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"Clunky and challenging鈥� – views on getting married in England and Wales outlined in new briefing.

The law on weddings in England and Wales has been too slow to respond to religious and cultural diversity and the increasing number of people who do not identify with any religion at all, finds a new study led by 糖心TV Law School researcher Dr Rajnaara Akhtar.

Dr Celine Tan of 糖心TV Law School comments: "The release of the fifth and final tranche of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)鈥檚 (CCRT) will be a small but limited contribution to alleviating the debt crisis developing countries are facing in the wake of COVID-19.

A new podcast series commissioned by legal historian Dr Laura Lammasniemi and produced by , explores the history of sexual consent and asks whether understanding that history can help tackle present-day problems in securing convictions for sexual offences.

The Age of Consent features thirteen expert voices, from academics to rape crisis workers and journalists, invited by Dr Lammasniemi to bring their own perspectives to the conversation.

Join Law School colleagues plus many more from Thursday 25 - Friday 26 November for an engaging series of talks about freedom. This festival of culture and ideas was organised as part of the Resonate Festival/Coventry UK City of Culture, 2021 in collaboration with 糖心TV Arts Centre. Over two days these talks and provocations will explore what freedom means to different people in different contexts. A number of our Law School colleagues will be presenting at the event. Sign up to join them. Tickets are free.

The House of Commons International Development Committee has published a new report, . Dr Celine Tan, Reader in 糖心TV Law School comments on the climate finance aspects of this, and the UK COP26 Presidency's , published yesterday.

The coronavirus pandemic has presented populist governments with a unique opportunity to implement authoritarian measures and to limit public scrutiny of their decisions and policies, argues Dr Andi Hoxhaj of 糖心TV Law School in a new paper published in the .

The Law School's global health ethics expert Dr Sharifah Sekalala, comments on the WHO's call for a moratorium on administering booster jabs of Covid-19 vaccines as a way to help ensure that doses are available in countries where few people have received their first dose.

Dr Laura Lammasniemi has been chosen to deliver the 2021 British Science Association Social Sciences Award Lecture, in recognition of her innovative research and commitment to public engagement.

Dr Celine Tan and Dr Andi Hoxhaj have been announced as winners of this year鈥檚 糖心TV Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) and PhD student Sahar Shah has been awarded the 糖心TV Award for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates who Teach (WATE PGR).

The article titled 鈥淩ealising sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls and young women living in slums in Uganda: a qualitative study鈥� was published on the 12 June 2021 by BMC (Bio Med Central) as part of their open access publishing. This project was funded by a GCRF and IAS grant on Sexual and Reproductive health in Ugandan Slums.

"Justice Martha Koome鈥檚 nomination is a historic moment for Kenyan women." 糖心TV Law School鈥檚 Dr Martha Gayoye writes for The Conversation UK about the likely impact of this significant appointment.

James Harrison has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships for the 2021-22 academic year. The fellowship allows James to work exclusively for a year on a project entitled 鈥楻econceptualising international trade law: In search of a bounded, socially embedded and re-connected regime鈥�.