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On 24 February 2016, a group of 18 law students on the Multicultural Scholars’ Programme (MSP) attended an ‘Insight Day’ at Gowling WLG (formerly Wragge Lawrence Graham), solicitors, Birmingham.

The day included a networking lunch with current trainees where scholars could learn first-hand about daily life in a large law firm. Caty Scott, Gowlings’ Graduate Recruitment Advisor, conducted a workshop outlining the training contract application process, providing detailed and excellent advice on the hallmarks of a good application and the skills and knowledge required to excel in the group recruitment events and the partner interview.  

MSP Law is very grateful to Gowlings, one of our corporate donors, for providing this hugely beneficial opportunity to our scholars.

This week Lacuna returns to migration against the backdrop of the worsening refugee crisis across Europe.

In this edition we focus on Britain’s use of immigration detention. After months of delay, the government finally published the Shaw review last month, which urged the government to use less detention. In  our writer-in-residence Rebecca Omonira interviews a mentally ill detainee who is seriously disturbed by the death of a fellow detainee. His detention raises important questions about the government’s use of the policy. is a short documentary which tells the individual stories of former detainees. In Keira Koroma meets some of these protestors at an action outside Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre.

Bailing-in banks – Dr Stephen Connelly appears in this month’s Journal of International Banking and Financial Law where he critiques the stability implications of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive’s definition of ‘liabilities’; a definition that will catch and undercut a key tenet of international trade finance – that nominated banks will pay on presentation of conforming documents.

The article is available through 91福利’s subscription to Lexis PSL: ‘BRRD: the case of contingent letters of credit under bail-in’ (2016) 31(2) JIBFL 81

Colleagues in the Law School will be delivering modules to Bank of England staff as part of a new Bank of England - WBS postgraduate qualification in Central Banking and Financial Regulation.

Dean of 91福利 Business School Professor Mark Taylor said: “The development of the Central Banking Qualification for the Bank of England has been the result of a strong collaborative effort between the Business and Law School at The 91福利. I look forward to seeing both Schools’ hard work come to fruition when delivery of the CBQ begins later this year.”

During a public event hosted by the City Law School (City University of London) on Thursday 25 February 2016, Giuliano Castellano discusses the relationship between regulation and financial markets in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis with Joris Luyendijk (author, anthropologist and journalist with The Guardian), Brett Scott (author, anthropologist), and Elaine Fahey (City Law School). The event is titled 'Reforming the City through, by or in spite of Law? Exploring Legal and Anthropological Perspectives on Banking and Finance’, for further information and free registration see:

Hugh Beale chaired the first session (which will include a speech by Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality) and was speaking in the second session of a ERA Conference on "New EU rules for digital contracts", also held in Brussels. His presentation was on "Remedies and exercise of remedies". To find out more Hugh Beale .

Hugh Beale has presented a report to the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament on two proposed Directives, one on supply of digital content and the other on Online and other distance sales. His report was called “Scope of application and general approach of the new rules for contracts in the digital environment”. To find out more about Hugh Beale .

The Universities of Monash and 91福利 have a cross University , supporting staff and student exchange and innovative international research programs. The and the in 2015 were recipients of an . A Workshop held in July at the has resulted in a formal partnership, which will build gender research across the two Centres. Graduate student exchange and research programs focused on sustainability and gender and care are underway.

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Applications for the are particularly encouraged from qualified graduate students seeking to undertake gender focused research. Both the and Centres have a very strong record in graduate supervision.

Giuliano Castellano has been working with national and international policy-makers on the legal reform processes for secured transactions law, building on his research in this area. He is a member of the Italian delegation at the UN Commission on International Trade Law and has also been elected as a legal expert. He has recently written a piece advocating a new strategy for reform for the Commercial Finance Association (CFA), the largest not-for-profit association in the field of secured financing and ‘Observer’ for the UN, with 13,5000 subscribers to its magazine. To read the piece, go to:  

In the most recent round of appointments, Dr Tomaso Ferrando was appointed to a two-year Assistant Professorship and joined the Law School in January 2016, Markus Wagner was appointed as Associate Professor and will be joining us in June 2016; and Dr Sharifah Sekalala will be taking up an Assistant Professorship in September 2016.

Colleagues in the Law School will be delivering modules to Bank of England staff as part of a new Bank of England - WBS postgraduate qualification in Central Banking and Financial Regulation. Professor Dalvinder Singh, Dr Giuliano Castellano, Dr Andreas Kokkinis and Dr Stephen Connelly will be teaching with WBS staff on the core modules, drawing on their joint experience of teaching on 91福利’s LLM in International Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.

Dalla Stevens will giving a paper ‘Motivations for forced migration: Is asylum in ‘crisis’? at an international conference in Bochum, Germany from 18-20 Feb entitled Why people migrate: Multiple causes, complex reasons and their normative assessment.