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An end of year update from CCLS Director Professor Ioannis Kokkoris

5 December 2022

Ioannis Kokkoris wearing a suit and blue tie, standing in front of the ocean

Season's greetings from CCLS! I would like to extend warm festive wishes from myself and the entire team. CCLS has a number of strengths arising from our vast research expertise, the professionalism of our colleagues and our focus on offering an excellent education experience in a variety of areas of law - one that derives from our experience of applying law in practice.

CCLS will sustain its excellence in all of its areas of activity by producing high quality research and applying it to create impact, enhancing our cutting edge teaching programs by focusing on new areas of legal practice such as AI, digitalisation, sustainability and trade amongst others, and by working more closely with our alumni and with the legal and business community to address their bespoke needs.

CCLS Academics have been hosting Alumni reunions whilst travelling internationally. Whilst attending a legal conference entitled 'Legal and Economic Aspects of Sustainable Development according to Egypt's 2030 Vision' at Cairo’s Ain Shams University, Dr Franziska Arnold Dwyer, Senior Lecturer in Insurance Law and Specialism Director for Insurance Law, and Dr Antigoni Lykotrafiti, Senior Lecturer in Transport, Energy and the Law, met with local CCLS Alumni and offer-holders.

Elsewhere in the world, Dr Tibisay Morgandi, Lecturer in International Energy and Natural Resources Law, recently hosted the first ever CCLS Alumni Reunion in Santiago, Chile, and expressed that “It was a real pleasure hosting the very first CCLS Alumni reunion in Santiago. I truly enjoyed connecting with some of the alumni based there and listening to their fond memories of their time at CCLS.”

There have been many CCLS Chapter events held. Dr Thomas Farkas (Intellectual Property Law LLM, 2010), Chair of the CCLS Germany Chapter has also recently hosted a reunion in Hamburg, and plans to organise more events bringing Alumni from different German cities together. You can read about all upcoming and past events here.

We really appreciate all feedback from the CCLS community, which is why we have recently created the CCLS Alumni Sounding Board, a new panel advising on CCLS’s alumni engagement. We have recruited a wide cross section of alumni from across decades of graduating classes to be on the Sounding Board, in order to create a regular touchpoint between the CCLS community and the CCLS Alumni and Development Team.

The duties of the Sounding Board will include sharing their experience of being an alumnus, as well as giving advice, feedback and insights in order for the CCLS Alumni and Development Team to ensure that they service the community with engagement that is relevant and of interest to you all. The Board met very recently for the first time and I am thankful for their time and support on this.

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