In The Spotlight
Bristol
Law Conference
The
Steven Hunter and Ross Burrell
detail the first ever student-led law conference in the Russell Group.
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n 8th March 2013, the University After a brief introof Bristol Law School hosted the duction by the DepuRussell Group’s first fully student-run ty Vice-Chancellor of
Law Conference. The Conference was the University, Professor David Clarke,
founded by us, two final year law stu- the keynote speeches began, with Lady
dents, in 2012. Upon sitting in the Hale taking the stage first. Lady Hale
Common Room close to the end of the spoke about the law and the media from
Spring term, we discussed the finance the perspective of the judiciary and disconferences and law lectures we had at- cussed the accessibility of the Supreme
tended and it struck us as odd that there Court and how it