Ten law students from the University of Warwick are travelling to the United States as part of Warwick’s Death Penalty Project. The internship, which is now in its 10th year, is run through the Centre for Human Rights in Practice.

It has just been announced that the Centre and Lacuna Magazine's writer in residence, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi has been short-listed for her work by the prestigious George Orwell Prize for Journalism. All the other short-listed journalists are from leading national newspapers (the Guardian, Economist, Independent and Scotland on Sunday). If Rebecca wins, it will be the second Orwell Prize for the University of Warwick’s Centre for Human Rights in Practice in three years. Andrew Williams won the Orwell Book Prize in 2013 for 'A Very British Killing'

Rebecca's shortlisted pieces included:

• Down the Rabbit hole: Single parenthood in austerity Britain
• How to Build a Law Centre
• Black and dangerous? Patient experiences of mental health services in London
• Rats in the Lunchbox

A feature on foodbanks written for LACUNA magazine Centre Co-Director James Harrison has been republished in The New Statesman. The article, which offers a critical appraisal of the expansion of foodbanks in the UK, was published to widespread acclaim and has attracted praise from journalists, commentators and writer of "The Thick of It" Armando Iannucci. Read the article here. For more exciting content from Lacuna Magazine subscribe to our mailing list.