No images? Click here LAW SCHOOL NEWSLETTER- 26TH JUNE 2020This week marked the start of our summer extra curricular programmes, to help get set for your second year as Law with Business students. We hope you found last weeks recommendations useful! We also would like to say a huge well done to those students who took part in Exeter Grand Challenges Online this week. What a fantastic achievement and we were cheering you on behind the screen in the Grand Final today! Thank you to those who took part in the pioneering Case Club! We look forward to seeing more of you at this weeks! Please do note, there is a change of time to 12pm (midday) BST for this week. As we fast approach the summer assessment period, we also would like to reach out to you all further by having an LLB & BBL catch up with tutors, on Wednesday, 1st July, 10:00am-11:00am (BST). We particularly advise those students who deferred any coursework or exams, to come along and ask any questions you may have (you can also submit these anonymously via the online form). Along with supporting you as our current students, we are also preparing for our next intake of first years, who will join us after their time in Further Education was abruptly cut due to Covid-19. As this will seem even more overwhelming, we want to provide as much support as possible, and who is better to advise than those who have been in their position! If you have any personal experiences of 'What you wish you had known when you joined Penryn' please do share them with us! We will also continue with your fantastic idea to peer mentor our new students, so keep your eyes peeled for the sign up sheet! Take care and continue to keep safe, The Law & Business Programmes Team WEEKLY RECOMMENDATIONSSKILL Free Award-Winning Yale University Course: The Science of Well Being Be a part of the 2.6 million students enrolled on this 4.9/5 star FREE course! 'Engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. By Professor Laurie Santos. RESOURCE Online Article: Guidance on reading cases (Wison et al 2014) Further to building your skills in reading cases, take a look at this online article, from Wilson et al (2014), to give a snappy overview on navigating case documents. LIVE Q&A SESSIONAs we head into the summer, we want to keep in touch with you. We’ll be hosting a Q&A session on Wednesday, 1st July, 10:00am-11:00am (BST) via Microsoft Teams. You will receive your invite to this event directly to your inbox. We would like to invite you to submit any questions you might have about your studies and which you’d like answered. You can either do this using this online form, anonymously, or you can ask questions at the event itself. If you’ve deferred some of your coursework or exams to August, this might be a particularly valuable opportunity for you to ask any questions you have about it! CASE CLUB- WED 1st JULY, 12PM (Midday)[IMPORTANT TIME CHANGE: Case Club will be at 12pm (noon) this week!] Case Club! (Book club, but for cases!) This weeks case is: Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corporation [1955] . [Note, the case of Adams v Lindsell (1818) held that acceptance by post of an offer to enter into contract occurs at the moment that the letter is posted, not at the moment it is received by the offeror. However, this week's case questioned whether the same rule applies to a telex message, which is received instantaneously by the receiver's machine.] Case reading help guides: Chapter 7 of Legal Skills (2019) by Finch and Fafinski & Chapter 7 of Learning Legal Rules (2029) by Holland and Webb. For a quick help guide see this weeks resource recommendation of: Online Article: Guidance on reading cases (Wison et al 2014) It was great to see those of you who turned up this week! This is of course non-compulsory however, we are looking to continue this throughout the year and can only run with your commitment. So if you can, grab a cuppa join us again on Wednesday! Case Club Meeting Date: Wednesday 1st July, 12pm (BST) Meeting Link => Here New Meeting ID: 989 7190 2380 Password: 383092 STUDENT HANDBOOK: WHAT I WISH I HAD KNOWN BEFORE MOVING TO CORNWALL..Share your experience with the new cohort! We will be supplying the new cohort with a handbook, to help guide & navigate the first few months in a new environment. From your experience of being a fresher in Penryn last year, what would you want to see in a handbook? We have created this Padlet to gather your contributions, which covers four columns: 1-As an International student, I wish I had known ... 2-As a home student I wish I had known... 3-I do not fit into or identify with these two categories and I wish I had known... 4-I have an idea for the handbook- structure, design or content of the handbook... EMPLOYABILITY
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