Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Dr James Thornton, Nottingham Trent University

Title: 'Criminal Justice in Austerity: Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice'

Chairs: Lotte Young Andrade and Tara Mulqueen, Warwick Law School

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Monthly writing workshop for PhDs, Postdocs, and Early Career Researchers. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to present and receive feedback on your work in an innovative format. The platform is not limited to but focuses on work that uses critical approaches to questions of race, class, gender and other intersections. Staff and CCLS members are all warmly invited to participate in the writing workshops and support early career researchers with their insights and feedback.

Writing Workshop Format

We've organized these sessions with a twist: rather than presenting your own work, we will present each other's papers. This approach offers several benefits

• Removes the pressure of self-presentation
• Allows authors to focus on receiving feedback
• Encourages constructive discussion rather than defensive responses

Session Structure

Each one-hour session will be structured as follows:

• 15 minutes: Presentation of the paper by an assigned presenter/discussant
• 5 minutes: Initial feedback from the presenter kicking off the conversation
• 40 minutes: Open discussion and further feedback

Participation Guidelines

• Participants will be assigned one paper to present
• All attendees are expected to read and comment on all papers carefully
• Authors should come prepared to receive feedback and consider ways to advance their work
• Papers must be provided at least 10 days prior to the session

You are all welcome to come and share your work. This is a splendid opportunity for postdocs and early career researchers to share their writing in a safe and supportive environment. Whether you are preparing for your upgrade, the PGR conference or any other publication, funding application or presentation, we encourage all ECRs to take advantage of this valuable platform for academic growth and collaboration.

If you have any questions or would like to participate, contact Berit Berit.i.merla@stud.leuphana.de and Paola Paola.Zichi@warwick.ac.uk

A free pupillage information evening aimed at anyone looking to join the 2025 application process to become a pupil barrister or for anyone who isn’t quite at that point yet but is seriously considering a career at the Bar. This informal evening, hosted by Chair of the Pupillage Committee, will see a range of barristers in attendance including current pupils and those who have recently started their practice.

This session interrogates the temporality of law by theorising the relationship between law and coloniality in African fictions and literature across the twentieth century.

Part of the Thinking Gender, History and International Law seminar series.
Find out more and register.

Guest Speaker: Professor Henrique Carvalho, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Love, Hate, Beauty and Justice: Affective and Aesthetic Economies of UK Drill and its Criminalisation'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

We are a top tier Chambers specialising in all aspects of Family Law: Children, Finance andCourt of Protection. We are recognised nationally and internationally for providing expertadvice and representation, and for acting in some of the most high-profile, sensitive andimportant cases. We will have a series of short presentations from the head of pupillage, barristers from the different areas of law practised at 1GC and recent pupils. The event will conclude with a Q&A session. Open to all.

Our Virtual Pupillage Day will be a chance to speak to practising barristers (in crime, family, and civil) about pupillage applications. This will include what to expect and tips for standing out, as well as a chance to ask questions about applications.

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Professor Mohammed Shahabuddin, University of Birmingham

Title: 'Decolonising Minority Rights Discourse'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

This event is aimed largely at first year undergraduates and those who aren't sure what a career at the Bar might entail and would like to find out more. Hear from the four Inns of Court and practising barristers about how you get to the Bar and what the work may look like.

Dr Germain’s lecture will examine how legal and ethical frameworks can be leveraged to address health inequalities affecting marginalised groups in the UK. Drawing on her ongoing research, she will argue that intersectionality must be used as a critical lens to create greater equity in health.

