My Career in Global Law: from Edinburgh to Brussels and Beyond - Jacquelyn MacLennan

The Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law presents

About the seminar
A discussion on a career beginning with law at the University of Edinburgh, moving to an international institution and on to a global law firm, with a practice covering international and EU law; focusing on some recent matters in the field of international law and business and human rights and considering some of the opportunities available to graduates of the University today.

About the speaker
Jacquelyn MacLennan is a Partner at White & Case, and focuses in particular on EU competition law, international trade law (customs law, sanctions and export controls) and risk management issues. She is recognised as a leading lawyer in her areas of expertise and human rights.  Jacquelyn is the Leader of White & Case’s Global Pro Bono Practice, and actively involved in White & Case’s support for Bhutan’s first law school, and the African Centre on Law & Ethics Programme, where she teaches legal ethics and business and human rights to young lawyers and law students. She is on the Board of PILnet, the Public Interest Lawyers Network, and Operation Fistula, which works to end fistula globally. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh. Jacquelyn led the White & Case team which worked with Romanian NGO ACCEPT in Case C-673/16 Coman and Others, and achieved the recognition of same sex marriage throughout the EU. This was awarded the Financial Times 2018 “Innovation in the rule of law and access to justice” award. Jacquelyn was recently named one of the Top Ten Innovative Lawyers in Europe by the Financial Times and is included in Global Competition Review's 100 Elite Women in Antitrust. She has been a visible advocate for equality for women in the profession throughout her career, and is included in the First 100 Years video project, charting the journey of women in law since 2019.  She was part of the founding group of Edinburgh University Law School’s Leadership Foundation for Women lawyers.

 

This event is free and open to all. No registration necessary.