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BCU team outside BCU Curzon building at UK Animal Law conference 2024

Animals must be given legal rights to ensure their wellbeing, agree ex...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 02 JUL

Bridging the gap between animal and environmental law and raising animals ’ legal status are some of the first steps towards a better legal future for animals, agreed experts at...

How feminists are harnessing human rights to advance abortion access

UNIVERSITY NEWS 08 MAR

Dr Rebecca Smyth, Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University (BCU), is researching how feminists use human rights to advance abortion rights access.

Criminal justice expert presents at the Law Library of United States C...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 14 FEB

Professor Sarah Cooper, Professor of Interdisciplinary Criminal Justice at Birmingham City University (BCU), delivered a lecture titled, Human Rights Day: Science Literacy and the Law at an...

Law School Human Rights Expert won Award for Most Impactful Consultanc...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 10 AUG 2023

Dr Philip Oamen, Lecturer in Law at BCU, won BCU's 'Highly Commended' Award in the 'Most Impactful Consultancy Project' category, at the Knowledge Exchange Awards Dinner on 27 June 2023. The...

BCU Researcher publishes book on Animal Law

UNIVERSITY NEWS 10 AUG 2023

Dr. Iyan Offor, a Lecturer in Law at BCU, has published a new book entitled, “Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and their Bodies”.

BCU Law School Expert in Animal and Environmental Law presents researc...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 14 JUL 2023

Dr. Iyan Offor, a Lecturer in Law at BCU School of Law, presented his research on animal justice and the biodiversity crisis during a keynote speech at the Tarragona International Environmental...

Melisa Oleschuk at the UN Graduate Study Programme

Law Doctoral student participates in UN Human Rights Graduate Study Pr...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 14 JUL 2023

Miss Melisa Oleschuk, a Doctoral student at BCU, has participated in the prestigious 61st Graduate Study Programme organized by the United Nations in Geneva, with funding support from...

BCU Researcher publishes report on Impartiality of Adjudicators in Mex...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 19 JUN 2023

Rafael Quintero Godínez, Lecturer in law at BCU, is set to publish a report titled “The Independence and Impartiality of Adjudicators in Mexico”.

BCU Researcher awarded for contribution to the advancement of educatio...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 16 JUN 2023

Mr Lamin Daffeh, Lecturer in Law and Doctoral student at BCU, was honoured with a top award for his contribution to the advancement of education in the UK and The Gambia, at an award ceremony at...

BCU Researcher accepts Committee nomination of the West Midlands branc...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 24 MAY 2023

Dr Alan Ma, a Lecturer in Law at BCU, has become a committee member of the West Midlands branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). CIArb is a regional hub for practitioners,...

BCU Law School International Arbitration expert delivers lecture at Wa...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 24 MAY 2023

On April 26, 2023, Dr Alan Ma, Lecturer in Law at BCU, delivered an evening lecture on expert evidence in international arbitration at Warwick University. The lecture was co-organised by the...

BCU Law School American Constitutional Law experts present seminar on ...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 25 APR 2023

Dr Ilaria Di Gioia, a Senior Lecturer in Law and Associate Director for the Centre for American Legal Studies at BCU School of Law, has joined a panel of scholars to discuss the United States’...

BCU researcher and law students participate in mediation workshop orga...

UNIVERSITY NEWS 18 APR 2023

On April 5, 2023, Birmingham City University School of Law students, led by Dr Alan Ma, a Lecturer in Law at BCU, participated in a mediation workshop organised by the West Midlands branch of the...