Welcome at the European Law School Career Day
For the second time this year, students have been organizing the European Law School Career Day (ELS Career Day), a special day that is dedicated to introduce prospective European Law School graduates to possible future employers. Initially founded independently by two European Law students, Juliane Reschke and Thomas Biermeyer, the ELS Career Day is this year organized by the two biggest student associations at the faculty, ELSA Maastricht and JFV Ouranos. A committee of both associations has worked hard to again make the ELS Career Day a huge success this year.
The committee’s main aim is to grant students an insight into the several possibilities they have on the job market. This means that next to lawyers, representatives of international law firms and multinational companies, other international organizations and NGOs will be participating. Lectures and small-scale discussions are intended to facilitate the students’ career decisions- a decision that is based on skills, personality and personal interest. The ELS Career Day committee has therefore chosen to invite a variety of speakers so to fit a broad range of student interests.
The ELS is quite a recently established study programme at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. With the main teaching language being English, courses focus on a comparative study of the different European national legal systems (preferably the direct comparison between the common and civil law tradition), but also pay detailed attention to EU private and public law.
Graduates of the ELS are perfectly equipped for questions on cross border business within the European Union. However students are offered the possibility to specify in their studies on Dutch law. Students at the end of the second year can opt to continue their studies in the Dutch track, which means that they follow the set of compulsory Dutch law courses that after a continuing master of law will grant a student the so-called civil effect (civiel effect or civilus effectus), i.e. the qualification to enter the legal profession as a lawyer in the Netherlands.
The European Law School English Track offers a wide range of electives that lead to an array of specialisations within the study programme. Students can choose to study abroad within their curriculum, allowing them to gain an insight into yet other different legal systems and often reach proficiency in another language than English or their mother tongue.
This means that graduates of the European Law School of any track are valuable future employers for any internationally focussed firm or organization, be it based in the Netherlands or abroad.
In that spirit, the presenters will not only focus on such students with civil effect, but also, and especially so introduce their work to students of the English Track. Other students from different fields, such as European Studies and Arts and Culture are also welcome to take part in the event.
The Committee is very happy to invite all students to this year’s European Law School Career Day on May 3rd, 2011. We are looking forward to seeing you soon!
Registration on registrationELSCD@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Speakers this year include
The European Court of Justice
The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO)
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Amsterdam
DLA Piper Brussels
Clifford Chance Amsterdam
European Bar Association
EuroCommerce
EFTA Surveillance
Van Eps, Kunneman, Van DorneDutch Caribbean Desk
Samuel Laurinkari
Amnesty International Netherlands
Price Waterhouse Coopers
On behalf of ELSA Maastricht and JFV Ouranos
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