomed Teju Akande, Anaïs Sosson and Aaron Eckhoff to Elm House for our Women in Leadership event. Students, staff and alumni joined us for a CPD development session with Aaron, using lego serious play to aid conversation in showcasing equity – linking to this year’s #EmbraceEquity…

Invest in your future event brings together students, alumni and businesses

Invest in Your Future is all about our final-year undergraduate students. On Tuesday 7 March we’ll be welcoming final-year students, alumni and local business leaders to Elm House atrium. The School of Business and Law’s vision and mission puts learner success and employability at the heart of what we do. Come along and find out…

Client interviewing competition final for our Brighton Law School students

Our law students have been busy with the client interviewing competition final taking place on Tuesday 7 February. We were joined by three judges for the competition from local solicitors firm, Mayo Wynne Baxter, Jasmin Brown (one of our LLB graduates), Matt Parr and Georgia Dellar. Gillian Keenan, one of our law lecturers who oversees…

Law students and lecturer Gillian Keenan

Congratulations to our winning law student negotiators

Our Brighton Law School students took part in the negotiations competition final on Tuesday 10 January. Four teams of law students competed against each other and our judges were solicitors Jay Barnett and Lydia Goodward from DMH Stallard. Congratulations to our winner – Tom McCanlis, and our runners up – Laura Verity and Irina Do…

Richard Ager, barrister and co-founder of University of Brighton Legal Clinic, with two law students

University of Brighton Legal Clinic welcome event for new students, supervising lawyers and academics

Earlier this month our University of Brighton Legal Clinic hosted their welcome drinks for a new cohort of student volunteers, and the team of lawyers and academics who will be supporting them. The pro bono legal clinic provides our community with free legal advice from our Brighton Law School students, who gain qualifying work experience…

Brighton barrister Andrew Stephens gives students insight into a career at the Criminal Bar

On 29 September Brighton Law School hosted their first annual law lecture, providing an opportunity for students to hear first-hand what life is like as a barrister. ‘Life in Law: The Current State of the Criminal Bar’ was led by guest speaker Andrew Stephens, Head of Crime at Brighton’s Westgate Chambers. A number of legal professionals…

Welcome to the new faces of Brighton Business School

We have two new members of teaching staff who have joined the school in December we welcome them to the school and hopefully will meet them in person as soon as is possible. Chantal Frindall joined our Law School in December 2020 as a Lecturer in Law. Previously, Chantal worked as Law tutor in Land,…