In 2020, as the world was getting to grips with life in lockdown, we launched a writing competition for students at Warwick Law School, the home of Lacuna. We are delighted to share our four winners, who have each created stories we are proud to publish.

Today is International Women’s Day and the theme this year is ‘Choose to Challenge’. In honour of this, we are celebrating the amazing work our colleagues are carrying out in order to forge a gender equal world. Here is a just a small selection of some of that work.

This academic year, Dr Celine Tan celebrates 20 years since she enrolled on our LLM programme at Warwick Law School. She is now Director of Postgraduate Studies overseeing the LLM she remembers so fondly and working alongside her previous lecturers and professional services staff.

Second year Warwick law student Joshua Siriboe has been awarded the 2020 Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship. The Scheme was devised to address the disproportionate under-representation of black men from less privileged backgrounds in large commercial law firms and the City of London.

The book, published in 2020 by Warwick Law School’s Dr Serena Natile, was recently listed in the D-Econ top ten alternative readings to the mainstream literature on global political economy which forms part of a movement to decolonise and diversify knowledge.

The first Public Lecture of the 2020-2021 series will take place virtually on Thursday 22 October at 5pm. We will be joined by Mark Drumbl from Washington and Lee University and Barbora Hola from Free University Amsterdam for ‘Exposing Collaborators: Lessons for Law and Transitional Justice’

As a Law School, that thinks about law in context, it is our responsibility to think critically of racism as structural injustice and explore ways in which the law may be used to change this. This Black History Month we are collaborating with Essex Law School and Kent Law School to provide a Series of Student Talks on Race and the Law.

Warwick Law School welcomes a new Professor to our team.

Professor Alex Sharpe joins us from Keele University. She has been involved in transgender law reform and activism for over twenty years.

Warwick Law School welcomes a new Professor to our team.

Professor Andrew Johnston joins us from the University of Sheffield where he worked as Professor of Company Law and Corporate Governance for seven and a half years.

Assistant Professor Dr Laura Lammasniemi will be appearing on BBC Two’s A House Through Time on Tuesday 9 June at 21:00.

Covid-19 is killing Black Americans at three times the rate it’s killing white people, and attacks on Black people – by both the public and the police – are leading the news agenda. Kathryn Graves explores how coronavirus has exposed the institutional racism that defines the second-class status of Black people in the USA.

Following on from the message received on Monday from the VC regarding the Coronavirus situation, Andrew Sanders, our Head of School has created this update to clarify the situation for all of our Law School students in order to avoid any confusion.