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Robin Vandendriessche, PhD researcher at ÌÇÐÄTV Law School and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, contributed to a stakeholder event organised by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission on 15 October 2026, discussing upcoming on the interplay between data protection and competition law.

We are delighted to see high levels of satisfaction amongst our postgraduate research (PGR) community, as reported in the latest Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) 2026. This year, the overall satisfaction amongst PGRs in the Law School was an impressive 94.2%, up 17.1% from the last PRES conducted in 2023.

Professor Sharifah Sekalala launched the prestigious 2026/27 Cutting-Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice Guest Lecture series at the LSE earlier this month with her lecture on 'The Role of the Law in African Health Data Futures'.

The WLS Multicultural Scholars Programme has been used as an example of good practice by the Solicitors Regulation Authority's (SRA) to help inform a new toolkit on ‘Improving access to legal careers’. It was launched to help law schools, law firms, in-house teams and other legal sector organisations develop partnerships and initiatives that support aspiring solicitors from underrepresented backgrounds.

On 14 August 2026, Kathryn McMahon (ÌÇÐÄTV) and Mel Marquis (Monash), together with PhD researchers, Robin Vandendriessche (ÌÇÐÄTV) and Anna Moskal (Monash), convened a Workshop on ‘Digital Regulation & Competition in the EU, the UK, Australia & other jurisdictions’. The event was funded by the Monash ÌÇÐÄTV AllianceLink opens in a new window and took place at the Monash Law Chambers, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

ÌÇÐÄTV Law School organised a flagship one-day workshop at London Climate Week 2026 on ‘Unpacking ‘Green’ Finance: Promises, Practicalities and Performance’. The event, convened by the Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLiFT) network, brought together almost 60 researchers, policymakers, civil society practitioners, journalists, artists and cultural workers, to interrogate international architecture of climate finance and its implications for global climate justice.

Dr Alex Powell, Associate Professor in Law, has been awarded the Bernard Crick Prize for the best article in Political Quarterly for his co-authored research that explores the growing influence of victim-led campaigns on UK lawmaking.

The Centre for Constitutions in Context (CCC) hosted a first-of-its-kind event titled 'Enhancing the Dialogue Between Public Law Practice and Academia', co-hosted with the UK Constitutional Law Association. The event took place at The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, London earlier this month on 24 June.

On May 14 2026, the School of Law and the Departments of Sociology and Politics and International Studies put on a Big Questions themed interdisciplinary workshop on Capitalist Institutions and Power, with a focus on ‘How should the economy be organised to serve society?’

Professor Vanessa Munro (principal investigator), Dr Siobhan Weare (co-investigator, Lancaster University), and Dr Madeleine Millar (research and innovation associate), have been awarded £719,909 in funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The funding is for their project, ‘Delivering Justice in a Digital Age: Exploring the Impact on Mock jurors of Pre-Recorded Evidence in Sexual Offences Trials’, which will begin in September 2026.

In mid-May, Professor Christine Schwöbel-Patel was a visiting researcher at the Stefansson Arctic Institute at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. She was there on the invitation of the Nansen Professor of Polar Studies, Dr Romain Chouffart. The visit was to enable a collaboration between Professor Schwöbel-Patel and Dr Chouffart on Arctic governance and new modes of sovereignty through infrastructure.

In Verfassungsblog’s latest weekly editorial dedicated to Taiwan, Dr Ming-Sung Kuo addressed issues concerning the Trump presidency’s implications to Taiwan and Taiwan’s constitutional court crisis in the wake of the Trump-Xi meetings in Beijing as part of the blog’s ‘Five Questions to …’ interview series.