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• Senior Expert working on Impact Assessment on amendments to Directive on provisional Legal Aid (January - May 2016)

Jackie also lends her expertise to a study commissioned by the European Parliament. In response to the proposal by the European Commission for a Directive on Legal Aid, the European Parliament's Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs proposed several amendments. The study aims at evaluating those substantive amendments to the Legal Aid proposal. The objective of the impact assessment is to assess the economic costs and benefits of those amendments, but also their social impacts and impacts on fundamental rights. To read on

On 3rd March 2016, Criminal Justice Centre Director Professor Jackie Hodgson ran a training workshop for the Greater Manchester Police on safeguards for young suspects during police interrogation. Over 70 police officers of varying experience and specialization attended the workshop in Manchester. To read on .

Ania Zbyszewska has successfully secured a funding award from the SLSA after applying to the SLSA's Annual Seminar Competition. Ania seminar is entitled Labour Law for a Warming World?: Exploring the intersections between work regulation, ecology, and sustainability‘’. Keep an eye out for further announcements about the seminar.

Fiona Smith is speaking at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Food Security at the University of Cambridge on the 9th March on the topic of “Regulating Agricultural Subsidies to Produce Positive Effects for Food Security” to find out more

Fiona Smith presented at ’The Embedded Liberalism Compromise Revisited: Twenty Years of Domestic Policy under WTO Law held at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia on the topic of “From Agriculture to Food Security: Embedded Liberalism and Stories of Regulatory Failure” from 20th Feb to 27th Feb. The proceedings will be published.

Professor Shaheen Ali was an invited speaker at the International Women's Day celebrations organized by Eversheds at their Manchester office on the 3rd of march 2016.

Tuesday 8 March will mark this year’s International Women’s Day, a day to that celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women across the globe. To find out more about International Womens Day please

During a public event hosted by the City Law School (City University of London) on Thursday 25 February 2016, Giuliano Castellano discusses the relationship between regulation and financial markets in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis with Joris Luyendijk (author, anthropologist and journalist with The Guardian), Brett Scott (author, anthropologist), and Elaine Fahey (City Law School). The event is titled 'Reforming the City through, by or in spite of Law? Exploring Legal and Anthropological Perspectives on Banking and Finance’, for further information and free registration see:

Hugh Beale chaired the first session (which will include a speech by Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality) and was speaking in the second session of a ERA Conference on "New EU rules for digital contracts", also held in Brussels. His presentation was on "Remedies and exercise of remedies". To find out more Hugh Beale .

Hugh Beale has presented a report to the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament on two proposed Directives, one on supply of digital content and the other on Online and other distance sales. His report was called “Scope of application and general approach of the new rules for contracts in the digital environment”. To find out more about Hugh Beale .

The Universities of Monash and 91福利 have a cross University , supporting staff and student exchange and innovative international research programs. The and the in 2015 were recipients of an . A Workshop held in July at the has resulted in a formal partnership, which will build gender research across the two Centres. Graduate student exchange and research programs focused on sustainability and gender and care are underway.

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Applications for the are particularly encouraged from qualified graduate students seeking to undertake gender focused research. Both the and Centres have a very strong record in graduate supervision.

Dalla Stevens will giving a paper ‘Motivations for forced migration: Is asylum in ‘crisis’? at an international conference in Bochum, Germany from 18-20 Feb entitled Why people migrate: Multiple causes, complex reasons and their normative assessment.

Dallal Stevens will be going to Brussels with the Crossing the Mediterranean by Boat team to provide a policy briefing on our preliminary findings for the ESRC-funded project on Tuesday 16 Feb.

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