Warwick Law School News

Hugh Beale chaired the first session (which will include a speech by Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality) and was speaking in the second session of a ERA Conference on "New EU rules for digital contracts", also held in Brussels. His presentation was on "Remedies and exercise of remedies". To find out more Hugh Beale click here.

Hugh Beale has presented a report to the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament on two proposed Directives, one on supply of digital content and the other on Online and other distance sales. His report was called “Scope of application and general approach of the new rules for contracts in the digital environment”. To find out more about Hugh Beale click here.

The Universities of Monash and Warwick have a cross University Alliance, supporting staff and student exchange and innovative international research programs. The Centre for Women’s Studies & Gender Research and the Centre for the Study of Women & Gender in 2015 were recipients of an Alliance SEED Grant. A Workshop held in July at the Monash Prato Campus has resulted in a formal partnership, which will build gender research across the two Centres. Graduate student exchange and research programs focused on sustainability and gender and care are underway.

Read the Alliance Gender Workshop Report for full details. See Monash news also.

Applications for the Joint PhD Monash Warwick are particularly encouraged from qualified graduate students seeking to undertake gender focused research. Both the Monash and Warwick Centres have a very strong record in graduate supervision.

Giuliano Castellano has been working with national and international policy-makers on the legal reform processes for secured transactions law, building on his research in this area. He is a member of the Italian delegation at the UN Commission on International Trade Law and has also been elected as a legal expert. He has recently written a piece advocating a new strategy for reform for the Commercial Finance Association (CFA), the largest not-for-profit association in the field of secured financing and ‘Observer’ for the UN, with 13,5000 subscribers to its magazine. To read the piece, go to: http://cfa.connectedcommunity.org/thesecuredlender/archives/articles/castellano 

In the most recent round of appointments, Dr Tomaso Ferrando was appointed to a two-year Assistant Professorship and joined the Law School in January 2016, Markus Wagner was appointed as Associate Professor and will be joining us in June 2016; and Dr Sharifah Sekalala will be taking up an Assistant Professorship in September 2016.

Colleagues in the Law School will be delivering modules to Bank of England staff as part of a new Bank of England - WBS postgraduate qualification in Central Banking and Financial Regulation. Professor Dalvinder Singh, Dr Giuliano Castellano, Dr Andreas Kokkinis and Dr Stephen Connelly will be teaching with WBS staff on the core modules, drawing on their joint experience of teaching on Warwick’s LLM in International Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.

http://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/wbs-agrees-to-train-the-central-bankers-of-the-future/

Dalla Stevens will giving a paper ‘Motivations for forced migration: Is asylum in ‘crisis’? at an international conference in Bochum, Germany from 18-20 Feb entitled Why people migrate: Multiple causes, complex reasons and their normative assessment.

Dallal Stevens will be going to Brussels with the Crossing the Mediterranean by Boat team to provide a policy briefing on our preliminary findings for the ESRC-funded project on Tuesday 16 Feb.

For more information click here.

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law is holding a conference on European Private Law where young scholars from various European countries present the essential propositions of their respective Ph.D. theses. The conference is scheduled to take place at the premises of the Institute in Hamburg on 18 and 19 April 2016. The Max Planck Institute have received almost 40 nominations for this conference and Andreas Kokkinis is one out of fifteen scholars selected to present at this event.

The subject Andreas Kokkinis will be disscussing is;

"Why the UK Corporate Sector would Benefit from the Introduction of a 'Benefit Corporation' Statute"

For more information click here

Ania Zbyszewska will be travelling along with Gemma Barber from our SROAS team to Canada to attend the BEST of U Canada Law Tour in February.

See Ania's profile for more information on her research and publications.

Alan Norrie will be giving seminars at the National Law University, New Delhi in the week beginning 14 March. He will also give public lectures at the India Law Institute and the India International Centre. Thereafter he will give two lectures at the National Law University, Odisha.

The subject of his seminar is ‘Criminal Law: Contradictions and Critique’, and the lectures are entitled ‘Justice and the Slaughter-bench’ and ' Law and Justice: Between the Power of Love and the Love of Power'.

On 4 February Sharifa Sekalala is presenting a paper at the Barcelona Workshop on Global Governance on Contesting global health governance: The World Bank and global health financing, to read more click here. To find more about the conference click here.