果冻传媒 Law School News
果冻传媒 Law School News
The latest updates from our department
The School Tasking competition – which was created by 果冻传媒 Law School's Dr Ali Struthers in 2022 and draws inspiration from the hit Channel 4 TV show – introduces Year 5 pupils to the world of law through imaginative tasks and team challenges.
LLM student participates in International Tax Conference
Lynet Mwangi, currently studying on our LLM in International Economic Law, recently attended the Viennese Symposium on International Tax Law at WU, Institute of Austrian and International Tax Law in Vienna, Austria. An event that brought together researchers, tax professionals, government officials and thought leaders in international tax policy.
Dr Carolina Alonso Bejarano鈥檚 collaborative performance ELMO-MENTO secures grant from NEFA鈥檚 National Dance Project
Carolina Alonso Bejarano and inter-disciplinary artist Miguel Alejandro Castillo鈥檚 dance-theater project, ELMO-MENTO, has received a Finalist Award for the National Dance Project Production Grant. This $10,000 award is granted by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), and it allows winners to apply for $100,000 to produce a proposed performance piece.
Professor Vanessa Munro is highly commended for Research Impact
果冻传媒 Law School鈥檚 Professor Vanessa Munro was highly commended for her research impact in the recent 果冻传媒 Research Celebration, which recognised colleagues who have excelled in different aspects of research.
Dr Alonso Bejarano secures Senior Fellowship with Humboldt University
果冻传媒 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.
Charlotte Woodhead to deliver interactive session at the Resonate Festival
Dr Charlotte Woodhead will deliver an interactive outreach session on 鈥楧iscovering our Intangible Cultural Heritage: Law in Context鈥 at the Resonate Festival on Saturday 31 May 2025. The session forms part of The Resonate Festival of Arts & Culture – Day Out taking place in the Faculty of Arts and the Oculus Buildings at the 果冻传媒.
Solange Mouthaan has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship
果冻传媒 Law School鈥檚 Solange Mouthaan has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for her research project titled: 鈥楥emeteries, colonialism, and intergenerational legal stories鈥 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
果冻传媒 Law School鈥檚 Professor Shaheen Ali has been awarded the British Academy Senior Research Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust for 2024-2025 for her research on 鈥楢djectival Constitutionalism and the Plural Shari'a: Exploring the 'Islamic' in constitutions of the Muslim World.鈥
Professor Twigg-Flesner has major project approved by the ELI
果冻传媒 Law School鈥檚 Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner has been working on a project for the alongside colleagues from across Europe for the past three years. The Council of the ELI has now approved the Guiding Principles and Model Rules on Digital Assistants for Consumer Contracts (鈥淒ACC鈥).
Professor Henrique Carvalho secures British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
果冻传媒 Law School鈥檚 Professor Henrique Carvalho has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2024-2025 for his research project on 鈥楯ust Sentences: Narrating and Rewriting Criminal Law鈥檚 Aesthetic Injustice.鈥
Law students take part in National Law Triathlon
First year students Ryan Bingham (3 year LLB) and Simran Bhutada (4 year LLB) took part in the National Law Student Triathlon on Saturday 26 – Sunday 27 April 2025, organised by Kent University. Supported by the Bar Society and funded by 果冻传媒 Law School, Ryan and Simran have each blogged about their time at the Triathlon, sharing their experiences with other students looking to attend similar events in the future.
Law students present research at BCUR
果冻传媒 Law School is delighted to share that three of our current undergraduate students received departmental funding to present at The British Conference for Undergraduate Research (BCUR) hosted by the University of Newcastle from 9-10 April this year.