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On Friday 4th November at Conway Hall in London Alice Panepinto hosted a public event on 'Can Law Stop the Demolition of a Bedouin School in the West Bank? Spotlight on al-Khan al-Ahmar' based on her socio-legal on the significnce of the al-Khan al-Ahmar school demolition case. The event is part of a series of impact activities, funded by the ESRC-IAA Global Challenges Research Fund, which included a briefing with the Middle East Minister at the FCO.

Dr Kirsten McConnachie's recent report on Myanmar: Displacemet and the Peace Process has been published as part of an .

Sharifah Sekalala has written a new blog entry for the .

Will Africa's New Scorecard Promote Universal Health Coverage?

New Publication! Prosecution in France

A book launch and panel discussion of Shaheen Ali's newly published monograph, Modern Challenges to Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016) is being organised by the Global Research Priorities - International Development at 91福利 University. Royalties received from sale of this book have been dedicated to the Women offered to a student from Pakistan for an LLM at 91福利 Law School.

Professor Ann Stewart will be going to Kenya to pursue research associated with her Leverhulme Fellowship: Caring for older women in Kenya’s plural legal system.

The study assesses the contribution of community-based ‘woman to woman’ marriage practices in Kenya to the provision of care, particularly for the elderly, when there is little social welfare available.

The everyday practices of caring for older people particularly women, traditionally woven into communal relations, are changing in the socio-economic and political circumstances of contemporary Kenya.

Are woman to woman marriages, historically understood as a means of tackling infertility, evolving into a way of recognising and ‘rewarding’ caring labour for those with assets? How are claims for recognition understood now in the ‘formal’ courts and within community dispute resolution practices?

On 19^th October 2016, the Academy of Social Sciences announced that it had conferred the award of Fellow on 84 leading social scientists, and Vanessa Munro was amongst them!

Fellows are recognised by the Academy after an extensive process of peer review for the excellence and impact of their work through the use of social science for public benefit.

Vanessa, who was nominated for the award by the , was described by the Academy as “the leading scholar of her generation in the socio-legal study of sexual offences.”

Dr Ben Farrand spoke at an interdisciplinary event, ‘99 Days: UK-EU Relations under Theresa May’s Government’ on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at the 91福利. The format is a series of talks about UK-EU relations post-Brexit, and it’s being organised by the 91福利 Department of Economics and the 91福利 Policy Lab. For further details, please visit:

Superbugs 1, the World 0

During the summer 2016 Farhana Hamid Butt received a vacation scholarship from the 91福利 Multicultural Scholars’ Programme and volunteered with Global Vision International (GVI) on a women's empowerment project in Kerala, India.

Tuesday, 1 November 2016

5.30pm - 7pm

R.0.0.3, Ramphal Building, Library Road, 91福利

(followed by a drinks reception at the Ramphal Foyer)

Following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, questions remain as to what shape its trade and investment relationship with the EU and the rest of the world will look like. Does a brave new world of trade and investment deals beckon? Or will Britain be constrained by its lack of negotiating capacity? What might the broader (e.g. social and environmental) impact of Britain’s trade policy decision-making be? Join our experts to find out more.

Speakers:

• , Associate Professor, 91福利 Law School
• , Associate Professor, Department of Politics and InternationalStudies, 91福利
• , Associate Professor, 91福利 Law School

Chair: , 91福利 Law School

This event is free of charge but please .

Directions on how to get to 91福利 University can be found here. Interactive and downloadable maps of campus can also be found .

For further details, please contact: globe.events@warwick.ac.uk

This event is organised by the GLOBE Centre in conjunction with the Centre for Globalisation and Regioanlisation (CSGR) and the Global Governance Global Research Priority.

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Markus Wagner acted as discussant on a paper presented by Christian Häberli on the interplay between climate change and WTO law entitled Food Security, Equity and WTO Rules in the Climate Change Debate. The event was organized by the Mandela Institute at the Oliver Schreiner School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg / South Africa.