Departmental news
Expert Comment: International Development Committee calls for easier access to ‘climate finance’ funds
The House of Commons International Development Committee has published a new report, Global Britain in demand: UK climate action and international development around COP26. Dr Celine Tan, Reader in Warwick Law School comments on the climate finance aspects of this, and the UK COP26 Presidency's Climate Finance Delivery Plan, published yesterday.
Expert Comment: WHO calls for moratorium on boosters
The Law School's global health ethics expert Dr Sharifah Sekalala, comments on the WHO's call for a moratorium on administering booster jabs of Covid-19 vaccines as a way to help ensure that doses are available in countries where few people have received their first dose.
Black out: what happens during an eclipse?
The UK will see an annular solar eclipse where the Moon will partially cover the Sun. The fear of the unknown and a bit of politics drove the desire for understanding explains Dr James Poskett, Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick.
Did George Floyd’s case mark a watershed?
Final year student Neyat Solomon Zerabruk reflects on the conviction of Derek Chauvin
Vanessa Munro quoted in The Guardian
Warwick Law School’s Professor Munro has contributed to an article in The Guardian newspaper on the truth about the hidden number of suicides amongst domestic abuse victims. The findings are linked to her recent research and work with the charity Refuge.
Dallal Stevens comments on UK asylum overhaul
The UK government's Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has today announced a new system for people seeking asylum in Britain. Professor Dallal Stevens, an expert on asylum, claims much of what she is proposing is either (a) inaccurate, (b) unrealistic, (c) existed previously or (d) unlikely to achieve her goals.
Human rights law can provide a transparent and fair framework for vaccine allocations
As Governments around the world wrestle with the question of designing a fair system to allocate their COVID-19 vaccine supplies for maximum protection against the pandemic, a team of researchers led by Dr Sharifah Sekalala of Warwick Law School propose that existing human rights legal principles should guide their thinking.
Expert Comment: Okpabi Judgment in the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has published its judgement in the case of Okpabi and others (Appellants) v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another (Respondents), heard in June 2020. Dr Stephen Connelly comments on the case and the legal principles at stake.