Policy for Employer Engagement with Law Faculty Events

The Law Faculty’s course programmes are academic endeavours. We therefore seek to maintain separation between course content and employer-sponsored activities. 

This encompasses all events organised by the Faculty for on-course students: 

• teaching sessions (lectures, seminars and tutorials);  
• course-related social events organised by the Faculty (e.g. Freshers’ drinks). 

While some course seminars involve participation by legal practitioners, they are selected on the basis of the substantive expertise they bring as individuals, and do not serve as representatives of their employers. 

Faculty-organised careers events are an exception to this general principle. They are often co-organised and co-promoted with particular employers. The schedule of these events is prepared based on the Faculty’s assessment of the needs of our students vis-à-vis careers information and skills. Personnel attending these events from employers do so as representatives of their organisations, but the content of their presentations is curated according to its value to our students. 

Other than employer representatives participating in Faculty-organised careers events, we do not permit employer representatives, including students recruited to serve as brand ambassadors, to engage with students at events organised by the Faculty for on-course students.  

Law Faculty events are organised on private property and access to these events should be conditioned on compliance with this policy. Similarly, no unauthorised use should be made of Law Faculty or Oxford University logos on social media or in other contexts.

Who to contact 

For guidance about the application of this policy for students serving as brand ambassadors please contact our Graduate Careers Officer, Hafsa Arif (hafsa.arif@law.ox.ac.uk) (for activities involving current students) or our Admissions and Outreach Officer, Emma White (emma.white2@law.ox.ac.uk) (for activities involving prospective students), and where social media is involved, our Law Communications team (communications@law.ox.ac.uk). 

Other events 

This policy does not apply to events organised other than by the Law Faculty, for example by the Careers Service, College Law Societies, the Students’ Union etc. Guidance on similar matters as respects these events can be sought from the organisers.  

If employers have independently organised recruitments or careers-related events in Oxford which they would like to be publicised to our students, these should be referred to our Graduate Careers Officer (who will consider whether the information is appropriate to include in our Careers Newsletter) and/or the Oxford University Careers Service.