 Hello, my name is Abby, and I'm in my final year here at Cambridge Reading Law. I think one of the great things about doing law here at Cambridge is that you get a chance to choose not only what you're going to study but as well you get to choose how you're going to study it. And for my final year I decided that I wanted to do a dissertation, currently finishing off my dissertation which is based on the Infanticide Act and it was in the Women in the Law seminar. One of the key things I've enjoyed about doing a dissertation is just the freedom to work on your own idea. I've come up with a new idea that hopefully no one's ever worked on before and I've really built it up and seeing it coming together at the end has been just absolutely great and I've never done anything like it before. I think one of the key challenges about the dissertation was doing the presentation because everyone in the seminar each week has to present their idea to the group and then we all get to talk about what they're doing and give some constructive criticism. And whilst it was daunting preparing for the presentation, once I was there it really helped me to actually iron out my idea and to see what kind of criticisms would come in about it so that I could actually argue better development. My argument so to speak. I think that there's a lot of support as well with doing the dissertation. I was a bit worried about doing it because it's 12,000 words and I hadn't ever done a sustained piece of writing before. However, we have seminar leaders that are there you can email or talk to about your idea if you're not feeling that great about it and they'll often highlight ways that you can improve or directions that you can take. So I would strongly recommend people to do a dissertation if they wanted to sort of work more independently and be a bit more flexible with their time.