In a letter to Professor Rebecca Probert, Chair of the Law School, Professor Sir Nigel Thrift congratulated the Law School on its positive results in the most recent Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES).

The letter acknowledged the consistently high marks achieved in this survery by the Law School in recent years, commending the hard work of all staff involved and conveying his thanks and appreciation on behalf of the University.

Sara Warner, one of our PhD students, has been awarded a Modern Law Review Scholarship for the second consecutive year, taking her total award to £10,000. These scholarships are awarded by the MLR on the basis of an annual competition for research students engaged on doctoral research at a university in the UK on any subject broadly within the publishing interests of the Review. Congratulations to Sara.

African Constitutional Reviews, Elections and Human Rights: The Case of Tanzania

Professor Chris Maina Peter will be holding a research seminar on ‘African Constitutional Reviews, Elections and Human Rights: The Case of Tanzania.’ The seminar will begin with lunch at 12:30 and will start at 1pm in S2.12.

Professor Peter will be discussing the ongoing Tanzanian Constitutional Review and electoral process in the context of African Constitutional Reviews. Recent review processes in Africa have had significant implications for human rights and democracy and in the case of Tanzania this has raised significant issues in relation to the right to self-determination as well as general human rights including women's rights.

Professor Chris Maina Peter is a leading African expert on Human Rights and Constitutionalism. He is Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam and a Member of the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

The book is a critical, genealogical analysis of land questions in the South through an original analysis of the Malawi experience. Through the author’s experience in land reform and subsequent advanced research in the area, the book notes that land reform discourse is dominated by an ethos based on market as value which, in turn, has cemented the ubiquity of a universal, automatic transition from land reform to land law reform in tackling a land question in a country.

A fresh theory on how individuals respond to inequalities occurring within their own communities. This original and insightful study draws on empirical research on the Santal people of Asia, examining power relations within social fields, and the state, to reveal a typology of power practices, and applies these to forced marriage in the West.

Professor Ann Stewart will be visiting India from the 8th-16th April 2015 to take part in a number of activities including a seminar organised jointly by Warwick and JNU as part of the 'Another India' series of events, to coincide with Warwick's 50th Anniversary.

The University of Warwick is pleased to announce its involvement with the GREAT Britain scholarship scheme on offer to students from India, wishing to study taught Masters degrees.

The Law School is offering two awards of £3000 across all our LLM programmes. To apply you must be an Indian national residing in India and not in receipt of any other funding. Further details can be found on the International Office webpages.

DEADLINE: 9th March 2015. To apply please email your interest to Sara Prestleton, stating your name and Warwick ID number.

The Law School has announced the opportunity for two current LLM students to undertake an internship in India on a dissertation topic relating to Public Interest Litigation, through a joint initiative between Warwick Law School and the Hingorani Foundation.

Professor Hingorani has been practicing law for over 20 years. He has drafted, filed and argued cases in the Supreme Court of India, High Courts at Delhi and Chandigarh as well as other courts across Delhi and Mumbai. He has taught at the University of Delhi and the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in India as well as on a number of training programmes and other advisory roles.

In honour of his late mother Kapila Hingorani, the very distinguished advocate and founder of Public Interest Litigation, Aman is visiting Warwick Law School for one week to offer a clinical programme on Public Interest Litigation (PIL) with particular reference to India. The programme will include:

• A specialist class for current IDLHR LLM students;
• An Open Class for all registered Law Taught Masters students.

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.

In mid-April, a team of students from the Warwick Law School travelled to Vienna to compete in the annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Due to the popularity of this lecture, many people were unable to get into the lecture hall. Our apologies for this. It is disappointing but we hope you will enjoy the recording which can be found here