Departmental news
Dr Rachael Blakey is shortlisted for SLS Peter Birks Prize
We are excited to share that Dr Rachael Blakey has been shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Peter Birks Prize for her monograph, Rethinking Family Mediation: The Role of the Family Mediator in Contemporary Times. The prize recognises outstanding legal scholarship published by Early Career Academics.
Professor James Harrison awarded Best Scholarly Article Prize for study on Human Rights Grievance Mechanisms
James Harrison from Warwick Law School and co-author Mark Wielga (from Nomogaia) have been awarded this year’s best scholarly article prize by the Business and Human Rights Journal. The article compares the effectiveness of six grievance mechanisms that allow workers and communities to complain about human rights abuses that corporations have allegedly perpetrated against them.
Professor Jackie Hodgson is elected as Fellow of the British Academy
The UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, the British Academy, has elected Warwick Law School's Professor Jacqueline Hodgson to its fellowship in recognition of outstanding contribution in her field. She joins a prestigious community of over 1800 leading scholars in the UK and globally who have achieved distinction in the humanities and social sciences.
Dr Luminita Olteanu co-hosts roundtable on Strategic Brand Signalling with UCL
The Strategic Brand Signalling Roundtable was held to examine trade marks, advertising, and body image perceptions in the UK. The event brought together professionals from ethics, psychology, psychiatric epidemiology, and trade mark and advertising law to discuss these interconnected issues.
Dr Carolina Alonso Bejarano’s collaborative performance ELMO-MENTO secures grant from NEFA’s National Dance Project
Carolina Alonso Bejarano and inter-disciplinary artist Miguel Alejandro Castillo’s dance-theater project, ELMO-MENTO, has received a Finalist Award for the National Dance Project Production Grant. This $10,000 award is granted by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), and it allows winners to apply for $100,000 to produce a proposed performance piece.
Professor Vanessa Munro is highly commended for Research Impact
Warwick Law School’s Professor Vanessa Munro was highly commended for her research impact in the recent Warwick Research Celebration, which recognised colleagues who have excelled in different aspects of research.
Dr Alonso Bejarano secures Senior Fellowship with Humboldt University
Warwick Law School's Dr Carolina Alonso Bejarano has secured a Senior Fellowship in the Center for Advanced Studies in Reflexive Globalisation at Humboldt University in Germany, to work on her manuscript project, Legal Roots, Colonial Routes: Genealogies of the Un/Citizen in Hometown, USA.
Charlotte Woodhead to deliver interactive session at the Resonate Festival
Dr Charlotte Woodhead will deliver an interactive outreach session on ‘Discovering our Intangible Cultural Heritage: Law in Context’ at the Resonate Festival on Saturday 31 May 2025. The session forms part of The Resonate Festival of Arts & Culture – Day Out taking place in the Faculty of Arts and the Oculus Buildings at the University of Warwick.
Solange Mouthaan has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship
Warwick Law School’s Solange Mouthaan has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for her research project titled: ‘Cemeteries, colonialism, and intergenerational legal stories’ which reclaims the narratives of marginalised women and their erased Indigenous foremothers, opening a pathway into future research on reparations.
Professor Shaheen Ali secures British Academy/Leverhulme Fellowship
Warwick Law School’s Professor Shaheen Ali has been awarded the British Academy Senior Research Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust for 2024-2025 for her research on ‘Adjectival Constitutionalism and the Plural Shari'a: Exploring the 'Islamic' in constitutions of the Muslim World.’