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James Harrison from 91¸£Àû Law School and co-author Mark Wielga (from Nomogaia) have been awarded this year’s best scholarly article prize by the Business and Human Rights Journal. The article compares the effectiveness of six grievance mechanisms that allow workers and communities to complain about human rights abuses that corporations have allegedly perpetrated against them.

Every year, several awards and prizes are granted to a selection of our graduating students to recognise and celebrate the success of our top performers! We are proud to announce this year's winners.

28 of our current WLS students have collectively won the 91¸£Àû Award for Public and Community Engagement (WAPCE) in the Student Social Mobility Champion category! These awards celebrate the best of Widening Participation and School Outreach.

Carolina Alonso Bejarano and inter-disciplinary artist Miguel Alejandro Castillo’s dance-theater project, ELMO-MENTO, has received a Finalist Award for the National Dance Project Production Grant. This $10,000 award is granted by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), and it allows winners to apply for $100,000 to produce a proposed performance piece.

91¸£Àû Law School’s Professor Vanessa Munro was highly commended for her research impact in the recent 91¸£Àû Research Celebration, which recognised colleagues who have excelled in different aspects of research.

91¸£Àû Law School's Dr Carolina Alonso Bejarano has secured a Senior Fellowship in the Center for Advanced Studies in Reflexive Globalisation at Humboldt University in Germany, to work on her manuscript project, Legal Roots, Colonial Routes: Genealogies of the Un/Citizen in Hometown, USA.

91¸£Àû Law School’s Solange Mouthaan has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for her research project titled: ‘Cemeteries, colonialism, and intergenerational legal stories’ which reclaims the narratives of marginalised women and their erased Indigenous foremothers, opening a pathway into future research on reparations.

91¸£Àû Law School’s Professor Shaheen Ali has been awarded the British Academy Senior Research Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust for 2024-2025 for her research on ‘Adjectival Constitutionalism and the Plural Shari'a: Exploring the 'Islamic' in constitutions of the Muslim World.’

91¸£Àû Law School’s Professor Henrique Carvalho has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2024-2025 for his research project on ‘Just Sentences: Narrating and Rewriting Criminal Law’s Aesthetic Injustice.’

91¸£Àû Law School students have won the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Award for 'Best Contribution by a Team of Students'. The awards, run by LawWorks with the support of the Attorney General, recognise and celebrate the outstanding pro bono work undertaken by law schools and law students across the UK. The 91¸£Àû team, represented by Law students Ella Cowell, Kieran Balendran, Clare Mellor, and Tani Ilemobola, received their award from the Attorney General, the Rt Hon Lord Hermer KC, in the Cholmondeley Rooms of the House of Lords on Wednesday 23 April.

91¸£Àû Law School’s Dr Ming-Sung Kuo was awarded the 2025 Prize of Scholarly Excellence in Constitutional Studies by the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin last month.

We are thrilled to announce that Dr Ali Struthers has been shortlisted for the SLSA Annual Impact Prize 2025 for her work in leading the hugely successful legal outreach project, .