News from the School of Law 2009

Dr Prakash Shah on BBC Radio 4 on 'declining Christian religiosity in Britain'
21 December 2009

Professor Fitzmaurice receives grant to organise an event on the Permanent Court of International Justice
21 December 2009

Dr Prakash Shah to chair panel on ‘Religious-secular distinctions in law and education on 14-16 January 2010
16 December 2009

Professor Ian Walden appointed to the Press Complaints Commission
9 December 2009

Top award for Queen Mary LLB graduate who sued US clothing retailer
9 December 2009

Professor Eric Heinze in a panel discussion, 'that student unions should make international political gestures and allegiances' at UCL
9 December 2009

Dr Prakash Shah discusses Swiss Minaret Ban on BBC Radio 4
7 December 2009

Dr Phoebe Okowa lectures on Sovereignty Contests and the Protection of Natural Resources in Conflict Zones on 3 December
1 December 2009

Prakash Shah is to give a paper titled "Are Western and Islamic laws irreconcilable?"
26 November 2009

Microsoft and its exclusivity talks with News Corporation - Cyber law expert Professor Chris Reed comments...
26 November 2009

Legal English Certificate scholarship winners
19 November 2009

Queen Mary LLM student wins 2009 UN agency essay competition
11 November 2009

Dr Prakash Shah on 'Inconvenient marriages' at Human Rights Law conference
5 November 2009

Law Marketing Manager and Thai LLM alumni on the Queen Mary postgraduate law experience at British Council on 7 November
3 November 2009

Dr Maher Dabbah spoke at the Portuguese Competition Authority
27 October 2009

International Arbitration survey appoints researcher
23 October 2009

Queen Mary speakers at International Tax Conference
15 October 2009

New edition of the book Blackstone’s Criminal Practice published
14 October 2009

Dr Prakash Shah to speak on 'Are Western and Islamic laws irreconcilable?'
6 October 2009

Professor Heinze to speak on Majorities, Beliefs, and Sexual Orientations
6 October 2009

Dr Maher Dabbah to speak on 'the treatment of vertical restraints in the field of competition law'
6 October 2009

Professor Heinze to speak at 'Human Rights in Politics and Consciousness' conference
6 October 2009

Structural coupling between the systems of law and the media: the contrasting examples of criminal conviction and criminal appeal
5 October 2009

Dr Duncan Matthews to give keynote address on 'Creation of IP culture in universities' in Prague on 2 December
2 October 2009

Professor Kate Malleson - ‘Supreme Court opens as fears raised of US-style selection of judges’
1 October 2009

Dr Prakash Shah to give a paper at the Exploratory Workshop on Rights, Legal Mobilisation and Political Participation in Europe
1 October 2009

Dr Shah to give a paper on "Comparatively Indian: Living with Legal Plurality"
8 September 2009

Dr Matthews to give public lecture at the University of Cape Town in South Africa
4 September 2009

Dr Matthews commissioned to assist UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to develop an international IP strategy
3 September 2009

Dr Shah to speak at South Asian Culture à la barre Workshop in Paris
3 September 2009

ICC: 8th Annual Competition Law Summer School success
20 August 2009

Professor Fitzmaurice's book Contemporary Issues of International Environmental Law is published
17 August 2009

Professor Mistelis interviewed by leading Spanish financial newspaper on the future of international arbitration
13 August 2009

Dr Brekoulakis argues for a clear interface between arbitration and litigation at EU policy meeting in Brussels
11 August 2009

Committee welcomes new corporate bribery offence, but calls for it to be stronger
31 July 2009

Dr Dabbah on 'Political economy constraints in the implementation of competition law regimes in developing countries'
31 July 2009

Professor Van Bueren, 'Cutting tuition fees could be unlawful'
24 July 2009

Professor Fitzmaurice to speak on Settlement of Disputes in International Environmental Law
22 July 2009

Law graduation day 2009
22 July 2009

Professor Heinze ‘In defence of the burqa: A gay perspective’
17 July 2009

House of Lords Constitution Committee
17 July 2009

Professor Van Bueren on BBC Radio 4 discussing the 'child executions in Iran'
2 July 2009

Success for Queen Mary PhD student
24 June 2009

Professor Lastra contributes to House of Lords report - The Future of EU Financial Regulation and Supervision
22 June 2009

Lord Hoffmann joins Queen Mary as Honorary Professor of Intellectual Property Law
22 June 2009

Dr Prakash Shah on 'Diversity of Laws in a Diverse World: But why don't we get it?'
16 June 2009

Queen Mary students demonstrate skill at Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2009
12 June 2009

House of Lords publish work submitted by Queen Mary LLM students
12 June 2009

The Public-Private Law Divide: Potential for Transformation?
12 June 2009

Trends and Developments in Global Competition Law conference success
12 June 2009

Professor Alldridge to advise the joint parliamentary committee on the draft Bribery Bill
8 June 2009

Dr Duncan Matthews commissioned by Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP) to advise on “Patents in the Global Economy”
4 June 2009

Queen Mary in UK's top ten universities for law
3 June 2009

Law Firm Dewey LeBoeuf to sponsor a student to study International Arbitration at Queen Mary
3 June 2009

Dr Matthews to lecture at the 'Main Trends in Intellectual Property Law' conference in Gdansk
13 May 2009

Queen Mary, School of Law is placed 9th in the UK in the Guardian University Guide
13 May 2009

Professor Rachael Mulheron appointed to the Civil Justice Council of England and Wales
11 May 2009

Dr Shah - Activism in the European Court of Justice and changing options for Turkish citizen migrants in the UK
1 May 2009

Dr Shah - 'Legal pluralism in Europe: The case of Britain's Muslim Communities'
1 May 2009

Dr Suthersanen spoke on the 'public domain' at the WIPO Development Agenda and the Public Domain
30 April 2009

Dr Dabbah on 'The role of competition policy in times of economic crisis' at Crisis and Competition Policy conference.
30 April 2009

Dr Shah organised a seminar: After Metock - EU free movement rights in the UK
29 April 2009

Professor Mistelis comments on the debate over transparency in international investment arbitration
27 April 2009

Merris Amos on The One Show speaking about the Human Rights Act and Naomi Campbell
20 April 2009

Legal Advice Centre commended at Pro Bono Awards
17 April 2009

Professor Lastra advises House of Lords on EU financial regulation and responses to the financial crisis
1 April 2009

LLM exchange programme celebrates 10th anniversary
1 April 2009

Professor Johanna Gibson presented the Road Map for Bulgaria at The European Patent Academy's conference
26 March 2009

Former Queen Mary student appointed as law clerk at the European Court of Justice
24 March 2009

2009 George Hinde Moot Final
24 March 2009

Dr Anna Bryson's biography of Thekla Beere is published
24 March 2009

Legal Advice Centre shortlisted for awards
2 March 2009

Convention on Modern Liberty
28 February 2009

Making human rights popular
17 February 2009

Queen Mary Professors elected to Peer Review Council
17 February 2009

Intellectual Property and Public Health
17 February 2009

Professor Eric Heinze featured in Guardian Weekly on coverage of human rights
27 January 2009

Professor van Bueren argues that some disabled people in the UK may be snubbed by the Government.
27 January 2009

Dr Prakash Shah is to join a research group funded by France's Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
27 January 2009

'Law-making for cyberspace' project wins funding
27 January 2009

Queen Mary School of Law ranked seventh in RAE Assessment
27 January 2009

Dr Phoebe Okawa 'Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime’
27 January 2009