This drop-in clinic is designed to help you if you are looking to gain employment in the short term, by making sure your CV is looking at it's best for prospective employers.

Representatives will be available between 12-2pm. You do not need to book a specific time/appointment, but please register if you are going to come along so we can monitor numbers.

Student Opportunity are looking for law students to take part in a focus group to help understand how you would like to engage with potential employers on campus in the Autumn term. If you are interested in talking to us about how you would like to meet employers and would like to earn a £10 Amazon voucher, please email careers@warwick.ac.uk (Law Focus Group as email title) and we will contact you with further details.

Sailee Khurjekar will present her paper Defining Obscenity: Awkward Art and Perverse Pleasures.

 Abstract:

The idea of the obscene is capacious, encompassing a range of emotions that pertain to one’s disgust, repugnance, shock, allure, and offense towards its objects. Obscenity refers to art, behaviour, or language that have the power to trigger or prompt these emotions. Obscenity appears to unite a claim about the qualities of an object and a range of appropriate felt responses. When we say an object is obscene, we tend to mean it has debased qualities that merit offense, repugnance, and disgust. I want to tease out the most perspicuous way to set out what makes something obscene and how it maps onto artworks. The first step of the philosophical project examines paradigm cases of obscenity to show what features are markers of the obscene; and the second step of the philosophical project examines the phenomenology of the obscene. I centre my discussion around two artworks: Hokusai’s The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (1814) and Rick Gibson’s Foetus Earrings (1987).

 Trigger Warning: The themes and the content of the artworks that are discussed are unusual, sensitive, and often downright perverse. The material concerns bestiality, sexual violence, paedophilia, symphorophilia, and people’s attraction to the representations of these things. I have tried to handle these issues as sensitively as possible.

Should the Commonwealth Caribbean Abolish Appeals to the Privy Council? with Professor Leslie Thomas QC

This lecture series will explore the dynamics of race, class and power in the legal systems of the UK and the Commonwealth Caribbean, how those systems have been shaped by the legacy of colonialism, and how the legal system plays a dual role as an instrument of oppression and as a means for the oppressed to defend themselves.