A full house for Open Evening
UCD School of Law held a highly successful Open Evening on Wednesday, 17 October at which more than 150 students attended, along with family members and teachers. The unprecedented number of people for this event filled the William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium to capacity.
As well as having a chance to meet staff and students of the School informally, the audience heard presentations from the Dean, Professor Colin Scott, Ruth Foy (BBL graduate 2012), Jodie-Jane Tingle, (BCL (Law with Economics) graduate 2011) and Sinead Rooney (BCL student and auditor of UCD Law Society) on what life as a law student in UCD is like, both in and out of the classroom and the library.
There were also a series of presentations on career opportunities for law graduates. Dr Oonagh Breen (Senior Lecturer and Careers Advisor) spoke about career opportunities generally and gave some information about where our recent graduates have ended up. Dr Liam Thornton (Director of Clinical Legal Education) made a presentation on the new opportunities for work placements that are now becoming available to our students. Garry Wynne (BCL graduate 2008 and trainee solicitor at Matheson Ormsby Prentice) explained what life as a trainee solicitor is like and barrister Cathal McGreal (BCL graduate 1998) who specializes in employment law, talked about a career as a barrister.
There was particular interest this year in the new Sutherland School of Law Building, which is on track to become the School's new home next summer and in the new BCL (Law with Social Justice) degree, which will also be available for the first time in 2013/14.
One frequent question was about the new CAO application arrangements for Law in UCD, which will apply from the 2013 entry onwards, and how the DN600 code will work specifically. An explanation of these can be found at page 182 of the UCD Undergraduate Prospectus:
The most important point to make about the change is that it will not restrict a student's choice of which law course in UCD they wish to take; it actually increases his or her ability to choose, because six of the nine courses will now have the same points at entry - if a student prefers one of those six, it is only necessary to choose that one, without needing to express preferences between all six of them. The other three courses (Business and Law, BCL/Maîtrise and BCL (Law with French Law)) each remain separate course choices on the CAO application form.
Anyone who missed the Open Evening or who is still interested in more information about studying law in UCD can attend the UCD Open Day on Saturday 17 November 2012, at which the School will have a stand where staff and students will be available to answer questions and which will include presentations on the law courses we offer.
https://myucd.ucd.ie/open-day/index.ezc
Anyone who is interested in what we do here in the School can also follow us on Twitter or through our Facebook page; both accounts are updated frequently and give a sample of the very wide range of things our staff and students are doing.
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