Archive for the ‘Competition’ Category

05Sep

Grand summary: ILBF law undergraduate essay competition 2025 

In May 2025, we announced the winner of our law undergraduate essay competition 2025.   With the ILBF celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and reflecting on past achievements in support of the rule of law and access to justice worldwide, this year’s essay competition asked entrants to look to the future and consider the question:   ‘What will […]

Posted by Holly Nankivell in 20 Anniversary, Competition, Partners, Rule of Law, Trustees, Volunteers

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14Jul

From Essay to Experience: Sean Xue’s week at Brown Rudnick

Sean Xue, winner of the ILBF law undergraduate essay competition 2025, recently completed his prize of a week’s work experience with competition sponsor, Brown Rudnick. In this article, Sean shares his experience. From Sean Xue Strolling along Savile Row in the heart of Mayfair under a brilliant summer sun, I arrived at 8 Clifford Street. […]

Posted by Mikaela Kritikou in Competition

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25Jun

ILBF law undergraduate essay competition 2025: runner up essay

Hannah Zia from the University of Cambridge was the runner up in our law undergraduate essay competition 2025.  Hannah is a fourth-year undergraduate who returned from studying at the University of Auckland last year, and a competitive rock climber. Over the past year Hannah has been the Head Pro Bono Coordinator at the Cambridge University […]

Posted by Holly Nankivell in 20 Anniversary, Competition, Rule of Law

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25Jun

What will be the challenges to the rule of law in the next 20 years?—Hannah Zia

There is an urgency denoted by inquiring about the next twenty years. Do we stand on the cusp of transformation? Is the horizon unusually fraught with rule of law challenge? If one were to ask a machine, or consult a large bulk of legal commentary, the response would reflexively catalogue a familiar litany of challenges: […]

Posted by Holly Nankivell in 20 Anniversary, Competition, Rule of Law

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19May

Winning essay from Sean Xue at the University of York

Many congratulations again to our law undergraduate essay competition 2025 winner, Sean Xue at the University of York. We are delighted to publish Sean’s winning essay. Sean will be undertaking work experience with our competition sponsors, Brown Rudnick LLP, in London this summer. This is a brilliant opportunity and we wish Sean every success. The […]

Posted by Barbora Kozusnikova in Competition

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19May

Trust on Trial: The Eroding Legitimacy of Law in a Polarised Age—Sean Xue

At the heart of any functioning democracy lies a tacit promise: that those who wield power will do so within legal and moral bounds, and that those bounds will be fairly enforced, even against the powerful. This is what distinguishes rule of law from the mere rule by law. As Justice Neil Gorsuch of the […]

Posted by Barbora Kozusnikova in Competition

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