Press Releases
Warwick students providing legal aid to USA’s death row inmates
Ten law students from the University of Warwick are about to travel to the United States to help provide legal representation on behalf of prisoners who have been sentenced to death. They are taking part in a unique internship programme, which provides an exclusive opportunity to work on some of the country’s most prominent capital punishment cases.
Study reveals potential value of prison pen pal scheme to rehabilitation of offenders
The prison pen pal scheme ‘Prisoners’ Penfriends’ has an important role to play in helping to rehabilitate convicted offenders, new research from the University of Warwick has found. The findings are revealed in a report from the Law School’s Criminal Justice Centre, which is being presented at the House of Lords on Thursday (25 June).
Warwick researcher warns constitutional change could have unforeseeable outcomes
A researcher from the University of Warwick is to warn about the potentially “unforeseeable outcomes” of constitutional change under the current Conservative government at a conference in Coventry.
Study finds English and Welsh family courts not discriminating against fathers
There is no evidence that family courts in England and Wales are discriminating against fathers because of gender bias, a new study by the University of Warwick and funded by the Nuffield Foundation has found.
Warwick researcher awarded prestigious grant to study Haitian slave revolution
An Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick’s School of Law has received a prestigious grant to study the Haitian slave revolution of 1791–1804. Dr Philip Kaisary’s Fulbright Scholar Award will see him travel to the US next month to begin the year-long research project at Vanderbilt University, on one of the most selective scholarship programmes operating worldwide.
Orwell Prize shortlists University of Warwick Human Rights Centre
The writer-in-residence of an online magazine produced by the Centre for Human Rights in Practice
at the University of Warwick has been shortlisted for her work by the prestigious George Orwell Prize for Journalism. Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi appears in the 2015 shortlist alongside journalists from household names such as The Economist, The Guardian and The Independent.