Events

St Philips Chambers will be hosting a free pupillage information evening aimed at anyone looking to join the 2027 application process to become a pupil barrister or for anyone who isn’t quite at that point yet but is seriously considering a career at the Bar. This informal evening, hosted by Chair of the Pupillage Committee Ali Tabari, will see a range of barristers in attendance including current pupils and those who have recently started their practice.

There are limited places available for this event which are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register to attend. 

Join Legal Cheek for a virtual pupillage application masterclass in partnership with The University of Law (ULaw).

We’ll be hearing from barristers from three leading chambers who successfully made their way through the hyper-competitive selection process to secure pupillage. The panel — from leading sets Henderson, Keating and Landmark Chambers — will share their experiences and advice on how to navigate the process of securing pupillage, alongside a ULaw careers expert. Also on the agenda will be commercial awareness, with the speakers considering some of the key topical issues that future barristers should have on their radar.

The panel discussion will run from 4pm to 5pm, after which there will be virtual networking with the speakers, members of their chambers and pupillage committees, and ULaw campus ambassadors until 6pm.

Please register to attend.

Guest Speakers: Professor Jackie Hodgson; Dr Rachel Lewis; Dr Ruth Bernatek.

Title: 'Using arts-led methods to challenge police perspectives & practices around race in West Midlands Police'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

The work in progress sessions are designed for contributors to be able to present and discuss their papers towards publication. The editorial project as a whole aims to develop new critical perspectives on the intersection of international law and gender history. Please do come along if you’re interested in any of these areas and wish to participate in the discussion as well as the process of building an editorial project.

Presentation this week:

• Claerwen O'Hara (Melbourne Law School) presents ‘Negotiating Women’s Right to Political Participation: Western Ideals, Confucianism, and Feminist Struggles in Modern China, 1890–1920’

• Ningning Liu (School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast) presents ‘Gender, International Law and the Global Economy: Sketches of Alternative Legal Imaginaries from the 1970s’

Please email Rosie Woodhouse for the Teams meeting link.

Guest Speaker: Dr Senthorun Sunil Raj, Manchester Metropolitan University

Title: (Book Presentation) 'The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

Hear from the Inner Temple Outreach Team about the Inn's scholarships and hear from a panel of barristers and judges about their journey to the Bar. At in person events, there is also a networking reception, where you can interact with barristers, judges and other aspiring barristers. Refreshments (drinks and canapes) are provided.
This is an opportunity for university students, graduates, and career changers to ask questions and learn more about routes to the Bar.

The Gender and the Law Cluster at Warwick Law School would like to invite you to our upcoming work-in-progress presentations. We have four wonderful sessions scheduled, each designed to provide constructive feedback on ongoing research. If you would like to join any of the presentations, please register your interest hereLink opens in a new window, and we will share further details upon registration.

Nousheen Ritu, on 'Shadow Incarceration': Women's Experiences of Pretrial Detention in Bangladesh

Abstract: My PhD project delves into women's experiences of pretrial detention for drug trafficking related offenses in Bangladesh. I conducted a two-month prison ethnography in Kashimpur Female Central Jail, the country's only dedicated prison for women. Adopting a decolonial and feminist lens, I engage in creative methods such as artwork sessions with detainees, ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with 32 detainees. My research findings explore women's embodied, subjective and emotional experiences of incarceration. In addition, I investigate women's exercise of agency and resistance within these punitive spaces, contributing to broader understandings of gendered punishment and punitive governance. I argue that pretrial detention, although deemed as a procedural measure, inflicts pain and penality on women detainees in prison. This challenges dominant logics of punishment that has often been confined within Eurocentric and androcentric boundaries of knowledge.

Guest Speaker: Chris Brian, Undercover Research Group (URG)

Title: 'Spycopsresearch.info: Making Sense of the Undercover Policing Inquiry'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

The work in progress sessions are designed for contributors to be able to present and discuss their papers towards publication. The editorial project as a whole aims to develop new critical perspectives on the intersection of international law and gender history. Please do come along if you’re interested in any of these areas and wish to participate in the discussion as well as the process of building an editorial project.

Presentation this week:

• Maria Drakopoulou (Kent Law School) presents ‘Rethinking Emancipation: Relational Solidarity, Voluntary Servitude, and Feminist Contestations of League of Nations Governance, 1919–1939’

• Paola Zichi (Warwick Law School) presents ‘Clio’s International Travels: An Excursus’

Please email Rosie Woodhouse for the Teams meeting link.

Guest Speaker: Jules Holroyd, University of Sheffield

Title: 'Oppressive Praise'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

Guest Speakers: Joy Malala, Warwick Law School and Nkechikwu Azinge-Egbiri, Lancaster University

Title: 'The Politics of FATF Compliance: Lessons from Nigeria'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

The work in progress sessions are designed for contributors to be able to present and discuss their papers towards publication. The editorial project as a whole aims to develop new critical perspectives on the intersection of international law and gender history. Please do come along if you’re interested in any of these areas and wish to participate in the discussion as well as the process of building an editorial project.

Presentation this week:

• Saadiya Alam (Birkbeck, University of London) presents ‘Bringing Reproductive Justice to the Judgements of the ECtHR through Polymorphous Queer Biokinships’

• Selin Altay (Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum) presents ‘The Beijing Effect: How the Historiography of the Mid-90s Impacted the Workings of the CEDAW Committee’

Please email Rosie Woodhouse for the Teams meeting link.

