We are always proud of our staff and the amazing things they do, but in the spirit of the festive season, we thought it would be nice to highlight the most recent achievements in December 2017.

Congratulations to everyone at the Law School for all their hard work in 2017.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

John McEldowney elected to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

This honour reflects John’s long-standing engagement with Pontifical projects, notably on the environment, health and climate change. With the Academy, John will be working on a Charter for the Victims of Trafficking,

Ann Stewart gets funds for research on Gender and Age

Ann has won funding from HelpAge International to conduct research on the relationship between gender and age in the context of public policy. She was also awarded additional funds from Warwick’s ESRC IAA to assist with the project.

Shaheen Ali launches new book on Islamic Law

‘Modern Challenges to Islamic Law’ was launched by the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS in London on the 7th of December. The book was reviewed by a panel of experts speaking to various themes and chapters of the book including Professor Lynn Welchman, Dr Samia Bano, and Dr Jonathan Encanbrack. The book was described as cutting edge scholarship, challenging and exceptional in the depth and breadth of subjects covered.

Vanessa Munro gets additional funding for Scottish Feminist Judgments Project

In addition to the funding from The Clark Foundation to host the project workshop in April, the team have been awarded £4,900 from the University of Edinburgh’s Innovation Initiative Award Scheme. This will allow them to commission creative and artistic contributions on feminist judging from a poet, a creative writer, a theatre practitioner, a textile artist, a song-writer and a photographer. It is hoped that the exhibit of these creative pieces will spark discussions about alternative ways of conceptualizing law and judgment. Find out more about the project.

Henrique Carvalho’s project gets Chilean funding

The collaborative research project ‘Law & Violence: Economic, Political and Criminal Dimensions’, for which Henrique is acting as responsible researcher in the UK, has been awarded around £20,000 by the Chilean Research Council (Conicyt) to hold a series of events involving researchers from universities in Chile, from the University of Glasgow, and from Warwick (Henrique and Alan Norrie from the Law School specifically).

Look out for more achievements from our colleagues and students in 2018 – there are sure to be many!