The development of a new department of Law at the University of York comes at an exciting time. There are few aspects of modern life that are unaffected by legal rules. Dealing with criminal offences, making (or breaking) contracts, relationships between employers and employees, the conduct of governmental and other public bodies, and company mergers all depend on the existence of legal frameworks and raise complex legal issues.

The study of law has never been more exciting than now, as the law develops to respond to the challenges of an increasingly global and information-based society. The new programme at York will be particularly stimulating.

Departmental News

  • Indrani Sigamany recently facilitated a consultancy for the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre.  Delivering a Capacity Building workshop at the Dana + 10 conference for Mobile Indigenous Peoples in Wadi Dana, Jordan, the theme of Indrani’s workshop was Legal Mechanisms and Land Issues of Mobile Indigenous Peoples.  

    Indrani also participated in the committee which drafted the  Dana Declaration +10 Workshop Participant Statement for Rio +20 Conference.

  • The Centre for Applied Human Rights is delighted to announce that it has secured one scholarship for a student on either its MA in Applied Human Rights or LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice in 2012-13.
    The value of the scholarship is £4,200, or the equivalent of a full UK/EU student fee waiver. The scholarship is open to UK/EU and overseas applicants.
    To apply for the scholarship applicants will need to have a conditional or an unconditional offer for full-time study for either the MA or the LLM. Applications will be assessed on the basis of academic excellence and practical experience - international experience of some kind is desirable.
    To apply for the scholarship, please fill in the application form. The form should be sent to Sanna Eriksson (sanna.eriksson@york.ac.uk) to arrive by 5pm UK time on Thursday 31 May 2012.

  • Jenny Steele has recently published two papers: J. Steele, ‘Tort, Insurance, and the Resources of Private Law’, in S. Degeling, J. Edelman, and J. Goudkamp (eds), Torts in Commercial Law (Thomson Reuters, Sydney, 2011), 195-220; and J. Steele, ‘Satisfying Claims? Money, Tort, and Consumer Society’ (2011) 20 Social and Legal Studies 528-539 (part of a Dialogue and Debate: D. Campbell, D. McCallum, P. O’Malley, and J. Steele, ‘The Currency of Freedom’).

  • Massimo Renzo's article “Associative Responsibilities and Political Obligation” has appeared in Philosophical Quarterly, 62, 246, 2012, pp. 106-127. Massimo has also co-edited a volume on The Structures of the Criminal Law, which recently came out for Oxford University Press.

  • Ph.D. Teaching Scholarship in Property Law and Equity York Law School is delighted to offer a Teaching Scholarship in Property Law and Equity in the 2012-13 academic year.

  • York Law School Clinic expands its service The York Law School Clinic at the University of York is expanding its free legal advice service with the appointment of a trainee solicitor and the involvement of more student advisors.

  • Tort Law and the Legislature, May 2011: Workshop Summary

  • A collection of essays, 'Mass Justice: Challenges of Representation and Distribution', has been published in July 2011 by Edward Elgar Press, co-edited by Jenny Steele (York) and Willem van Boom (Erasmus University, Rotterdam): http://www.eelgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=14174

  • Simon Halliday's paper 'The Public Management of Liability Risks' (co-authored with Jonathan Ilan and Colin Scott) has just appeared in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 31(2011) 527-550
  • Massimo Renzo's article 'State Legitimacy and Self-defence' just came out in Law and Philosophy 30 (2011) 575-601. An Italian translation of his 2010 article "A Criticism of the International Harm Principle" (Criminal Law and Philosophy, 4, 2010, pp. 267-282.) has appeared in the volume Giustizia globale. Problemi e prospettive, edited by Fabrizio Sciacca (Soveria Mannelli:Rubbettino, 2011)
  • Dr Sarah Wilson has recently appeared on the life story of Emilia Fox in the BBC1 TV series Who Do You Think You Are? The programme featured Dr Wilson's research on nineteenth-century business and enterprise, which is part of ongoing research into business and law during the nineteenth century, and a specific project which is being developed from this, looking at entrepreneurship in Yorkshire.
  • York Law School Clinic Annual Report 2010-11
  • Welcome to York Law School. A short video.
  • Massimo Renzo has joined the Morrell Centre for Toleration.
  • Dr TT Arvind has been selected as the winner of the ICLQ Young Scholars Prize for his article, 'The Transplant Effect in Harmonization' (2010) 59 ICLQ 65-88. The prize will be awarded at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on 19 May.
  • Charlotte O'Brien is one of five selected contributors (along with President of Chamber and Judge at the European Court of Justice) published in the first edition of a new journal - the European Journal of Social Law. The article title is 'Drudges, dupes and do-gooders? Competing notions of 'value' in the Union's approach to volunteers'.
  • Lars Waldorf has recently published a co-edited collection, Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence and two articles on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Fordham International Law Journal and Hastings International and Comparative Law Review.
  • Charlotte O'Brien has recently published two new pieces: 'Equality's false summits: new varieties of disability discrimination, "excessive" equal treatment and economically constricted horizons' 36(1) European Law Review (2011) 26-50 and 'Case C-310/08 Ibrahim, Case C-480/08 Teixiera' 48(1) Common Market Law Review (2011) 203-225
  • Introducing York Law School Clinic
  • The Open Society has awarded Richard Grimes $46,000 to fund the visit in the UK of 10 Afghan academics. The aim is to look at several clinical initiatives (at York, Newcastle, Sheffield and London)
  • Two new publications by Kathryn Wright: 'Judicial Scrutiny of Merger Decisions in the EU, UK and Germany' (2011) 60 International and Comparative Law Quarterly, forthcoming January (with Michael Harker and Sebastian Peyer) and 'The EU Rules on Standing in Merger Cases: Should Firms Have to Demonstrate "Harm to Competition"?' (2011) 36 European Law Review, forthcoming August (with Michael Harker and Morten Hviid)

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