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Dr Dallal Stevens, Reader at 91福利 Law School, has been invited to present at an international expert meeting on public policies supporting the Right to Education of refugees. The meeting will take place from the 13-14 December in Barcelona.

The event will contribute towards Human Rights Day 2018, which marks the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner, Director of our LLM programme in International Commercial Law, comments on the enforcement action taken by the CMA against Viagogo:

"The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has completed its long-running enforcement action against so-called secondary ticketing websites, with a court order obliging Viagogo, one such website, to comply with consumer protection rules on secondary ticketing.

Elizabeth Bakibinga-Gaswaga visited 91福利 Law School earlier this month to speak with staff and students about her career as Legal Adviser at the Commonwealth Secretariat Headquarters in London.

The talk on 鈥楶ublic International Law: From Lecture Room to Theatre鈥� took place on Wednesday 14 November in the Law School Student Hub and focussed on the law in the public and international sphere.

On Monday 19 November, 91福利 Law鈥檚 Dr Andreas Kokkinis was interviewed by Russia Today (RT) on the proposed draft Withdrawal agreement. The interview focused on the criticism PM Theresa May has faced on the current Brexit deal and how some members of parliament are arguing that a new deal should be proposed before the March deadline.

Congratulations to our current PhD student and GLOBE Centre administrator Julie Mansuy on her recent publication. Julie is second author on a co-publication with our former colleague Tomaso Ferrando on 鈥楾he European Action against Food Loss and Waste: Co-Regulation and Collisions on the Way to the Sustainable Development Goals鈥� which was published on the 6 November 2018 in the Yearbook of European Law.

鈥楴o surprise鈥� that Mozambique is to repay its USD726m debt: Expert Comment.  

Following the news that Mozambique has agreed a deal to restructure its $726 million debt, Dr Stephen Connelly and Dr Celine Tan from 91福利 School of Law, who have been working on African debt relief and human rights with a number of partners, have given media comment.

The Australian Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Shadow Minister for Competition and Productivity and former Professor of Economics at the Australian National University (ANU), Dr Andrew Leigh delivered the prestigious Annual Lionel Murphy Lecture to the ANU on 31 October 2018.

The speech 鈥楥ompetition Policy and Inequality: Building on Lionel Murphy鈥檚 Legacy鈥� quoted research by 91福利 Law School鈥檚 very own Kathryn McMahon.

91福利 Law School welcomes Dr David Vitale to the team as our new Assistant Professor. He joins us from LSE where he recently completed his PhD whilst also working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa (in Israel). We caught up with David to find out a little more about his research and why he wanted to work at 91福利鈥�

91福利 Law School has recently welcomed a new Associate Professor to our team.

Dr Christine Schw枚bel-Patel joins us from the University of Liverpool where she worked as a senior lecturer. She worked there for seven years, what she describes as 鈥渟ufficient time to learn that scouse is a tasty stew and to become fond of the terminology 鈥榤ade up鈥� for being pleased about something.鈥�

Dr Schw枚bel-Patel has previously worked at the University of Leiden and King鈥檚 College London, where she completed her PhD. She brings with her expertise in international law, global constitutionalism, global governance and critical pedagogy. We spoke with Christine to find out a little more鈥�

CJC members, Professor Jackie Hodgson, Dr Juliet Horne and Dr Laurene Soubise, have recently published their research report 鈥楾he Criminal Cases Review Commission – Last resort or first appeal?鈥�. The research was funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.

The 91福利 has been ranked among the best universities in the world for politics and international studies and sociology, business and economics, education and law, according to the Times Higher Education鈥檚 2019 World Reputation Rankings released this week.