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The Law School’s Dr Luminita Olteanu has co-authored a new Policy Brief with Professor Ilanah Fhima from UCL Laws. The Policy Brief titled ‘Body Image and Trade Mark Law: A Policy Proposal’ is the result of the Strategic Brand Signalling Roundtable held on 16 June 2025 at Bentham House, with support from IBIL and Warwick Law School.

Dr Serena Natile will deliver a session on ‘Revisiting Wages for Housework’ at the Resonate ESRC Festival of Social Science, taking place on Monday 3 November 2025 in Leamington Spa. The event will consider the potential of utopian/dystopian evolutions of work, and how we might shape the future for human wellbeing. Join ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ researchers for an evening of short talks from diverse perspectives of ‘Our Working Lives’.

Congratulations to Maximilien Zahnd and Signe Larsen on securing a British Academy small grant in support of their research.

The School of Law and the Department of Economics hosted the 55^th Annual THETS Meeting from 3 to 5 September 2025. Annual meetings have been held since 1968, making THETS one of the oldest established groups of historians of economics.

A report by Dr Rachael Blakey has found that the ‘one-lawyer-two-clients’ format of family law support ‘can be highly effective in facilitating an agreement between certain divorcing or separating couples’.

The New England Foundation for the Arts has awarded Dr. Carolina Alonso Bejarano’s collaborative project ELMO-MENTO a 100,000 USD National Dance Project Grant to support the creation and U.S. touring of the piece.

[Art by Peter Quach]

Sharon Wassamon Kun-amornpong, who studied at Warwick 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.

We are excited to share that Dr Rachael Blakey has been shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Peter Birks Prize for her monograph, . The prize recognises outstanding legal scholarship published by Early Career Academics.

James Harrison from Warwick Law School and co-author Mark Wielga (from Nomogaia) have been awarded this year’s best scholarly article prize by the Business and Human Rights Journal. The article compares the effectiveness of six grievance mechanisms that allow workers and communities to complain about human rights abuses that corporations have allegedly perpetrated against them.

The Strategic Brand Signalling Roundtable was held to examine trade marks, advertising, and body image perceptions in the UK. The event brought together professionals from ethics, psychology, psychiatric epidemiology, and trade mark and advertising law to discuss these interconnected issues.

Warwick Law School’s Professor Vanessa Munro was highly commended for her research impact in the recent Warwick Research Celebration, which recognised colleagues who have excelled in different aspects of research.

Warwick Law School’s Solange Mouthaan has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for her research project titled: ‘Cemeteries, colonialism, and intergenerational legal stories’ which reclaims the narratives of marginalised women and their erased Indigenous foremothers, opening a pathway into future research on reparations.