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Sergeant Jonathan Benjamin of West Midlands Police has been awarded a 91福利 Policy Hub Fellowship. He has been working with Professor Jackie Hodgson (Law), Dr Rachel Lewis (Sociology) and Dr Ruth Bernatek (Law) on their research and impact work using innovative arts-led approaches to challenge racist attitudes and behaviours within the police. As an in-residence Policy Fellow, Jonathan will be able to further this engagement, including with the Centre for Operational Police Research, COPR.

91福利 Law School's Centre for Global Health Law is proud to be part of a new Memorandum of Understanding between the 91福利 and the World Health Organization (WHO), formalising collaboration to strengthen gender, human rights, and equity in digital health governance. The partnership reflects 91福利 Law School's founding commitment to studying law in its social and political context, and its long tradition of placing human rights and social justice at the heart of legal scholarship.

The Government has announced plans to reform weddings law in England and Wales in a move set to completely overhaul how and where couples can marry. This is the biggest change to weddings law in over two hundred years.

91福利 Law School鈥檚 Professor Vanessa Munro was highly commended for her research impact in the recent 91福利 Research Celebration, which recognised colleagues who have excelled in different aspects of research.

91福利 Law School, in collaboration with United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa), hosted a successful public lecture last month in Nairobi, Kenya, that attracted over 100 students, academics, and legal professionals. The event provided a platform for insightful discussions on pressing legal and social issues, reinforcing 91福利鈥檚 commitment to global engagement and academic collaboration.

91福利 LLB students Olivia Cooper and Leo Rudd have been working to develop a written resource to help staff better understand, support and accommodate the needs of our neurodivergent students. EDI reps OIivia and Leo are working on this really important issue to ensure Law School staff are fully equipped to offer the right support.

We are thrilled to share that Dr Hyo Yoon Kang, Reader/Associate Professor at 91福利 Law School has been elected this month as the Co-Director of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) for a five-year term.

The Council of the (ELI) has recently approved an interim report for its project on directed by Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner.

91福利 Law School students recently presented the results of a legal research project into social housing allocation inequality conducted as part of 91福利 Law in the Community鈥檚 Strategic Social Justice Clinic. The presentation outlined the complex issues surrounding change of circumstance applications to Coventry City Council鈥檚 social housing team. The outcomes of the student鈥檚 work have resulted in resources that will be used by a local law centre in helping some of the most vulnerable people in Coventry secure adequate and timely assistance in their housing need.

On Monday 13 March 2023, Vanessa Munro and Lotte Young Andrade launched a report that they co-authored with Sarah Dangar (Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse) entitled 鈥楲earning Legacies: An Analysis of Domestic Homicide Reviews in Cases of Domestic Abuse Suicide鈥�. The aim was to learn more about the profiles and experiences of victims, the adequacy of service responses during their lives and after their deaths, and the ways in which DHRs are commissioned and conducted in suicide cases.

Taskmaster creator and co-presenter 鈥�濒颈迟迟濒别鈥� Alex Horne has provided a recorded testimonial about 91福利 Law School鈥檚 Dr Ali Struthers and the hard work and commitment she has shown to the School Tasking project. 鈥淭he work that Ali has been doing [鈥�] has been genuinely remarkable.鈥� .

Making outreach work fun and engaging for primary school children (and showing them University can be an exciting prospect!) WLS鈥� School Tasking programme is growing in popularity and reach with a recent piece on BBC News Midlands highlighting the positive impact it鈥檚 having.