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Law School Bulletin May 2026
Welcome to the May edition of our newsletter.
We also hope you are getting ready for the summer and that you will take some proper time off. Even if you are planning to work as interns, on work placements or in paid employment, or if it turns out that you will have to complete referred or deferred assessments, make sure you have some holiday time. Summer is always an important time to pause and reflect on the past academic year and celebrate everything you have achieved. It is also the season to relax and recharge so make time for the things that bring you joy and happiness!
Over the summer, the academic and professional services teams are still available to support you. Please note however that this is also the time in the year where colleagues take annual leave and participate in research intensive activities. If you contact them, there may thus be a delay in their response. The University's Wellbeing Service remains available as usual.
We wish you all a happy, sunny, and restful summer, and I very much look forward to welcoming you back to the Law School in September.
Best wishes,
Caroline
Professor Caroline Fournet, Head of Exeter Law School
Education Matters with David Yuratich
We have come to the end of the academic year and most of you will have completed your Term 3 assessments by now.
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be preparing for the exam board where we process not only the Term 3 results, but also the provisional results issued earlier in the year. These final results will be released on Tuesday 16 June (remember that Exam feedback will be via Exams ELE, not regular ELE).
The University is here to support you during this time, so do please reach out to the Law School's Pastoral Mentors, who can provide initial signposting, short-term support and onward referral to specialist support. The Wellbeing team has a host of resources on their webpage too.
Subject-based staff have been asked to prioritise support for students who have assessments over the July/August summer period - those who deferred their assessment for medical or other reasons, and those who are referred in modules that are not yet passed. Your module convenors should be in touch shortly after results release with a module-based support session to be delivered online for those who still have assessments to complete. Information about the dates of the July/August exams are here.
For those who have passed all modules, please collate your feedback across all of your modules, to discuss with your academic tutor in the new academic year as part of your first meeting with them. We hope you have a wonderful summer, whatever you are doing, and we look forward to seeing you again in the new academic year.
For those of you who will be going abroad on placement next year, good luck: an adventure awaits!
Best wishes,
David
Dr David Yuratich, Director of Education and Student Experience
📣Your Voice Matters 📣
Thank you all for your feedback across the last academic year. You should receive an email this week, from accelerate@exeter.ac.uk, with a link to a survey for you to provide feedback on your experience of your modules. It’s an opportunity to constructively share your thoughts on where you think things could be better and what is going well too.
What we do with your feedback
Previous feedback means we have been able to:
- Refine our module fair
- Produce infographics guiding you to sources of support
- Taken steps to make the personal tutoring sessions more reflective through the use of worksheets.
Once you’ve completed this latest feedback we will set to work digesting this information. Thanks to all who have fed back this year.
In addition the Students' Guild has been able to run focus groups for the Law School on three topics: feedback format, attendance, and communication.
NSS Survey
In July, we will receive the National Student Survey (NSS) results from our final year students. Each year we use the NSS feedback to better understand what we have done well and where we can continue to improve. For example, we produced videos to help explain our marking criteria.
This year, we have had a very strong NSS return: 71.3% of students completed it, which is approximately 10% more than last year. Thank you for taking the time to complete the NSS.
Remember you can share your feedback at any time with your Academic Tutor or Law Student Rep. As Undergraduate Co-Directors, Matthew Channon and Amy Man also welcome feedback directly to them. You can find your Reps on the Students' Guild webpages.
🗓️Pastoral Mentors 🗒️
Hello from your Pastoral Mentors!
Congratulations on getting to the end of the academic year. For some of you, it’s goodbye as you await Graduation; we are looking forward to being there to cheer you on😊. For others, it’s another year completed, so well done!
If you have work to complete over the summer, please rest assured that we are available to support you. It can help just to chat, so if you're not sure who to talk to, get in touch and we will see what we can do.
We'll be primarily working on Teams throughout the summer. You may want to talk to someone about the next academic year, any worries you may have, or you may need help with time management. Whatever it is, pop us an email and we'll do our best to help.
Please also remember that we can help talk you through an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) application. These will need to be done as quickly as possible, so get in touch if you aren't sure if you're eligible or if you need support applying.
