Liv

Hi, I’m Liv, a law student at Pembroke College, Oxford. I went to school in Scotland, and did Advanced Highers in English, History, and Biology.

I’ve tutored pupils in History and English, and given advice on law admissions. When tutoring, I like to find interesting analogies to inspire students, and bring the material alive (a skill honed in my degree; for all the interesting bits, it can sometimes be quite dry!). In my work as a bookseller at Topping & Co in St Andrews, I learned ways of engaging young people in reading — I had to tailor customer recommendations, often for local high school students who wanted to supplement their set texts.

I particularly enjoy the philosophical aspects of law, but I also have experience of legal skills in action. I spent a summer as a restorative justice administrator at an NGO in London, which required me to develop a report on hate crime laws for practitioners, and attend a national conference on probation. Alongside other law students, I founded ‘Trial Run’, Oxford’s intercollegiate mooting programme, and was responsible for sourcing funding from London barristers' chambers.

In my spare time, I’m a freelance editor for the publisher Gibson Square — recently, I’ve worked on a history of Ukrainian-Russian relations, written by the outspoken Putin critic Yuri Felshtinsky.