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Law School receives Athena Swan Silver award
12 March 2024
The University of Bristol Law School is delighted to announce that our application for an Athena Swan Silver Award has been successful, seeing the Law School become the first non-STEMM School in the University to receive an Athena Swan Silver award.
- Law School receives Athena Swan Silver award 12 March 2024 The University of Bristol Law School is delighted to announce that our application for an Athena Swan Silver Award has been successful, seeing the Law School become the first non-STEMM School in the University to receive an Athena Swan Silver award.
- Celebrating our February 2024 prize winners 16 February 2024 This week the Law School celebrated student award winners who have achieved excellence in their studies, in a prize-giving ceremony held on Wednesday 14 February.
- Professor John Coggon appointed to World Health Organization Technical Advisory Group on Ethics and Climate Health 13 December 2023 The Law School’s Professor John Coggon has been appointed to a World Health Organization technical advisory group on embedding ethics in health and climate change policy.
- University of Bristol Law School celebrates 90th birthday 1 December 2023 The University of Bristol Law School marked its 90th anniversary with a Gala Dinner held at the Wills Memorial Building on 18 November 2023. Following recent receptions in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, this formal event in the Great Hall was a fitting way to close these special celebrations with our alumni community.
- “It’s fantastic to see my work having an impact in the real world.” Q&A with Law Commissioner Professor Sarah Green 30 November 2023 The Law School’s Professor Sarah Green, current Commissioner for Commercial and Common Law, was recently recognised at the British Legal Technology Awards 2023, winning the Outstanding Individual Achievement Award. In our Q&A we asked Sarah about what the award means to her, her work at the Law Commission, and her advice for students starting on their journey into Law.
- Professor Rachel Murray awarded ESRC Outstanding International Impact Prize 16 November 2023 The Law School’s Rachel Murray, Professor of International Human Rights, was awarded the prestigious Economic and Social Research Council Celebrating Impact Prize 2023 at a ceremony held in the Royal Society in London yesterday, 15 November.
- In conversation with Sir Nicholas Mostyn 7 November 2023 Law School alumnus, Sir Nicholas Mostyn (LLB 1979) retired from his position as a British High Court Judge in the Family Division, earlier this summer. His career spanning decades saw him preside over some contentious and groundbreaking cases.
- Pioneering research by Professor Emma Hitchings reveals stark reality of divorcing couples’ finances 1 November 2023 High-profile acrimonious divorce cases making news headlines have created the false impression court room showdowns and large financial settlements are commonplace. But a new report, led by the University of Bristol and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, exposes for the first time how most divorcees in England and Wales have surprisingly little to share.
- Publication: ‘Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial’ by Professor Joanne Conaghan and Dr Yvette Russell 30 October 2023 Bristol University Press has published a new book by the Law School’s Professor of Law Joanne Conaghan and Associate Professor in Law and Feminist Theory Yvette Russell.
- Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize 20 October 2023 Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, Associate Professor in the University of Bristol Law School, is among 30 extraordinary researchers, including two from the University, to win a national 2023 Philip Leverhulme Prize for his vital research in the field of international law and armed conflict.