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The New England Foundation for the Arts has awarded Dr. Carolina Alonso Bejarano鈥檚 collaborative project ELMO-MENTO a 100,000 USD National Dance Project Grant to support the creation and U.S. touring of the piece.

[Art by Peter Quach]

We are excited to share that Dr Rachael Blakey has been shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Peter Birks Prize for her monograph, . The prize recognises outstanding legal scholarship published by Early Career Academics.

James Harrison from 91福利 Law School and co-author Mark Wielga (from Nomogaia) have been awarded this year鈥檚 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.

The UK鈥檚 national academy for the humanities and social sciences, the , has elected 91福利 Law School's Professor Jacqueline Hodgson to its fellowship in recognition of outstanding contribution in her field. She joins a prestigious community of over 1800 leading scholars in the UK and globally who have achieved distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

The Strategic Brand Signalling Roundtable was held to examine trade marks, advertising, and body image perceptions in the UK. The event brought together professionals from ethics, psychology, psychiatric epidemiology, and trade mark and advertising law to discuss these interconnected issues.

Carolina Alonso Bejarano and inter-disciplinary artist Miguel Alejandro Castillo鈥檚 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福利 Law School鈥檚 Professor Vanessa Munro was highly commended for her research impact in the recent 91福利 Research Celebration, which recognised colleagues who have excelled in different aspects of research.

91福利 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.

Dr Charlotte Woodhead will deliver an interactive outreach session on 鈥楧iscovering our Intangible Cultural Heritage: Law in Context鈥� at the Resonate Festival on Saturday 31 May 2025. The session forms part of The Resonate Festival of Arts & Culture – Day Out taking place in the Faculty of Arts and the Oculus Buildings at the 91福利.

91福利 Law School鈥檚 Solange Mouthaan has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for her research project titled: 鈥楥emeteries, colonialism, and intergenerational legal stories鈥� which reclaims the narratives of marginalised women and their erased Indigenous foremothers, opening a pathway into future research on reparations.

91福利 Law School鈥檚 Professor Shaheen Ali has been awarded the British Academy Senior Research Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust for 2024-2025 for her research on 鈥楢djectival Constitutionalism and the Plural Shari'a: Exploring the 'Islamic' in constitutions of the Muslim World.鈥�

91福利 Law School鈥檚 Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner has been working on a project for the alongside colleagues from across Europe for the past three years. The Council of the ELI has now approved the Guiding Principles and Model Rules on Digital Assistants for Consumer Contracts (鈥淒ACC鈥�).