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For the first time, charity Victim Support is collaborating with the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, thanks to a programme of relationship-building events devised and led by a PhD researcher.

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

Professor Vanessa Munro (principal investigator), Dr Siobhan Weare (co-investigator, Lancaster University), and Dr Madeleine Millar (research and innovation associate), have been awarded £719,909 in funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The funding is for their project, ‘Delivering Justice in a Digital Age: Exploring the Impact on Mock jurors of Pre-Recorded Evidence in Sexual Offences Trials’, which will begin in September 2026.

Sergeant Jonathan Benjamin of West Midlands Police has been awarded a ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Policy Hub Fellowship. He has been working with Professor Jackie Hodgson (Law), Dr Rachel Lewis (Sociology) and Dr Ruth Bernatek (Law) on their research and impact work using innovative arts-led approaches to challenge racist attitudes and behaviours within the police. As an in-residence Policy Fellow, Jonathan will be able to further this engagement, including with the Centre for Operational Police Research, COPR.

ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Law School's Centre for Global Health Law is proud to be part of a new Memorandum of Understanding between the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ and the World Health Organization (WHO), formalising collaboration to strengthen gender, human rights, and equity in digital health governance. The partnership reflects ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ 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.

The Government has announced plans to reform weddings law in England and Wales in a move set to completely overhaul how and where couples can marry. This is the biggest change to weddings law in over two hundred years.

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

ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Law School, in collaboration with United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa), hosted a successful public lecture last month in Nairobi, Kenya, that attracted over 100 students, academics, and legal professionals. The event provided a platform for insightful discussions on pressing legal and social issues, reinforcing ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ’s commitment to global engagement and academic collaboration.

ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ LLB students Olivia Cooper and Leo Rudd have been working to develop a written resource to help staff better understand, support and accommodate the needs of our neurodivergent students. EDI reps OIivia and Leo are working on this really important issue to ensure Law School staff are fully equipped to offer the right support.

We are thrilled to share that Dr Hyo Yoon Kang, Reader/Associate Professor at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Law School has been elected this month as the Co-Director of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) for a five-year term.

The Council of the (ELI) has recently approved an interim report for its project on directed by Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner.

ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Law School students recently presented the results of a legal research project into social housing allocation inequality conducted as part of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Law in the Community’s Strategic Social Justice Clinic. The presentation outlined the complex issues surrounding change of circumstance applications to Coventry City Council’s social housing team. The outcomes of the student’s work have resulted in resources that will be used by a local law centre in helping some of the most vulnerable people in Coventry secure adequate and timely assistance in their housing need.