Warwick Law School News

Rebecca Probert has been shortlisted for a prize in the 2011 Family Law Awards. The Family Law Awards 2011 will be hosted by Clive Coleman and are an opportunity to celebrate and recognise the many successes and outstanding achievements of family law practitioners. They are an opportunity for Family Law and its readers to acknowledge the hard work and commitment throughout the year among the nominees and the profession as a whole.

The Awards will take place on 18 October 2011 at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, London.
For more details of this award see the link below. http://familylawawards.com/#/nominees/4555349264

Jackie Hodgson interviewed by France Arte TV, for the 'Le Blogeur' series, in a programme on criminal investigations in Europe, to be screened later this year.

More information to follow

Kathryn McMahon has been appointed an Associate Editor of a new journal Global Journal of Comparative Law which will publish its inaugural issue in 2012.

For a full breakdown of the results go to http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/searchResults.do 

Alan Norrie was one of only 38 academics to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy at its Annual General Meeting on 21 July. As a British Academy Fellow, Alan joins nearly 900 distinguished scholars who take a lead in representing the humanities and social sciences, facilitating international collaboration, providing an independent and authoritative source of advice, and contributing to public policy and debate.

http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/index.cfm

Warwick Law School is proud to announce publication of the inaugural issue of Warwick Student Law Review. This issue can be downloaded at http://www.wslr.org.uk/issues.php

For more information on Warwick Student Law Review see here. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/ls/

John Raymond LaBrosse , Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal , Dalvinder Singh (eds) Managing Risk In The Financial System

Managing Risk in the Financial System offers fresh and essential reading on the Global Financial Crisis. The coverage is unique in its scope – offering a close examination of fundamental concepts such as the nature of systemic risk; consideration of the impact of systemic crisis on both private institutions and national governments; and critique of popular reform proposals such as living wills, resolution funds and capital adequacy. Contributors to this volume are internationally recognized experts who offer sharp assessments of both the causes of the crisis and the proposed reforms.’

– Heidi Mandanis Schooner, Columbus School of Law, US

‘Incisive, authoritative and thoughtful, this important and timely collection of papers exploring the unresolved issues left by the recent global financial turmoil, will undoubtedly shape the policy responses to come. Interdisciplinary in approach and wide-ranging in jurisdictional scope, it draws together influential commentators, practitioners and regulators, to create a new milestone in the search for the fundamentals of a more stable global financial system.’

– Eva Lomnicka, King’s College London, UK

‘This book contains a large number of chapters, nearly 30 in all, by acknowledged experts on various aspects of the recent financial crisis. Whichever aspect of this crisis may interest you, such as bank taxes, deposit insurance, TBTF and how to respond, cross-border issues, and many, many others, you will find chapters that are both authoritative and stimulating in this collection. The editors are to be congratulated not only on their selection of authors but also on the speed with which they have taken them from conference presentation to book chapter.’

– Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics, UK

Managing Risk in the Financial System makes important and timely contributions to our knowledge and understanding of banking law, financial institution restructuring and related considerations, through the production of an innovative, international and interdisciplinary set of contributions which link together the law and policy issues surrounding systemic risk and crisis management.

The recent financial crisis has exposed both the banking industry and financial system safety-net players in many countries to a considerable level of distress as well as economic and reputational damage. These circumstances have heightened the need for policymakers to consider remedial measures under a broad umbrella that encompasses inter alia prompt corrective actions, early closure of distressed entities, deposit insurance, bail-outs, state-aid, bank resolution and restructuring techniques. These essays provide an important contribution to research in this area, at a crucial time in the debate around the future financial industry.

This unique and detailed volume should be of considerable interest to students of law, economics and finance, law practitioners and policymakers in central banks and ministries of finance. Law, business and finance faculties will benefit from having this book in their collections, as will deposit protection agencies and regulatory agencies.

http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=14434&breadcrumlink=&breadcrum=&sub_values=&site_Bus_Man=&site_dev=&site_eco=&site_env_eco=&site_inn_tech=&site_int_pol=&site_law=&site_pub_soc=

Shaheen Ali presents a keynote paper at international workshop in Helsinki “Friend or Foe? Law Reform as double edged sword for women. Some Critical Reflections on Selected law reform in Pakistan and implications for women’s human rights” at the international workshop Women's Agency and Law: Perspectives from the Nordic and the Global South, organized by the Helsinki Collegium of the University of Helsinki, Finland on 30 May 2011.

ABSTRACT:

This presentation attempts to problemmatize the concept of law reform in the Muslim world as an effective tool of social engineering and advancement of women’s rights. It raises a number of questions in this regard including inter alia:

Has law reform proved to be an ally or foe of Muslim women in post-colonial jurisdictions including Pakistan? Under the broad framework of this overarching question, we seek to investigate the following:

To what extent has law reform in Pakistan responded to the demands of the women’s movement?

Women activists have often invoked Islamic law to seek law reform. As a strategy, how has this approach impacted on gender justice?

Can law reform counter discriminatory plural legalities (such as misogynistic customary practices)?

After providing a brief historical overview of law reform impacting on women in the global south focussing on the Indian sub-continent (as it was then) the paper will move on to focus on law reform in Pakistan. It will interrogate the application and impact of selected laws including the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939 (DMMA); Muslim Personal (Shariat Application)Act 1937 (MPL);the Muslim Family Law Ordinance 1961 (MFLO); the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) 1979 and the Women Protection Act 2006 (WPA)of Pakistan.

Guardian University Guide ranks Law School 8th in the UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2011/may/17/university-guide-law

Professor Abdul Paliwala appointed as international adviser to the Centre for Rights and Justice at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

James Harrison has just been awarded the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE). As a result, he has been awarded the Butterworth Award for Teaching Excellence prize of £5,000.

The panel considering nominations for this year’s awards, felt that the evidence presented showed James's teaching and support of learning to be of an exceptional standard.