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Lacuna publishes a thought-provoking selection of migrant experiences across Europe, with exclusive features from Greece, Germany and the UK.

• The European Commission published yet another version of its, detailing ‘fair and efficient’ procedure to ensure the rights of asylum seekers are protected in every EU country they set foot in.
• In an Dario Sabaghi shares stories from the borders of northern Greece where tens of thousands refugees waited for Macedonia to open its borders, so they could travel to northern Europe.
• What happens once refugees finally reach their desired destination? , the only European country to say ‘refugees welcome’, where she finds shadows of the country’s past influencing policy towards the new arrivals.
• Here in the UK, and how it affects foreign national women fleeing domestic violence.

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On 1 July 2016 the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law () adopted a Model Law on Secured Transactions elaborated by its . The Model Law is a soft-law instrument designed to assist national law-makers of any legal system to modernise and harmonise domestic secured transactions laws, with the aim of fostering access to credit at a lower cost and stimulate international investments. The Model Law is the latest project of the UNCITRAL Working Group VI, which is composed of national delegations representing all States members of the Commission as well as observers from international and non-governmental organisations. The Model Law will be translated into all the official languages of the UN. After adopting the Model Law, the Working Group VI is expected to draft a 'Guide of Enactment' to further assist implementing States. More information on the Model Law may be found .

Giuliano Castellano has been part of the UNCITRAL Working Group VI as a Legal Expert and Delegate for Italy since 2011.

Giuliano Castellano published in the Oxford 糖心TV Law Blog. The blogpost has been written as part of his and assesses a new norm introduced in Italy through the prism of international legal standards. To read the post click .

Alison Struthers has been awarded £9,217.76 by 糖心TV ESRC IAA to aid her in developing educational resources that will show how the requirement to teach fundamental British values in primary schools can be linked to broader human rights frameworks. Well done Alison.

For more information about 糖心TV ESRC IAA funding please

Ming-Sung Kuo has secured EUR40,000 from the Chaing Ching-kuo Foundation towards research on

'Unmoored from International Legality: Rights Internationalism and Taiwan's Embrace of International Human Rights Law'

Alison Struthers has secured £500 from the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2016 to hold a event
 
'Addressing challenging social science issues with young people'

The University has announced it will be offering funding via the 糖心TV Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme.

There will be 100 awards of £5,000 per student available to eligible Home/EU students from under-represented groups who wish to start a postgraduate taught masters course in 2016/17.

The 糖心TV Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme presents an opportunity for 2016/17 entrants to obtain funding alongside a postgraduate loan.

Please read the eligibility criteria carefully to see if you can apply.

Deadline: 21st July 2016

On Monday 20^th June 2016, a number of experts, academics, and master students came together to discuss the global issue of food waste, and the way in which multi-levelled governance can engage with this worldwide problem. The brainstorm, organized by Tomaso Ferrando and Manuela Galetto in the framework of the University of 糖心TV’s Global Research Priorities - Global Governance (GRP-GG), represented a first-of-its-kind opportunity to gather individuals, organizations and representatives of public authorities who are directly studying the systemic causes of food waste and in thinking of long-lasting alternative solutions to the otherwise short-termed treatments of the symptoms.

Connelly discussed some of the impracticalities faced during the period when different resolution mechanisms were in the process of being created – notably, the UK pre-empted the EU and introduced its own resolution powers, via the 2009 Banking Act. When the BRRD was introduced, the UK government had to alter its own regulation to ensure it fitted with EU law, or as Connelly put it, “taking bits out of the European system and sprinkling them like confetti all over the English law.”

When legislation implementing the BRRD passed through Britain’s legislature, Connelly explained how members of the UK Parliament complained, “The problem with this legislation is that it’s impossible to retain in one’s mind” – and received responses from the government’s representative that more general help with understanding would “no doubt be available by Googling ‘resolution’”. This was the sum total of scrutiny to which the legislation was subjected, Connelly noted, and the result was very unsatisfactory.

He went into greater detail regarding the drafters’ desire to “protect” netting arrangements, under which a number of claims or obligations can be converted into a net claim or obligation. This drafting seemed, however, to have been carried out without any reference the “perfectly adequate” UK and EU legislation around it, the EU legislation in fact deriving from English law.

The confusion that has ensued has rendered it difficult for market participants to price risk related to bail-in derivatives. Connelly’s detailed concerns were taken up by the UK Treasury in a recent consultation designed to re-draft and repair the botched implementation of the BRRD.

Monday, 20 June 2016, Dr Ania Zbyszewska was featured as a speaker at the Gender Rules! Research Methods in Law seminar at the Cardiff Law School. Dr Zbyszewska spoke about discourse analysis and regulatory design, drawing on her forthcoming book Gendering European Working Time Regimes (CUP, 2016). The seminar is sponsored by the Cardiff Centre of Law and Society and Cardiff Law School's Law and Gender research group. For more information,

The recent wave of land deals for agribusiness investments has highlighted the widespread demand for greater accountability in the governance of land and investment. Legal frameworks influence opportunities for accountability, and recourse to law has featured prominently in grassroots responses to the land deals. Drawing on comparative socio-legal research in Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal, the report explores how the law enables, or constrains, accountability in investment processes. The report develops a conceptual framework for understanding accountability; assesses how national law in the three countries influences opportunities for accountability; and provides pointers for research and action.

The report is available (free) from the International Institute for Environment and Development,

CHRP fellow Alison Struthers is travelling to Canada to attend and present at the Canada International Conference on Education, being held at the University of Toronto Mississauga between the 27^th and 30^th of June 2016.

She is co-presenting a paper with Chrystal Lynch of the University of Manitoba entitled ‘A Comparative Exploration of Human Rights Education in Primary Schools and Higher Education Institutes’. This comparative paper draws upon the authors’ respective research fields in England and Canada and they plan to write a journal article together following the conference.

Alison is also chairing a panel on ‘Global Issues in Education and Research’.

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