Name of society BPP Legal Awareness Society (“the Society”)
Objectives of the Society
This BPP student society promotes the importance of the law to business, and the importance of business to law.
Membership of the Society shall be open to all students of BPP (across all sites).
Function
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/legalaware (currently has 1700 followers)
Details of forthcoming fortnightly meetings are given at http://legal-aware.org/2011/05/timetable-for-bpp-legal-awareness-society-2-mary-axe-semesters-2-and-3-20112/
Meetings are normally held on Wednesday evenings at BPP Business School, 2 St Mary Axe, with the details clearly stated on the LCD in the foyer or available from Reception. An e-mail signalling an event will also go out via BPP email to all members of the Society in the week of the event, and announcements are also made on Blackboard. Details of the event itself are always posted on the blog or twitter (any slide presentations are also made available as click-through videos on the blog).
5 Oct 2011 Intellectual property rights and businesses
19 Oct 2011 Share acquisitions and business strategy
2 Nov 2011 Initial public offerings and rights issues
16 Nov 2011 Debt finance: investment options for the company
30 Nov 2011 Joint ventures: practical issues
14 Dec 2011 Arbitration and other mechanisms of dispute resolution
Rules or Guidelines
All membership is through the ‘Community’ tab of VLE/ Blackboard. Guidelines relevant to the meetings of the Society are posted on the blog.
Budget
This Society has never sought funding from BPP.
Elections
Election for a new management committee for this Society will be held in January 2012.
Recruitment of members
Recruitment posters are currently in the common rooms of all sites of BPP.
A campaign poster dated 27 June 2011 is on the blog at http://legal-aware.org/2011/06/legalaware-campaign-poster/
Information for Students’ Association Website
This Society promotes the relevance of law or regulation to all businesses in the UK. Whilst this Society is hoped to be of benefit to MBA students, we have found that there has been much interest from law students wishing to develop their ‘commercial awareness’.
The scope of the business law discussed, at national and international level, is of sufficient depth and breadth to complement the studies of the LPC studying ‘Business Law and Practice’, and the LLM degree in commercial law; as no prior knowledge is required, the activities of the Society are also accessible to all other students.
Handover
Elections are currently planned for a new management committee, for January 2012. Any current BPP student (then) will be eligible to stand. The committee will consist of an organiser and external affairs co-ordinator, and any other posts that the current organiser sees fit.
Any other information
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This Manual was produced by 14 September 2011.
