Warwick Law School News

Finalist LLB student Naveera Abhayawickrama and third year Law and Sociology student Virginia Choi have shared their experience of the Warwick Thrive programme and why they believe it is an excellent opportunity for our students.

The Law School’s Dr Luminita Olteanu has co-authored a new Policy Brief with Professor Ilanah Fhima from UCL Laws. The Policy Brief titled ‘Body Image and Trade Mark Law: A Policy Proposal’ is the result of the Strategic Brand Signalling Roundtable held on 16 June 2025 at Bentham House, with support from IBIL and Warwick Law School.

We are delighted to announce that five Warwick Law students have recently achieved a Gold Warwick Award. Finalist LLB students Naveera Abhayawickrama, Tolu Adeyemo, Hailey Chu and Sara Duggal, were kind enough to share their experience of the Warwick Award and why they would encourage others to get involved.

It is with great sadness that we have to report the death of Professor William Twining, who passed away peacefully at home on 9 October 2025, aged 91. He joined Warwick Law School in 1972 and was the inspiration behind Warwick’s renowned Law in Context approach to study.

Dr Serena Natile will deliver a session on ‘Revisiting Wages for Housework’ at the Resonate ESRC Festival of Social Science, taking place on Monday 3 November 2025 in Leamington Spa. The event will consider the potential of utopian/dystopian evolutions of work, and how we might shape the future for human wellbeing. Join University of Warwick researchers for an evening of short talks from diverse perspectives of ‘Our Working Lives’.

The GLAM-E Lab, based at the University of Warwick, has collaborated with Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales to bring open access to Wales’ national collections.

This week we are delighted to interview Teaching Fellow Dr Paula Hollstein Barria, for our Warwick Law School Staff Spotlight series.

We are thrilled to announce that Warwick Law School has once again achieved outstanding results in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) 2025, with particularly high levels of student satisfaction across all areas of the survey.

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.