Warwick Law School News

The Student Clinical Legal Education (CLE) Recognition List is a national recognition celebrating students' hard work, dedication, and contributions to clinical legal education. 35 Warwick Law in the Community (LinC) students (both undergraduate and postgraduate) have made the list this year.

A whopping six Warwick Law School LLB students have been announced as shortlisted for Student of the Year in The 2026 Warwickshire Law Society AwardsLink opens in a new window.

We are delighted to see high levels of satisfaction amongst our postgraduate research (PGR) community, as reported in the latest Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) 2026. This year, the overall satisfaction amongst PGRs in the Law School was an impressive 94.2%, up 17.1% from the last PRES conducted in 2023.

On 9 October 2026, UNIDROIT (The Institute for the Unification of Private Law) and Warwick Law School signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen academic cooperation across a range of areas, and the opportunity for future joint activities was discussed in relation to key aspects of commercial and private law. Find out moreLink opens in a new window.

Professor Sharifah Sekalala launched the prestigious 2026/27 Cutting-Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice Guest Lecture series at the LSE earlier this month with her lecture on 'The Role of the Law in African Health Data Futures'.

Back in June, Warwick Law School’s Professor Jane Bryan was involved in offering an externally accredited skills session to prepare students for summer placements and graduate opportunities in conveyancing teams.

Seven Warwick Law School colleagues recently attended the first Warwick Law Week at Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL) which took place from 21-25 September in Chongqing, China.

Warwick Law School welcomes a new Assistant Professor to our community.

Prior to joining Warwick, Julian Scholtes spent four years as a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, teaching across Public Law and EU Law.

Warwick Law School welcomes a new Assistant Professor to our community.

Prior to joining Warwick, Ira Chadha Sridhar was the Hatton-WYNG Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. During her Fellowship, she worked on a book, while also teaching Jurisprudence and Tort Law to undergraduate students.

Warwick Law School welcomes a new Assistant Professor to our community.

Prior to joining Warwick, Jiajun Luo was a Hauser Global Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU School of Law where he developed research projects on legal empowerment and access to justice, courts and judicial governance, and the growing use of technology in legal institutions.

Warwick Law School welcomes a new Assistant Professor to our community.

Prior to joining Warwick, Katie Morris was working as a lecturer at Lancaster University convening the Equity & Trusts Law module, as well as teaching on Land Law and International Law.

The WLS Multicultural Scholars Programme has been used as an example of good practice by the Solicitors Regulation Authority's (SRA) to help inform a new toolkit on ‘Improving access to legal careers’. It was launched to help law schools, law firms, in-house teams and other legal sector organisations develop partnerships and initiatives that support aspiring solicitors from underrepresented backgrounds.