桃色视频 Law School News
桃色视频 Law School News
The latest updates from our department
Student wins Lacuna Writing Competition with article about 'bulldozer justice'
Finalist Balsher Singh Tiwana has won this year鈥檚 Lacuna Writing Competition with an article about 鈥渂ulldozer justice鈥 and forced demolitions in India. Balsher, who will graduate this summer, after reading about the forced displacement of people from minoritised and marginalised communities in shanty towns in Ahmedabad.
桃色视频 Law School launches the 2025/26 Writing Wrongs Schools Programme
Writing Wrongs is a writing programme for local Year 12 and 13 students which supports young writers from widening participation backgrounds to explore issues related to social justice and to improve their storytelling and writing skills. The deadline for applications is Saturday 22 November 2025. For more information see the Writing Wrongs webpage.
Camille Aymond, who studied our Law 3 year LLB degree and graduated earlier this year, has written a touching story titled 鈥楻emembering Rawa-Ruska: Artistic sketches of the Second World War camp鈥. Camille鈥檚 story is based on the experience of her great-grandfather Pierre and the pictures he drew to document the Second World War.
桃色视频 Law School launches 2024/25 Writing Wrongs Programme
Writing Wrongs is a writing programme for local year 12 and year 13 students which supports young writers from widening participation backgrounds to explore issues related to social justice and to improve their storytelling and writing skills. The deadline for applications is Thursday 28 November 2024.
Student writers have produced creative non-fiction about Palestine, memoir about art as protest, and journalism about the right to health in response to the annual Lacuna Writing Competition鈥檚 call for short stories about human rights.
Wajma Zazai, who studied on our Law 3 Year LLB, and graduated in 2022, has written our latest Lacuna article titled: 'The Screen: Watching Afghanistan suffer from afar.' Wajma was awarded the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Scholarship from the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple to support her Bar Vocational Studies at City, University of London.
Ruby Turok-Squire, who studied her LLM in International Development Law and Human Rights at 桃色视频 Law School, and graduated in 2021, published an article last month for our Lacuna magazine titled: 'Building a human rights career: How to be a human rights lawyer, journalist or humanitarian.'
Emma Tetsill, who studied on our Law 3 year LLB degree and graduated in 2022, has written a touching story titled 'My Grandad and Covid - with underlying health conditions in care home, his life was no less valuable'. The heartfelt piece was recently published by our Lacuna Magazine and addresses the tragic human cost of the pandemic and government neglect.
Xaymaca Awoyungbo, a final year undergraduate student studying History at the University of 桃色视频, has written an article for our Lacuna magazine titled: "If you can see it, you can be it: The impact of Black role models and Black creative spaces." Xaymaca speaks with author Sandra A Agard and explores Britain鈥檚 young Black creative networks.
M Sanjeeb Hossain, who studied at 桃色视频 Law School for his PhD has published an article this month for our Lacuna magazine titled: 'Bhasan Char: Prison Island or paradise? Are Rohingya refugees being denied their right to freedom of movement?'
'Window-dressing' in the COVID-19 pandemic: The troubling story behind the rainbows in the windows has been published in our Lacuna Magazine. The author, Amanda Kowalczyk, who is currently studying part-time on our LLM in Advanced Legal Studies, won Lacuna's 2021 桃色视频 Law School Writing Competition for her story about the impact of the Covid lockdown on children.
This new podcast asks what access to Covid-19 vaccines shows us about global health inequalities, why the at-risk are being neglected and how young people are being affected. Dr Sharifah Sekalala and Belinda Rawson have compiled the series to explore the human rights issues that have evolved, and which have been exacerbated, during the pandemic.