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ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ 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.

The Centre for Constitutions in Context (CCC) hosted a first-of-its-kind event titled 'Enhancing the Dialogue Between Public Law Practice and Academia', co-hosted with the UK Constitutional Law Association. The event took place at The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, London earlier this month on 24 June.

On May 14 2026, the School of Law and the Departments of Sociology and Politics and International Studies put on a Big Questions themed interdisciplinary workshop on Capitalist Institutions and Power, with a focus on ‘How should the economy be organised to serve society?’

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.

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.

ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Law School’s Centre for Global Health Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Angela Daly as a visiting Professor. She is collaborating with our Centre for Global Health Law as a COI on the Advancing health data justice: A comparative study of health-related data governance in Canada, Germany and the UK project (ADIJUST). Her appointment at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Law School will enrich our research community and deepen our engagement with some of the defining legal challenges of our time.

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.

To celebrate International Workers’ Day (May Day) we have organised an online exhibition to showcase some of the policy briefs realised by students of Labour Law in Context (LA3A6) over the years. These group policy briefs are part of the assessment for the module and aim to encourage students to engage with current labour law debates and learn about policy writing as a tool for legal change. For students this is also an opportunity to value the importance of teamwork, negotiate positions, and work towards a common goal.

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.

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