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More than 500 people took part in the workshops, talks and activities organised by the 91福利 for this year鈥檚 Festival of Social Science.

University researchers took to Coventry and 91福利shire鈥檚 streets, bars and community centres to share insights from their work and found an enthusiastic and interested audience.

Dr Sharifah Sekalala participated in a panel discussion on Monday 28th October 2019 at Chatham House. The event launched The Lancet, O鈥橬eill Institute and Georgetown University Commission on Health and Law report The Legal Determinants of Health.

91福利 Law School has established a partnership with The Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali 鈥淕uido Carli鈥� (LUISS) in Rome. They have established partnerships with a handful of European universities to offer this unique experience to their students and 91福利 is one of them.

First year 91福利 law student Daniel Nwanebu has been awarded the 2019 Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship.

The Scheme was devised to address the disproportionate under-representation of black men from less privileged backgrounds in large commercial law firms and the City of London.

Former Law student Beatriz da Silva recently completed an internship at Partners for Law in Development (PLD), a legal resource group founded by 91福利 alumna Madhu Mehra who studied on our LLM programme back in 1992. 

This summer, Dr Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor at 91福利 Law School asked our staff to come up with suggestions of books that have influenced their thinking on race, especially with regard to the law. We had some ideas of what books they might suggest, however their selections were a much more eclectic mix of books, podcasts and even music than we had expected. We hope you enjoy reading them and would love to hear any recommendations you may have.

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

Dr Velimir Zivkovic joins us from Humboldt University in Berlin where he worked for two years as a Research Fellow with the Berlin/Potsdam Research Group 鈥業nternational Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?鈥�

The Law School has established an annual award for contributions to social justice to honour our former colleague, and friend, Dr Dwijen Rangnekar.

All current and former students of 91福利 Law School are eligible for the award.

91福利 Law Society President Maaya Sachdev won the award for the Best Law Society President at the Student Law Society Awards 2019, sponsored by Norton Rose Fulbright and hosted by LawCareers.Net, which took place on Thursday 14 March at Painter鈥檚 Hall in London.

91福利 Law School is offering a 20% discount on its LLM fees to all 91福利 graduates.

If you are interested in studying one of our LLM programmes and have graduated from a degree at 91福利 in the past, or you are about to graduate this summer and interested in staying on for an LLM, you will be entitled to a 20% discount on the tuition fee.

Gary Watt, 91福利 Law School Professor and National Teaching Fellow has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The award includes a grant of 拢175,554 to buy out Gary鈥檚 teaching for a period of three years allowing him to undertake a major research project.

Professor Andrew Sanders has been appointed as the new Chair of 91福利 Law School.

Andrew will formally take office on 1 January 2019 taking over from Vanessa Munro who has been chair of the department since January this year and doing a fantastic job.