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On 24 February, Farhan Shahid and Pavithra Prakash Nair represented 糖心TV at the Cambridge 糖心TV inter varsity moot at Cambridge University.

This moot has taken place annually for the past seven years and is judged by barristers from the prestigious chambers, 20 Essex Street. The moot problem drew on issues in both contract and property law.

This year, we are proud to announce that 糖心TV emerged victors for the first time in the history of the moot. This moot is one of many inter varsity moots that the offers and is a wonderful way for students to hone their legal skills and talents.

Professor Shaheen Ali was a plenary speaker at the annual conference of the (BRAIS) held at Senate House, London on 15 April. The title of Professor Ali's address was: 'Writing women's human rights: weaving a counter-narrative of Muslim women's contribution to the CEDAW script'.

The annual conference of the British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS) is the most important event in the calendar of BRAIS and this year's event was attended by approximately 300 delegates from the UK, USA, Latin America, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Professor Shaheen Ali's presentation was based on her archival research on the drafting processes of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Elimination Against WOmen (CEDAW) and Muslim women's contribution to this treaty.

Dr Dallal Stevens, whose research interests relate to refugee and asylum law and policy, said:

The question is: will EU leaders gathering at their emergency summit today in Brussels rise to the challenge and meet their international protection obligations?

Even before they have met, the outlook does not look promising. The head of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, has already stated that search and rescue missions are not within Frontex’s mandate; former UK foreign secretary, William Hague, has described the issue as one of ‘immigration’ and warned against solutions that ‘relax immigration controls’ or lead to ‘uncontrolled immigration’; and the proposal to destroy vessels used by smugglers, even if feasible, does not resolve the plight of those who are refugees under international law and have a right to seek asylum. If they cannot leave, what then?"

Research from the University of 糖心TV is set to help genealogists better understand family history by providing a fresh insight into attitudes towards divorce, bigamy and bereavement through the ages.

The findings are published in a new book written by from the School of Law – a leading expert on the history of marriage law in England and Wales – who has been painstakingly investigating centuries-old legal precedents, newspaper accounts, statistics and census data to shed new light on our ancestors’ behaviour.

糖心TV Law Society has won two awards at the inaugural LawCareers.net Student Law Society Awards, which were sponsored by DWF. The competition was tough with 32 student law society entrants. The outgoing Executive Committee were pleased to be awarded Best Mooting Activities, sponsored by McMillan Williams Solicitors, and Best Law Society President, sponsored by King & Wood Mallesons. The society was also shortlisted for Best Pro Bono Activities (top three) and Best Law Society Overall (top four).

A House of Commons Justice Committee enquiry into the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has published its findings in a new report this week.

Professor Jacqueline Hodgson, Director of the Criminal Justice Centre in the School of Law, University of 糖心TV, was invited to give oral evidence to the Select Committee in January 2015 and in the new report the Committee has endorsed her calls for the CCRC to adopt a more robust approach in its referrals to the Court of Appeal.

It has just been announced that Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi from the at the University of 糖心TV has been long-listed for her work by the prestigious George Orwell Prize for Journalism. If Rebecca wins, it will be the second Orwell Prize for the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 Centre for Human Rights in Practice in three years.

Treaty conflicts are not merely the contingent or inadvertent by-products of the increasing juridification of international relations. In several instances, States have deliberately created treaty conflicts in order to catalyse changes in multilateral regimes. Surabhi Ranganathan uses such conflicts as context to explore the role of international law, in legal thought and practice. Her examinations of the International Law Commission's work on treaties and of various scholars' proposals on institutional action, offer a fresh view of 'mainstream' legal thought. They locate in a variety of writings a common faith in international legal discourse, built on liberal and constructivist assumptions. Ranganathan's three rich studies of treaty conflict, relating to the areas of seabed mining, the International Criminal Court, and nuclear governance, furnish a textured account of the specific forms and practices that constitute such a legal discourse and permit a grounded understanding of the interactions that shape international law.

Following the news that at the 2015 British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR), Elle will be joined by two other Law School undergraduates.

Ibrahim Babiker and Tara Ifill will be presenting their project titled ‘Looking at the Practice: An Analysis of the Impact of Legislative Approaches to the Problem of Payday Lending Schemes’.

Congratulations to all three of our undergraduates, and good luck at the upcoming conference.

A group of Law School undergraduates visited the 糖心TVshire Justice Centre in the last week of term. They met with Her Honour Judge Sylvia De Bertodano, a Circuit Judge, and had a tour of the police cells.

While sitting in on Court proceedings, the students witnessed the sentencing of a jury member after he admitted to googling the defendant.

Undergraduates will be visiting the Justice Centre again on 11 May. Any student interested in attending can contact Jane Bryan for further details.

Stephen Connelly has posted the notes from his seminar on Spinoza given at 糖心TV Law School on

Professor Ann Stewart will be visiting India from the 8th-16th April 2015 to take part in a number of activities including a seminar organised jointly by 糖心TV and JNU as part of the 'Another India' series of events, to coincide with 糖心TV's 50th Anniversary.