School of Law

The Law Fair takes place at the beginning of each academic year and is an opportunity for University of Glasgow School of Law students to meet recruiters face-to-face, discover what opportunities are out there and get quick in person career advice. The Law Fair is open to all University of Glasgow students. Dozens of employers within the legal field will be represented. Registration takes place in the lead up to the event via Glasgow Careers. 

If you are an employer wishing to take part in the law fair, please contact us by heading to the Information for external partner's page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/careers/employers/ 

The School of Law employability team, currently offer 2-3 internships across one academic year to students across our different programmes. Recent internship posts we have advertised include; an employability intern, who produces a biweekly employability bulletin with relevant opportunities for School of Law students. There is also an intern taking part in a new podcast project, and another intern who is producing a student careers guide for a specific area of law.  

The Internship Hub is part of the Careers & Global Opportunities team at the University of Glasgow and each year we facilitate around 350 internships. All opportunities advertised have been fully vetted and are designed to provide relevant experience for your future career. Opportunities are available to students of all degree disciplines and both part time internships are available during term time and full time internships during the summer. The majority of our internships are paid although we do advertise some unpaid roles with registered charities. All internships are advertised via Glasgow Careers and applications are made directly online. We will also send details of our internships to the School of Law to promote directly.  

Each year, the Internship Hub, in conjunction with the School of Law, facilitates over 50 legal internships.  

These internships can last from six to twelve months generally, and will often provide you with hands-on, client facing and legal research experience in a professional setting. These roles are typically advertised in the first semester.  

Some of the organisations we have worked with include:  

• Citizens Advice Bureau placements flyer 
• Legal Services Agency 
• Govan Law Centre 
• Shelter Scotland 
• Advice Direct Scotland 
• JustRight Scotland 
• European Network on Statelessness  
• Networking, experience and pro bono opportunities  

GO Justice is an initiative created to encompass the range of ways in which our students are using the law and their legal skills to make a positive difference. Law students and academic staff can and already do work with external organisations to help address unmet legal needs and more broadly contribute to achieving social justice and tackling injustice. At the heart of the initiative is the idea that through collaboration, we can make a real difference.  

Our annual GO Justice Challenge, allows students to develop ideas focusing on solving real social justice issues through the law. It aims to develop students' analytical thinking, independent research skills, and oral and written communication skills, which can be very valuable in their future professional careers. 

The GO Justice Challenge draws inspiration from mooting competitions and similar exercises of “experiential learning”. Instead of working on a fictitious legal problem, however, participating students will undertake research to try to address real legal problems. In addition to supporting students’ development of professional skills, the GO Justice Challenge aims to raise awareness among Law students of the ways in which they, as lawyers, can contribute to social change. For that reason, the problems in which students will work during the GO Justice Challenge will have an important dimension of social justice. 

Every year, the competition is structured around a series of pressing challenges identified by third sector organisations. In collaboration with a School of Law academic staff member, each partner organisation will present the challenge that participating students will have to address using their legal research skills. Student teams will draft and submit a report developing their response to a specific challenge. The winners of the competition will be announced at a final event to be held at the end of the second term. 

To find out more about Go Justice, visit their dedicated page: University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Law - GO Justice

The Justice Gap is an award winning online magazine about law and justice edited by journalist Jon Robins. Each year we recruit a team of law students who work on rotation as student reporters covering a wide range of justice issues including human rights, immigration, legal aid, housing and criminal justice.  The Student Reports Project runs in collaboration with UCL, Manchester and Cardiff Law Schools. You can read some examples of articles written by Glasgow students:

Criminal Justice system ineffective at delivering justice, remand statistics show

Asylum centre shut down following asylum seeker’s death

Pro Bono Week takes place in November each year. It offers an opportunity to recognise and support the voluntary contribution made by the legal profession across the UK in providing free legal advice and support to those who need it. We work in collaboration with the National Pro Bono Centre to recruit students to the National Pro Bono Council. As members of the Council, students help to organise and run events at the law school and report on events taking place, for example, in local law firms, charities, NGOs or at the Faculty of Advocates.