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

This year, we are pleased to announce a set of two new academic prizes for the academic year 18/19, which will be sponsored by the international law firm Slaughter and May.

Here at the Law School, we like to shout about the achievements of our students and alumni. As so many of our current PhD students have been published recently, we thought we would share their success with everyone else. Join us in congratulating…

Recent PhD graduate Nneamaka Vanni has won the inaugural SIEL-Hart Prize for her PhD thesis that was defended here at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV – School of Law in 2017.

The European Parliament has recently published a research paper on the future EU-UK relationship in the field of Police Cooperation and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters. This study was supported by, among others, ÌÇÐÄTV CJC's Professor Jackie Hodgson. The paper can be accessed in full .

ÌÇÐÄTV 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 University of ÌÇÐÄTV to add to his ÌÇÐÄTV 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.

Christopher Bisping will deliver an evening talk at the in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday 26 July 2018 at 19:00. His talk will discuss ‘International commercial arbitration in an age of international commercial courts.’

Victor Tadros (Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at ÌÇÐÄTV Law School) has been made a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of his work on the philosophy of criminal law, the philosophy of war, and legal, moral and political philosophy. As a new Fellow, he joins an independent fellowship of more than 1400 world-leading scholars and researchers working in the humanities and social sciences. The Academy is also a funding body for research and a forum for debate and engagement.

In one of the largest studies of its kind, and the first in the UK, experts from and the University of ÌÇÐÄTV School of Law looked at the experiences of more than 3500 of Refuge’s clients with the aim of informing policy and practice in relation to victims of abuse who are at an increased risk of suicide.

Last month, Titilayo Adebola, (recent PhD graduate and current sessional tutor at ÌÇÐÄTV Law School), delivered a paper at a colloquium at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The working paper titled, ‘Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Access-Benefit Sharing Frameworks for Plant Biological and Genetic Resources in Nigeria’ was presented at the WTO as part of the for Intellectual Property Teachers.

The Law School bid a fond farewell to one of our longest standing faculty members last week when we celebrated the work and contributions of Professor Hugh Beale. After more than three decades of teaching at ÌÇÐÄTV, Hugh will be retiring in the summer and we couldn’t let him go without saying thank you.

The school marked this momentous occasion with a special seminar titled ‘Making Sense of Commercial and Contract Law’ and invited a number of Hugh’s colleagues and friends to deliver short presentations on the subject.