Warwick Law School News

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

Prior to joining Warwick, Alex Powell was an Associate Professor in Law at Oxford Brookes University, where he also acted as Director of the LLM Programmes.

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

Achas Burin joins us from Oxford Brookes University where she taught tort and medical law and developed a book proposal based on her PhD.

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

Before joining Warwick, Areti Theofilopoulou was an Assistant Professor in the Ethics of Non-Violence at the University of Birmingham.

Congratulations to Maximilien Zahnd and Signe Larsen on securing a British Academy small grant in support of their research.

As we prepare to welcome our new and returning students for Term 1, we would like to wish a warm welcome to our new colleagues, congratulations to staff commencing secondment opportunities, and a fond farewell to those we have had to say goodbye to.

The School of Law and the Department of Economics hosted the 55^th Annual THETS Meeting from 3 to 5 September 2025. Annual meetings have been held since 1968, making THETS one of the oldest established groups of historians of economics.

A report by Dr Rachael Blakey has found that the ‘one-lawyer-two-clients’ format of family law support ‘can be highly effective in facilitating an agreement between certain divorcing or separating couples’.

The New England Foundation for the Arts has awarded Dr. Carolina Alonso Bejarano’s collaborative project ELMO-MENTO a 100,000 USD National Dance Project Grant to support the creation and U.S. touring of the piece.

[Art by Peter Quach]

Sharon Wassamon Kun-amornpong, who studied at Warwick Law School from 2018-2023 under the supervision of Professor Dalvinder Singh has published a monograph based on her PhD thesis. The monograph, titled ‘The Financial Trilemma and Cross-border Bank Crisis Management in ASEAN’ was published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Writing Wrongs is a writing programme for local Year 12 and 13 students which supports young writers from widening participation backgrounds to explore issues related to social justice and to improve their storytelling and writing skills. The deadline for applications is Saturday 22 November 2025. For more information see the Writing Wrongs webpage.

Thank you to everyone who completed this year’s National Student Survey (NSS). We are delighted to share the results and, most importantly, how we are acting on your feedback.