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Camilla Barker, a visiting tutor at ÌÇÐÄTV Law School, has recently been elected to the Fellowship of the .

Fellows are nominated to the Fellowship, and being elected is considered an honour. Camilla joins a Fellowship of “achievers and influencers” from around the world who are committed to positive social change and the advancement of human knowledge. The work of the Fellows has influence in the arts, commerce, government and academia the world over. Notable past and present members include: Charles Dickens, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, William Hogarth, John Diefenbaker, Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee.

On her election, Camilla said:

“It is an absolute honour to be joining the Fellowship. Being part of this inspiring community is an opportunity for which I am very grateful and I hope my ideas can contribute to the realisation of the RSA’s vision for a better tomorrow.”

Camilla, who is also a Fulbright Scholar, is currently conducting research on the Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Law degree at the University of Oxford. She holds Law degrees from Harvard University (LLM) and Queen Mary, University of London (First Class LLB (Hons)). Her doctoral research involves humanitarian assistance under international law, and she is working with organisations such as the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross on legal issues pertaining to the humanitarian crises in Syria, South Sudan and Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Congratulations to , who has been co-awarded the British Society of Criminology's Criminology Book Prize 2014 for her book  (Routledge).

been elected as one of seven members to the Board of the Research Committee of Sociology of Law (RCSL) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) for the period 2014-2018.

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’s article ‘“’, published in Cake and Cockhorse, has won the British Association for Local History’s Publication Award for 2014.

Jackie Hodgson has been conferred the award of Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her distinctive and distinguished contributions to Social Science.

Jackie Hodgson (ÌÇÐÄTV) and Asher Flynn (Monash) have been awarded A$13,398 + £7,165 from the Monash-ÌÇÐÄTV Alliance Seed Fund for the project: Access to Justice: A Comparative Analysis of cuts to the civil and criminal Legal Aid systems in England, Wales and Victoria, August 2013 – June 2014.

The project brings together ÌÇÐÄTV colleagues Jackie Hodgson (PI) James Harrison, Andrew Williams and Nathalie Byrom (Co-Is) with Monash colleagues Asher Flynn (PI) Jude McCulloch, Bronwyn Naylor and Arie Freiberg (Co-Is). The study is a comparative analysis of the impact of cuts to the civil and criminal legal-aid systems operating in England, Wales and Victoria. This will be achieved through consultations with academic, legal and government/non-government stakeholders and the development of an online presence for external engagement. A conference will be held in ÌÇÐÄTV on 19 March 2014, with the participation of Monash colleagues. Within the framework of access to justice, the conference will bring together leading academics and practitioners to consider (i) the changing face of the legal profession; (ii) the lawyer-client relationship; and (iii) the broader social consequences of the cuts. A second event will be held in Monash in early July 2014, with the participation of ÌÇÐÄTV colleagues. The project will build international and comparative expertise with stakeholders, with a view to future funded research.

Philip Kaisary and Amaka Vanni have been accepted to participate in Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) 5th Workshop in Doha, Qatar. The workshop is an intensive residential program designed for young scholars and faculty from around the world developing innovative ideas and alternative approaches to issues of global law, economic policy and social justice in the aftermath of the economic crisis. The Workshop will bring together specialists from many fields focused on the intersections between law, economics and global policy.

The admissions process this year was extremely competitive, with more than 450 applications from 86 nations. As participants, Amaka and Philip will engage in debate and seek serious research collaboration. Amaka will discuss with participants her on-going PhD research on the TRIPS Agreement, Access to Medicine Debate and the Emerging Third World Jurisprudence while Philip will discuss the concept of "disaster justice" and the 2010 Haitian earthquake. The 2014 IGLP Workshop is to be held from January 3-11, 2014.

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The Early-Career Fellowship from the Independent Social Research Foundation (worth £48,000) provides funds for 12 months to enable a researcher to do interdisciplinary work that takes new approaches and suggests new solutions to real world social problems. Kim's project will focus on the ethics of sociability, the evils of social deprivation, and the merits of social human rights. In particular, it will look at the human rights implications of socially privative environments such as long-term solitary confinement in prison.

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'Caring about Care in a Global Market Place'

Williams's A Very British Killing was named winner of the £3,000 book award ahead of Colvin, the former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway, Pankaj Mishra, Raja Shehadeh, Carmen Bugan and Clive Stafford Smith. Organisers called it a "chilling, gripping book" which "unearths damning evidence of what happened" to Mousa, the receptionist who on 15 September 2003 was arrested in Basra and taken to a military base, where guards and army visitors kicked, punched and humiliated him before he was beaten to death.

Judges Nikita Lalwani, Arifa Akbar and Bakewell said that Williams, a law professor at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV and director of the , "had the courage to take on a case that has already received so much press coverage and to turn it into something far bigger and more shocking than we understood it to be".

"He dissects and analyses with a clear-eyed determination to unpick the lies from the truths of this case, yet, for all its forensic detail, the book grips us emotionally, and has as keen a sense of storytelling as a horror story or courtroom drama. Ultimately, the greatest achievement of this incendiary, eloquent and angry book is that it humanises Mousa beyond the iconic and infamous figure he has become in his death. It was written in the spirit of Orwell's journalism," they said.

The Orwell book prize is intended to discover the work which comes closest to George Orwell's ambition "to make political writing into an art". earlier this month, Williams wondered what Orwell himself "would have thought" about the Mousa case. "He wrote once that: 'It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects.' His main target then was the evil of totalitarianism," wrote Williams. "But I would like to think his underlying aim was to challenge indifference to the suffering of others. That for me was the real devil which emerged amid the detail of my book."

Williams joins former winners of the prize including Francis Wheen, Fergal Keane and Tom Bingham.

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Professor Gary Watt delivered the inaugural Madam Justice Mary Southin Lecture at the  

Endowed by her friends and colleagues, the annual Madam Justice Mary Southin Lecture pays tribute to Madam Justice Southin's many contributions to the development of the common law in British Columbia. It is to address either the Law of Equity or British Columbia legal history, and it alternates between the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria Law Faculties.

Professor Watt’s lecture was entitled:

Kimberley Brownlee

Kimberley was awarded a £37,000 Philip Leverhulme Prize. These prizes are designed to recognise and facilitate the work of outstanding young research scholars, who are making original and significant contributions to knowledge in their field with an international impact, and whose greatest achievements are expected to be still to come.

Kimberley Brownlee's research during her fellowship will focus on social human rights, and in particular the idea of a human right against social deprivation. The term ‘social deprivation’ refers to a persisting lack of minimally adequate opportunities for decent human contact and social inclusion. Social deprivation is a common experience in arenas of institutional segregation such as long-term medical quarantine and solitary confinement. It is also the most extreme variant of a more general, pervasive phenomenon of social isolation that includes people, many of whom are elderly or disabled, who are chronically, acutely lonely and unable to remedy their situation. This kind of deprivation is an important concern, particularly in western societies, given the individualistic bent of western culture, aging populations, and the ongoing use of isolating procedures in medicine, immigration, and criminal justice.