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We frequently wonder what happens to students who have studied and shared their lives together at ÌÇÐÄTV! A photograph of three of our doctoral students taken at their graduation in 2012 inspired us to reach out and discover more about their post-ÌÇÐÄTV journey!

Ben Twomey, who studied on our LLM in Advanced Legal Studies from 2015-2016, is Chief Executive at ‘Generation Rent’, who recently secured a landmark win for renters in the UK. After a decade of tireless campaigning, the Renters' Rights Act has now received Royal Assent making it an act of Parliament and therefore the law.

Omoyemi Akerele (LLM in International Economic Law, 2001-2002) was awarded the £1 million Earthshot Prize in 2025 for her pioneering work with Lagos Fashion Week.

ÌÇÐÄTV Law School alumna Dr Daanika Kamal (IDLHR, 2014-2015) will be joining us to discuss her book

Martin Baker (LLB Law, 1981) Chief Commercial Affairs Officer and Managing Director for the Paralympics at Channel 4, has been awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Broadcasting.

Congratulations to ÌÇÐÄTV Law School alumnus Siddharth Raja on his appointment as Executive Dean at Vinayaka Mission’s Law School (VMLS) in India. Siddharth studied on our LLM in International Economic Law in 1997/98, and has nearly three decades of legal practice in India and overseas.

Congratulations to ÌÇÐÄTV Law School alumnus Olanrewaju Akinsola on his appointment to the esteemed rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). Olanrewaju, who studied on our LLM in International Economic Law from 2002-2003, is a Lead Partner at Priory Terrace Solicitors, and has been chosen by The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) to be appointed to the rank of SAN for making exceptional contributions to the legal profession in Nigeria.

Sharon Wassamon Kun-amornpong, who studied at ÌÇÐÄTV Law School from 2018-2023 under the supervision of Professor Dalvinder Singh has published a monograph based on her PhD thesis. The monograph, titled ‘The Financial Trilemma and Cross-border Bank Crisis Management in ASEAN’ was published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson has been appointed as the new Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The EHRC is Britain's independent equality and human rights regulator. It is a United Nations accredited ‘A status’ National Human Rights Institution (NHRI).

Its role is to make the country a fairer place by enforcing and upholding the laws that safeguard everyone’s right to fairness, dignity and respect.

The University of ÌÇÐÄTV has proudly presented the inaugural Ashton Award to an extraordinary group of alumni who studied at ÌÇÐÄTV between 1979 and 1989, in recognition of their collective achievements in shaping the transformation of Namibia. The Ashton Award, named after Baroness Catherine Ashton, the University’s first female Chancellor and a global advocate for diplomacy and justice, celebrates the power of collective alumni action to bring about meaningful change.

Mandeep Singh Tiwana, who studied on our LLM in Law in Development from 2000-2001, has recently been appointed the new Secretary General of CIVICUS Global Alliance.

In this new vlog, watch Bience discuss how she feels about becoming Chancellor, and what ÌÇÐÄTV was like when she was a student here at the Law School in the 1980s.