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Diploma in Professional Legal Practice Open Day

Join us on Wednesday 25th February to find out what it's like to study for the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (DPLP) at Edinburgh Law School from the people who know it best: our staff and students.

Location: Old College, Edinburgh Law School
Date: Wednesday 25th February
Time: 14:45 - 18:00 (GMT)

Tulsi Mount, Diploma in Professional Legal Practice Graduate, 2021
Studying the Diploma at the University of Edinburgh was an intense but highly rewarding experience. It truly prepares you for life as a solicitor.
Tulsi
Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, 2021

Schedule

At the Open Day you will have the opportunity to speak to the Diploma team, find out what it's like to study at Edinburgh through taster sessions and speak to current students and alumni about their experiences of studying the Diploma at Edinburgh Law School.

  • 14:45: Arrival and registration (Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, 1st floor)
  • 15:00 – 15:20: Welcome and introductory talk 
  • 15:30 – 15:50: Taster session 1 (Negotiation or advocacy skills session)
  • 16:00 - 16:20: Taster session 2 (Negotiation or advocacy skills session)
  • 16:30 – 17:10: Q&A session – careers, current and alumni Diploma students
  • 17:15 – 18:00: Refreshments and optional tour of the Law School.

Contact us

If you have any questions about the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice please don't hesitate to contact us.

law.diploma@ed.ac.uk

Dr Timothy Jacob-Owens

Early Career Fellow in Citizenship Law and Policy

Programme Director LLM in European Law; Grade 6-8 staff representative on the Education Committee

BA, MPhil, LLM, PhD

Office hours:

Email: timothy.jacob-owens@ed.ac.uk

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Timothy Jacob-Owens is an Early Career Fellow in Citizenship Law and Policy at Edinburgh Law School. He was previously a Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and taught at the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute (EUI). He received his PhD from the EUI in 2022.

At Edinburgh, Tim’s core teaching focuses on transnational law, European Union law, and citizenship law. He has also taught public law and legal theory. He is the Programme Director for the LLM in European Law and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Tim’s research interests lie principally in the relationship between law and empire, with a geographic focus on Europe and the Caribbean and a substantive focus on citizenship and constitutionalism. He is a member of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, a Senior Research Associate at the Global Citizenship Observatory, and a former Affiliate at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

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