Thomas Cooper has confirmed that it will continue to sponsor an internship for LLM students at The City University for the year 2007-2008
12 December 2007
Professor Peter Kunzlik, Director of The City Law School and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of City University said, “The City Law School welcomes the opportunity to work with one of the most highly regarded of London’s commercial law firms.”
Dr Alan Riley, Director of the LLM Programme, said, “The internship will give the winning student the opportunity to blend the knowledge that he or she develops on the shipping law courses of our International Commercial Law LLM Programme with high level practical experience gained from working in Thomas Cooper’s world renowned shipping law practice.”
Charles Williams, partner at Thomas Cooper, said “We are delighted to work with The City Law School and to provide the opportunity for a student to develop his/her professional skills to a higher level.”
Under the terms of the internship students taking the Marine Insurance and Admiralty Law courses on the International Commercial Law LLM Programme will be invited to compete for the Internship. The competition will be by essay and by interview. The Internship will take place from May to July inclusive. The City Law School has agreed an automatic dissertation extension of two months for the winner of the Internship.
Further details are available from the City University website at:
http://www.city.ac.uk/law/llmprogramme/tcsinternship.html