Warwick Law School News

Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson has been appointed as the new Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The EHRC is Britain's independent equality and human rights regulator. It is a United Nations accredited ‘A status’ National Human Rights Institution (NHRI).

Its role is to make the country a fairer place by enforcing and upholding the laws that safeguard everyone’s right to fairness, dignity and respect.

The University of Warwick has proudly presented the inaugural Ashton Award to an extraordinary group of alumni who studied at Warwick between 1979 and 1989, in recognition of their collective achievements in shaping the transformation of Namibia. The Ashton Award, named after Baroness Catherine Ashton, the University’s first female Chancellor and a global advocate for diplomacy and justice, celebrates the power of collective alumni action to bring about meaningful change.

Warwick has retained sixth place position in the latest University rankings. The Daily Mail University Guide 2026 highlighted excellence in graduate salaries, support for students to achieve high-skilled jobs, and research quality.

We are excited to share that Dr Rachael Blakey has been shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Peter Birks Prize for her monograph, Rethinking Family Mediation: The Role of the Family Mediator in Contemporary Times. The prize recognises outstanding legal scholarship published by Early Career Academics.

James Harrison from Warwick Law School and co-author Mark Wielga (from Nomogaia) have been awarded this year’s best scholarly article prize by the Business and Human Rights Journal. The article compares the effectiveness of six grievance mechanisms that allow workers and communities to complain about human rights abuses that corporations have allegedly perpetrated against them.

Every year, several awards and prizes are granted to a selection of our graduating students to recognise and celebrate the success of our top performers! We are proud to announce this year's winners.

The UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, the British Academy, has elected Warwick Law School's Professor Jacqueline Hodgson to its fellowship in recognition of outstanding contribution in her field. She joins a prestigious community of over 1800 leading scholars in the UK and globally who have achieved distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

Finalist Lidia Stan and second year student Kiran Vekaria, share their experience of presenting their research at the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) 2025.

The Strategic Brand Signalling Roundtable was held to examine trade marks, advertising, and body image perceptions in the UK. The event brought together professionals from ethics, psychology, psychiatric epidemiology, and trade mark and advertising law to discuss these interconnected issues.

Mandeep Singh Tiwana, who studied on our LLM in Law in Development from 2000-2001, has recently been appointed the new Secretary General of CIVICUS Global Alliance.

28 of our current WLS students have collectively won the Warwick Award for Public and Community Engagement (WAPCE) in the Student Social Mobility Champion category! These awards celebrate the best of Widening Participation and School Outreach.

Warwick Law School and the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Vicente Paolo Yu as Honorary Professorial Fellow.