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06/11 12pm-2pm: The Law on International Child Abduction

Law Marketing Resource — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:35:34 GMT

When: 12:00 - 14:00, Fri, 06 Nov '26

Where: Law School

James Netto is a former student at Warwick Law School and current Partner at International Family Law Group. He is a leading international family lawyer within the UK, specialising in international child abduction. James was recently featured in a BBC Documentary, ‘Abandoned: Searching for Soldier Dad’

International child abduction is a complex and ever-changing area of family law, whereby a parent takes their child to another country without the permission of the other parent. James will discuss the law in the area, specifically the Hague Convention, of which the UK is a member. By going through the legal requirements, James will discuss several key cases, many of which he was involved in himself.

This guest lecture is part of the Modern Challenges in Family Law module (LA396), but is open for all Law students to attend. It will be of interest to those studying (and/or wishing to pursue a career in) family law. Attendees are welcome to ask questions throughout, including about James’ journey to becoming a prominent family lawyer.

Due to a limited number of spaces in the lecture room, all attendees must register in advanceLink opens in a new window.

The room number will be circulated to attendees prior to the lecture.

07/11 1pm-5pm: Stories of Small Boat Crossings

Law Marketing Resource — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:05:52 GMT

When: 13:00 - 17:00, Sat, 07 Nov '26

Where: The Queen's House, National Maritime Museum

Stories of Small Boat CrossingsLink opens in a new window focuses on the relationship between law and creative writing. The Power, Justice & Imagination networkLink opens in a new window, hosted by LHub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, is putting on a free afternoon of craft and writing workshops at the National Maritime Museum on 7 November 2026. Explore how the law shapes refugee boat journeys and hone your creative writing skills. Book hereLink opens in a new window.

Small boats play a powerful role in how the public imagines migration. Media and political debate have shaped a culture in which law is used to target small boats crossings. Inspired by the National Maritime Museum’s newly-curated migrant-centred exhibition ‘Crossings’, and working with Mass Observation diaries on ‘Seeking Asylum’, the Refugee Law Initiative, and SOS Mediterranee, our workshops give you the chance to engage with migrant journeys and reframe legal texts through craft and creative writing.

10/11 2pm-6pm: The House Rules Virtual Fair - In-House Legal Careers

Law Marketing Resource — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:02:09 GMT

When: 14:00 - 18:00, Tue, 10 Nov '26

Where: Online

Most law students know about law firms. Far fewer know about in-house law - working as a lawyer inside a company like the BBC, a football club, or a global brand.

Hear directly from lawyers at the BBC, Wrexham FC, Ferrero and Child Poverty Action Group about how they got there and what the job actually looks like. Students can submit a question in advance when they register.

Free. Four sessions. Four sectors. Open to all. Register to attend!

11/11 3pm-4:30pm: Markel: Women in Insurance Webinar

Law Marketing Resource — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:48:08 GMT

When: 15:00 - 16:30, Wed, 11 Nov '26

Where: Online

Application Deadline: 08/11/2026

Are you a university student heading into your penultimate or final year of university and interested in a career within Insurance?

Markel are running a fantastic online webinar where you’ll hear from current female employees, get a behind-the-scenes look at life at Markel, and receive invaluable tips for applying to their Graduate Programmes & Placement Programmes. Apply!Link opens in a new window

12/11 12:30pm-1:30pm: Supervisor Development Programme: PGR Funding

Law Marketing Resource — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:53:22 GMT

When: 12:30 - 13:30, Thu, 12 Nov '26

Delivered by Dr Rebecca Vipond, CDT & PG Scholarships Coordination Manager in the Doctoral College. A discussion about key aspects to be aware of when a PGR you supervise is funded by a scholarship.

12/11 4pm-5pm: International Students: UK Interviews

Law Marketing Resource — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:46:38 GMT

When: 16:00 - 17:00, Thu, 12 Nov '26

Interviews in the UK often follow a structured format that may differ from what you're used to. This interactive workshop is designed for international students and graduates who want to feel prepared and confident going into interviews with UK employers. Through practical activities and practice questions, you'll learn how to structure strong answers, present your international experience as a strength, and understand what interviewers are really looking for.

