Ana Aliverti's research on "Foreign nationals before the criminal courts: immigration status, deportability and punishment" has been awarded funding from the British Academy. Beginning in October the project wims to investigate the impact of immigration status on the treatment of defendants before the criminal justice system.

Alan Norrie will present a keynote address on ‘Criminal Justice and the Blaming Relation’ at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Conference in Sydney, Australia from 1-3 October 2014.

Professor Norrie's address will expand upon his longterm research in criminal law and social theory as well as the development of a new project that will move from the standard legal form of criminal justice (“blaming relation”) to criminal justice's connection with social injustice, the problems of justice when societies perpetrate genocide, the nature of the preventive turn in recent criminal justice, and issues concerning law, transitional and restorative justice.

Alan Norrie’s essay ‘Justice on the Slaughter-Bench: The Problem of War Guilt In Arendt and Jaspers’ is being translated into Spanish and published as a short book (La Justicia en el banquillo de la muerte : El problema de la Culpa de la guerra en H. Arendt y K. Jaspers) by the Universidad Libre, Bogota.

He will discuss it at a seminar in Bogota on ‘Constitutions for Peace’ for law students, legal academics and practitioners on 25 September 2014. The purpose of the seminar is to think about the role of law in Colombia’s postconflict situation, following peace negotiations in Habana.

Law School PhD Candidate Natalie Byrom has been awarded the University of Warwick’s 2014 Research Impact and Public Engagement Award for Early Career Research Impact.

Professor Victor Tadros has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship from The Leverhulme Trust. The Fellowship will continue through September 2017.

The Fellowship project, entitled "To Do, To Die, to Reason Why; The Ethical Lives of Combatants", will provide a wide-ranging ethical investigation of the military lives of combatants before, during and after war.

Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict (10-13 June 2014).

The summit seeks to translate the UN General Assembly's Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict into real progress on the ground. More details are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/sexual-violence-in-conflict.

Camilla Barker, a visiting tutor at Warwick Law School, has recently been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts.

Fellows are nominated to the Fellowship, and being elected is considered an honour. Camilla joins a Fellowship of “achievers and influencers” from around the world who are committed to positive social change and the advancement of human knowledge. The work of the Fellows has influence in the arts, commerce, government and academia the world over. Notable past and present members include: Charles Dickens, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, William Hogarth, John Diefenbaker, Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee.

On her election, Camilla said:

“It is an absolute honour to be joining the Fellowship. Being part of this inspiring community is an opportunity for which I am very grateful and I hope my ideas can contribute to the realisation of the RSA’s vision for a better tomorrow.”

Camilla, who is also a Fulbright Scholar, is currently conducting research on the Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Law degree at the University of Oxford. She holds Law degrees from Harvard University (LLM) and Queen Mary, University of London (First Class LLB (Hons)). Her doctoral research involves humanitarian assistance under international law, and she is working with organisations such as the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross on legal issues pertaining to the humanitarian crises in Syria, South Sudan and Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Congratulations to Ana Aliverti, who has been co-awarded the British Society of Criminology's Criminology Book Prize 2014 for her book "Crimes of Mobility: Criminal Law and the Regulation of Immigration" (Routledge).

Ralf Rogowski been elected as one of seven members to the Board of the Research Committee of Sociology of Law (RCSL) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) for the period 2014-2018.

For more information about the RCSL click here

Rebecca Probert’s article ‘“A Banbury Story”: cohabitation and marriage among the Victorian poor in ‘notorious Neithrop’, published in Cake and Cockhorse, has won the British Association for Local History’s Publication Award for 2014.

Jackie Hodgson has been conferred the award of Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her distinctive and distinguished contributions to Social Science.

Jackie Hodgson (Warwick) and Asher Flynn (Monash) have been awarded A$13,398 + £7,165 from the Monash-Warwick Alliance Seed Fund for the project: Access to Justice: A Comparative Analysis of cuts to the civil and criminal Legal Aid systems in England, Wales and Victoria, August 2013 – June 2014.

The project brings together Warwick colleagues Jackie Hodgson (PI) James Harrison, Andrew Williams and Nathalie Byrom (Co-Is) with Monash colleagues Asher Flynn (PI) Jude McCulloch, Bronwyn Naylor and Arie Freiberg (Co-Is). The study is a comparative analysis of the impact of cuts to the civil and criminal legal-aid systems operating in England, Wales and Victoria. This will be achieved through consultations with academic, legal and government/non-government stakeholders and the development of an online presence for external engagement. A conference will be held in Warwick on 19 March 2014, with the participation of Monash colleagues. Within the framework of access to justice, the conference will bring together leading academics and practitioners to consider (i) the changing face of the legal profession; (ii) the lawyer-client relationship; and (iii) the broader social consequences of the cuts. A second event will be held in Monash in early July 2014, with the participation of Warwick colleagues. The project will build international and comparative expertise with stakeholders, with a view to future funded research.