The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) opens in week 2. This is a chance to share your experience as a masters student so far and highlight the areas that need improving.
We’re running a drop-in to let you know more about the survey and other ways to give feedback in the School. There will be some sweat treats to enjoy and a prize draw where you can win Warwick vouchers and Law School merchandise. 🎁

Part of WLS Teaching Network Seminar Series.

Speaker: Dr Kerry Dobbins

Kerry is an experienced pedagogic researcher with expertise in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). She has worked as an Education Researcher and Academic Developer in various institutions and joined the ADC in 2021. Kerry leads on the Academic and Professional Pathway for Experienced Staff (APP EXP), which is one of Warwick's routes to Advance HE/HEA Fellowship. She also leads Cultivate, which is the ADC's open access series of events and resources to support learning, teaching and assessment. Cultivate supports individual professional learning as well as providing a platform for colleagues to share their work and connect with wide and diverse communities. It hosts the open access seminar series as well as the Evaluating Teaching and Learning in HE Forum, both of which support sector-wide community engagement and discussion.

A link to the meeting will be sent by 29 April.

Open to all UG students.

In this session, we will be exploring what makes a high-grade law assignment. We will cover some technical and logistical tips, including how assignments are graded at the University. After evaluating a draft essay to understand how to apply marking criteria, we will go over some brief guidance for both essay and problem questions.

This is a hybrid event. To join online please make sure you are logged into your University Teams account and join the meeting here.

Guest Speaker: Dr Asuman Özgür Keysan, Atilim University

Title: 'Unveiling the Digital Dynamics: Anti-Gender Ideology and LGBTQ+ Opposition in Contemporary Turkey'

Discussant: Nada Chaiyajit, Warwick Law School

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Take a break from studying and get creative with the Student Experience Team. Whether you’d like to paint, decorate a tote bag, do some origami or colouring, we’ve got you covered. 🎨🖌️

All resources will be provided, but please BOOK YOUR PLACE to help us know how much materials and drinks to bring. You can stay for as short or as long you’d like.

All Law students are welcome!

Join Warwick Law School’s Writing Wrongs Programme to hear from author, poet, activist and playwright Casey Bailey. Casey will speak about building a career as a playwright, published author, musician, teacher and performance poet.

Speaker Bio: Casey started his writing journey as a young MC. He has since written the plays GrimeBoy and Please Do Not Touch, and was selected as a champion of Black Theatre by the Alfred Fagon Awards for Black British Playwrights. His debut full-length poetry collection, Adjusted, was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2017. Casey is also a secondary school teacher and community activist and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Newman University.

Please join us and register your attendance here.

This useful session is for finalists wanting legal work experience and entry pathway advice to different roles & PG courses, typically undertaken by law graduates. A wide variety of opportunities will be covered including: finding employers who have designed work matching your skill-set, what employers want, how to up-skill & impress, plus what to do if Law is not for you.

Will include a wide variety of pathways and employment contacts, eg

• for graduates with limited legal experience

• how to qualify as a lawyer
• legal recruitment agencies, paralegal academies
• Summer work experience
• PG study
• The Warwick Award
• What to do if Law is not for you :)

Open to all UG students.

Join us for our second academic skills session on time management. We will consider why time management is such a problem (for everyone!), and how we can effectively manage our time. In the workshop, you will design your own individual study schedule to help you manage your workload. The workshop will also include some tips on productivity and staying focused.

Guest Speaker: Dr Siddharth De Souza, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University

Title: 'What is Global Data Law? A Data Justice Perspective'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Step away from your screens and join us for a relaxed wellbeing walk around the campus. 🌼
We’ll stroll around the paths and woodlands and try to find some bluebells too. This is a great chance to stretch your legs, connect with other students, and enjoy nature.

Book HERE so we know you’ll be joining.

The Module Fair will give you an opportunity to engage with lectures, hear about the various modules we run in the department, and help you decide how to shape the rest of your Law degree. 📚

Additionally, we have invited colleagues from the Language Centre, IATL and LinC to share more about their offering.

This is the plan for the day:

11:00-12:00 - R0.21 - Module selection briefing for all students

12:00-13:00 - Hub - Lunch for students and staff

13:00-15:00 - across WLS - Module Fair

Part of WLS Teaching Network Seminar Series.

Speakers: Dr Naomi Kay (WIE) and Dr Rebecca Munro (WLS)

Led by colleagues from Warwick Institute of Engagement and the School of Law, this session will explore what we mean by Public Engagement at Warwick, talk about why it matters, and discuss some of the way you can get involved. We’ll look at different examples of public engagement – from the very small to the very big – and also talk about some of the opportunities engagement work can open up to support your career.

Guest Speaker: Dr Caroline Bertram, University of Copenhagen

Title: 'The trade-climate nexus: enforcement pathways under EU preferential trade agreements for the Paris Agreement'

Chair: Professor James Harrison, Warwick Law School

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Open to all UG students.

Rachael is running a final session on how to read (legal) sources. In the workshop, we will consider why (legal) sources can be so difficult to read. The workshop will then be broken down into three sections: how to find relevant sources; how to analyse sources; and, how to use sources in our assignments.

Join the Student Experience Team for a relaxing afternoon with board and card games. 🎲🃏🎲

We’ll provide snacks and a range of games but feel free to bring your own if you’d like to play them with your friends.

All Law students are welcome!

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

The full programme will be shared nearer the time.

Step away from your screens and join us for a relaxed wellbeing walk around the campus. 🌼
We’ll stroll around the paths and woodlands and try to find some bluebells too. This is a great chance to stretch your legs, connect with other students, and enjoy nature.

Book HERE so we know you’ll be joining.

Deadline to apply: 30 April 2025

Thrive™ is an interactive in-person programme which supports students to develop confidence, resilience and agency. You will also hear from inspirational speakers.

Thrive can help you:

• Increase your self-awareness through understanding your own strengths and values
• Grow your confidence through exploring boundary setting and building assertiveness
• Feel empowered, overcome self-doubt and increase resilience
• Push beyond your comfort zone
• Make connections with like-minded students and start to build a community of support

Open to undergraduates and postgraduates, Thrive is free to attend.

Places are limited so book yours now using the online form.

Guest Speaker: Dr Caesar Alimsinya Atuire, University of Oxford and University of Ghana

Title: TBC

Please note earlier start and finish time due to Staff Meeting: Starting with lunch at 12:00pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Room S2.12