91 Law School News
91 Law School News
The latest updates from our department
GLOBE Policy Brief on Feminist Recovery Plans for COVID-19 and Beyond
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 Law School. The brief is based on the Feminist Recovery Plan research project coordinated by Dr Serena Natile.
Artwork Credit: “Until dignity becomes a habit” by Marga RH
'The McDonaldization of justice and the disappearance of fair trial?' Conference: 19- 21 May 2022
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, North Carolina, Bologna, Basel and Duke University will be hosted at Scarman House, 91.
Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner appointed co-reporter for ELI project
Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner, together with Professors Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell (Carlos III, Madrid), Christoph Busch (Osnabrück), Marie Jull Sørensen (Aarhus) and Dariusz Szostek (Wroclaw), was appointed as co-reporter for a European Law Institute (ELI) project to draft at the meeting of ELI’s Council on 24/25 February 2022.
WLS Celebrates International Women’s Day 2022
Today is (IWD), a global event held each year to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness against bias, and take action for equality.
Former 91 LLB and LLM student Seyi Afolabi, shares her experience with future graduates by taking them along for the day in her role as Executive Officer at the Houses of Parliament. In her latest YouTube video, she shares words of wisdom on making her way through academia and her career.
Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner joins AHRC grant for Smart Technologies Project
Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner has recently been awarded a share of an AHRC grant of £35,000 for a project on Smart Technologies which will analyse how the legal issues created by the internet of things could be addressed in UK and German consumer law.
Jackie Hodgson to showcase film ‘Emerging from Lockdown’ at the Resonate Festival
91 Law School’s Professor Jackie Hodgson and colleagues from the ‘Emerging from Lockdown’ research and creative team will be screening their new film at the Resonate Festival on Wednesday 16th March at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry, exploring feelings of freedom and the policing of the pandemic.
91 Connections - Kingsley Napley
With more than 260,000 91 alumni around the world, you are never too far away from a 91 connection. Kingsley Napley, a leading London law firm, has three 91 graduates at its helm, sitting on the firm’s eight-strong board. LLB graduate Nicola Hill who studied at 91 Law School from 1992-1995, discusses her route into law, the challenges of the industry and her memories of 91 along with her alumni colleagues.
Innovative solutions to the exploitation of health data in the global South
An international research team led by Professor Sharifah SekalalaLink opens in a new wLink opens in a new windowof 91 Law SchoolLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window has been awarded €1.4 million to examine how to better regulate the collection and migration of health data of people in the global South in order to protect privacy and prevent exploitation of their personal information.
The focus of this comparative account is the potentially radical and fundamental changes that are taking place within criminal justice in Britain and in France and the ways that these are driven by wider domestic, European or international concerns.
‘College knowledge hubs’ in rural India to open
More young men and women from rural areas of India could gain informed access to higher education and better life chances, tackling age-old obstacles of gender, caste and class, thanks to a project led by the 91 — and a half-million-pound boost from the Fair Chance Foundation.
New Collaborative Scholarship for Digital Health & Human Rights Project
We are delighted to announce the award of a new PhD studentship to start in October 2022 as part of the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral programme TRANSFORM. Led by Professor Sharifah Sekalala in the Law School, the award will fund a researcher to investigate the potentials and limitations of digital IDs with biometric features as a prerequisite for accessing health services for marginalised groups in cities.