Hear from the Inner Temple Outreach Team about the Inn's scholarships and hear from a panel of barristers and judges about their journey to the Bar. At in person events, there is also a networking reception, where you can interact with barristers, judges and other aspiring barristers. Refreshments (drinks and canapes) are provided.
This is an opportunity for university students, graduates, and career changers to ask questions and learn more about routes to the Bar.

Guest Speaker: Dr Arushi Garg, University of Cambridge

Title: 'Relational harms and harmed relationships: The role of respectability in rape prosecutions'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

The work in progress sessions are designed for contributors to be able to present and discuss their papers towards publication. The editorial project as a whole aims to develop new critical perspectives on the intersection of international law and gender history. Please do come along if you’re interested in any of these areas and wish to participate in the discussion as well as the process of building an editorial project.

Presentation this week:

• Nivedita Joon (Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland) presents ‘Interpreting Sexual Violence and Masculinity in the Tribunal Space: Male Victims of Sexual Violence at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’

• Anna Gopsill (School of Advanced Study, University of London) presents ‘In the Courts of Women: Feminist Tribunals, Gender Experts and the Making of the International Women’s Movement, 1976–1995’

Please email Rosie Woodhouse for the Teams meeting link.

Hear from the Inner Temple Outreach Team about the Inn's scholarships and hear from a panel of barristers and judges about their journey to the Bar. At in person events, there is also a networking reception, where you can interact with barristers, judges and other aspiring barristers. Refreshments (drinks and canapes) are provided.
This is an opportunity for university students, graduates, and career changers to ask questions and learn more about routes to the Bar.

Guest Speaker: Dr Jake Subryan Richards, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: (Book Presentation) 'The Bonds of Freedon: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

We know that often you can feel overwhelmed with how much you need to manage as part of being a student. This event was created to help support you in the different ways you can save and budget, considerations as you prepare to move into the next academic year, and guidance on some of the financial aspects if you're looking to change or move accommodation!

Guest Speaker: Josh Pike, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Death and All Its Friends'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

The work in progress sessions are designed for contributors to be able to present and discuss their papers towards publication. The editorial project as a whole aims to develop new critical perspectives on the intersection of international law and gender history. Please do come along if you’re interested in any of these areas and wish to participate in the discussion as well as the process of building an editorial project.

Presentation this week:

• Ọláolúwa Òní (Osgoode Hall Law School) presents ‘“Beyond ‘When Donald Duck Met Global Feminism’: The Battle Over Family Planning and Reproductive Rights in the 1960–1970s’

• Miriam Bak McKenna (Roskilde University) ‘Another Portrait of African Feminism: Indigenous Legal History in Postcolonial African Literature’

Please email Rosie Woodhouse for the Teams meeting link.

Guest Speaker: Professor Emilie Cloatre, King's College London

Title: 'Between Deception and Dissent: Regulating Unproven, Disproven and Misleading Health-Related Claims'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

Join the Four Inns of Court to hear about our scholarships and hear from a panel of practising barristers about their journeys to the Bar. This event is an ideal chance for university students, graduates, and career changers to ask questions and learn more about routes to the Bar.

The Gender and the Law Cluster at Warwick Law School would like to invite you to our upcoming work-in-progress presentations. We have four wonderful sessions scheduled, each designed to provide constructive feedback on ongoing research. If you would like to join any of the presentations, please register your interest hereLink opens in a new window, and we will share further details upon registration.

Mahek Bhatia on 'Exploring Marital Sexual Violence Litigation in India'

Abstract: My MSc thesis investigated the operation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, focusing on litigation experiences and the potential for strategic legal engagement. Drawing on legal reports and ten semi-structured interviews with lawyers, it uncovered that engagement with civil law is not legalistic, uniform, straightforward, or wholly separate from criminal justice institutions. Instead, litigation is more complex and game-like, with players, rules, advisors, and contested outcomes, in which civil law and criminal law are enmeshed in complex ways. Within this framework, lawyers emerge as crucial intermediaries who balance the legal system’s constraints with the needs of survivors. As I begin my PhD, I will be developing this project for doctoral research. In the presentation, I will outline how I plan to do so and explain the intended methodological design of the project. Receiving feedback and constructive criticism on this development will be crucial and beneficial for the project.

Guest Speaker: Ksenia Lavrenteva, University of Exeter (TBC)

Details to follow.

This event will start with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S0.17.

Guest Speaker: Dr Olimpia Burchiellaro, University of Essex

Title: 'Homocapitalism and/as speculative governmentality: Corporate investments in LGBTQ+ rights at the inclusion/market frontier'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

Guest Speaker: Fayiza Puthiya Peedikayil, Warwick Law School

Title: post-PhD Viva presentation

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

Guest Speaker: Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Legal Research and Dane Theatre: Creating ELMO-MENTO'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

Seminar on Pedagogy - lead by Warwick Law School's Teaching Network

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.

Guest Speaker: James White, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'The Truth of the Crime: From Epistemic Fallibilism to Ethical Dialogue'

Room S2.09 will be available from 12:00pm, with lunch served at 12:30pm, followed by the Seminar from 1:00pm to 2:00pm in Room S2.12.