Sun kissed law schools by the sea, getting legally down with the kids and blogging QC names and shames barristers’ chambers who’ve been rude to pupillage seekers.

The new Catolica Global School of Law – based in Lisbon, but with English as its working language – has opened applications for the next school year. In what looks like a nice way to wile away a couple of years before the graduate recruitment market gets going again, the law school is offering a double LLM degree in conjunction with Kings College London, with one year spent in Lisbon and the other in London.