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On Thursday 8 February, ÌÇÐÄTV Law’s Dr Andreas Kokkinis was interviewed briefly by TRT World as part of their Money Talks show. The interview focused on the meeting that PM Theresa May had attended that same day with Japanese investors. Andreas explained why loss of access to the common market would be damaging for Japanese car manufacturers in the UK – and other companies – and therefore the challenge the UK faces regarding its continuing ability to attract and retain non-EU investment.

We are delighted to share the news that one of our postgraduate students, Marilyn Eze, won a place to participate in the 2017 House of Lords Chamber Event in December of last year.

Currently studying on our LLM in International Commercial Law, Marilyn entered an essay competition in October 2017 organised by the Royal Commonwealth Society to Chevening Scholars currently studying in the UK.

The Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) at ÌÇÐÄTV Law School launched a Policy Brief Series on 5 February 2018.

The series aims to provide short, policy-relevant briefings on issues of public interest and contemporary concerns within the GLOBE Centre’s thematic areas, written by GLOBE Centre colleagues.

The series supports the GLOBE Centre’s objective of disseminating our academic research in an accessible and relevant manner to broader audiences, including policymakers, the media, civil society groups and the general public. Each Policy Brief in the series will be based on the author’s current or recently published research and authors can be contacted for further information about the issues raised.

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Assistant Professor Dr Henrique Carvalho has been shortlisted for a prestigious ‘Hart Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize’ for his book 'The Preventive Turn in Criminal Law'.

The book prize, presented by the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA), will be awarded for a book that makes a contribution to socio-legal theory or to the socio-legal history published in the 12 months up to 30 September 2017.

The Law School's Dr Andi Hoxhaj has been invited to speak at a prestigious Parliamentary today (17 January 2018).

Dr Hoxhaj has been asked to give his expert insight into aspects of the UK’s relationship with the Western Balkans, as the UK prepares to host the annual Western Balkans summit later this year, and considers its future relationship with these countries after Brexit.

We are always proud of our staff and the amazing things they do, but in the spirit of the festive season, we thought it would be nice to highlight the most recent achievements in December 2017.

Congratulations to everyone at the Law School for all their hard work in 2017.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Professor Vanessa Munro has been appointed as the new Chair of ÌÇÐÄTV Law School for a period of 3 years. Vanessa will formally take office on January 4th 2018 taking over from Roger Leng who took on the role as interim chair earlier this year and has done a fantastic job.

Vanessa joined ÌÇÐÄTV Law School in August 2016, having previously been a Professor at the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester.

A 12-year stand-off came to an end this week when a British compromise offer to extend the franchise in very limited circumstances was accepted by the Council of Europe. Why has this issue been so controversial and why has it taken the UK 12 years to finally fall into line? ÌÇÐÄTV Law School Professor Jacqueline Hodgson comments:

"For more than a decade, the UK has continued to breach the European Convention on Human Rights by refusing to allow any convicted prisoners the right to vote, directly contravening the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling in the case of Hirst v UK."

Former ÌÇÐÄTV LLM student, Anna Celuch, who recently graduated with a distinction will soon be packing her bags to help local African entrepreneurs build successful businesses.

Anna travelled from Poland to study International Economic Law at ÌÇÐÄTV University, and went on to be awarded Top Postgraduate Performer in IEL 2016/17. 

With the effects of the 2007 credit crunch still being felt around the world, a new book by Dr Andreas Kokkinis, Assistant Professor in the University of ÌÇÐÄTV’s School of Law, explores whether traditional models of corporate governance fail to promote financial stability.

Corporate Law and Financial Instability explores the tension between corporate governance systems focused around shareholders who want to maximise their returns, and prudential regulation where risk-taking must be controlled in order to safeguard financial stability.

While studying a module on Human Rights in Practice, four ÌÇÐÄTV Law students embarked on a human rights project which led to an incredibly successful petition- gaining nearly 60,000 signatures.

In an article published in Lacuna, ÌÇÐÄTV Law student, Helen Bates describes how her team began researching into sexism in the workplace to discover the scale and seriousness of pregnancy and maternity discrimination. Joining forces with Joeli Brearley, the founder of ‘Pregnant then Screwed’, they set up a petition that would extend pregnant mother’s legal rights to bring a discrimination claim to tribunal from 3 months to 6 months.

We are pleased to announce that Dr Sharifah Sekalala’s new book will be released on the 24^th November 2017.

Millions of people in developing countries struggle to gain access to essential life-saving medicines for global epidemics such as AIDS and malaria. ‘Soft Law and Global Health Problems’ examines the different legal approaches that have been taken internationally to improve global access to essential medicines.