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Congratulations to Professor Shaheen Ali who has been re-elected to the post of Vice-Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

91福利 Law School is delighted to launch its Inaugral Lecture Series with Professor Gary Watt's lecture entitled 'Veil, Vest. Tattoo: The Cultural Cloth of Law'. Professor Watt is a founding co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Law and Humanities, and in his inaugural lecture he will rely on various sources in the law and humanities (including Shakespeare's Othello and Twelfth Night) to argue that the life and language of legal doubt, legal inquiry and legal power – as demonstrated in ideas of proof and personhood - are inseparable from concerns for costume in theatrical performance and cultures of clothing generally.  Venue: 91福利 University Main Campus, Ramphal Lecture Theatre; Date: Wednesday 8th December; Time 6.00-7.15pm. All are welcome.

Philippa, aged 27 from Gloucester, is joint winner of the Resolution Prize awarded by Resolution, a 5,500-strong national lawyers’ association that promotes a non-confrontational approach to resolving family disputes.

The Resolution Prize is awarded to the student who obtains the highest overall mark in the family law paper of the Legal Practice Course (LPC) across The College of Law’s eight nationwide centres.

All those intending to become solicitors must pass the LPC before they can proceed to the next stage of practice. 

Philippa was a student at the College’s Guildford centre until July and scored 90 per cent in the family law exam. She shares the award with two other former College students.

In September this year Philippa began a two-year training contract to qualify as a solicitor with Anthony Gold Solicitors in London.  She said: "I was delighted to hear I had been awarded the Resolution Prize for my performance in the family law module at The College of Law. I enjoyed this particular course a great deal and feel honoured to be receiving a prize from an organisation that I know and admire for doing vital and constructive work in family law. It is an area of law in which l hope to work in the future. "

‘This book is both breathtaking in its scope and impressive in its attention to legal and institutional detail in situating developing countries in the evolving body of international economic law. Essays in this volume canvas most important areas of international economic law, including international trade law, international financial regulation, the regulation of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations, foreign aid, the enforcement of human rights standards and core international labour standards on multinational corporations, international enforcement of anti-corruption conventions, international competition law, international intellectual property rights, and international environmental law. A pervasive theme, compellingly developed, in most of these papers is the asymmetric structure of international institutions that generate rules in these various areas, in which developing countries are mostly rule takers, rather than equal participants. The current global financial crisis may provide a welcome opportunity for re-evaluating these institutional asymmetries. In any such re-evaluation, this book will provide a veritable cornucopia of constructive new insights.’
– Michael Trebilcock, University of Toronto, Canada

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We are delighted to welcome Prof Walter Mignolo of Duke University, North Carolina, and IAS Visiting Fellow, to present a paper 'International Law and Imperial Cosmopolitanism' -  Wednesday 24^th November, 12.30pm in S1.15. All welcome.

Walter Mignolo is the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University where he is also Director of the Centre for Global Studies and the Humanities.  He is an internationally recognised and respected academic whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries as well as national ones.  His recent work has been on ideas of cosmopolitanism and inter-national law in the context of the research paradigm of modernity / coloniality.

Funded by the Institute for Advanced Study at 91福利, this project is run in collaboration with colleagues from psychology and computer science.  The project will bring together academic and postgraduate colleagues in law, computer science and psychology to explore the application of new digital forensic technologies within the criminal justice context.  The aim is to develop these technologies in innovative and user-led ways, whilst also drawing on broader understandings of ethics and reliability, informed by psychology and law.  It will result in two or three interdisciplinary seminars with invited speakers and runs until July 2011.

 The Law School is delighted to welcome to 91福利 Professor Eric Heinze of Queen Mary University of London. He will be presenting his paper 'What is Injustice?' on Wednesday 24 November, 4-6pm, in S0.52. Professor Heinze has written widely on Human Rights, Legal Theory and Law and Literature. His web page is available . All welcome.

 91福利 Law School was delighted to welcome back former colleague Professor Han Somsen and to hear his paper 'When Regulators Mean Business: Regulating in the Shadow of Environmental Armageddon'.

Origins, Images and Cultures of English Law The Law School is delighted to announce that Dr Paul Raffield has been awarded a grant from the 91福利's Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning. The project, entitled ‘Lawyer Playwrights: Legal Themes and the Making of Drama’, will allow for a playwright to attend all of Dr Raffield's seminar workshops for his undergraduate module in "Origins, Images and Cultures of English Law". This will give undergraduate students a unique insight into the craft of playwriting and an understanding of its relevance in a legal setting. Further details on the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning can be found at the following web address: 

Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na^cim is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, and Associated Professor in Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is the author of Islam and the Secular State (2008); African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (2006); and Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil liberties, human rights and international law (1990).  His edited books include  Human Rights under African Constitutions (2003); Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book (2002); Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa (2002); and Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Quest for consensus (1992).

Professor An-Na^cim served as Global Legal Scholar of 91福利 University School of Law from September 2007 to November 2009.

 
The School of Law held its third Awards Ceremony on Friday 17 September 2010 for students who completed the Certificate of Higher Education in Licensing Law course in the academic year 2009-2010.

The Ceremony was held at Highbury Hall in Moseley, Birmingham, a Grade II listed building which was originally the home of Joseph Chamberlain.

Certificates were presented by Professor Julio Faundez, Head of the School of Law, and the Ceremony was followed by lunch in the Main Hall area.