Warwick Law School News

On May 14 2026, the School of Law and the Departments of Sociology and Politics and International Studies put on a Big Questions themed interdisciplinary workshop on Capitalist Institutions and Power, with a focus on ‘How should the economy be organised to serve society?’

Professor Vanessa Munro (principal investigator), Dr Siobhan Weare (co-investigator, Lancaster University), and Dr Madeleine Millar (research and innovation associate), have been awarded £719,909 in funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The funding is for their project, ‘Delivering Justice in a Digital Age: Exploring the Impact on Mock jurors of Pre-Recorded Evidence in Sexual Offences Trials’, which will begin in September 2026.

Current LLB student Samire Jama has shared her experiences of her placement year with Thomas Flavell and Sons Solicitors in Leamington Spa. In their latest blog post, Samire explains the '5 realities of working at a firm after university'. Read the full blog now!

In mid-May, Professor Christine Schwöbel-Patel was a visiting researcher at the Stefansson Arctic Institute at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. She was there on the invitation of the Nansen Professor of Polar Studies, Dr Romain Chouffart. The visit was to enable a collaboration between Professor Schwöbel-Patel and Dr Chouffart on Arctic governance and new modes of sovereignty through infrastructure.

In Verfassungsblog’s latest weekly editorial dedicated to Taiwan, Dr Ming-Sung Kuo addressed issues concerning the Trump presidency’s implications to Taiwan and Taiwan’s constitutional court crisis in the wake of the Trump-Xi meetings in Beijing as part of the blog’s ‘Five Questions to …’ interview series.

Warwick Law School’s Centre for Global Health Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Angela Daly as a visiting Professor. She is collaborating with our Centre for Global Health Law as a COI on the Advancing health data justice: A comparative study of health-related data governance in Canada, Germany and the UK project (ADIJUST). Her appointment at Warwick Law School will enrich our research community and deepen our engagement with some of the defining legal challenges of our time.

Congratulations to Elina Lin (Law) and Jonathan Martin (Politics, Philosophy, and Law) who have reached finals day of the ESU–Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition having competed in earlier rounds against The Open University, The University of Leicester (last year’s winner), and Oxford Brookes. This is one of the longest established national mooting competitions in the UK and to reach finals day is a major achievement.

Sergeant Jonathan Benjamin of West Midlands Police has been awarded a Warwick Policy Hub Fellowship. He has been working with Professor Jackie Hodgson (Law), Dr Rachel Lewis (Sociology) and Dr Ruth Bernatek (Law) on their research and impact work using innovative arts-led approaches to challenge racist attitudes and behaviours within the police. As an in-residence Policy Fellow, Jonathan will be able to further this engagement, including with the Centre for Operational Police Research, COPR.

To celebrate International Workers’ Day (May Day) we have organised an online exhibition to showcase some of the policy briefs realised by students of Labour Law in Context (LA3A6) over the years. These group policy briefs are part of the assessment for the module and aim to encourage students to engage with current labour law debates and learn about policy writing as a tool for legal change. For students this is also an opportunity to value the importance of teamwork, negotiate positions, and work towards a common goal.

Former Warwick LLB student James Netto (2011) and his team have been working since 2024 to identify and locate absent British military fathers in Nanyuki, Kenya as part of a ground-breaking DNA and legal process. Earlier this month, the BBC released a one hour documentary and six part podcast exploring this incredible work, which focuses on the children fathered by British soldiers and their search for identity and truth.

Law 3 Year LLB student Thea Baloch was named joint winner at the 5th Annual National Law Student Triathlon held in Kent last month. The event brought together many talented future legal professionals from Universities across the UK.

Warwick Law School's Centre for Global Health Law is proud to be part of a new Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Warwick and the World Health Organization (WHO), formalising collaboration to strengthen gender, human rights, and equity in digital health governance. The partnership reflects Warwick Law School's founding commitment to studying law in its social and political context, and its long tradition of placing human rights and social justice at the heart of legal scholarship.