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Re-hired dean has learned that, as a manager, you make mistakes

Jacob Graff Nielsen, who has been dean at the Faculty of Law since 2014, has been reappointed by a unanimous appointment committee. The University Post asked him what he learned from a tumultuous period, and what will happen next.

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Politics

Law professor: Myths about rape persist despite new consent law

Law professor Trine Baumbach describes the consent law as »a paradigm shift«. But she also calls rape cases the Achilles heel of the justice system in her new book. Why? Because of what we think we know about rape victims.

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Campus

"I wish I had talked to someone like me when I was at university”

One messed-up exam will not be your downfall. This is according to Karen Riskær Jørgensen, who helps pressured law students on to their next exam - and from university on to a job.

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Education

Forgot national holidays – law faculty had to move exam 5 weeks

The Faculty of Law had forgotten to include the spring season’s national holidays and had put course instruction and exams in the same time slot. The solution – moving all the exams by up to 5 weeks – has set off a series of new problems: Exams are now on top of each other, and students fear that it will impact their grades.

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Campus

It's never too late to start over

What makes a 40-year-old family man or a 64-year-old pensioner throw themselves into a bachelor's programme? We met four students who chose to change their career path and begin their studies at a later stage in life.

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Campus

Prize for law students' work on study environment

If the Argument Association at the Faculty of Law had its way, then the law studies would have a less boring reputation.

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Campus

Old theology and law buildings now up for sale

Here is a possible solution to all of those who miss the old university buildings in the inner city: Buy them. Price still unknown.

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Campus

See my student job: Law student Nadia feels at home at Maersk

Nadia Azaquoun is just about to graduate with a master’s in law, and works for Maersk Drilling as a legal assistant. She works mainly with company law, and feels comfortable with the work and the workplace.

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Campus

When it rains on KUA, it drips down on the lawyers

The well-being of the law students who have just moved from the inner city won’t be helped by the rain coming into their new buildings on South Campus.

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Campus

See my student job: “I turn up for work exactly when I want, on the days that I want to”

Anna Strand Thomsen loves her student job as student assistant at the Danish collection and disbursement authority Udbetaling Danmark. She decides what her working hours are herself. And she reckons that she has better working conditions than anyone else she knows personally.

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