Department of Laws

LSB or Forum Meetings

The purpose of this letter is to invite the views of Laws students and staff on the continuance of the Laws Studies Board (LSB).

The Principal - reflecting the views of Senior Management – has made clear that elected student representatives of classes should not be granted an EXEAT so that they can attend LSB or forum meetings. This creates a problem since some elected representatives of Laws classes are unable to attend LSB meetings due to a timetable clash (we meet once, no more than twice, a term).

It follows that we have three options (other suggestions are welcome).

• (1) We continue to hold the occasional LSB meeting at 12noon and hope that student representatives will be able to attend (if any student cannot attend – they could resign and invite the class to elect another person).
• (2) We hold LSB meetings at 4.20pm in the hope that students and staff will be able to attend (the Principals suggestion).
• (3) We abandon the Laws Studies Board.

Others have suggested that instead of having a Departmental Studies Board we should hold meetings for each individual class (this would mean fifteen meetings instead of one). However, as Head of Department, I object to this approach since it undermines/removes the concept of an elected representative and would waste valuable class time.

By Monday the 17th January 2005 – please email your view to: lsb@peterjepson.com

Thanking you,

Dr Peter Jepson

7th January 2004.