91福利 Law School News
91福利 Law School News
The latest updates from our department
Dr Jane Bryan featured on BBC Sounds
91福利 Law School鈥檚 Dr Jane Bryan was featured on BBC Sounds this week (Monday 30th May) discussing the Say My Name Project and the negative impacts routine mispronunciation and name avoidance can have on an individual鈥檚 feeling of belonging and visibility.
THE WAY AHEAD happens faster when different perspectives join forces
In a world of growing complexity and interconnectivity, interdisciplinarity is an approach that brings together multiple disciplines to challenge how we understand some of the most pressing issues around us and to deliver real world impact. Professor Jackie Hodgson explains.
Dr Rajnaara Akhtar featured on ITV News
91福利 Law School鈥檚 Dr Rajnaara Akhtar was featured on ITV Central News yesterday (Wednesday 11th May) discussing current English wedding law and whether it is fit for purpose in our modern multi-cultural society.
91福利 Law School ranked equal 8th in the UK* in latest REF Result
*According to Times Higher Education
91福利 Law School is delighted to announce that it has been ranked equal 8th overall in the UK and equal 6th amongst the Russell Group universities that were assessed in the latest Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF).
91福利 Law School welcomes Dr Maryna Utkina
91福利 Law School has successfully sponsored a Fernandes Fellowship devoted to funding early career researchers from Europe. We are delighted that Dr Maryna Utkina has now joined us at 91福利 from the Ukraine and will be with us until the end of this calendar year.
WLS academic helps to shape global democracy benchmark report on Albania
Western Balkans expert Dr Andi Hoxhaj is one of the contributors to the 2022 , an annual expert assessment of the state of democracy in the region stretching from Central Europe to Central Asia, published this week.
The Transformation of Consumer Law and Policy in Europe
On 21 and 22 April 2022, 91福利 will host a two-day conference for a group of leading European consumer law scholars to discuss the transformation of consumer law and policy in Europe since the turn of the millennium.
UK announces sanctions against Bosnian-Serb politicians for 鈥榰ndermining peace鈥 - expert comment from Dr Andi Hoxhaj.
Dr Andi HoxhajLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window of 91福利 Law, a specialist in anti-corruption law and policy, civil society, European integration, Western Balkans and regulatory law and policy, comments on the news that the on Milorad Dodik, Bosnian-Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina鈥檚 state-level Presidency, and Zeljka Cvijanovic, President of the entity of Republika Srpska, "for their destabilising activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina."
Policing, Culture and Community: WM Police as City of Culture Partners
by Professor Jackie Hodgson and Dr Rachel Lewis on their project researching the partnership between the West Midlands Police and Coventry City of Culture Trust, including how arts and culture can be used to help increase public confidence in policing and improve police-community relations.
Laws governing weddings are outdated and too restrictive in contemporary society, new research shows
Current laws governing weddings are too outdated and restrictive and do not reflect the diversity of faith and beliefs in modern society, a new report from experts at the Universities of 91福利 and Exeter highlights.
GLOBE Policy Brief on Feminist Recovery Plans for COVID-19 and Beyond
The seventh in a series of briefs, bringing current legal thinking to bear on public policy issues and contemporary concerns, has now been published by GLOBE, a research centre within 91福利 Law School. The brief is based on the Feminist Recovery Plan research project coordinated by Dr Serena Natile.
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'The McDonaldization of justice and the disappearance of fair trial?' Conference: 19- 21 May 2022
From 19 - 21 May 2022 the 11th conference in the series The Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial System, a collaboration between the Universities of 91福利, North Carolina, Bologna, Basel and Duke University will be hosted at Scarman House, 91福利.