Warwick Law School News

We are delighted to welcome Prof Walter Mignolo of Duke University, North Carolina, and IAS Visiting Fellow, to present a paper 'International Law and Imperial Cosmopolitanism' -  Wednesday 24^th November, 12.30pm in S1.15. All welcome.

Walter Mignolo is the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University where he is also Director of the Centre for Global Studies and the Humanities.  He is an internationally recognised and respected academic whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries as well as national ones.  His recent work has been on ideas of cosmopolitanism and inter-national law in the context of the research paradigm of modernity / coloniality.

Funded by the Institute for Advanced Study at Warwick, this project is run in collaboration with colleagues from psychology and computer science.  The project will bring together academic and postgraduate colleagues in law, computer science and psychology to explore the application of new digital forensic technologies within the criminal justice context.  The aim is to develop these technologies in innovative and user-led ways, whilst also drawing on broader understandings of ethics and reliability, informed by psychology and law.  It will result in two or three interdisciplinary seminars with invited speakers and runs until July 2011.

 The Law School is delighted to welcome to Warwick Professor Eric Heinze of Queen Mary University of London. He will be presenting his paper 'What is Injustice?' on Wednesday 24 November, 4-6pm, in S0.52. Professor Heinze has written widely on Human Rights, Legal Theory and Law and Literature. His web page is available here. All welcome.

 Warwick Law School was delighted to welcome back former colleague Professor Han Somsen and to hear his paper 'When Regulators Mean Business: Regulating in the Shadow of Environmental Armageddon'.

Origins, Images and Cultures of English Law The Law School is delighted to announce that Dr Paul Raffield has been awarded a grant from the University of Warwick's Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning. The project, entitled ‘Lawyer Playwrights: Legal Themes and the Making of Drama’, will allow for a playwright to attend all of Dr Raffield's seminar workshops for his undergraduate module in "Origins, Images and Cultures of English Law". This will give undergraduate students a unique insight into the craft of playwriting and an understanding of its relevance in a legal setting. Further details on the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning can be found at the following web address: 

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/

Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na^cim is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, and Associated Professor in Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is the author of Islam and the Secular State (2008); African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (2006); and Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil liberties, human rights and international law (1990).  His edited books include  Human Rights under African Constitutions (2003); Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book (2002); Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa (2002); and Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Quest for consensus (1992).

Professor An-Na^cim served as Global Legal Scholar of Warwick University School of Law from September 2007 to November 2009.

 
The School of Law held its third Awards Ceremony on Friday 17 September 2010 for students who completed the Certificate of Higher Education in Licensing Law course in the academic year 2009-2010.

The Ceremony was held at Highbury Hall in Moseley, Birmingham, a Grade II listed building which was originally the home of Joseph Chamberlain.

Certificates were presented by Professor Julio Faundez, Head of the School of Law, and the Ceremony was followed by lunch in the Main Hall area. 

BUDDING HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATE IN THE RUNNING FOR NATIONAL AWARD2010 graduate Zeenat Islam is shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards 2010.

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Best New Pro Bono Activity - 2010

Commended - University of Warwick - YOU*th Inspire