Law News Feed

In Verfassungsblog’s latest weekly editorial dedicated to Taiwan, Dr Ming-Sung Kuo addressed issues concerning the Trump presidency’s implications to Taiwan and Taiwan’s constitutional court crisis in the wake of the Trump-Xi meetings in Beijing as part of the blog’s ‘Five Questions to …’ interview series.

Warwick Law School’s Centre for Global Health Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Angela Daly as a visiting Professor. She is collaborating with our Centre for Global Health Law as a COI on the Advancing health data justice: A comparative study of health-related data governance in Canada, Germany and the UK project (ADIJUST). Her appointment at Warwick Law School will enrich our research community and deepen our engagement with some of the defining legal challenges of our time.

Congratulations to Elina Lin (Law) and Jonathan Martin (Politics, Philosophy, and Law) who have reached finals day of the ESU–Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition having competed in earlier rounds against The Open University, The University of Leicester (last year’s winner), and Oxford Brookes. This is one of the longest established national mooting competitions in the UK and to reach finals day is a major achievement.

Sergeant Jonathan Benjamin of West Midlands Police has been awarded a Warwick Policy Hub Fellowship. He has been working with Professor Jackie Hodgson (Law), Dr Rachel Lewis (Sociology) and Dr Ruth Bernatek (Law) on their research and impact work using innovative arts-led approaches to challenge racist attitudes and behaviours within the police. As an in-residence Policy Fellow, Jonathan will be able to further this engagement, including with the Centre for Operational Police Research, COPR.

To celebrate International Workers’ Day (May Day) we have organised an online exhibition to showcase some of the policy briefs realised by students of Labour Law in Context (LA3A6) over the years. These group policy briefs are part of the assessment for the module and aim to encourage students to engage with current labour law debates and learn about policy writing as a tool for legal change. For students this is also an opportunity to value the importance of teamwork, negotiate positions, and work towards a common goal.

Former Warwick LLB student James Netto (2011) and his team have been working since 2024 to identify and locate absent British military fathers in Nanyuki, Kenya as part of a ground-breaking DNA and legal process. Earlier this month, the BBC released a one hour documentary and six part podcast exploring this incredible work, which focuses on the children fathered by British soldiers and their search for identity and truth.