Join Heather Widdows, Lorenzo Serini and Eliza Little for the Emotions Reading Group.

We will be reading Peter Goldie: The Emotions: A Philosophical Perspective, available on-line from the Warwick library.

Meeting Wednesday mornings 10-11, we will start in Week 2 with the intro and chapter 1, and then one chapter for each subsequent week, finishing in week 9.

If you’d like to come, please email Heather.Widdows@warwick.acuk

Experience our Open Days and dive into our unique law firm culture Ambitious & Supportive. Get to know our team and spend two days with us in London.

We are ready for you in our London office and answer all your questions about preparing for your legal traineeship or career entry in Germany.

For events, please ensure that you include when the event is taking place. Research Development Surgeries (2) to be held on Wednesday 20th November and Wednesday 27th November between the hours of 12.00 - 14.00 in the PAIS Resource Room. Please feel free to just drop in, there is no need to register.

Guest Speaker: Professor Jorge Morais Carvalho, NOVA University Lisbon

Title: 'Orientation towards sustainable consumption as a fundamental principle of consumer law'

Chair: Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner, Warwick Law School

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

Arnau Poy (Barcelona, 1996) is a predoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, where he teaches and participates in various research projects. His presentation is on: Access to the Asylum Procedure in Spain: Law on the Books, Administrative Practice, and Experiences of the Law. It will be held in FAB2.31 on 20 November from 1-2.30pm.

The PGR Masterclass will be focused on academic writing strategies and technique. It will also involve the workshopping of PGR students’ written work.

The PGR Masterclass is open to all PGRs at any stage of their research.

This will be run as a hybrid (online-in-person) event.

The Critical Theory Reading Group will be reading three texts in Feminism over the next three weeks. We meet on Wednesdays from 14.30-16.00 and the readings and rooms are as follows:

20th Nov - S1.69 - 'Introduction' and 'Chapter 3: The Point of View of Historical Materialism' from Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.

27th Nov - S1.71 - 'Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory' by Judith Butler.

4th Dec - S1.69 - 'Introduction' and 'Chapter 3: The Great Caliban, The Struggle Against the Rebel Body' from Silvia Frederici's Caliban and the Witch.

Each extract will be introduced by a member of the group and we welcome future suggestions for themes and specific readings.

Please email oscar.jenkinson@warwick.ac.uk if you'd like to come along or stay up-to-date with what we're reading in future weeks through our whatsapp group.

Join IWIRC (International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation) for an insight evening into careers within the professional services industry. Hear from accountants, solicitors, lenders, surveyors and others within the restructuring community and learn more about their career journeys and gain valuable tips for your future career progression! The event will comprise a panel event, speed networking and general networking with some food and drinks to be provided.

Please join the IPE research cluster for Nick Bernards book launch Fictions of Financialization; Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism.

Event date: 20th of November, 4-5.30, E2.02

Please e-mail Mareike.beck@warwick.ac.uk if you wish to join.

This online event introduces the Warwick in Africa volunteer programme – applications for which open on Monday 25 November 2024. Alongside an overview of the programme, the information session will give you the chance to listen and speak to recent volunteers and current teachers from Ghana and South Africa.

Hon Justice Prof Joel Ngugi (a Kenyan Court of appeal judge) and Justice Dorothy DeGabriele (a Malawian High Court judge) will be participating in a roundtable discussion on "Judging and Constitutionalism in contemporary Africa" at Warwick. The event will be held in S2.12 (Social Sciences Building) at 4.15pm and will be followed by a drinks reception. The event is hosted by the African Judiciaries Research Network, Comparative Politics Cluster, Centre for Studies in Democratization, and Warwick Law School.

Justice Prof. Joel Ngugi is a Judge of Appeal in Kenya. He also presently serves as the Chair of the National Steering Committee for the Implementation of the Alternative Justice Systems Policy. Justice (Prof.) Ngugi is a former High Court Judge and Head of Judiciary Transformation Secretariat and former Director of the Kenya Judiciary Academy (KJA). As a judge, he has won a number of prestigious awards including the Jurist of the Year Award (JOYA) in 2022, National Integrity Award (by Transparency International) in 2023 and Legal Tech Judge of the Year in 2021 and 2022. He is presently serving as the Leverhulme Distinguished Visiting Professor in residence at Cardiff University in the Wales, UK.

Lady Justice Dorothy A DeGabriele is a Judge of the High Court in Malawi and Advisor on the SADC Electoral Advisory Council. She has been a judicial officer since 2000 and has served as a Chairperson for the Industrial Relations Court, Chairperson for the Prison Service Commission, National Coordinator for the National Juvenile Justice Forum which spearheaded alternative punishment for children in conflict with the law, an Advisor of the Paralegal Advisory Service and as a member of the Judicial Service Commission. She also worked as a Justice Advisor, and later Governance Advisor for the Safety, Security and Access to Justice programme, under the then Department for International Development (DfID) She has previously researched the areas of children in conflict with the law, HIV/AIDS in Malawi Prisons, and Primary Justice which provides an interface between formal and informal justice systems. Her areas of research interest include criminal law, child justice, electoral justice, human rights, courts and politics, labour law, constitutional law and law and development. Lady Justice DeGabriele holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Malawi) and an LLM from the University of London. She is currently a PhD scholar at the University of Warwick.

Roundtable: "Judging and Constitutionalism in Contemporary Africa: In Conversation with Hon. Justice Prof. Joel Ngugi (Court of Appeal, Kenya) and Justice Dorothy DeGabriele (High Court, Malawi)"

Location TBC

The evening will provide information about what to expect during the application process, life as a pupil at Serle Court and insights into careers at the Commercial Chancery Bar. You will be able to meet barristers of different seniorities over refreshments and hear talks from members of chambers.