is Future leaders worth it?
i was thinking of signing up to future leaders but it seems like a big time commitment. is it really that good on your CV? do you actually get good work experience opportunities? is in-person or online better? and does anybody have any other supercurricular recommendations for law that arent just reading
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i was thinking of signing up to future leaders but it seems like a big time commitment. is it really that good on your CV? do you actually get good work experience opportunities? is in-person or online better? and does anybody have any other supercurricular recommendations for law that arent just reading
If you’ve just started Y12, it’s very normal to not have supercurriculars (I only decided to study law halfway through Y12 so make of that what you will). For uni applications, it’s different to CV-type stuff, i.e., you should prioritise academic exploration over work experience, etc.
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Ik you said not just reading but reading is super important. Books that are cool: Letters To A Law Student, Eve Was Framed, What About Law. You could also read case judgements, articles, basically do a lot of subject exploration around law
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Enter law essay competitions for Y12/13s. The popular ones are the Peter Cane Legal Reasoning Prize, Robert Walker and Gwyenth Bebb
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Look up the Oxford and Cambridge undergraduate events/outreach calendars even if you don’t want to apply to either of those unis. They run lots of free law taster sessions, lectures, masterclasses and summer schools for Y12s. If nothing else, some of the in-person ones give you super fancy free lunch.
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Sitting in your local courts is a good use of time in the holidays because a) it’s quite dramatic sometimes and b) you can learn a lot
In-person vs online makes no difference imo. Your personal statement (which is where all of this stuff will go) isn’t a checklist of what you’ve done, it’s about what you learnt from your experiences and how that’s informed your decision to study law. Good luck for Y12!!
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