91福利 Law School News
91福利 Law School News
The latest updates from our department
Sharifia Sekalala blogs about 'NHS ruling addresses inequality in access to medicines'
Sharifah Sekalala blog discussing the 'NHS ruling addresses inequality in access to medicines' has featured in the Health and Human Rights Journal, to read the blog please .
91福利 School of Law awarded Jean Monnet Module funding
NEW Lacuna edition on Migration in Europe
Lacuna publishes a thought-provoking selection of migrant experiences across Europe, with exclusive features from Greece, Germany and the UK.
- The European Commission published yet another version of its, detailing ‘fair and efficient’ procedure to ensure the rights of asylum seekers are protected in every EU country they set foot in.
- In an Dario Sabaghi shares stories from the borders of northern Greece where tens of thousands refugees waited for Macedonia to open its borders, so they could travel to northern Europe.
- What happens once refugees finally reach their desired destination? , the only European country to say ‘refugees welcome’, where she finds shadows of the country’s past influencing policy towards the new arrivals.
- Here in the UK, and how it affects foreign national women fleeing domestic violence.
Feel free to share across your networks - you might also like to sign up to our , and find us on and . Lacuna magazine () published by the Centre for Human Rights in Practice
UN Commission on International Trade Law Adopts the Model Law on Secured Transactions
On 1 July 2016 the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law () adopted a Model Law on Secured Transactions elaborated by its . The Model Law is a soft-law instrument designed to assist national law-makers of any legal system to modernise and harmonise domestic secured transactions laws, with the aim of fostering access to credit at a lower cost and stimulate international investments. The Model Law is the latest project of the UNCITRAL Working Group VI, which is composed of national delegations representing all States members of the Commission as well as observers from international and non-governmental organisations. The Model Law will be translated into all the official languages of the UN. After adopting the Model Law, the Working Group VI is expected to draft a 'Guide of Enactment' to further assist implementing States. More information on the Model Law may be found .
Giuliano Castellano has been part of the UNCITRAL Working Group VI as a Legal Expert and Delegate for Italy since 2011.
Giuliano Castellano Oxford Business Law Blog: 'The New Italian Law for Non-possessory Pledge: Villain or Hero?'
Giuliano Castellano published in the Oxford Business Law Blog. The blogpost has been written as part of his and assesses a new norm introduced in Italy through the prism of international legal standards. To read the post click .
Congratulations to Alison Struthers on her 91福利 ESRC IAA award
Alison Struthers has been awarded £9,217.76 by 91福利 ESRC IAA to aid her in developing educational resources that will show how the requirement to teach fundamental British values in primary schools can be linked to broader human rights frameworks. Well done Alison.
For more information about 91福利 ESRC IAA funding please
Congratulations to Ming-Sung Kuo who has secured an award from the Chaing Ching-kuo Foundation
Ming-Sung Kuo has secured EUR40,000 from the Chaing Ching-kuo Foundation towards research on
'Unmoored from International Legality: Rights Internationalism and Taiwan's Embrace of International Human Rights Law'
Congratulations to Alison Struthers on her ESRC Award
Alison Struthers has secured £500 from the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2016 to hold a event
'Addressing challenging social science issues with young people'
New Scholarship Available
The University has announced it will be offering funding via the 91福利 Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme.
There will be 100 awards of £5,000 per student available to eligible Home/EU students from under-represented groups who wish to start a postgraduate taught masters course in 2016/17.
The 91福利 Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme presents an opportunity for 2016/17 entrants to obtain funding alongside a postgraduate loan.
Please read the eligibility criteria carefully to see if you can apply.
Deadline: 21st July 2016

On Monday 20th June 2016, a number of experts, academics, and master students came together to discuss the global issue of food waste, and the way in which multi-levelled governance can engage with this worldwide problem. The brainstorm, organized by Tomaso Ferrando and Manuela Galetto in the framework of the 91福利’s Global Research Priorities - Global Governance (GRP-GG), represented a first-of-its-kind opportunity to gather individuals, organizations and representatives of public authorities who are directly studying the systemic causes of food waste and in thinking of long-lasting alternative solutions to the otherwise short-termed treatments of the symptoms.
Connelly discussed some of the impracticalities faced during the period when different resolution mechanisms were in the process of being created – notably, the UK pre-empted the EU and introduced its own resolution powers, via the 2009 Banking Act. When the BRRD was introduced, the UK government had to alter its own regulation to ensure it fitted with EU law, or as Connelly put it, “taking bits out of the European system and sprinkling them like confetti all over the English law.”
When legislation implementing the BRRD passed through Britain’s legislature, Connelly explained how members of the UK Parliament complained, “The problem with this legislation is that it’s impossible to retain in one’s mind” – and received responses from the government’s representative that more general help with understanding would “no doubt be available by Googling ‘resolution’”. This was the sum total of scrutiny to which the legislation was subjected, Connelly noted, and the result was very unsatisfactory.
He went into greater detail regarding the drafters’ desire to “protect” netting arrangements, under which a number of claims or obligations can be converted into a net claim or obligation. This drafting seemed, however, to have been carried out without any reference the “perfectly adequate” UK and EU legislation around it, the EU legislation in fact deriving from English law.
The confusion that has ensued has rendered it difficult for market participants to price risk related to bail-in derivatives. Connelly’s detailed concerns were taken up by the UK Treasury in a recent consultation designed to re-draft and repair the botched implementation of the BRRD.
Dr Ania Zbyszewska is a guest speaker at the Gender Rules! Research Methods in Law seminar at the Cardiff Law School.
Monday, 20 June 2016, Dr Ania Zbyszewska was featured as a speaker at the Gender Rules! Research Methods in Law seminar at the Cardiff Law School. Dr Zbyszewska spoke about discourse analysis and regulatory design, drawing on her forthcoming book Gendering European Working Time Regimes (CUP, 2016). The seminar is sponsored by the Cardiff Centre of Law and Society and Cardiff Law School's Law and Gender research group. For more information,