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Seven Warwick Law School colleagues recently attended the first Warwick Law Week at Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL) which took place from 21-25 September in Chongqing, China.

On 14 August 2026, Kathryn McMahon (Warwick) and Mel Marquis (Monash), together with PhD researchers, Robin Vandendriessche (Warwick) 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 Warwick AllianceLink opens in a new window and took place at the Monash Law Chambers, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Warwick 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.

In recognition of their contributions, Professor Jackie Hodgson and Dr Charlotte Woodhead have been awarded a Warwick Award for Public and Community Engagement (WAPCE).

Creative challenges, problem-solving and teamwork took centre stage at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ as pupils from across the UK and Ireland competed in the School Tasking Champion of Champions Final.

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.

Warwick Law School's Centre for Global Health Law is proud to be part of a new Memorandum of Understanding between the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and the World Health Organization (WHO), formalising collaboration to strengthen gender, human rights, and equity in digital health governance. The partnership reflects Warwick Law School's founding commitment to studying law in its social and political context, and its long tradition of placing human rights and social justice at the heart of legal scholarship.

Warwick Law School colleagues Professor Henrique Carvalho and Dr Ruth Bernatek have been awarded a Warwick Research Celebration Award, in the ‘Collaboration & Partnerships’ category.

Professor Ann Stewart and Professor Emily Henderson (Education Studies) were invited to present their research on gender and equitable access to Higher Education in India at the launch of the Warwick India Network (WIN) on Monday 16 March, as part of One World Warwick.

In recognition of their contribution to excellence, Professor Jane Bryan, Dr Rajnaara Choudhury Akhtar and Dr Charlotte Woodhead have been nominated for a Warwick 2026 Research Celebration Award.