Warwick Law School News

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.

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’.