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The fourth in a new series of briefs bringing current legal thinking to bear on public policy issues has been published by the Law School's GLOBE research centre.

The Risks of Using Blended Finance in Development by Dr Celine Tan explores the contested role of blending public funds with private finance for investments in sustainable development.

Commenting on the news that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched legal action against Elon Musk and Tesla, Dr Stephen Connelly, Associate Professor in Warwick Law School, said: “The regulatory suit against Elon Musk is a reminder to all insiders of publicly listed corporations that their words can be price sensitive – that they can move and possibly distort markets."

Everyone enjoys a good love story and even more so when we realise we were partly responsible. Two of our former students have got married after meeting on our LLB course back in 2013 and even invited one of their old tutors to the wedding. Their story was featured in an August issue of the Times newspaper.

Warwick Law School’s Dr Stephen Connelly has been asked for comment after a Norwegian trader blew a €114m hole in protections for European power derivatives market.

“The way in which a single energy trader managed to burn through the NASDAQ power exchange’s risk default fund raises wider questions about the role of exchanges in the post-2008 regulatory architecture.

LLM student Elina Rage who recently completed her studies in International Economic Law (IEL) here at Warwick, has just secured a traineeship with the European Union Delegation to Vietnam in the Trade and Economics section, starting in October. These positions are highly competitive so this is a massive achievement. We caught up with Elina to find out more.

Research by Warwick Law’s Professor Ann Stewart, supported by Dr Jennifer Lander into the interaction between gender and ageing in rural Kenya underpins a new discussion paper in conjunction with HelpAge International as a resource for policymakers, international NGOs, national and local governments, and older people themselves.

Former Warwick LLB student (2006-2009) Sharlene Teo will be speaking at the Kenilworth Arts Festival about her debut novel Ponti as part of its literary weekend. Sharlene will be appearing alongside Michael Donkor and his book Hold at the ‘New Voices in Fiction’ event on 22 September 2018 at 3pm in the Priory Theatre, Kenilworth.

We caught up with Sharlene to find out more about her book, her passion for writing and how studying law doesn’t mean only one career option.

On 10 September 2018, the Scottish Feminist Judgments Project, co-ordinated by Warwick Law School’s Vanessa Munro and Sharon Cowan and Chloë Kennedy from the University of Edinburgh, will be hosting an exhibition in the Scottish Parliament.

The European Society of Criminology has awarded the 2018 ESC Young Criminologist Award to Anastasia Chamberlen in recognition of her article ‘Embodying Prison Pain: Women’s experiences of self-injury in prison and the emotions of punishment’, published in 2016 in Theoretical Criminology. 

Every academic year, several awards and prizes are granted to our highest achieving undergraduate students from each year of study to recognise and celebrate the success of our top performers.

This year, we are pleased to announce a set of two new academic prizes for the academic year 18/19, which will be sponsored by the international law firm Slaughter and May.

Here at the Law School, we like to shout about the achievements of our students and alumni. As so many of our current PhD students have been published recently, we thought we would share their success with everyone else. Join us in congratulating…