🗓️Opportunities and Events 🗒️
Thank you for attending the different Law School events this term. Please keep an eye on our Instagram and on the Opportunities page for information about Law School events in the coming months.
The Opportunities page hosts a variety of employability and career development events. Here are some of the ones currently on the site.⬇️⬇️⬇️
📚Study your LLM with us📝
In the video below, Professor Sergakis explains more about the LLM Companies, Competitions and Digital Markets
You've been a part of our Law School community for quite a few years and we'd love you to continue your studies with us.
Did you realise you can tailor-make your LLM at Exeter? With a mixture of compulsory and optional modules, you can shape your studies according to your academic interests and/or professional needs.
In September we have three new LLM programmes joining the suite of LLMs we offer at the Law School. They are rooted in the cutting-edge research taking place at the University and are led by renowned and passionate legal experts. The academics have a breadth of experience in academia, policy-making and legal practice.
The new programmes are:
- LLM Companies, Competition And Digital Markets(Video above)
- LLM International Human Rights
- LLM Intellectual Property and Technology
Explore the full range on our Postgraduate Study page and watch videos about the programmes on the University's YouTube Law page.
🏛️Professional Legal Training with the University of Law
If you're considering legal training as your next step, our partnership with The University of Law means you can get your professional legal training right here.
Alongside your studies, you’ll have access to:
🎓 One-to-one support from specialist legal careers advisers, lawyers and recruiters
🤝 Connections with 90 of the top 100 UK law firms
💼 Pro bono opportunities working with real clients
📈 Structured employability programmes designed to prepare you for practice
Stay where you are and keep moving forward.
👉 Find out more about studying at with the University of Law at Exeter and explore the postgraduate law courses available.
🎓From Campus to Career🏢
There are some really useful sessions being run online by the Career Zone in the coming weeks, designed to help that move from education into employment. Go to My Career Zone and take a look at the Law specific and general undergrad sessions available this term including these:
- Help! I want to be a Solicitor, but I haven’t got a Training Contract – Tuesday 2 June, 10:30am – 11:30am
- How to make the most of your vacation scheme – with special guest, Rebecca Stephens, Trainee Solicitor at Ashfords – Tuesday 2 June, 3pm – 4pm
- When, where and how to apply for paralegal roles – with special guest, Matt Rundle, Real Estate Solicitor at Trowers & Hamlins LLP – Thursday 4 June, 10:30am – 12:30pm
📝Prizes - Nominate yourself - deadline this week✒️
There's still a chance to nominate yourself in the 2025-26 Law School prizes. You can enter a nomination form in the following categories:
- Ashurst Outstanding Law Student Prize
- Alexander Lofgren Pro Bono Prize
- Oxford University Press Victoria Williams Memorial Prize
- Manan Shah Memorial Prize for Volunteering
The details and criteria are on each form. Please note the closing date is Friday 29 May at 17:00. If you meet the criteria, we strongly encourage you to nominate yourself – this is a fantastic opportunity to build your CV and provide valuable recognition for your academic and extracurricular achievements.
Any further question, please get in touch with Dr Catherine Caine, Director of Skills, Prizes and Scholarships. The winners will be contacted after the official results release date near the end of June.
Our Socials
Employability Support for Law Students
Did you realise the scope of careers support available to you as a Law student now, and up to three years after graduation?
You have access to a law specialist Career Consultant, Tess Read whilst studying here and you continue to access Careers Service support when you graduate.
You can self-book 1:1 career guidance or advice appointments with Tess through My CareerZone. You can discuss any matters to do with career thinking:
- How to gain work experience
- Applying for summer jobs or graduate jobs
- Putting together a strong CV
- Any career topic you would like to talk about
You can also get advice at the Careers Drop-ins: Mondays in term time 1.30-2.30pm in the Career Zone. Drop in to chat about careers in law or other employment sectors.
Find out other ways you can get careers support on the webpage here.
University of Exeter Law School
If you would like to see previous editions of the bulletin, they sit on our website here. If you have any suggestions for future editions, or would like to share a story with us, please email lawcomms@exeter.ac.uk. Fin
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