Warwick Law School News

Finalist Balsher Singh Tiwana has won this year’s Lacuna Writing Competition with an article about “bulldozer justice” and forced demolitions in India. Balsher, who will graduate this summer, produced the piece after reading about the forced displacement of people from minoritised and marginalised communities in shanty towns in Ahmedabad.

For the first time, charity Victim Support is collaborating with the University of Warwick, thanks to a programme of relationship-building events devised and led by a PhD researcher.

Creative challenges, problem-solving and teamwork took centre stage at the University of Warwick as pupils from across the UK and Ireland competed in the School Tasking Champion of Champions Final.

The University of Warwick strengthens its global position, climbing 6 places in the latest QS World University Rankings. Published by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, Warwick ranks 68th globally among more than 1,500 institutions across 106 countries and 10th in the UK.

On Thursday 18 June, Elina Lin (Law) and Jonathan Martin (Politics, Philosophy, and Law) competed in the Finals Day of the prestigious ESU–Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition.

Three Warwick Law School alumni have been recognised for their outstanding contributions in the recent King’s Birthday Honours List.

Warwick Law School has been ranked 10th in the UK in the latest Complete University Guide (CUG), climbing 1 place since last year and regaining its position as a Top 10 Law School.

On May 14 2026, the School of Law and the Departments of Sociology and Politics and International Studies put on a Big Questions themed interdisciplinary workshop on Capitalist Institutions and Power, with a focus on ‘How should the economy be organised to serve society?’

Professor Vanessa Munro (principal investigator), Dr Siobhan Weare (co-investigator, Lancaster University), and Dr Madeleine Millar (research and innovation associate), have been awarded £719,909 in funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The funding is for their project, ‘Delivering Justice in a Digital Age: Exploring the Impact on Mock jurors of Pre-Recorded Evidence in Sexual Offences Trials’, which will begin in September 2026.

Current LLB student Samire Jama has shared her experiences of her placement year with Thomas Flavell and Sons Solicitors in Leamington Spa. In their latest blog post, Samire explains the '5 realities of working at a firm after university'. Read the full blog now!

In mid-May, Professor Christine Schwöbel-Patel was a visiting researcher at the Stefansson Arctic Institute at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. She was there on the invitation of the Nansen Professor of Polar Studies, Dr Romain Chouffart. The visit was to enable a collaboration between Professor Schwöbel-Patel and Dr Chouffart on Arctic governance and new modes of sovereignty through infrastructure.

In Verfassungsblog’s latest weekly editorial dedicated to Taiwan, Dr Ming-Sung Kuo addressed issues concerning the Trump presidency’s implications to Taiwan and Taiwan’s constitutional court crisis in the wake of the Trump-Xi meetings in Beijing as part of the blog’s ‘Five Questions to …’ interview series.