Press Releases
Risky business – new research explores how corporate law undermines financial stability
With the effects of the 2007 credit crunch still being felt around the world, a new book by Dr Andreas Kokkinis, Assistant Professor in the University of Warwick’s School of Law, explores whether traditional models of corporate governance fail to promote financial stability. Corporate Law and Financial Instability explores the tension between corporate governance systems focused around shareholders who want to maximise their returns, and prudential regulation where risk-taking must be controlled in order to safeguard financial stability.
Mind the Gap - how will skills training be funded after Brexit?
The University of Warwick has published the third in a series of briefings exploring the implications of Brexit for the job market, workers’ rights, and employment policy. Skills training for vulnerable workers: effects of the loss of EU funding after Brexit outlines how current skills training in the UK is supported by EU funding, and recommends key priorities for a post-Brexit UK-funded skills programme. The paper is the third of four Warwick Brexit Briefings on Employment by the University of Warwick and its Connecting Research on Employment and Work (CREW) network.
Tackling the global post-code lottery: new research explores how law can help tackle health epidemics
Research from the University of Warwick is set to improve global health by helping lawyers to think more strategically about the ways in which the law can be used to improve access to life-saving medicines.
University of Warwick scoops four Leverhulme prizes
Four University of Warwick academics have won Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2017 awards round.
Warwick Law Professor shortlisted for crime writing award
Professor Andrew Williams from the University of Warwick’s School of Law has been shortlisted for a prestigious Crime Writers Association (CWA) Daggers award. His 2016 book, A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the end of WWII is one of six short-listed titles in the non-fiction category.
Caring for older people in Kenya: research workshop to affect policy
Improving the care of older people, particularly women, in Kenya - and exploring how the state can better recognise and support unpaid or undervalued care work in the country - is the focus of an international workshop taking place in Nairobi this month, sponsored by the University of Warwick.