17/11 6:15pm-8:30pm: This Girl Can Keynote Speaker Event

Law Marketing Resource — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 10:59:31 GMT

When: 18:15 - 20:30, Tue, 17 Nov '26

Where: FAB0.08

This Girl Can Keynote Speakers: Dr Martine Barons and Dan Richardson

Dr Martine Barons will deliver a keynote session, sharing details of her academic and sporting journey, including the challenges she has faced and the lessons she has learned. This session forms part of our This Girl Can campaign and provides a great opportunity to hear how sport and academia can be successfully pursued alongside one another.

Following this, Dan Richardson, Registered Performance Nutritionist, will deliver a session exploring how nutrition can be tailored to support the unique needs of female athletes and those engaging in sport and physical activity, whether on a regular or occasional basis.

From energy balance and recovery to menstrual cycle considerations and bone health, Dan will discuss practical strategies to optimise fuelling, maximise training adaptations, and support long-term wellbeing.

Book your space online!Link opens in a new window

18/11 12:30pm-2pm: T1 WK7 - Law School Lunchtime Research Seminar - Wednesday 18 November 2026

Law Marketing Resource — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:40:18 GMT

When: 12:30 - 14:00, Wed, 18 Nov '26

Where: S2.09 / S2.12

Guest Speaker: Romain Chouffart, The Arctic Institute

Chair: Daniel Matthews, 91Ӱ��ƽ�� Law School

Title: 'Arctic, Autonomous, Artificial: Thinking of Normative Climate Exosomatisation'

Abstract: As the material premises of polar order withdraw because anthropogenic climate change, technological proposals have appeared to manufacture the environment, to re-create the conditions for flourishing ecosystems, and broadly to help in the fight against the worst of the climate crisis. In essence, what these proposals seek to do is to manufacture the substrate that governance has always presupposed with the promise to hold in place the body on which the law is set to rest. This paper reads that promise through Bernard Stiegler’s idea of exosomatisation, the externalisation of vital functions into technical organs, and argues that such interventions also externalise normativity. For instance, The freeze-thaw cycle of Arctic sea ice already performs normative work of certain kind. It times passage, distributes access, sets thresholds into space before the law, or rather before legal temporalities, can exist. When autonomous technologies take over that cycle, the normative ability migrates with them, and the scientific and technical knowledge about how much ice there ought to be, where, and for whom, becomes inscribed into infrastructure that executes it continuously, without deliberation and without a subject.

This paper argues that this a conceptual mistake to think of geoengineering governance, and all its ramifications, as being about the legal regulation of a new technology. Rather, it is more effective to understand it a contest over where normativity resides and whether autonomy, read as auto-nomos, can be recreated artificiality where the nomos derives not from a subject but by a made thing. The instinct at this point is often to work against the artifice, as if an autonomous nature had been surrendered to machines. In that respect, the paper also reads exosomatisation through the additional theoretical lens of Xenofeminism to suggest that nothing about autonomy was ever natural. The planet to which law would defer is already an object in which artificiality is the condition of planetary governance. To defend a self-regulating earth system against its artificial double is potentially the most counter-productive naturalising move.

19/11 2pm-3pm: PGR Coffee Morning: Meeting the Doctoral College Staff

Law Marketing Resource — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:34:23 GMT

When: 14:00 - 15:00, Thu, 19 Nov '26

Where: S2.09

Join us for an informal session with staff from the Doctoral College. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the support and opportunities available to PGRs, ask questions. All PGRs are warmly welcome.

The Doctoral College may give a short introduction and answer some questions. They are also kindly willing to consider inviting other colleagues to join the session. If there are any particular topics you would like to learn more about, such as funding or the thesis submission process, please contact Law PGR Community leads Irene,Kunxiu.Chen@warwick.ac.uk, or Isahbella, Isahbella.Rai@warwick.ac.uk, in advance.

19/11 4:30pm-6:30pm: Sip & Paint

Law Marketing Resource — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:48:45 GMT

When: 16:30 - 18:30, Thu, 19 Nov '26

Where: Law Student Hub

Take a break from studying and join us for a fun, relaxed evening of painting, socialising, and getting creative. Meet new people and enjoy a drink in a welcoming atmosphere - no art experience needed! 🎨

All the resources and refreshments will be provided for free, just make sure to book your place.

