Warwick Law School News

On 19^th October 2016, the Academy of Social Sciences announced that it had conferred the award of Fellow on 84 leading social scientists, and Vanessa Munro was amongst them!

Fellows are recognised by the Academy after an extensive process of peer review for the excellence and impact of their work through the use of social science for public benefit.

Vanessa, who was nominated for the award by the Socio-Legal Studies Association, was described by the Academy as “the leading scholar of her generation in the socio-legal study of sexual offences.”

Dr Ben Farrand spoke at an interdisciplinary event, ‘99 Days: UK-EU Relations under Theresa May’s Government’ on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at the University of Warwick. The format is a series of talks about UK-EU relations post-Brexit, and it’s being organised by the Warwick Department of Economics and the Warwick Policy Lab. For further details, please visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/events/2016/10/open_lecture_99_days_uk_eu_relations_under_theresa_mays_government/

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During the summer 2016 Farhana Hamid Butt received a vacation scholarship from the Warwick Multicultural Scholars’ Programme and volunteered with Global Vision International (GVI) on a women's empowerment project in Kerala, India.

Tuesday, 1 November 2016

5.30pm - 7pm

R.0.0.3, Ramphal Building, Library Road, University of Warwick

(followed by a drinks reception at the Ramphal Foyer)

Following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, questions remain as to what shape its trade and investment relationship with the EU and the rest of the world will look like. Does a brave new world of trade and investment deals beckon? Or will Britain be constrained by its lack of negotiating capacity? What might the broader (e.g. social and environmental) impact of Britain’s trade policy decision-making be? Join our experts to find out more.

Speakers:

• Dr James Harrison, Associate Professor, Warwick Law School
• Dr Gabriel Siles-Brugge, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and InternationalStudies, Warwick
• Markus Wagner, Associate Professor, Warwick Law School

Chair: Professor Fiona Smith, Warwick Law School

This event is free of charge but please register your interest here.

Directions on how to get to Warwick University can be found here. Interactive and downloadable maps of campus can also be found here.

For further details, please contact: globe.events@warwick.ac.uk

This event is organised by the GLOBE Centre in conjunction with the Centre for Globalisation and Regioanlisation (CSGR) and the Global Governance Global Research Priority.

Click here http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/centres/globe/events/brexit/

Markus Wagner acted as discussant on a paper presented by Christian Häberli on the interplay between climate change and WTO law entitled Food Security, Equity and WTO Rules in the Climate Change Debate. The event was organized by the Mandela Institute at the Oliver Schreiner School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg / South Africa.

Lorenzo Cotula (GLOBE Visting Fellow) reviewed Lauge Poulsen’s book for the Journal of International Economic Law.

To read the review please click on this link

Shaheen's publication explores the diversity of interpretation within Islamic legal traditions which can be challenging for those working within this field of study. Using a distinctly contextual approach, this book addresses such challenges by combining theoretical perspectives on Islamic law with insight into how local understandings impact on the application of law in Muslim daily life. Engaging with topics as diverse as Islamic constitutionalism, Islamic finance, human rights and internet fatawa, Shaheen Sardar Ali provides an invaluable resource for scholars, students and practitioners alike by exploring exactly what constitutes Islamic law in the contemporary world. Useful examples, case studies, a glossary of terms and the author's personal reflections accompany traditional academic critique, and together offer the reader a unique and discerning discussion of Islamic law in practice. To find more and purchase the book please click here.

The SLS 2016 Best Poster Prize has been jointly awarded to Rachel Pimm-Smith (Warwick) for her poster ‘Victorian Child Protection: Did Intervention Make Poor Children More Desirable Citizens?’.The quality of the posters displayed at this year’s annual conference was extremely high. However, the judges felt that Rachel’s posters stood out not only in terms of the quality of the research presented but also in terms of their excellent design and clever use of the poster medium. Rebecca will be writing a piece for the SLS blog about her research and her experience of presenting a poster at the conference and her poster will be displayed at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London in due course. To find out more click here.

Alice has been awarded £10,900 for the project "Al-Khan-al-Ahmar. Saving a Bedouin School in the West Bank through International Law" through the ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund: Impact Acceleration Account additional funding. This project seeks to bring some of the findings of an article in Social & Legal Studies to a wider non-academic audience in the UK. An event is provisionally scheduled for the second half of November, which will involve participants from the field as well as academics.

Markus Wagner presented his forthcoming paper Regulatory Autonomy under the SPS Agreement at the 5th Biennial Conference of the Society of International Economic Law. The conference, entitled International Economic Law in a Diverse World took place at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg / South Africa. Professor Wagner was program co-chair of the conference and the program is available here.

This INTERDISCIPLINARY, EXPLORATORY SEMINAR will bring labour lawyers and socio-legal scholars interested in work regulation in conversation with researchers in environmnetal law and sustainability, climate justice, sociology and international development to reflect on:

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1) whether labour and work regulation can play a role in facilitating the development of more socially cohesive, egalitarian, and ecologically sustainable labour regimes,

2) how the adoption of a broad ecological perspective or the one that is grounded in a notion of long-term sustainability challenges labour law frameworks, and whether it can be usefully applied to rethinking and revitalising the discipline.

Event date - Monday 12 Sept 2016, 9am - 5pm,

This is a free event, but spaces are limited. Please contact Dr Ania Zbyszewska at a.zbyszewska@warwick.ac.uk to register.