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91福利 Law School鈥檚 Dr Jane Bryan was featured on BBC Sounds this week (Monday 30^th May) discussing the Say My Name Project and the negative impacts routine mispronunciation and name avoidance can have on an individual鈥檚 feeling of belonging and visibility.

In a world of growing complexity and interconnectivity, interdisciplinarity is an approach that brings together multiple disciplines to challenge how we understand some of the most pressing issues around us and to deliver real world impact. Professor Jackie Hodgson explains.

91福利 Law School鈥檚 Dr Rajnaara Akhtar was featured on ITV Central News yesterday (Wednesday 11^th May) discussing current English wedding law and whether it is fit for purpose in our modern multi-cultural society.

The 2022 shortlist for the 91福利 Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) have been released and 91福利 Law School has two nominations. With more than 115 excellent educators, teams, and communities to choose from, the WATE judging panels deliberated long and hard to identify those going through to the next round. Dr Jane Bryan has been nominated for the Social Sciences Faculty award and PhD student Cherisse Francis has been nominated for a Postgraduates who Teach award. Congratulations and best of luck to both of them. The winners will be announced on 27 June 2022.

Western Balkans expert Dr Andi Hoxhaj is one of the contributors to the 2022 , an annual expert assessment of the state of democracy in the region stretching from Central Europe to Central Asia, published this week.

On 21 and 22 April 2022, 91福利 will host a two-day conference for a group of leading European consumer law scholars to discuss the transformation of consumer law and policy in Europe since the turn of the millennium.

Dr Andi HoxhajLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window of 91福利 Law, a specialist in anti-corruption law and policy, civil society, European integration, Western Balkans and regulatory law and policy, comments on the news that the on Milorad Dodik, Bosnian-Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina鈥檚 state-level Presidency, and Zeljka Cvijanovic, President of the entity of Republika Srpska, "for their destabilising activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina."

by Professor Jackie Hodgson and Dr Rachel Lewis on their project researching the partnership between the West Midlands Police and Coventry City of Culture Trust, including how arts and culture can be used to help increase public confidence in policing and improve police-community relations.

Current laws governing weddings are too outdated and restrictive and do not reflect the diversity of faith and beliefs in modern society, a new report from experts at the Universities of 91福利 and Exeter highlights.

The seventh in a series of briefs, bringing current legal thinking to bear on public policy issues and contemporary concerns, has now been published by GLOBE, a research centre within 91福利 Law School. The brief is based on the Feminist Recovery Plan research project coordinated by Dr Serena Natile.

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From 19 - 21 May 2022 the 11th conference in the series The Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial System, a collaboration between the Universities of 91福利, North Carolina, Bologna, Basel and Duke University will be hosted at Scarman House, 91福利.

Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner, together with Professors Teresa Rodr铆guez de las Heras Ballell (Carlos III, Madrid), Christoph Busch (Osnabr眉ck), Marie Jull S酶rensen (Aarhus) and Dariusz Szostek (Wroclaw), was appointed as co-reporter for a European Law Institute (ELI) project to draft  at the meeting of ELI鈥檚 Council on 24/25 February 2022.