¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School News
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School News
The latest updates from our department
Dr Alonso Bejarano secures Senior Fellowship with Humboldt University
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School's Dr Carolina Alonso Bejarano has secured a Senior Fellowship in the Center for Advanced Studies in Reflexive Globalisation at Humboldt University in Germany, to work on her manuscript project, Legal Roots, Colonial Routes: Genealogies of the Un/Citizen in Hometown, USA.
Solange Mouthaan has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School’s Solange Mouthaan has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for her research project titled: ‘Cemeteries, colonialism, and intergenerational legal stories’ which reclaims the narratives of marginalised women and their erased Indigenous foremothers, opening a pathway into future research on reparations.
Professor Shaheen Ali secures British Academy/Leverhulme Fellowship
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School’s Professor Shaheen Ali has been awarded the British Academy Senior Research Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust for 2024-2025 for her research on ‘Adjectival Constitutionalism and the Plural Shari'a: Exploring the 'Islamic' in constitutions of the Muslim World.’
Professor Henrique Carvalho secures British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School’s Professor Henrique Carvalho has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2024-2025 for his research project on ‘Just Sentences: Narrating and Rewriting Criminal Law’s Aesthetic Injustice.’
WLS students win National Law Award at the House of Lords
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School students have won the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Award for 'Best Contribution by a Team of Students'. The awards, run by LawWorks with the support of the Attorney General, recognise and celebrate the outstanding pro bono work undertaken by law schools and law students across the UK. The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ team, represented by Law students Ella Cowell, Kieran Balendran, Clare Mellor, and Tani Ilemobola, received their award from the Attorney General, the Rt Hon Lord Hermer KC, in the Cholmondeley Rooms of the House of Lords on Wednesday 23 April.
Dr Ming-Sung Kuo awarded Prize of Scholarly Excellence
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School’s Dr Ming-Sung Kuo was awarded the 2025 Prize of Scholarly Excellence in Constitutional Studies by the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin last month.
Dr Ali Struthers is shortlisted for SLSA Annual Impact Prize
We are thrilled to announce that Dr Ali Struthers has been shortlisted for the SLSA Annual Impact Prize 2025 for her work in leading the hugely successful legal outreach project, .
Dr Laura Lammasniemi is shortlisted for prestigious SLSA Article Prize
We are delighted to share that Dr Laura Lammasniemi has been shortlisted for the prestigious Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Article Prize 2025 for her article (OJLS).
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law Alumna is awarded OBE
Former LLB student and Chief Executive of the Society of Authors Nicola Solomon was awarded an OBE in the 2025 King's New Year’s Honours list for services to Literature and the Creative Industries.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School Top Performers
Every year, several awards and prizes are granted to a selection of our graduating students to recognise and celebrate the success of our top performers! We are proud to announce this year's winners.
Stowe Family Law offers WLS students amazing placement opportunity
Stowe Family Law LLP are offering the Law School’s undergraduate students an exciting opportunity to undertake a work experience placement at their Leamington Spa office, in the form of a Law Prize awarded to our highest performing student.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law Student becomes WIHEA Fellow
Naveera Abhayawickrama, who is currently in her second year studying on our LLB 3-year law degree has been awarded a ¹û¶³´«Ã½ International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA) Fellowship. Congratulations from everyone at WLS Naveera, and best of luck in your activities with WIHEA.