Ann Stewart has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the sum of £50,000. This study assesses the contribution of community-based ‘woman to woman’ marriage practices in Kenya to the provision of care, particularly for the elderly, when there is little social welfare available. The everyday practices of caring for older people particularly women, traditionally woven into communal relations, are changing in the socioeconomic and political circumstances of contemporary Kenya. Are woman to woman marriages, historically understood as a means of tackling infertility, evolving into a way of recognising and ‘rewarding’ caring labour for those with assets? How are claims for recognition understood now in the ‘formal’ courts and within community dispute resolution practices?

Ania Zbyszewska has successfully secured a funding award from the SLSA after applying to the SLSA's Annual Seminar Competition. Ania seminar is entitled Labour Law for a Warming World?: Exploring the intersections between work regulation, ecology, and sustainability‘’. Keep an eye out for further announcements about the seminar.

Professor Shaheen Ali was an invited speaker at the International Women's Day celebrations organized by Eversheds at their Manchester office on the 3rd of march 2016.

Tuesday 8 March will mark this year’s International Women’s Day, a day to that celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women across the globe. To find out more about International Womens Day please click here.

The Universities of Monash and Warwick have a cross University Alliance, supporting staff and student exchange and innovative international research programs. The Centre for Women’s Studies & Gender Research and the Centre for the Study of Women & Gender in 2015 were recipients of an Alliance SEED Grant. A Workshop held in July at the Monash Prato Campus has resulted in a formal partnership, which will build gender research across the two Centres. Graduate student exchange and research programs focused on sustainability and gender and care are underway.

Read the Alliance Gender Workshop Report for full details. See Monash news also.

Applications for the Joint PhD Monash Warwick are particularly encouraged from qualified graduate students seeking to undertake gender focused research. Both the Monash and Warwick Centres have a very strong record in graduate supervision.

Shaheen Sardar Ali was invited to present a paper entitled: 'In Search of Authority and Authenticity? UK Shari'a Councils and Muslim Women's Rights' at an international conference: Legal Pluralism and human rights within family disputes in Europe organised by the Ghent University Human Rights centre 26-27 October 2015 to find out more click here.

Recent years have seen extensive discussion about the continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the right to marry from previously excluded groups, and the need to protect those who do not wish to marry from being forced to do so. At the same time, weddings are big business, couples are spending more than ever before on getting married, and marriage ceremonies are increasingly elaborate. It is therefore timely to reflect on the rites of marriage, as well as the right to marry (or not to marry), and the relationship between them.

To this end, this new interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars from numerous fields, including law, sociology, anthropology, psychology, demography, theology and art and design. Focusing on England and Wales, it explores in depth the specific issues arising from this jurisdiction’s Anglican heritage, demographic development, current laws and social practices.

THE LAW ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN BANKS

Iris H-Y Chiu, University College London, UK and Consulting Editor, Michael McKee, Partner, DLA Piper With contributions from Anna P. Donovan, University College London, Rod Edmunds, Queen Mary University of London, Andreas Kokkinis, University of Warwick and University College London, John Lowry, Hong Kong University, Marc T. Moore, University of Cambridge, Arad Reisberg, University College London, Georgina Tsagas, University of Bristol, Edward Walker-Arnott, University College London and Herbert Smith Freehills, UK

In the UK Research Excellence Framework results (announced 18 December 2014), Warwick Law School was assessed as coming 6th out of 67 Law Departments in terms of its Research Environment, 7th in terms of the Quality of its Research and 10th overall.

Full details can be found on the REF website.

Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict (10-13 June 2014).

The summit seeks to translate the UN General Assembly's Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict into real progress on the ground. More details are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/sexual-violence-in-conflict.

Rebecca Probert’s article ‘“A Banbury Story”: cohabitation and marriage among the Victorian poor in ‘notorious Neithrop’, published in Cake and Cockhorse, has won the British Association for Local History’s Publication Award for 2014.