The Heilbron Society is a Liverpool Law School community hub which brings together students, alumni and staff on a regular basis through meetings, events, online communications and apparel.
The Heilbron Society celebrates and connects our law alumni and current students with a series of events organised by the Director of Education in collaboration with the student societies in law (including the Advocacy Society, the Diversity in Law Society, the Solicitors’ Society, and the Law Society). Every Heilbron Society event is co-hosted with a student society.
The Heilbron Society provides a collegiate and supportive forum for thought leadership, book launches, readings, networking with employers (including alumni), and other activities. Amongst other things, it organises informal papers on alumni (e.g. Mrs Justice Steel, Mrs Justice Heilbron, Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, the Earl of Birkenhead, Lord Justice Sellers, Mr Justice Lynskey, etc), legal theory, legal biography and legal history by the Liverpool Law School community.
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Mrs Justice Heilbron, University of Liverpool alumna (LLB and LLM), was the first woman to serve as a judge at the Old Bailey and the second to be appointed to the High Court.
The Heilbron Society also hosts general discussion and informal feedback events, social events, film and play nights.
The Heilbron Society helps bring closer links between the Liverpool Law community. Liverpool Law alumni include:
- In-house legal advisors to globally renowned brands including Netfix, Tiktok, BBC and Liverpool FC.
- Solicitor advocates representing clients in life changing legal disputes, for example about consent to medical treatment or mental health detention.
- Barristers in the most prestigious of legal chambers protecting personal freedoms and intellectual property.
- Criminal law barristers upholding rights to representation and defence, including in murder trials.
- Judges, including in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and specialist tribunals, holding people in power and wrongdoers to account.
- Solicitors and partners in some of the leading UK and international law firms representing huge corporations including Sidley Austin, Slaughter & May, Fieldfisher, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Squire Paton Boggs, Clifford Chance, Weightmans, Hill Dickinson, Linklaters, DLA Piper, Wragge & co, and Eversheds.
- Advisors and professionals working in parliaments, social justice movements, and aid organisations around the world.
- World leading academics engaged in top-tier research and excellent teaching.
- Legislators including MPs and Peers in the UK and parliamentarians in other jurisdictions (e.g. Cyprus)
Our current student cohort represents the forefront of this long line of excellent Liverpool lawyers stretching back to 1895.
The Heilbron Society celebrates this rich history, our alumni, and our current students and their activity as a Liverpool Law School community that spans the globe.Related links
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