This is a live workshop that helps you to discover new strategies to get past the disappointment, frustration and worry of job search, to refocus on what you want for yourself, and to refresh your outlook so that you feel excited about taking the next steps towards creating the life that you want.

It will cover:

1. Getting real about what you’re going through

2. Consider what happened with a more open mind and move on

3. Work on losing attachment – focus on experiences and growth you want

4. Explore - Increase your choices, options, experiences and ideas

5. Get in a good mindset to experience the life you want

Discover what to expect from this type of interview. With more graduate recruiters shifting away from mainly competency-based interviews to mainly strengths-based interviews or a combination of both, this workshop provides an invaluable insight into Strengths based recruitment. Discover your own unique top Strengths, join us in person to find out more.

You will be able to:

• Describe your unique strengths
• Recall your strengths and provide evidence to support them
• Recognise strengths-based interviews and how to respond to them authentically.

Come and learn the practical skills of podcasting in this full day session.

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Zainab Batul Naqvi, Manchester Metropolitan University

Title: Book Discussion - 'Polygamy, Policy, and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law: A Critical Feminist Analysis'

Chair: Dr Laura Lammasniemi, Warwick Law School

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

Join us for the book launch of "Consideration in Contract Law"Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window by Dr Mark Giancaspro. Dr Giancaspro explores the origins, functions, and impact of the doctrine of consideration, analysing its deep-rooted principles, and ongoing controversies across legal systems. Dr Giancaspro traces its evolution from Roman law to modern contract principles, examining key cases (Stilk v Myrick, Williams v Roffey Bros) and whether courts might come to recognise unconventional forms, such as love, lucky charms, or cryptocurrency.

The event will be followed by a drinks reception.

This session will explore:

Prepping for an interview

Reviewing yourself and your skills, experience and knowledge

Knowing what the recruiter wants

Practice with peers in a safe and fun environment

Get feedback to help you develop

Find out about the career resources that can help you.

Feel free to ask questions

Speaker: Leo Fabbri

More than three billion people live in countries where debt payments exceed spending on healthcare and education. The Covid-19 Pandemic exposed deep debt vulnerabilities in developing economies, leading to debt defaults. Today, rising interest rates, geopolitical tensions, disrupted trade, and climate change intensify these challenges.

This seminar explores the political economy of sovereign debt and asks: Is the international community equipped to manage growing default risks, or is reform needed? By examining proposals from governments, civil society, and academia, we will consider how to create a more sustainable and transparent global debt system.

• This fair will feature departmental stands where representatives can provide prospective students with an overview of departmental offerings, research culture, PGT study methods, and student support.

• Alongside the fair, talks will be held on Admissions, Fees and Funding, and Student Life.

• Audience: Primarily Warwick undergraduates, offer holders, and external prospective PGT/PGR students.

This session tackles the promises and pitfalls of the international criminal and transitional justice system in cases of war crimes and/or crimes against humanity from a gender and critical perspective.

Part of the Thinking Gender, History and International Law seminar series.

Find out more and register.

With One Essex Court. Tailored for those applying in February 2025, or in the near future, for pupillage at the Commercial Bar, focused on interview preparation, including:

• How should you approach interviews?
• What is the best way to tackle problem questions?
• What separates the Commercial Bar from other areas of the Bar?

Followed by interactive group sessions and a Q&A.

Register your interest here by Friday 7 February 2025.

Insight events will provide you with an opportunity to hear from a range of practising barristers as they talk about their journey to the Bar. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions during a Q&A panel and, where events are in-person, an opportunity to network with the panel and other attendees. It is a fantastic opportunity for anybody considering a career as a barrister. There is no charge to attend.

Part of WLS Teaching Network Seminar Series.

Speaker: Dr Martin Compton (KCL)

Generative AI disrupts traditional pedagogic practices, assessment methods and conventional notions of validity, effectiveness and value, leaving us somewhere on a continuum from outright rejection to enthusiastic embrace. In this talk, I explore a more nuanced middle path—one that acknowledges both the significant challenges and the many legitimate, if sometimes controversial, applications—inviting colleagues to walk the tightrope with me in this rapidly evolving landscape.

Please see registration page for further information and an abstract.

This term we’ll be reading Gillian Rose, who was a Professor at Warwick up until her death in 1995. We will focus on her work on law, modernity, and Marxism.

Reading: Chapter 7 ‘With What Must Science End?’ from Hegel contra Sociology

Everyone with an interest is welcome.

Please email Giselle.bickley@warwick.ac.uk or join the CCLS teams channel for the link to the meeting.

Guest Speaker: Lotte Young Andrade, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Hang on a minute, this is the solicitor's job': The Role of Domestic Violence Advocates in Filling the Gaps Left by Legal Aid.

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

Come along to the Warwick Award Fair and discover a range of skills development opportunities that you can take part in this term.

The Fair is your chance to talk to people running activities that are part of the Award to learn more about what skills they will help you develop, and what future opportunities might be on offer. More than 16 providers will be attending the Fair, including Student Enterprise, Travelteer, our central Careers team, Warwick Volunteers and Warwick Sport Activators to name but a few.