24/11 10:30am-3:45pm: Explore the Law: Careers Insight Event

Law Marketing Resource — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:50:48 GMT

When: 10:30 - 15:45, Tue, 24 Nov '26

Where: London

Career opportunities in law for students with disabilities

Interested in a career in law? Explore the Law is a career-enhancing event for ambitious students with disabilities or long-term health conditions. Get insider access to the legal industry, connect with leading global law firms including Hogan Lovells, Latham & Watkins, Linklaters and Mayer Brown, discover the support available, and learn how to take your first steps toward a successful legal career.

The event is open to undergraduate and graduates who have a disability* or long-term health condition interested in finding out more about career opportunities with disability inclusive law firms. Travel expenses up to £70 will be reimbursed.

*Disability includes but is not limited to conditions such as: visual and hearing impairments, mobility impairments, autism, diabetes, epilepsy, dyslexia, dyspraxia, mental health conditions, speech impairments and major illnesses such as cancer and MS.

25/11 12:30pm-2pm: T1 WK8 - Law School Lunchtime Research Seminar - Wednesday 25 November 2026

Law Marketing Resource — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:07:21 GMT

When: 12:30 - 14:00, Wed, 25 Nov '26

Where: S2.09 / S2.12

Speaker: Christian Twigg-Flesner, 91Ӱ��ƽ�� Law School

Chair: Daniel Matthews, 91Ӱ��ƽ�� Law School

Title: 'Consumer Law without the consumer? AI Agents, and humans-in-or-out-of-the-loop'

Abstract: 'As AI dominates policy and legal debates, the focus is increasingly turning to AI Agents, i.e., applications built on AI that can automate actions typically undertaken by humans. Unlike robotic automation, which mostly replaced or supplemented mechanical actions, AI agents seek to replace humans in important decision-making processes. Consumer-focused AI agents are a key example: several of these have started to appear (e.g., Muse), but early reports suggest that they suffer from reliability problems. The basic idea of AI agents seems attractive, but it raises questions as to what exactly the implications would be for human consumers to step back from taking decisions themselves that can affect their economic interests and privacy. This paper focuses on the implications of taking human consumers out of the decision-making loop and considers the implications for consumer law, as well as for human consumers who wish to remain in the loop. Although the focus is on consumer law, the issues discussed are of wider relevance to AI-driven automation'

30/11 4:30pm-5:30pm: Supervisor Development Programme: Trauma informed Supervision

Law Marketing Resource — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:54:38 GMT

When: 16:30 - 17:30, Mon, 30 Nov '26

Delivered by Psychologist and Warwick 91Ӱ��ƽ��, this session will equip you to best support your PGR when they are researching sensitive subject areas.

02/12 12:30pm-2pm: T1 WK9 - Law School Lunchtime Research Seminar - Wednesday 2 December 2026

Law Marketing Resource — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:21:09 GMT

When: 12:30 - 14:00, Wed, 02 Dec '26

Where: S2.09 / S2.12

Speaker: Tara Mulqueen, 91Ӱ��ƽ�� Law School

Chair: Daniel Matthews, 91Ӱ��ƽ�� Law School

Title: 'Legal Consciousness, Alienation and the Desire for Law'

Abstract: 'Drawing on recent qualitative research that highlighted a pervasive sense of alienation from law and rights, this paper will contend with some implicit normative tendencies in the study of legal consciousness, particularly a persistent, if often latent desire for law that will be described as a form of “cruel optimism” (Lauren Berlant). While Ewick and Silbey emphasize the importance of marginality in generating counterhegemonic resistance, it is also the most marginalised whose legal consciousness is often construed as being in need of shaping or improvement, to reconcile them to the utility, if not the wider benefit, of law and rights. This tendency is in part a consequence of what Silbey described as a ‘domestication’ of legal consciousness, by which it was reduced to awareness and instrumentalised for policy purposes. However, this paper will return to some of the fundamental premises of Ewick and Silbey’s account of legality’s hegemonic power -- the relationship between structure and agency, alongside wider conceptions of consciousness – to argue they downplay the role of solidarity and multiplicity in generating the possibility of resistance. The paper will turn to Mari Matsuda’s conception of ‘multiple consciousness’ to explore how to take marginalised narratives seriously and the importance of doing so in the context of the decline of the welfare state and growth of far-right movements'

