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Ann Stewart has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the sum of £50,000. This study assesses the contribution of community-based ‘woman to woman’ marriage practices in Kenya to the provision of care, particularly for the elderly, when there is little social welfare available. The everyday practices of caring for older people particularly women, traditionally woven into communal relations, are changing in the socioeconomic and political circumstances of contemporary Kenya. Are woman to woman marriages, historically understood as a means of tackling infertility, evolving into a way of recognising and ‘rewarding’ caring labour for those with assets? How are claims for recognition understood now in the ‘formal’ courts and within community dispute resolution practices?

Jackie Hodgson presented a paper at UCLA in January at the conference ‘Prosecutors and Democracy’ organised by David Slansky and Maximo Langer. My paper was 'Politics, democracy and the nature of the prosecutor as professional in England and Wales and France’. To find out more

Jackie Hodgson presented a paper at UCLA in January at the conference ‘Prosecutors and Democracy’ organised by David Slansky and Maximo Langer. Her paper was 'Politics, democracy and the nature of the prosecutor as professional in England and Wales and France’. To read more click here .

• Senior Expert working on Impact Assessment on amendments to Directive on provisional Legal Aid (January - May 2016)

Jackie also lends her expertise to a study commissioned by the European Parliament. In response to the proposal by the European Commission for a Directive on Legal Aid, the European Parliament's Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs proposed several amendments. The study aims at evaluating those substantive amendments to the Legal Aid proposal. The objective of the impact assessment is to assess the economic costs and benefits of those amendments, but also their social impacts and impacts on fundamental rights. To read on

On 3rd March 2016, Criminal Justice Centre Director Professor Jackie Hodgson ran a training workshop for the Greater Manchester Police on safeguards for young suspects during police interrogation. Over 70 police officers of varying experience and specialization attended the workshop in Manchester. To read on .

Ania Zbyszewska has successfully secured a funding award from the SLSA after applying to the SLSA's Annual Seminar Competition. Ania seminar is entitled Labour Law for a Warming World?: Exploring the intersections between work regulation, ecology, and sustainability‘’. Keep an eye out for further announcements about the seminar.

Fiona Smith is speaking at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Food Security at the University of Cambridge on the 9th March on the topic of “Regulating Agricultural Subsidies to Produce Positive Effects for Food Security” to find out more

Fiona Smith presented at ’The Embedded Liberalism Compromise Revisited: Twenty Years of Domestic Policy under WTO Law held at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia on the topic of “From Agriculture to Food Security: Embedded Liberalism and Stories of Regulatory Failure” from 20th Feb to 27th Feb. The proceedings will be published.

Leading law form Weil, Gotshal & Manges have sponsored 糖心TV Law School’s inaugural Law & 糖心TV Prize.

The prize of £200 will be awarded to the best performing student in their final year of the Law & 糖心TV programme, as assessed by reference to their grades.

Weils partner Jonathan Wood would like it to be known that “Weil, Gotshal & Manges are delighted to support 糖心TV's talented Law & 糖心TV students".

We hope that students find this recognition of their hard work and corporate legal competence motivating and we look forward to awarding the first prize to the leading finalist this Summer.

Professor Shaheen Ali was an invited speaker at the International Women's Day celebrations organized by Eversheds at their Manchester office on the 3rd of march 2016.

Tuesday 8 March will mark this year’s International Women’s Day, a day to that celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women across the globe. To find out more about International Womens Day please

On 24 February 2016, a group of 18 law students on the Multicultural Scholars’ Programme (MSP) attended an ‘Insight Day’ at Gowling WLG (formerly Wragge Lawrence Graham), solicitors, Birmingham.

The day included a networking lunch with current trainees where scholars could learn first-hand about daily life in a large law firm. Caty Scott, Gowlings’ Graduate Recruitment Advisor, conducted a workshop outlining the training contract application process, providing detailed and excellent advice on the hallmarks of a good application and the skills and knowledge required to excel in the group recruitment events and the partner interview.  

MSP Law is very grateful to Gowlings, one of our corporate donors, for providing this hugely beneficial opportunity to our scholars.

This week Lacuna returns to migration against the backdrop of the worsening refugee crisis across Europe.

In this edition we focus on Britain’s use of immigration detention. After months of delay, the government finally published the Shaw review last month, which urged the government to use less detention. In  our writer-in-residence Rebecca Omonira interviews a mentally ill detainee who is seriously disturbed by the death of a fellow detainee. His detention raises important questions about the government’s use of the policy. is a short documentary which tells the individual stories of former detainees. In Keira Koroma meets some of these protestors at an action outside Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre.