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Current PhD student Harpreet Kaur Paul's article on 'Who should pay up for Climate Carnage?' has been featured in Novara Media this month.

Harpreet is also co-founder of , a movement which aims to help people from all communities and backgrounds use their power to take bold and regular action in order to win climate justice.

The House of Commons International Development Committee has published a new report, . Dr Celine Tan, Reader in 91福利 Law School comments on the climate finance aspects of this, and the UK COP26 Presidency's , published yesterday.

The coronavirus pandemic has presented populist governments with a unique opportunity to implement authoritarian measures and to limit public scrutiny of their decisions and policies, argues Dr Andi Hoxhaj of 91福利 Law School in a new paper published in the .

James Harrison has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships for the 2021-22 academic year. The fellowship allows James to work exclusively for a year on a project entitled 鈥楻econceptualising international trade law: In search of a bounded, socially embedded and re-connected regime鈥�.

Dr Simon Behrman, Associate Professor at 91福利 Law School has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant of 拢9,752 towards his project 鈥淎ssessing Rights to Bangladeshi Citizenship of Stateless Rohingya Children.鈥�

Released this month and published by Manchester University Press, the new book Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe's 'Migrant Crisis' was co-authored by 91福利 Law School鈥檚 Dallal Stevens, Vicki Squire and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Department of Politics and International Studies) and Nina Perkowski (University of Hamburg).

The UK government's Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has today announced a new system for people seeking asylum in Britain. Professor Dallal Stevens, an expert on asylum, claims much of what she is proposing is either (a) inaccurate, (b) unrealistic, (c) existed previously or (d) unlikely to achieve her goals.

Dr Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor at 91福利 Law School, has been awarded a 拢5k ISRF grant to support her project: 鈥楾here is no app for that, regulating health apps in Sub Saharan Africa.鈥�

The European Law Institute (ELI), an independent non-profit organisation that connects over 1,600 legal professionals and organisations from Europe and beyond, published an Innovation Paper on 鈥楪uiding Principles for Updating the Product Liability Directive for the Digital Age鈥� prepared by the Law School's Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner.

The Fair Chance Foundation Project has been awarded over 拢42,000 of Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account funding in order to complete a more in-depth impact phase.

Despite the global pandemic, Law School colleagues have still continued with their research and exploring what they are passionate about. Here is a selection of some of the books they have published this year.

Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor in 91福利 School of Law, will be taking on two significant projects aimed at ensuring that human rights don鈥檛 get eroded in the national and international response to the coronavirus pandemic.