Law Commission now recruiting for September 2016

Happy New Year to all Law students!  

To start off the New Year, as always, the Law Commission is recruiting up to 18 Research Assistants to work for approximately 51 weeks starting in September 2016 in London.  The posts will be available in the following areas:

Commercial and Common Law
Criminal Law
Property, Family and Trust Law
Public Law
Statute Law Repeals

The Law Commission is a statutory body set up under the Law Commissions Act 1965 to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reform where it is needed. 

Its aims are: 

To ensure that the law is fair, modern, simple and as cost-effective as possible 

To conduct research and consultations in order to make recommendations for reform for consideration by Parliament 

To codify the law, eliminate anomalies, repeal obsolete and unnecessary enactments and reduce the number of separate statutes 

The Law Commission is an independent non-departmental body sponsored by the Ministry of Justice. Further information about the Law Commission and its work can be obtained from its website at http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/. 

The posts are on a fixed term basis, up to 12 months. 

Applications are now open for final year Law students and close on 1 February 2016. Interviews will take place between 14 and 24 March 2016.

Qualifications

The minimum criteria are that by August 2016 you should have completed two years’ full-time substantive legal studies (or the equivalent in part-time study). The results must be at, or at the equivalent of, first class or good 2.1 standard, with at least some elements of first class work.

Details of the posts are available in a separate guide for applicants, which you must read before applying, at:
http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/lawcommission/working-for-us/jobs.htm