Events

Not got a vac scheme or TC yet? If so, The Legal Cheek Spring Virtual Law Fair could be for you. It features the following firms with upcoming deadlines:

• Ashurst: direct training contract deadline is 27 March

• BCLP: direct training contract deadline is 31 May; knowledge and innovation placement deadline is 31 March

• Burges Salmon: Bristol direct training contract deadline is 22 June

• Dentons: Scotland trainee solicitor programme applications close on 31 March

• Mayer Brown: direct training contract deadline is 31 March

• RPC: London direct training contract applications open on 23 March and close on 22 June

• Slaughter and May: direct training contract applications open on 1 June and close on 3 July (for penultimate year law students, law finalists and graduates)

• Taylor Wessing: first year insight day and Limitless applications close on 27 March

• Vinson & Elkins: autumn/winter vacation scheme deadline is 31 July

• Watson Farley & Williams: direct training contract applications close on 24 May

• White & Case: Discover: University Insight Scheme applications close on 12 April; direct training contract deadline is 10 May

• Wiggin: direct training contract deadline is 22 May

Also in attendance are the following firms, some of whom may open a summer TC application stream subject to business needs, and are all looking to meet students ahead of their 2026-27 recruitment rounds: Addleshaw Goddard, Clyde & Co, DWF, Irwin Mitchell, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons, Travers Smith, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

It's free and open to all. If you haven't already secure your place now!Link opens in a new window

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.

This event offers a supportive environment where you can learn about our impact in the Financial Services industry, meet the people who shape our inclusive culture, and build the confidence and skills to take your next step.

What will the insight day offer:

• Explore careers at the FCA
• Hear directly from FCA professionals
• Learn how to positively position your disability
• Take part in an empowerment session
• Engage with FCA disability and neurodiversity network
• Build practical recruitment skills

This event is open to 1^st and 2^nd years, on track for a 2:1 (if known at this stage), who are exploring roles in finance, data, change management, economics with a declared or known disability* or neurodiverse condition.

This event is free to attend; and reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed.

*Disability includes, but is not limited to, conditions such as visual and hearing impairments, mobility impairments, autism, diabetes, epilepsy, dyslexia, dyspraxia, mental health conditions, speech impairments and major illnesses such as cancer and MS.

With James Hambro. This empowering event is a chance to attend educational sessions and network with inspiring people within JH&P. Students will have the unique opportunity to meet and hear from Business Partners at JH&P, who will share their career journeys and insights into the industry.

Students do not need to know what Wealth Management is as this event will introduce them to the industry and uncover the diverse career opportunities within it.

Who can apply: 

• In your final year of your Master’s or undergraduate degree, from any degree background.
• Those who are curious and keen to learn more about wealth management.
• Those interested in pursuing a career in wealth management after graduating.

Applications for this role close 05/04/2026.

Guest Speaker: Professor Raj Bhala, The University of Kansas

Title: Criteria for the "Rule of Law" and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

Room S2.09 wlll 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 Warwick Centre for Global Health invites you to a talk by Professor Carmen Logie (MSW, PhD University of Toronto).

How is HIV prevention and care connected with extreme weather events and water, sanitation, and food insecurity? The causal pathways accounting for these associations are understudied. This is particularly true in certain contexts (for instance, humanitarian settings) and among socially marginalised populations (e.g. adolesent girls, sex workers).

Prof. Logie will present findings from three mixed-methods community-based studies in two climate and HIV affected contexts, including a) Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda, with refugee youth, b) key populations (sex workers and men who have sex with men) living with HIV in Kampala, Uganda, and c) in Kenya, with adolescents in urban informal setllements in Nairobi and in fishing communities outside of Kisumu.

The talk will offer suggestions for climate and EWE-informed HIV cascade research and practice with climate-affected populations in East Africa.

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.

Criminal Justice in the Spotlight: Musings on Theory and/or Practice

The Criminal Justice Centre (CJC) at the Warwick Law School warmly invites submissions for its annual PhD conference which is taking place on:

Friday the 8th of May 2026.

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.

LLM students will have the opportunity to present their research questions to a thematic panel of academics and their peers to gain feedback. All staff and particularly LLM supervisors are invited to join us on the day.

The full programme will be shared nearer the time.

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 Dance 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.

The Festival is a celebration of PGRs, an opportunity for PGRs to showcase their work, engage in interactive development session, and build community. The Festival is open to the whole Warwick community.

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.