Warwick Law School 8th in Guardian 2013 University Guide

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2012/may/22/university-guide-law

The Multi-Cultural Scholars' (MSP) programme, now in its 8th year celebrated its finalists with a forty stong dinner at Radcliff House. A number of the MSP's many sponsors attended the dinner including Peter Chater representing Herbert Smith LLP, Amy Mason representing the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Paul Bedford (Allen & Overy) and John Carr, (a long term friend of Warwick). We were also delighted to welcome six alumni who were able to attend including Daniel Spike, Alima Laminu, Zeenat Islam, Mitchell Oshodi, Jamal Tuhin and Juhana Begum all of whom are working, studying or have training contracts. Zeenat has a scholarship to do her bar finals, Alima has a scholarship to do her LLM in Frankfurt and Mitchell is a fully qualified solicitor. Jamal is just about to join Linklater's. Michael Odunlami was awarded a prize for his outstanding contribution to MSP. We say a sad goodbye to Temi, Mohammad, Layo and Fatmata.

Thanks to all the scholars and sponsors who made both this event and this programme the success that it is.

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Ann Stewart was invited to give the inaugural Tove Stang Dahl memorial public lecture at the Law Faculty at the University of Oslo Norway on 7^th March.

The title of the lecture was ‘Who do we care about? Reflections on gender , law and justice ‘ based on her book 'Gender Law and Justice in a Global Market' (CUP 2011)

Tove Stang Dahl was a Norwegian legal scholar, criminologist, Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1988 until her death, and a pioneer of feminist jurisprudence. She was one of the founders of the field of women's law as an academic discipline at the University of Oslo. Anne Hellum Professor of Women’s Law introduced the lecture. It was attended by leading academics as well as policy makers and activists with interests in gender and law issues within Norway and internationally. The lecture was followed by a very stimulating audience discussion.

On 8^th March Ann gave a guest lecture to staff and students involved with the Women's Law and Human Rights international masters’ programme. The topic was ‘Disability Discrimination by Association: A Case of the Double Yes’ and involved a discussion of Ann’s published work with her colleagues, Sylvia Niccolai and Catherine Hoskyns on Coleman v Attridge Law in the European Court of Justice (Social and Legal Studies 20 (2): 173-190.)

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Dalvinder Singh is invited to speak at a conference, “Institutional Structure of Financial Regulation: International Perspectives and Local Issues in Hong Kong and Mainland China”, May 2012. The Conference is jointly hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Law Faculty’s Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development and the Duisenberg School of Finance, The Netherlands. The aim of the conference is to examine the reforms of the institutional structure of financial regulation presently going on at the international level, and thus policy implications for the local reforms in Hong Kong and the Mainland China.

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