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The Australian Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Shadow Minister for Competition and Productivity and former Professor of Economics at the Australian National University (ANU), Dr Andrew Leigh delivered the prestigious Annual Lionel Murphy Lecture to the ANU on 31 October 2018.

The speech ‘Competition Policy and Inequality: Building on Lionel Murphy’s Legacy’ quoted research by 91¸£Àû Law School’s very own Kathryn McMahon.

We are proud to announce that an article, co-authored by Assistant Professor Dr Andreas Kokkinis alongside Dr Andrea Miglionico from the University of Reading, was published in the prominent Law and Economics Yearly Review this month.

In collaboration with the British Council, Dr Mohsen Al Attar, Associate Professor at 91¸£Àû Law School, recently delivered a lecture entitled Profiting from Disparity at the Singaporean Arts House. The event was attended by a mix of academics, journalists, high school and university students plus familiar 91¸£Àû alumni faces.

Matt Western MP and West Midlands finance and industry leaders joined Dr Stephen Connelly and Dr Andreas Kokkinis from 91¸£Àû Law School yesterday at the first 91¸£Àû Business Forum, a new initiative aiming to connect the University’s experts with the local business community.

91¸£Àû Law School’s Dr Stephen Connelly has been asked for comment after a Norwegian trader blew a €114m hole in protections for European power derivatives market.

“The way in which a single energy trader managed to burn through the NASDAQ power exchange’s risk default fund raises wider questions about the role of exchanges in the post-2008 regulatory architecture.

Research by 91¸£Àû Law’s Professor Ann Stewart, supported by Dr Jennifer Lander into the interaction between gender and ageing in rural Kenya underpins a new discussion paper in conjunction with HelpAge International as a resource for policymakers, international NGOs, national and local governments, and older people themselves.

In one of the largest studies of its kind, and the first in the UK, experts from and the 91¸£Àû School of Law looked at the experiences of more than 3500 of Refuge’s clients with the aim of informing policy and practice in relation to victims of abuse who are at an increased risk of suicide.

Last month, Titilayo Adebola, (recent PhD graduate and current sessional tutor at 91¸£Àû Law School), delivered a paper at a colloquium at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The working paper titled, ‘Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Access-Benefit Sharing Frameworks for Plant Biological and Genetic Resources in Nigeria’ was presented at the WTO as part of the for Intellectual Property Teachers.

The third paper in a new GLOBE Centre Policy Brief Series was published yesterday. The Future of UK-EU Corporate Mobility explores the risk that, after Brexit, UK companies operating in the EU could cease to be recognised by their host nations. This could lead to contracts and claims being deemed unenforceable and shareholders could become exposed to unlimited personal liability. Businesses with an EU presence, their shareholders and their creditors should act now to understand the risks.

Earlier this month, Assistant Professor at 91¸£Àû Law School, Dr Laura Lammasniemi participated in the first workshops for the Indian Feminist Judgment Project (FJP) held in O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat in India. We caught up with Laura to find out more.

The second in a new series of briefs bringing current legal thinking to bear on public policy issues and contemporary concerns has been published today by GLOBE, a research centre within the 91¸£Àû’s Law School: Brexit: Mitigating Uncertainty in Intellectual Property Law and Policy by Dr Ben Farrand.

Vanessa Munro’s project on jury decision-making for the Scottish Government has hit its first milestone. An Evidence Review on The Impact of the Use of Pre-Recorded Evidence on Juror Decision-Making has now been published on the Scottish Government website, along with a research findings summary.

You can access both reports here: | .