New “Year in Practice” Option Approved
Student Success: Swansea Law Competitions
The Law School has been approved to offer the Year in Practice option for undergraduate students.
For the 2023/2024 academic year, the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law continued to excel domestically and internationally at a variety of student competitions encompassing trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, negotiation, mediation, and client interviewing. Across the year we anticipate that around 100 spaces will have been available for students to represent the University and gain networking experience, as well as exposure to feedback from experienced practitioners.
This will be a four-year degree where students, at the end of year two, and who have the qualifying profile, may be able to work for a year in a law firm or related company. This will be credit-bearing opportunity to enhance the students’ employability, and they will return after the year to complete their final year of studies.
Successes to date include:
In the England and Wales National Client Interviewing Competition, Lexie Stewart and Sara Wideman beat off competition from 35 Universities to win the overall competition - the first time in Swansea’s history. They went on to represent Wales at the international competition in Lublin, Poland. The School competed for the first time in the York University National Negotiations Competition, with Emily McGilivray-Crawford and Choe Gear taking the overall win , defeating teams from across England and Wales, including the University of Oxford.
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