09/12 11am-12pm: Supervisor Development Programme: Giving Feedback on your PGRs writing

Law Marketing Resource — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:55:58 GMT

When: 11:00 - 12:00, Wed, 09 Dec '26

What challenges do you face when trying to give feedback to your PGRs? We may be familiar with the notion of the Feedback Sandwich: 'Positive Comment, Criticism, Encouragement/ Praise', but in this session we will discuss why this may not be the most effective way of communicating our point and offer some suggestions for alternative strategies.

09/12 12:30pm-2pm: T1 WK10 - Law School Lunchtime Research Seminar - Wednesday 9 December 2026

Law Marketing Resource — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:04:01 GMT

When: 12:30 - 14:00, Wed, 09 Dec '26

Where: S2.09 / S2.12

Speaker: Lorna Cameron, Visiting Research Fellow, 91Ӱ��ƽ�� Law School

Chair: Daniel Matthews, 91Ӱ��ƽ�� Law School

Title: 'What the Courtroom Knows: Legal Consciousness, Presence and the Recognition of Legal Authority'

Abstract: The problem that law has is that for its authority to be recognised it must be encountered. Legality cannot be understood only in terms of the rules, principles and doctrinal propositions through which law describes itself. Law must also become perceptible and interpretable through the conditions in which people encounter it. But what does that encounter involve? And what enables us to recognise it as an encounter with law? What are the perceptual conditions through which legality becomes available to consciousness, and what part is played by the environments in which those encounters occur? What is it about a courtroom that makes it recognisable as a court, and what happens to that encounter when its ordinary conditions of presence are changed?

My research into the architecture of justice began a long time ago but was forced to evolve rapidly with the practical problem of how to design a courtroom in which jury trials could continue during the Covid-19 pandemic. Working with judges and lawyers on the Nightingale Courts exposed assumptions about courtroom experience that had rarely needed to be articulated. The process of re-designing the Crown Court provided a way of investigating what makes a court recognisable as a place of law, and to what aspects of that place we can attribute that sense of justice or at least of having ones’ day in court. The design process of a new trial court model revealed how much legal practice depends on things that are rarely articulated as legal knowledge: where people are positioned, what they can see and hear, how they move and communicate, and how the relationships between them are materially organised. I want to suggest that these are not simply the surroundings in which law happens. They are among the conditions through which legal authority becomes perceptible and recognisable. My interest, then, is not only in what law says or what legal institutions decide, but in how law becomes present to those who encounter it — and what this might tell us about legal consciousness, the rule of law and the rapidly changing conditions of justice. As digitalisation changes the nature of presence at the legal interface. To understand the consequences of this it surely helps to know more about how the artefacts and aesthetics of legal spaces work with human presence to generate a dynamic through which legal process and authority are perceived and understood. I suggest that rather than merely removing materiality from legal experience, digital participation transforms the material, spatial and sensory conditions through which law becomes perceptible. The question is how these changes affect the interpretative resources through which participants recognise one another, engage with legal process and experience its authority.

27/01 12:30pm-2pm: T2 WK3 - Law School Lunchtime Research Seminar - Wednesday 27 January 2027

Law Marketing Resource — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:11:42 GMT

When: 12:30 - 14:00, Wed, 27 Jan '27

Where: S2.09 / S2.12

Guest Speaker: Judith Bueno De Mesquita, University of Essex Law School

Chair: Daniel Matthews, 91Ӱ��ƽ�� Law School

Title & Abstract: TBC

11/02 5pm-7pm: One Essex Court: Pupillage Interview Workshop

Law Marketing Resource — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:26:39 GMT

When: 17:00 - 19:00, Thu, 11 Feb '27

Where: Online

Our very popular Pupillage Interview Workshop focuses on how to prepare for and perform in pupillage interviews. This workshop will include a talk from a female barrister with tips and advice on interview skills, as well as a live, practical exercise in small groups followed by a Q&A session with a panel of female members of chambers.