Events

Sign up for our drop-in session where you can meet with Amelia Brookes, the Teach First Early Talent Officer for The University of Warwick, to find out our graduate scheme and gain some top tips for careers within the education sector.

Ready to level up your career? Join us for a hands-on session that breaks down the essentials of managing risk, owning your responsibilities, and getting to grips with Professional Indemnity Insurance. This session is designed for junior lawyers who want to better understand how law firms really operate, how risk and responsibility develop throughout your career, and how leadership starts far earlier than many people realise.

This one-hour workshop is designed to help you prepare for competency-based interviews with confidence and clarity. Through practical exercises, expert guidance, and peer-to-peer practice, you will learn how to identify different types of interview questions, craft compelling responses using the STAR technique, and understand what employers are really looking for.

Come along and enjoy some board games and a relaxed lunch with your PGT peers. A great opportunity to chat and catch up on how the year is going so far.

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.

The proven way to impress at an interview. You will learn how to perform at your best with this online interview workshop, the session is designed to teach them how to approach interviews with confidence, clarity and impact. Click here to book.

Join us to share some sweet treats and refreshments with your classmates, chat with staff and learn more about the NSS and its impact.

Boost your confidence and learn how to structure engaging presentations, communicate with impact, and manage nerves so you can deliver your best when it matters most.

In this session we shall look at how to make effective applications for legal opportunities including vacation schemes, training contracts and 1st year insight schemes. You'll gain awareness of how to complete the application, what recruiters are specifically looking for, and how to effectively articulate your answers.

In this session, Chartered Occupational Psychologist and President Elect at the British Psychological Society Dr Laura DeanLink opens in a new window and Tiffany BaylissLink opens in a new window reframe interview anxiety as a normal physiological response and show how to work with it rather than fight it.

Interviews and assessment centres are inherently high pressure, yet much of the advice candidates receive is unhelpful. Being told to “just be confident” or “calm down” ignores how anxiety actually works. You will leave this session with practical strategies, including interview stress testing and symptom specific techniques, to help you perform at your best and turn anxiety into a genuine advantage in your interviews.

Get tips and tricks on how to prepare effectively for interviews and stand out from the crowd at this online session. You will get advice on how to present yourself in an interview setting, structure answers more effectively, and improve your confidence, delivery and presence.

CMS are launching their 2026 Insight Programme (1st year law) and Graduate Solicitor (final year law) apprenticeship! The Insight Programme is a 1-week, paid programme in which you will shadow a trainee and complete a legal technology project. Applications for both open in February. The CMS ambassador is holding this event to launch the programmes and give more information. Hear from the Emerging Talent team, join a Q&A and enjoy refreshments and networking.

Interested in a career in policy research or shaping ideas that influence decision-making?

Join us for an inspiring and interactive session designed to connect Warwick students with graduates working in leading think tanks.

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 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.

Drawing on our ESRC IAA project titled, 'Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Greylisting: Lessons from Nigeria’ and ongoing research, we discuss the politics of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) compliance. FATF, as a powerful standard setting body, exerts considerable transnational pressure on developing states through its greylisting mechanism shaping domestic legal and institutional priorities. Nigeria’s compliance is linked to its reputation management, access to global financial markets, foreign investments and development finance all which demand FATF compliance.

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.

The seminar will discuss the reform of international investment law and arbitration, focusing on the role of the investment contract. Through the analysis of some contractual clauses, the lecture will illustrate how the investment contract may be successful in strengthening the sustainability of foreign direct investment (FDI) and making international investment law and arbitration more balanced.

Legal Cheek is coming to Exeter for the latest in its 2026 series of IN-PERSON Secrets to Success events – run in association with The University of Law (ULaw) – to help students boost their commercial awareness ahead of vacation schemes and training contract interviews.

The event takes place in the Amory Building at the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus, and features lawyers from Ashfords, Michelmores and Trowers & Hamlins, alongside a careers expert from ULaw. The Secrets to Success-themed session features short talks from the lawyers followed by a panel discussion, after which there are drinks and snacks with the speakers, trainees from the firms as well as members of their early talent teams.

The speakers will share the secrets to their own success, telling the stories of their career journeys and advising students on how they can best position themselves to obtain training contracts with leading law firms. Also up for discussion will be the key commercial awareness topics that students need to have on their radar.

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This is a monthly café designed to provide a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space for students who have been impacted by loss. It will welcome all students, regardless of faith or background, who have been affected by bereavement, whether recent or in the past. The aim is to help students connect, share experiences, and support each other through their grief journeys.

Want to make an impact through a career in charities or international development?

Join us for an inspiring and interactive session designed to connect Warwick students with graduates working in charities and international development.

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.

These guided sessions offer a unique, reflective space for students, regardless of faith or background, to engage with personal challenges, enhance their reflective practice, and develop problem-solving skills. The labyrinth, an ancient tool for walking meditation, offers a powerful, non-verbal method for exploring issues. Participants can move beyond conventional thought patterns to find clarity and new perspectives.

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.