Guest Speaker: Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Algorithmic Consumer Contracts and the European Law Institute's Guiding Principles and Model Rules'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Speaker: Professor Alex Sharpe, University of Warwick

This audio-visual lecture considers the relationship between the aesthetic evaluation of art and ethics. To do so, it draws on Bowie’s 1976 Isolar World tour, through which, as the Thin White Duke, Bowie performed his brilliant Station to Station album. Through this artwork (the performance, the music, the stagecraft), Bowie conjured up Nuremberg. He did so in order to explore in a more intense way a theme that had long interested him, the relationship between leader (star) and followers (audience), especially those moments when the latter give themselves over to the former, to power. This Bowie provides our focus for two reasons. First, during his Thin White Duke period, Rock Against Racism accused Bowie of flirting with fascism, and second, the music he produced, its artistic presentation and the sublime affect it had on his audience, make this period of Bowie’s creative output stand out as exceptional. In other words, some of Bowie’s greatest work drew on national socialism, or at least, its theatricality and other artistic props. That is, Bowie adopted a fascist icon character and built his 1976 world tour, at least in part, around national socialist stagecraft, the implications of which the lecture will explore.

This is an in-person event. It will be followed by a Q&A and drinks reception.

Harriet Wistrich, solicitor and director of Centre for Women’s Justice, and author of ‘Sister in Law’ will talk about some of the landmark legal cases she has fought aimed at getting justice for women failed by the state and challenging discrimination inherent in the criminal justice system. Her talk will feature discussions of:

• the battles for justice by women who have killed violent partners, including acting for Emma Humphreys and Sally Challen
• the story of the eight women, deceived into sexual relationships by undercover police officers, who sought to hold the police accountable
• the battles by two survivors of rape by the notorious taxi driver John Worboys, to hold the police accountable for their failures to investigate him and their later judicial review challenge of the parole board’s decision to release him
• the work of Centre for Women’s Justice to hold the state accountable and bring about lasting change for women subject to male violence.

Register to attend!

Guest Speaker: Christopher Brian

Title: 'Spycops, Subversion & Collateral Intrusion'

Chairs: Professor Jackie Hodgson, Warwick Law School and Professor Kimberley Wade, Warwick Psychology Department

This session interrogates whether and how racism and patriarchy have permeated the international child rights and child protection field.

Part of the Thinking Gender, History and International Law seminar series.
Find out more and register.

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Dr Maryna Utkina, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Redefining Accountability: Is Financial Monitoring the Ultimate Weapon Against Corruption?'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Monthly writing workshop for PhDs, Postdocs, and Early Career Researchers. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to present and receive feedback on your work in an innovative format. The platform is not limited to but focuses on work that uses critical approaches to questions of race, class, gender and other intersections. Staff and CCLS members are all warmly invited to participate in the writing workshops and support early career researchers with their insights and feedback.

Writing Workshop Format

We've organized these sessions with a twist: rather than presenting your own work, we will present each other's papers. This approach offers several benefits

• Removes the pressure of self-presentation
• Allows authors to focus on receiving feedback
• Encourages constructive discussion rather than defensive responses

Session Structure

Each one-hour session will be structured as follows:

• 15 minutes: Presentation of the paper by an assigned presenter/discussant
• 5 minutes: Initial feedback from the presenter kicking off the conversation
• 40 minutes: Open discussion and further feedback

Participation Guidelines

• Participants will be assigned one paper to present
• All attendees are expected to read and comment on all papers carefully
• Authors should come prepared to receive feedback and consider ways to advance their work
• Papers must be provided at least 10 days prior to the session

You are all welcome to come and share your work. This is a splendid opportunity for postdocs and early career researchers to share their writing in a safe and supportive environment. Whether you are preparing for your upgrade, the PGR conference or any other publication, funding application or presentation, we encourage all ECRs to take advantage of this valuable platform for academic growth and collaboration.

If you have any questions or would like to participate, contact Berit Berit.i.merla@stud.leuphana.de and Paola Paola.Zichi@warwick.ac.uk

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

This session tackles the promises and pitfalls of the international criminal and transitional justice system in cases of war crimes and/or crimes against humanity from a gender and critical perspective.

Part of the Thinking Gender, History and International Law seminar series.

Find out more and register.

With One Essex Court. Tailored for those applying in February 2025, or in the near future, for pupillage at the Commercial Bar, focused on interview preparation, including:

• How should you approach interviews?
• What is the best way to tackle problem questions?
• What separates the Commercial Bar from other areas of the Bar?

Followed by interactive group sessions and a Q&A.

Register your interest here by Friday 7 February 2025.