President’s Address

Hello everyone!

My name is Catherine Kola-Balogun, and I am a second-year History and Politics student at St Hilda’s College. I am absolutely delighted to be serving as your President for Trinity 2025!

Oxford Law Society has been a significant part of my life at Oxford over the course of this year. From attending various events, to serving as Welfare Officer in Michaelmas 2024, and then as Events Officer in Hilary 2025, it has been an absolute privilege to work as part of the committee to offer our members first-class events and help them along in their commercial law journey.

From coordinating the Morgan Sports Law presentation on Anti-Doping Arbitration, hosting the Sally Penni MBE talk on Cybersecurity Law, and setting up the Radcliffe Chambers Barristers panel, being a part of the committee has been both challenging and enriching in the best of ways.

I am thrilled to be leading one of the biggest societies in Oxford, and have high hopes for our term card. As a non-law student and an ethnic minority, my interactions with the law have always come from a cross-disciplinary, intersectional perspective, looking at how law, history, and politics intersect to shape our understanding of the world and our approaches to contemporary problems.

By bringing non-commercial and divergent areas of law from the fringes of our society to the center, I hope to be able to offer events that are not only more inclusive but also raise their intellectual and educational value , whilst still maintaining our commercial law focus. Major events that I have been involved in include: In-house Legal Presentations, Panel Discussions on International Law amid Gaza and Ukraine, Feminist Legal History Talk, US Law Admissions Talk, Converting Vacation Schemes into Training Contracts, Border Security and Asylum Bill Panel, and many others.

This term is also one for collaboration, and I am delighted to be able to offer members a term card which crosses over with various other societies, including OWLSS, OSCOLA, OHRSS, OGLS, OXIRSOC, and much more! In addition, we have also recently partnered with Youni, a university-wide online ticketing platform, and this is where you will find most of our events in addition to our Instagram posts and weekly newsletters.

Trinity term is an exciting period because it offers scope for the most creativity within the term card and allows us to explore other dimensions of the law which are scarcely explored in the other two terms amid recruitment and application drives. Nonetheless, the law society will by no means abandon the events which our members have found most popular. We have various commercial-oriented events lined up, and a bustling social calendar in store to reflect the summer season, welfare events to account for upcoming exams, and some interesting panels as well. Trinity 2025 is truly a term for change and transformation, and I am particularly looking forward to this term’s President’s Soiree at Isis River Farmhouse!

Finally, to bring this address to a close, I would like to issue a massive thanks to our excellent executive and general Committee. Everyone has worked very hard to organise all the various events. We hope that we will be able to offer you a wonderful hybrid of commercial, social, welfare, and intellectual in the upcoming term card.

So keep an eye out and stay tuned!

Catherine Kola-Balogun
President, Trinity 2025

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