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Law School PhD Candidate has been awarded the University of ÌÇÐÄTV’s 2014 Research Impact and Public Engagement Award for Early Career Research Impact.

Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of ambitious but unfulfilled constitutional promises evident in much of the developing world. Taking Brazil as an example, it unpicks the complex reasons behind the remarkably consistent failures of its constitution and law enforcement mechanisms to deliver social justice. Using detailed empirical evidence and focusing upon the relationship between rural social struggles and the state, the book develops a threefold argument: first, the inescapable presence of power relations in all aspects of the production and reproduction of law; secondly their dominant impact on socio-legal outcomes; and finally the essential and positive role played by social movements in redressing those power imbalances and realising law’s progressive potentialities.

has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship from The Leverhulme Trust. The Fellowship will continue through September 2017.

The Fellowship project, entitled "To Do, To Die, to Reason Why; The Ethical Lives of Combatants", will provide a wide-ranging ethical investigation of the military lives of combatants before, during and after war.

has received a commendation award for her teaching under the ÌÇÐÄTV Awards for Teaching Excellence.

The ÌÇÐÄTV Awards for Teaching Excellence give students and colleagues the opportunity to recognise and celebrate excellence in teaching and the support of learning throughout the nominee’s career at the University.

The awards aim to:

• Recognise and reward members of staff who have had exceptional impact on the student learning experience;
• Enhance the profile of teaching excellence at the University;
• Award winners and commendees with funding to further enhance practice.

Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict (10-13 June 2014).

The summit seeks to translate the UN General Assembly's Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict into real progress on the ground. More details are available at: .

Camilla Barker, a visiting tutor at ÌÇÐÄTV Law School, has recently been elected to the Fellowship of the .

Fellows are nominated to the Fellowship, and being elected is considered an honour. Camilla joins a Fellowship of “achievers and influencers” from around the world who are committed to positive social change and the advancement of human knowledge. The work of the Fellows has influence in the arts, commerce, government and academia the world over. Notable past and present members include: Charles Dickens, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, William Hogarth, John Diefenbaker, Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee.

On her election, Camilla said:

“It is an absolute honour to be joining the Fellowship. Being part of this inspiring community is an opportunity for which I am very grateful and I hope my ideas can contribute to the realisation of the RSA’s vision for a better tomorrow.”

Camilla, who is also a Fulbright Scholar, is currently conducting research on the Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Law degree at the University of Oxford. She holds Law degrees from Harvard University (LLM) and Queen Mary, University of London (First Class LLB (Hons)). Her doctoral research involves humanitarian assistance under international law, and she is working with organisations such as the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross on legal issues pertaining to the humanitarian crises in Syria, South Sudan and Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Congratulations to , who has been co-awarded the British Society of Criminology's Criminology Book Prize 2014 for her book  (Routledge).

been elected as one of seven members to the Board of the Research Committee of Sociology of Law (RCSL) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) for the period 2014-2018.

For more information about the RCSL

’s article ‘“’, published in Cake and Cockhorse, has won the British Association for Local History’s Publication Award for 2014.

Building work is now underway on the Law School's new Reception extension.

In mid-April, a team of students from the ÌÇÐÄTV Law School travelled to Vienna to compete in the annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Jackie Hodgson has been conferred the award of Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her distinctive and distinguished contributions to Social Science.