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Former Law student Beatriz da Silva recently completed an internship at Partners for Law in Development (PLD), a legal resource group founded by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ alumna Madhu Mehra who studied on our LLM programme back in 1992. 

This summer, Dr Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School asked our staff to come up with suggestions of books that have influenced their thinking on race, especially with regard to the law. We had some ideas of what books they might suggest, however their selections were a much more eclectic mix of books, podcasts and even music than we had expected. We hope you enjoy reading them and would love to hear any recommendations you may have.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School has recently welcomed a new Assistant Professor to our team.

Dr Velimir Zivkovic joins us from Humboldt University in Berlin where he worked for two years as a Research Fellow with the Berlin/Potsdam Research Group ‘International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?’

The Law School has established an annual award for contributions to social justice to honour our former colleague, and friend, Dr Dwijen Rangnekar.

All current and former students of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School are eligible for the award.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law Society President Maaya Sachdev won the award for the Best Law Society President at the Student Law Society Awards 2019, sponsored by Norton Rose Fulbright and hosted by LawCareers.Net, which took place on Thursday 14 March at Painter’s Hall in London.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School is offering a 20% discount on its LLM fees to all ¹û¶³´«Ã½ graduates.

If you are interested in studying one of our LLM programmes and have graduated from a degree at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ in the past, or you are about to graduate this summer and interested in staying on for an LLM, you will be entitled to a 20% discount on the tuition fee.

Gary Watt, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School Professor and National Teaching Fellow has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The award includes a grant of £175,554 to buy out Gary’s teaching for a period of three years allowing him to undertake a major research project.

Professor Andrew Sanders has been appointed as the new Chair of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School.

Andrew will formally take office on 1 January 2019 taking over from Vanessa Munro who has been chair of the department since January this year and doing a fantastic job.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School provides a study environment that is exciting, challenging and rewarding.

Every year, several awards and prizes are granted to our undergraduate students from each year of study to recognise and celebrate the success of our top performers.

Lawyer, human rights activist and prize-winning author Peter Harris has received an honorary doctorate from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ to add to his ¹û¶³´«Ã½ LLM.

In the early 1980s, newly graduated from Rhodes University, Peter took a role at South Africa’s Legal Resources Centre, a campaigning organisation set up to improve access to justice for disadvantaged South Africans. He continued to specialise in human rights issues and became involved in the fight against apartheid, often acting for the defence in political trials. His first book, In a Different Time, tells the story of one of these trials – the Delmas Four, whom Peter represented.

Earlier this month, Assistant Professor at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Law School, Dr Laura Lammasniemi participated in the first workshops for the Indian Feminist Judgment Project (FJP) held in O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat in India. We caught up with Laura to find out more.