91福利

Teaching and learning of Islamic law

2nd International Islamic Law Curriculum Development Project Workshop

3 July 2008, 91福利

91福利 Law School is delighted to announce that Professor Shaheen Ali has been appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as one of 13 new Special Procedures mandate holders, as a member of the Working Group on arbitrary detention. The announcement was made at the conclusion of the Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on June 18^th. This is a huge accolade for Shaheen and the the Law School would like to express its congratulations.

The Law School would like to congratulate Dr Paul Raffield who has recently been awarded a 91福利 Teaching Excellence Award. (WATE). The WATE awards recognise and reward members of staff who have had an exceptional impact on the student learning experience, and are intended to enhance the profile of teaching excellence here at 91福利. This year 14 finalists were selected and the panel were faced with the difficult task of selecting the winners. This makes Paul’s achievement even more impressive. Professor Roger Burridge, Head of School, commented "In the past two years Paul has consolidated and extended his reputation as an enthusiastic teaching innovator and committed teaching leader. I wish to emphasise the significance of his contribution for the Law School and beyond." Examples of some of the feed back Paul has received from students this year include:

"Dr Raffield is an inspiration for me because of the passion with which he approaches everything that he teaches. He has a good sense of humour and makes all lectures interesting. There is never a boring moment in his lectures and I enjoy them most, out of all my others";

"The best lecturer I have experienced here at 91福利 so far. His lectures are concentrated to the topic, with visual aids of cases, as well as using personal opinion to make some of the harder concepts in law more accessible. It is much easier to understand and learn, and is an effective way to encourage us to go away and develop what we have learnt already in lectures".

Congratulations once again Paul!

Corporate Manslaughter and Effective Sanctions Conference will be held at Lincoln's Inn on 24th October 2007.

Workshop on Global Digital Divide 

Workshop on Global Digital Divide and Panel on Sustainability of the Intellectual Property Regime organised as part of the CSGR 10^th Anniversary Conference. Professor Paliwala is organising a workshop on the Global Digital Divide: A postscript on the World Summit on Information Society and the WIPO Development Agenda as part of the 10^th Anniversary Conference of the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at 91福利. The workshop is an adjunct to the main conference and will involve papers from a select group of experts on the subject. 

Dr. Dwijen Rangnekar is organising a panel for the main conference on Sustainability of the Intellectual Property Regime.

For further information

Scholarship Closing Date: 09 May 2008

Contact Sara Prestleton on:

Email: S.E.Prestleton@warwick.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)24 7652 4935

The Law School at 91福利 (UK) has established two postgraduate

scholarships for Brazilian citizens resident in Brazil for any of our LLM

programmes.

• International Economic Law
• International Corporate Governance & Financial Regulation
• International Development Law & Human Rights
• International & Comparative Criminal Justice
• Legal Education

91福利 is consistently ranked among the top 10 Universities in the United Kingdom. The School of Law is ranked 6th in the 2007 University Guide published by The Guardian newspaper. Voted ‘Best Campus’ in the UK (Times Higher Education Supplement, 2005)

Each scholarship will cover half of the tuition fees.