The Liverpool Law School recently welcomed Mark George QC (Garden Court North Chambers) to deliver a talk to our students on the work of Amicus www.amicus-alj.org in supporting prisoners on death row in the US. Each year Amicus sends legally qualified volunteers from the UK to work on capital cases alongside local attorneys in the US. In recognition of the importance of this work, and of the critical role played by volunteers, the Liverpool Law School has committed to establish a modest bursary to enable one of our own students to complete the training and three month long US placement which Amicus requires of its volunteers. By promoting the participation of Liverpool students in the Amicus project we also hope to reinforce the international standing of our graduates, the global reach of the Liverpool legal community, and our collective commitment to social justice.
For those reasons we would like to establish this bursary on the basis of joint sponsorship by the Liverpool Law School and by one additional supporter from the Liverpool legal community, after whom the bursary would be named.
If you feel that your firm or organisation would be interested in contributing to this initiative we would like to hear from you.
Please email: Jeremy Marshall (Lecturer in Law, The University of Liverpool Law School) at J.Marshall@liv.ac.uk