Departmental news

We are very happy to announce four recent promotions in the department effective from 1 August 2025:

• Dr Jonathan FossLink opens in a new window has been promoted to Assistant Professor
• Dr Ayse Saliha SunarLink opens in a new window has been promoted to Assistant Professor
• Dr Adam ShephardLink opens in a new window has been promoted to Assistant Professor
• Dr Greg WatsonLink opens in a new window has been promoted to Associate Professor

Many congratulations to our colleagues for all their achievements!

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.

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.’

Warwick Law School’s Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner has been working on a project for the European Law Institute (ELI) alongside colleagues from across Europe for the past three years. The Council of the ELI has now approved the Guiding Principles and Model Rules on Digital Assistants for Consumer Contracts (“DACC”).

Warwick Law School’s Professor Henrique Carvalho has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2024-2025 for his research project on ‘Just Sentences: Narrating and Rewriting Criminal Law’s Aesthetic Injustice.’

Professor Siddartha Khastgir, comments on the UK Government's plans to postpone fully self-driving vehicles in the UK to 2027.

Professor Khastgir, Head of Safe Autonomy at WMG, The University of Warwick, said:

‘‘The government’s new proposed date of rolling out self-driving vehicles on UK roads is the correct approach to ensure the safety of the technology and the public. Any policy decision, especially for emerging technologies like self-driving vehicles, must be made by gathering and using scientific evidence.

“While we are glad to see that many international self-driving developers would like to deploy their products in the UK, the recent technology recalls in the US and China are a testimony to the fact that we are still learning. More needs to be done before we can introduce the technology on our roads.

“At WMG, we believe safety has two sides: engineering safety and communicating safety. We need global consensus on both aspects, and we are championing this by working with our international partners.’’