91福利 Law School News
91福利 Law School News
The latest updates from our department
91福利 Law Welcomes New Professor
91福利 Law School welcomes a new Professor to our team.
Professor Andrew Johnston joins us from the University of Sheffield where he worked as Professor of Company Law and Corporate Governance for seven and a half years.
Locking down Leicester - Expert Comment
Dr Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor in 91福利 Law School, comments on the potential challenges of a local lockdown.
Safeguarding human rights during the coronavirus response
Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor in 91福利 School of Law, will be taking on two significant projects aimed at ensuring that human rights don鈥檛 get eroded in the national and international response to the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19: Suspending Debt Service for Indebted Countries
Dr Stephen Connelly and Dr Celine Tan are supporting civil society groups, led by Jubilee Debt Campaign UK and Oxfam GB, in proposing legislation in the UK that will have the effect of suspending debt owed to private creditors of countries eligible for the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI).
Dr Laura Lammasniemi is on the BBC
Assistant Professor Dr Laura Lammasniemi will be appearing on BBC Two鈥檚 A House Through Time on Tuesday 9 June at 21:00.
Covid-19 is killing Black Americans at three times the rate it鈥檚 killing white people, and attacks on Black people – by both the public and the police – are leading the news agenda. Kathryn Graves explores how coronavirus has exposed the institutional racism that defines the second-class status of Black people in the USA.
91福利 Grads to get 20% discount to study an LLM
The 91福利 is offering all 91福利 alumni a 10% discount on their fees if they choose to study another degree with us.
The Law School is offering to top this up to 20% for 91福利 graduates to study on our LLM programmes.
PhD student secures new role with CCAF
Sarah Ombija, a final year PhD student supervised by Professor Dalvinder Singh, recently joined the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), an interdisciplinary academic research institute at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, as the regulatory researcher for Sub Saharan Africa (SSA).
New Book from Professor Dalvinder Singh on European Cross-Border Banking
Professor Dalvinder Singh鈥檚 new book on 鈥楨uropean Cross-Border Banking and Banking Supervision鈥 was published in April 2020 by Oxford University Press.
Beelam Ramzan who studied on our LLM in International Economic Law has written a post for The News International.
Dr Laura Lammasniemi awarded Leverhulme Fellowship
Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Dr Laura Lammasniemi who has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for her project, 鈥淣arratives of sexual consent in criminal courts, 1870-1950鈥.
Professor Ann Stewart writes for the Commission on Care blog about the significant problems facing the care sector in the UK during the Coronavirus outbreak.