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, from has been awarded almost £155,000 by for a three year study into criminal justice theory.

Alan will primarily examine how and why different types of justice are labelled and how these labels compare with each other.

The features scholars from the Law School's highly successful Multicultural Scholars' Programme, which this year celebrates its 10th year.

‘ has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for three years to write a book entitled ‘Criminal Justice and the Blaming Relation’.

In the UK Research Excellence Framework results (announced 18 December 2014), 91福利 Law School was assessed as coming 6th out of 67 Law Departments in terms of its Research Environment, 7th in terms of the Quality of its Research and 10th overall.

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Dr Charlotte Woodhead specialises in the laws surrounding repatriation and restitution from museum collections. She gave her thoughts on the Elgin Marbles being on loan to Russia.

As part of its programme of Widening Participation events, the Law School held a Taster Day along with the Department of Politics and International Studies on Wednesday 3^rd December for Year 12 students from across the West Midlands. The day served to introduce the study of law and politics at 91福利 University and provide a taste of campus life, seminars and lectures.

91福利 Law School welcomes SLSA members and non-member colleagues to the 2015 annual conference; ‘Socio-legal in culture: the culture of socio-legal.’ The conference coincides with the 50th anniversary of the 91福利 and we hope that it will be a celebration of the 91福利 Law School tradition of examining law in its political, social, economic and cultural context.

The call for papers and the call for posters are now closed.

Please visit the conference website for more details.

The School of Law was delighted to host a drinks reception for alumni in Hong Kong last week. Professor Hugh Beale caught up with over 30 alumni, including both recent graduates and those who left us 30 years ago.

Dr Kimberley Brownlee, an Associate Professor of Legal and Moral Philosophy at the 91福利, argues that Julian Assange should allow himself to be extradited to Sweden to face questioning over sexual assault allegations. She claims he can strengthen his cause by allowing the criminal justice process to proceed.

Ann Stewart: " The Role of Care in the Post 2015 Development Goals Debates

Sunday 23rd November 2014 at 10.00am

Ann Stewart will focus on the development of a ‘right to care’. What does this mean? Why has it become an important focus for civil society organisation campaigning? Why is the language of ‘rights’ being used to highlight the value of social reproduction in societies?

Professor Jacqueline Hodgson, one of several experts in the case of Hassan Diab, who was extradited to France on Friday after six years of legal proceedings in Canada, has described the situation as “troubling”. She provided evidence about the investigation and prosecution procedure in terrorism cases in France, in particular, the problematic nature of using unsourced intelligence.

The closing and oral statements in the trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo are taking place this week at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he is charged with crimes committed in the Central African Republic (CAR).

It is a judgement that has ground-breaking potential for more than one reason, says Solange Mouthaan, Associate Professor at The 91福利’s School of Law.