To start off the New Year, as always, the Law Commission is recruiting Research Assistants to work for approximately 51 weeks starting in September 2017 in London. Chambers, solicitors’ firms and universities regard time spent at the Law Commission extremely highly. The posts, for which there is a great deal of competition, will be available in the following areas:
- Commercial and Common Law
- Criminal Law
- Property, Family and Trust Law
- Public Law
The research assistant role involves a mix of legal research, policy analysis and administrative work.
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 2 February 2017. Interviews will take place between 13 and 24 March 2017.
Qualifications
The minimum criteria are that by August 2017 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://www.lawcom.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RA_guide_2017_final.pdf
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