Warwick Law School News

Professor Andrew Sanders, Head of Warwick Law School provides an update on the upcoming industrial action, taking place from 25 November 2019.

As Brexit negotiations continue in the UK, Warwick Law School’s Dr Andreas Kokkinis has created two videos with Faculti about his published articles.

Warwick Law School is delighted to welcome six new teaching fellows to our team.

Dr M Sanjeeb Hossain, Dr Arjumand Kazmi, Dr Daniel Lowe, Dr Maggie O’Brien, Dr Van Anh Le and Dr Sheharyar Hamid all joined us at the start of the academic year.

The Law School would like to welcome Dr Ioana Vrabiescu who joins the Criminal Justice Centre as an Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) postdoctoral fellow until 2021.

Dr Sharifah Sekalala participated in a panel discussion on Monday 28th October 2019 at Chatham House. The event launched The Lancet, O’Neill Institute and Georgetown University Commission on Health and Law report The Legal Determinants of Health.

Warwick Law School has established a partnership with The Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali “Guido Carli” (LUISS) in Rome. They have established partnerships with a handful of European universities to offer this unique experience to their students and Warwick is one of them.

First year Warwick law student Daniel Nwanebu has been awarded the 2019 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.

Former Law student Beatriz da Silva recently completed an internship at Partners for Law in Development (PLD), a legal resource group founded by Warwick alumna Madhu Mehra who studied on our LLM programme back in 1992. 

Congratulations to Shaheen Ali and Jacqueline Hodgson for receiving their long service awards.

Every year, several awards and prizes are granted to our first and intermediate year undergraduate students to recognise and celebrate the success of our top performers. We are proud to announce this year’s award winners...

The Law School will once again be offering our postgraduates two funded internships in India related to public interest litigation provided by the Kapila and Nirmal Hingorani Foundation.

We caught up with last year’s participants to see how they got on.

Professor Vanessa Munro of Warwick Law School was one of the researchers behind a major study by the Scottish Government into the unique nature of the Scottish jury system, which has 15 jurors, three verdicts and a simple majority.