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

'Caring about Care in a Global Market Place'

Shaheen Ali in 100 most influential Pakistani women

First compiled in 2004, QS World University Rankings were conceived to present a multi-faceted view of the relative strengths of the world's leading universities.

The research currently considers over 2,000 universities, and ranks over 700. The top 400 are ranked individually, whereas those placed 401 and over are ranked in groups.

For details of Warwick Law's ranking click below.

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2014/law-legal-studies#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=

Dwijen Rangnekar writes lead in The Hindu

'The lesson from the Supreme Court ruling on Gleevec is that pharmaceutical multinational corporations need to focus research on genuine innovations rather than on ways to evergreen their patents' This is a landmark judgement – followed by a range of actors; feeding into WTO/TRIPS issues and access to medicine globally.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/calling-big-pharmas-bluff/article4573890.ece 

For an earlier guest post from Dwijen see link below. http://kafila.org/2012/08/21/drugs-in-3d-and-what-matters-in-the-novartis-case-at-supreme-court-dwijen-rangnekar/

Lynas, the Law and the People: What’s Temporary and Permanent about “Licence”?

(Friday, 4 January 2013)

Abstract

The ongoing saga of the Lynas Rare Earth processing plant in Gebeng may be read in many different ways. It may be viewed as a conflict between the developmental priorities of the Malaysian government keen to enhance its export earning through Foreign Direct Investment arrangements and the environmental and health concerns of local and national sectors of the population weary of such ventures into hazardous industries. Or, it might be understood as a conflict between the commercial motivations of profit and economic opportunities of a multinational company (through its local subsidiary) and the values of environmental protection. Differently, we may read the conflict as one pertaining to issues of transparency and accountability, of technical best-practice and stringent enforcement of environmental regulations, of government policy-making and public participation. Variously, these many issues may be seen to underlie the still on-going legal challenge surrounding the grant of the Temporary Operation Licence to Lynas Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.

This presentation does not seek to repeat the legal arguments along the lines of conflict mentioned above. The focus of the talk will instead be twofold: first, to interrogate the ‘identity’ and meaning of the three social ‘institutions’ involved - Lynas, the law (and by implication the state), and the ‘people’ – as they emerge, find expression, and are discursively constructed in the conflict. Secondly, to explore the wider implications of the notion of ‘license’ that go beyond its limited scope in terms of the TOL dispute. What is revealed from this different reading of the story of Lynas, The Law, and The People, are more pressing questions regarding the nature of the geography and distribution of rights, responsibilities, privileges and risks associated with differentiated 'citizenship' in a globalised political economy, and on the varying consequences of the 'temporary' and the 'permanent', of located and dislocated temporality, that follow from the affirmations of 'licence', on the one hand, and the imposition of containments/bans, on the other. From this understanding of the present contexts of variegated 'citizenship', some preliminary (and perhaps provocative) thoughts might be put forward on the politics of encounter between the 'corporation' and the 'people' within globalised states.

Scholarships

Warwick law School has a range of scholarships available for its LLM scholarships in Advanced Legal Studies; International Development Law and Human rights; International Economic Law and International Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

For further information contact S.E.Prestleton@warwick.ac.uk or visit http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/pg/pgprogram/scholarships/funding_opps

Scholarship Closing Date: 31st March 2013

For more information see link below

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/pg/pgprogram/scholarships/funding_opps

and

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/intnews2/scholarships_indian_students