You can also chat to members of the Warwick Award team who will be available for a drop in on the day to help with anything from questions about the Award platform, troubleshooting or problem-solving, or even simply to find out more about the Award and how to register for the Award, find activities, track your progress and more.

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!

Celebrating activity and wellness, women from the University of Warwick’s staff and student community can participate in a range of beginner-friendly activities and connect with the University community in a relaxed and fun environment. The evening will include drop-in and bookable sessions and an opportunity to speak with the Active Wellbeing team about free opportunities to get moving across campus. Come and find out about leagues and our ‘Rock Up and Play’ programme!

Our web page is now live and bookings are now open! Women's night inLink opens in a new window

We know that often students can feel overwhelmed with how much they need to manage as part of moving into the following year.

The university is running a fair designed to help students understand some of the things they may need to consider around budgeting and moving out. There will be games, stalls with information on things like transport, accommodation and sport with tips on how to do so on a budget, as well as a competition for you to take part in. There’s even a moves+ challenge linked with the event so check it out.

Book your place now!

Want a placement year in a Leamington Spa Law Firm starting in September 2025?

Join us for an informal online talk with local legal practice Wright Hassall about the opportunity for Warwick Law Students. The talk will be given by the Placement lead at Wright Hassall and current placement year students who will share their experiences.

This online talk will give an overview of the firm, the placement opportunity and the application process. The opportunity is open to all non-Visa holding penultimate year students (including those on a year abroad in Academic Year 2024/5) and finalists.

The placement year is paid (£22,000+ pa) and those taking a year out from their degrees are exempt from tuition fees for that year.

Please register to attend the talk.

Are you currently pursuing a LL.M. degree and thinking of a career in competition law in France? The Paris competition team of Cleary Gottlieb invites you to a virtual event designed to introduce you to the firm, our attorneys, and the work we do. This session, designed for French-speaking students currently pursuing a LL.M. degree in the U.S. and the U.K. with an interest in competition law, offers an excellent opportunity to explore a variety of topics, including our practice areas, team dynamics, and career paths at Cleary Gottlieb.

Register! 

Insight events will provide you with an opportunity to hear from a range of practising barristers as they talk about their journey to the Bar. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions during a Q&A panel and, where events are in-person, an opportunity to network with the panel and other attendees. It is a fantastic opportunity for anybody considering a career as a barrister. There is no charge to attend.

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Professor Vanessa Munro, Warwick Law School

Title: 'Operation Soteria: Improving CPS Responses to Rape Complaints and Complainants'

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

Speaker: Professor Alex Sharpe, University of Warwick

This audio-visual lecture will consider the biggest of themes, death. More particularly, it will consider three ways of ‘being with death’ that are apparent in the life and work of the late David Bowie (religious transcendence, existential defiance, and acceptance). It draws, in particular, on the philosophy of Simon Critchley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Tibetan Buddhism to explore these themes in Bowie’s work. Starting from Critchley’s premise that we should face down death, neither succumbing to escapism (oblivion) nor to the temptations of an afterlife (redemption), it argues, following Nietzsche, that we must, in order to avoid nihilism, make meaning in the world, and following Heidegger, that we must do so with others.

Freedom is understood as only taking shape once the inevitability of death is faced, and ideally when we live our life in readiness for it with others. David Bowie’s work can be viewed as a meditation on death. Importantly, he helped shape a meaningful experience of death, including his own, through a lifelong and open dialogue with fans about questions of alienation, anxiety, fear and mortality.

This is an in-person event. It will be followed by a Q&A and drinks reception.

Please register to attend!

Monthly writing workshop for PhDs, Postdocs, and Early Career Researchers. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to present and receive feedback on your work in an innovative format. The platform is not limited to but focuses on work that uses critical approaches to questions of race, class, gender and other intersections. Staff and CCLS members are all warmly invited to participate in the writing workshops and support early career researchers with their insights and feedback.

The first Womxn Arts Showcase, organized in collaboration with Warwick Future Female Lawyers, will take place in the Warwick Law School Student Hub on Thursday, 6 March from 6PM.

If you are a womxn creative and would like to perform please register for the showcase via this form!

This celebration of International Women’s Day will be full of community, music and creativity, and we hope to see many of you there :)

Food will be provided.

Part of WLS Teaching Network Seminar Series.

Speaker: Dr Maryna Utkina (WLS)

Maryna's principal research interest lies in financial monitoring (intelligence) (particularly at the intersections of anti-money laundering, prevention of corruption and achieving sustainable development goals) and digital technologies.

Maryna is currently leading two projects. The first, funded by the British Academy, explores the effectiveness of financial monitoring in corruption prevention, anti-money laundering and financing terrorism. The European Union co-funds the second project - “The Protection of IP Rights of Researchers and Research Institutions in Ukraine: Best EU Practices”.

A link to the meeting will be sent by 11 March should you wish to join online.

Please see registration page for further information and an abstract.