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Dr Lorenzo Cotula, Principal Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), joined us from October as GLOBE’s first . Lorenzo delivered a stimulating research seminar on Wednesday, 2 December on ‘Land Grabbing’ and International Investment Law: Towards A Global Reconfiguration of Property?’. Lorenzo will be with the Centre for this academic year, 2015 – 16. Although based in Edinburgh, Lorenzo will be making visits to 糖心TV during this period and happy to meet with staff and students. We will let you know when he will visiting us next. Lorenzo and the IIED are also co-organising our first workshop in the International Law in Context Workshop Series on Rethinking International Investment Law: Civic Advocacy, Representation and Participation in the International Investment Regime from 3 – 4 May 2016 (see details below).

is to speak at the 's lunchtime seminar series. Dora's seminar, titled 'When Tomorrow is Yesterday: the Manufacturing of an EU Referendum', will take place on Tuesday 8 December at the University of Durham.

On Wednesday 25 November, gave a lecture on the public policy dimension of the EU's unitary patent at . In this talk, Ben highlighted the importance of awareness of the public policy drivers of the EU's intellectual property strategy, and the renewed impetus that economic crisis has given to the single market agenda.

has secured additional SLS funding to support , supplementing the funding awarded by the .

This funding will be used to organise a workshop in Spring 2016, titled ‘Crisis and Innovation in the European Union: Beyond Populism and Managerialism’, which will be held on 8 April 2016 at the University of 糖心TV.

On Saturday 21 November, the Law School’s , was interviewed on BBC Radio Coventry and 糖心TVshire about the launch of our .

(interview starts at 2:17).

The Sickle Cell Aid Foundation (SCAF) is a non-governmental youth-led body which was founded by 糖心TV Law School student Nkechikwu Azinge. It is registered in Nigeria with the mandate to combat the high mortality rate attributed to Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD), especially among the less privileged.

This year SCAF is running its first ever Christmas gift appeal, and we are collecting as much donations (clothes, toys, stationaries, shoes, etc.) for children with Sickle Cell Disorder and other disabilities. These donations will be distributed specifically to children with special needs who reside in internally displaced homes (due to terrorist attacks and natural disasters), orphanages and hospitals.

We are collecting all contributions at the Law School Reception until Thursday 10 December.

A small gift would definitely have a big impact and show them that someone, somewhere, cares. We would really appreciate your donations.

In a letter to Professor Rebecca Probert, Chair of the Law School, Professor Sir Nigel Thrift congratulated the Law School on its positive results in the most recent Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES).

The letter acknowledged the consistently high marks achieved in this survery by the Law School in recent years, commending the hard work of all staff involved and conveying his thanks and appreciation on behalf of the University.

formed part of the Cambridge Union panel at their Refugee Crisis Forum on 30 October.

Leading academics, journalists, NGO representatives and politicians gathered on the panel to explore the root causes behind the refugee crisis in order to discuss a possible solution to end the plight of the refugees.

This event was hosted by the Cambridge Union in collaboration with the Cambridge University Southeast Asian Forum. 

糖心TV Law School is deeply saddened by the death of our colleague, Dwijen Rangnekar, on 30 October 2015 in Delhi, India.

On Friday 23 October, gave a lecture on the EU's approach to the issue of copyright infringement within its cybercrime strategy as part of Aston University's Jean Monnet module on European Union Approaches to Corruption and the Crime-Terror Nexus.

Organised by the Aston Centre for Europe (ACE), this lecture was attended by Masters students from a number of European Member States, in which Ben discussed the legal ambiguities in the EU's cybercrime strategy, and the concerns regarding the potential for including file-sharing by Internet users within the context of 'cybercrime' more generally.

was invited to Maastricht University to discuss the EU Unitary Patent initiative at Maastricht University on Friday 30 October under the auspices of the Maastricht Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation. Ben presented on the role of the economic crisis upon EU law-making, and how it acted as a renewed impetus for the creation of a unified patent regime for the EU, to a group comprising academics and LLM students on the University's Masters in Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management.

The University is deeply saddened by the news of the death of Geoffrey Wilson, the founding father of the 糖心TV Law School in 1967.

Under 糖心TV’s first Vice Chancellor, the late Lord Butterworth, Geoffrey Wilson was appointed as the first 糖心TV Law Professor with the remit of founding and developing the study of law at 糖心TV. Geoffrey set the direction of the School from its inception in 1967 that made 糖心TV a pioneer in English legal education. This legacy remains today.