Dear Colleague, Please ensure that the following information is distributed to members of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) in your law school:
Vacancies: 1) JAC - Taxing Masters x2 Deadline: 07/01/2010;
2) Newcastle Law School: Chair and Readers. Deadline: 08/01/2010;
3) UEA Postgraduate Studentships for Research Degrees. Deadline: 12/02/2010;
Events:
4) BIICL Seminar: 09/12/2009 Jurisdiction Agreements on Trial: Current Problems - Future Solutions 5) Call for papers for the 4th Biennial Conference of the European Society of International Law. Submissions deadline: 22/01/2010;
6) University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy (CCLP) Training programme for national judges in EC Competition Law. 22 & 26/03/2010. ******************************************************************************
1) The Judicial Appointments Commission is inviting applications from legally qualified candidates suitable for appointment as a Taxing Master of the Senior Courts, also known as a Costs Judge.
Number of Vacancies: 2 Location: Central London (EC4) Salary: £102,921 (plus £4,000 London allowance) Reference: 00449 Application deadline: Noon, 7 January 2010
Please see http://www.judicialappointments.gov.uk/selection-process/selection-exercises/current/318.htm for full details and application process. ************************************************************************** 2) Chair and Readership vacancies in Law at Newcastle Law School: Newcastle Law School is seeking to appoint a Professor and Reader in one or more of the following subject areas: Contract and Commercial Law, Public Law, Land Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Tort and Equity. You will join a focused, collegial and committed team following a research led and excellent teaching quality agenda. You will enjoy a supportive environment in which personal career development is taken very seriously. Candidates wishing to discuss either of the posts may contact: Ashley Wilton, Head of School, tel: 0191 222 8635 or e-mail: a.m.wilton@ncl.ac.uk Further details can be found online at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/ Closing date: 8th January 2010." *************************************************************************** 3) "UEA Postgraduate Studentships for Research Degrees We are delighted to announce that a Social Sciences Faculty Research Studentship is offered to prospective research candidates in the Law School for the academic year 2010-2011.
The Studentship will be available under the Scheme to applicants who, in their research proposal, can clearly demonstrate academic excellence in areas relevant to the strategic research interests of the School.
Please see our Research pages for more details, and our Academic Profiles for the research interests of individual members of staff. The awards, based on Research Council funding for fees and maintenance (13,240 per year [2009]), are for full-time UK/EU candidates only, over a period of three years. Candidates should hold a good first degree and taught Master's qualification.To be considered for this award, you should make an application for admission to a MPhil/PhD in the normal manner, but you should indicate the intention to be considered for an open studentship under the Postgraduate Studentships Scheme. Please also indicate with your application where you saw the studentship advertised. The deadline for applications is Friday 12 February 2010.
Areas of interest include: Commercial Law, including Company Law and Corporate Finance; Competition Law, Media Law and related aspects of Intellectual Property.
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UEA Research and Teaching Studentships (Home/EU) The value of the studentships cover Home/EU fees, a maintenance grant of £8,000*, a Research and Teaching grant of £750*, plus the opportunity to earn additional income from teaching and teaching support activities (*denotes 2009 grant).
The award will be conditional on the applicant taking on a teaching obligation of an average 6 hours per week during semester periods. This will primarily be core undergraduate teaching, although where appropriate some postgraduate teaching may be possible; successful applicants should also expect that some exam and/or coursework marking will be allocated. It will normally be expected that the area of teaching will be connected to the student's research.
Applicants are strongly advised to view the specific research areas and interests of the Norwich Law School. Please see our Research pages for more details, and our academic profiles for the research interests of individual members of staff.
To be considered for this award, you should make an application for admission to a MPhil/PhD in the normal manner, but you should indicate the intention to be considered for one of the Research and Teaching Studentships. Please also indicate with your application where you saw the studentship advertised. The deadline for applications is Friday 12 February 2010.
Applications should be sent to:
Admissions Office (LAW) Faculty of Social Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK" ***************************************************************************** 4) BIICL: Jurisdiction Agreements on Trial: Current Problems - Future Solutions Part of the Herbert Smith Private International Law Seminar Series Wednesday 9 December 2009 17:30 to 19:30
Location: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5JP
Chair: Filip De Ly, Professor of International Business Law, Rotterdam; Member of the LCIA Court; Chairman of the International Commercial Arbitration Committee of the International Law Association
Speakers: Barbara Dohmann QC, Blackstone Chambers Jonathan Harris, Professor, University of Birmingham; Serle Court Trevor Hartley, Professor emeritus, LSE, London; Member of the UK Delegation at the Hague Conference on Private International Law and Joint Reporter for the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
See website for full details, regisration and fees:http://www.biicl.org/mailcasts/view/-/id/337/mid/69168/ . *********************************************************************** 5) The call for papers for the 4th Biennial Conference of the European Society of International Law is now open and available on the conference website www.esil.law.cam.ac.uk. Full details on how to submit an abstract as well as a provisional programme are also available online.
The 4th Biennial Conference of the European Society of International Law will take place in Cambridge, England on 2-4 September 2010, with the overarching theme International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal. The conference will be hosted by the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.
The agorae specifically allow young scholars to present their research to a prestigious international community of academics and practitioners. All agora speakers will be selected through a competitive process from abstracts received in response to this call for papers. All the papers and discussions will be made available to the wider research community through the publication of the conference proceedings.
For the call for papers, a full list of topics that will be addressed in the 12 agorae and the submission form, visit www.esil.law.cam.ac.uk.
ESIL 2010 looks forward to receiving abstracts before the submission deadline (22 January 2010). *************************************************************************** 6)The University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy (CCLP) is pleased to announce details of the forthcoming training programme for national judges in EC Competition Law. The programme, endorsed and subsidised by the European Commission, will take place in Oxford from 22 to 26 March 2010. Participation in this programme is free of charge.
For further details and registration form, see: http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/competition/training.php The organisers will consider all applications that shall reach them before 10 January 2010. ***************************************************************************************************************************************************