Warwick Law School News

Dr Maebh Harding gave a talk 'Marriage in 19th Century Ireland: The extent and effect of legal regulation' at the Who Do You Think You Are? Live Event at the NEC Birmingham on Friday 8 April 2016.

Professor Alan Norrie visited the National Law Universities at Delhi and Odisha from 14-25 March. He gave a week long course on ‘Criminal Law, Contradiction and Critique’ at NLUD to 70 students and staff, as well as activists and practitioners from the city. Subscribers to the course also came from as far afield as Kerala, Bangalore and Kolkata.

In Delhi, he also gave two public lectures, one of which was held at the Indian Law Institute. Chaired by Mr Justice A K Sikri, Judge of the Indian Supreme Court, the topic was ‘Law and Justice: Between the Power of Love and the Love of Power’. In Odisha, Professor Norrie gave a public lecture on the same topic, and addressed students on ‘Perceptions and Approaches to Criminal Law’.

Ligia Catherine Arias Barrera presented a paper at King's College at the International Graduate Legal Research Conference 4 & 5 April 2016, in the Commercial and Contract Law Panel. Her paper is entitled: 'Innovation in the OTC derivatives market: challenge for UK regulators'. It is part of her thesis, which was submitted on 1 April 2016. For further information please click here.

Ming-Sung Kuo will be visiting the States next week to present a paper entitled ‘From Fact to Norm: Narratives and the Constitutionalization of Founding Moments’ at Symposium on Founding Moments in Constitutionalism at Yale Law School (USA) on 15-16 April, 2016. For more information please click here.

Ming-Sung Kuo has been invited by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (University of King Juan Carlos (URJC) in Madrid, Spain) to speak on issues about global administrative law at a workshop on global governance and the rule of law on Thursday, 07 April, 2016. This workshop is part of Globalization, Institutions, and Environmental Justice Seminar Series at URJC.

At the end of February, Dr Ania Zbyszewska represented Warwick Law School at a promotional tour of Canada organized by the Best of U consortium. Spanning over a week, the tour made stops in Toronto and Vancouver, holding events at secondary schools and academies, and meeting with students at the Universities of British Columbia, Toronto, and York.

The events were designed to be interactive, providing students with a chance to learn about opportunities for pursuing legal studies in the UK, as well as showcaseing the distinctive approach to legal education each of the participating law schools had to offer.

Congratulations to Warwick Law Society, which has been awarded Best Society Overall at the LawCareers.Net Student Law Society Awards.

On 17 March 2016, the LawCareers.Net Student Law Society Awards, sponsored by DWF LLP, brought together students, recruiters, partners and trainees with the LawCareers.Net team for a networking-rich presentation at Painters’ Hall in London. The annual event recognises the dedication of student committees across the country offering their members innovative careers events and comprehensive pro bono and mooting activities, alongside traditional socialising with peers. Nominated societies were selected from the submissions of over 40 student law society committees, alongside over 1,600 votes from their members.

Paul Raffield has been invited by the British Council to give two “Knowledge is GREAT” lectures in Singapore and Malaysia, as part of “Shakespeare Lives 2016”, a global programme organised by the British Council to celebrate the life and work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death. The lectures will take place on 4th April 2016 (Singapore Management University) and 7th April (Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, the former Shariah Court). The title of the lecture is: “Henry IV, Part 2, Common Law, and the English Utopia”. The lecture in Kuala Lumpur will be followed by a reception to mark the formal launch of “Warwick Alumni in Malaysia”. In addition, he will be giving a lecture at the University of Malaya on the subject of Shakespeare and the Law, and running seminar workshops for A-level students at schools in Singapore and Malaysia. To read Paul's synopsis please click here.

The Centre for the Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) is pleased to announce the launch of the International Economic Law in Context Workshop Series.

The objective of this workshop series is to explore the interdisciplinary and contextual nature of contemporary scholarship in international economic law (IEL), broadly defined. We hope that the workshops organised under the series will foster greater collaboration among researchers of international economic law whose scholarship straddle interdisciplinary boundaries and whose conceptual approaches draw from multiple empirical, theoretical and methodological traditions.

The workshop series is supported by the Society for Legal Scholars (SLS), the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) and the Warwick Law School. Individual workshops within the series may be further supported by and/or co-sponsored with other organisations.

For further details, please visit the workshop website or email: globe@warwick.ac.uk

Ann Stewart has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the sum of £50,000. This study assesses the contribution of community-based ‘woman to woman’ marriage practices in Kenya to the provision of care, particularly for the elderly, when there is little social welfare available. The everyday practices of caring for older people particularly women, traditionally woven into communal relations, are changing in the socioeconomic and political circumstances of contemporary Kenya. Are woman to woman marriages, historically understood as a means of tackling infertility, evolving into a way of recognising and ‘rewarding’ caring labour for those with assets? How are claims for recognition understood now in the ‘formal’ courts and within community dispute resolution practices?

Jackie Hodgson presented a paper at UCLA in January at the conference ‘Prosecutors and Democracy’ organised by David Slansky and Maximo Langer. My paper was 'Politics, democracy and the nature of the prosecutor as professional in England and Wales and France’. To find out more click here

Jackie Hodgson presented a paper at UCLA in January at the conference ‘Prosecutors and Democracy’ organised by David Slansky and Maximo Langer. Her paper was 'Politics, democracy and the nature of the prosecutor as professional in England and Wales and France’. To read more click here .