Warwick Law School News

Warwick Law School welcomes Dr David Vitale to the team as our new Assistant Professor. He joins us from LSE where he recently completed his PhD whilst also working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa (in Israel). We caught up with David to find out a little more about his research and why he wanted to work at Warwick…

Warwick Law School has recently welcomed a new Associate Professor to our team.

Dr Christine Schwöbel-Patel joins us from the University of Liverpool where she worked as a senior lecturer. She worked there for seven years, what she describes as “sufficient time to learn that scouse is a tasty stew and to become fond of the terminology ‘made up’ for being pleased about something.”

Dr Schwöbel-Patel has previously worked at the University of Leiden and King’s College London, where she completed her PhD. She brings with her expertise in international law, global constitutionalism, global governance and critical pedagogy. We spoke with Christine to find out a little more…

CJC members, Professor Jackie Hodgson, Dr Juliet Horne and Dr Laurene Soubise, have recently published their research report ‘The Criminal Cases Review Commission – Last resort or first appeal?’. The research was funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.

The University of Warwick has been ranked among the best universities in the world for politics and international studies and sociology, business and economics, education and law, according to the Times Higher Education’s 2019 World Reputation Rankings released this week.

We are proud to announce that an article, co-authored by Assistant Professor Dr Andreas Kokkinis alongside Dr Andrea Miglionico from the University of Reading, was published in the prominent Law and Economics Yearly Review this month.

In collaboration with the British Council, Dr Mohsen Al Attar, Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, recently delivered a lecture entitled Profiting from Disparity at the Singaporean Arts House. The event was attended by a mix of academics, journalists, high school and university students plus familiar Warwick alumni faces.

LLB student Jure Tuš, who is currently in his fourth year of his Law with French Law degree here at Warwick, took part in a summer internship with the international law firm CMS and had a news article published on their news site CMS Law-Now whilst there. We caught up with Jure to find out more.

Dr Mohsen Al Attar, Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, travelled to Singapore last month to deliver a guest lecture at Singapore Management University (SMU). He was welcomed by Professor Madhev Mohan into his Business and Human Rights seminar and given the opportunity to speak with the students about corporate social responsibility, the topic of the week.

Matt Western MP and West Midlands finance and industry leaders joined Dr Stephen Connelly and Dr Andreas Kokkinis from Warwick Law School yesterday at the first University of Warwick Business Forum, a new initiative aiming to connect the University’s experts with the local business community.

The fourth in a new series of briefs bringing current legal thinking to bear on public policy issues has been published by the Law School's GLOBE research centre.

The Risks of Using Blended Finance in Development by Dr Celine Tan explores the contested role of blending public funds with private finance for investments in sustainable development.

Commenting on the news that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched legal action against Elon Musk and Tesla, Dr Stephen Connelly, Associate Professor in Warwick Law School, said: “The regulatory suit against Elon Musk is a reminder to all insiders of publicly listed corporations that their words can be price sensitive – that they can move and possibly distort markets."

Everyone enjoys a good love story and even more so when we realise we were partly responsible. Two of our former students have got married after meeting on our LLB course back in 2013 and even invited one of their old tutors to the wedding. Their story was featured in an August issue of the Times newspaper.