Law School News - 404 - University of Hull

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Law School News
Issue 2 – June 2012
Latest news
Prof. Christian Twigg-
Flesner will start his
new role as Head of
the Law School on 1
August. On being
asked about his new
position Christian said
“It’s going to be a
challenging period in light of the new funding
arrangements for Higher Education, but also an
exciting time as we are preparing to adopt a
revised curriculum for our undergraduate
programmes. It will be a period of continuous
development for the School, with a need to branch
out into a more diverse range of research and
teaching activities. I would hope that working
together as a School, we will be able to realise the
potential of both staff and students and I am
optimistic about the direction of the School.”
Staff updates
Dr Peter Cserne will join the Law School as Senior
Lecturer from 2 July. Plus, Mr Carmino Massarella
will soon join us as a Research Assistant and Miss
Nikki Christie will start work with us as a Graduate
Research Associate.
Academic developments
Amongst new modules to be introduced in
2012/13 are ‘Science, Law and New Technologies‘,
led by Dr Ludivine Petetin and also ‘Introduction to
Law and Economics’ by Dr Peter Cserne.
Research news
Dr Albert Sanchez Graells’ book 'Public
Procurement and the EU Competition Rules’
(Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2011) was recently
shortlisted by the jury of the 2012 Vogel Prix in
Economic Law.
Dr Martina Kunnecke delivered a paper at Trinity
College, Dublin on 9 June. The conference was
entitled ‘Law, Literature and Translation’.
Martina’s paper was entitled “Bridging the Gap –
Comparative Law and Legal Translation in the
Court of Justice”.
Visiting Professor Gary Edles was one of a group of
experts invited to speak at the Workshop on
Accountability of Independent Agencies Before
Parliaments at the Montesquieu Institute,
Maastricht, the Netherlands, to address "Bringing
the US and European Experience Together."
Dr Niaz Shah has attended a number of events:-
On 17 April Dr Shah participated in a week long
training for military lawyers (mainly from NATO
countries) to be deployed to Afghanistan and
other conflict zones at the Land Warfare Centre,
Ministry of Defence, Warminster. His topic was
‘The Taliban Rules and Regulations for Mujahidin
and Islamic Law’.
Dr Shah participated at a high level two day
conference on 24 - 25 May at the South Asia
Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. The
topic he presented was ‘The Legality of US Drone
Attacks in Pakistan’. The event was reported in
German and Pakistani media.
Dr Shah spoke on ‘The Use of force against armed
groups: the ‘unwilling or unable’ test and the
armed groups in Pakistan’ on 2 May at Newcastle
University.
On 9 May BBC Pashto Service, London interviewed
Dr Shah on the implications of Abu Qatada’s
deportation (Othman (Abu Qatada) v. The United
Kingdom ECHR 200 (2012)) when Qatada’s appeal
was rejected on 9 May and the British government
started preparations for his deportation.
Dr Rhuks Ako is attending the IUCN Conference
from 1 - 5 July at the University of Maryland. He
will present a paper titled ‘Environmental Justice
in Nigeria’s Oil Industry: Recognizing and
Embracing Contemporary Legal Developments’.
Prof. Gerry Johnstone has been appointed Book
Review Editor of a new journal: ‘Restorative
Justice: An International Journal’ (to be published
by Hart Publishing from 2013). He will be a
member of the editorial team of the journal which
will publish original, ground-breaking and
innovative articles about restorative justice.

Prof. Gerry Johnstone
was one of a small
group of international
experts invited to take
part in the 1st
International
Symposium on
Restorative Justice & Human Rights in Greece.
Dr Ludivine Petetin recently attended the XII
Congress of the World Union of Academic
Agrarians (UMAU) in Nitra (Slovakia). She
presented a paper on ‘Consumer Preferences and
Biotech Foods in EU and US law’ that was well
received by the audience.
PhD student Eghosa Ekhator has been given
approval for £330 of funding from the Law
School’s Research Budget to attend the conference
on ‘Civil Society Organizations Fighting Corruption:
Theory and Practice Workshop’ at the University of
Surrey on 9 - 10 July.
Events
Sarah Thind, the newly elected Chair of the Staff-
Student Committee for 2012/13 attended the
National Law Students’ Forum on 20 - 21 June at
Nottingham Trent University. Sarah will prepare a
report with feedback from the conference, which
will be published in the next issue.
Congratulations to Ben Chapman who is the newly
elected President of the Hull University Student
Law Society for 2012/13.
The Law Careers Fair, which takes place on 1
November, has so far received confirmation of
exhibits from Stamp Jackson & Proctor, The
College of Law, BPP, Dickinson Dees, Devine Law,
Walker Morris, The City Law School, University of
Sheffield and Northumbria University.
That the OUP-BPP National Mooting Competition
finals took place on 28 June and Hull (Katie Blake
and Ben Chapman) put on a mighty performance
attempting to persuade the judge about
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distinctions between subsidiaries and independent
contractors, employment relationships and pupilteacher
relationships, and illegality defence
concerning an international element, all in a
complex tort context. The finals, organised on a
knock out basis, were won by Glasgow University
leaving Hull, Buckingham and Plymouth as runners
up. Congratulations to both Katie and Ben on their
efforts in the competition.
Prof. Jeremy Horder, the Edmund-Davies Professor
of Criminal Law at King’s College London, Hull
graduate and former Law Commissioner, will
receive an Honorary Degree at the Law School
graduation ceremony on 12 July.
Internships with Hull City Council
The Law School has entered into an agreement
with Hull City Council for law students to
undertake summer internships within the Council’s
Legal and Democratic Services Department. The
scheme is funded through the University run
Internship Project, under the auspices of the
University of Hull Careers Service. The interns will
receive a salary subsidy from the Internship
Programme, with the host employer making a
further contribution.
Tom Neely (3 rd Year) and Loren Little (1 st Year) are
the first two participants from the Law School.
They will be supervised by Legal Services’ lawyers
and will be required in addition to other duties, to
complete an employability journal – a short
reflective journal that helps the intern to capture
skills and experiences that will give them a
competitive edge when applying for graduate level
jobs, in the future.
Frank Dignan, who has led for the Law School on
this initiative, said that this “will be a great
opportunity for the students concerned, and will
hopefully be the first of many such partnerships
with other public sector employers in the Hull
area.”
Careers Service
Helen Creasy left the Careers Service on 22 June.
The Law School is grateful for all the hard work
Helen has provided during her time at the
University and we wish her all the best in her
future career. Helen’s replacement, Dr Suzanne
Milan, will begin work in September.
More accolades!
The University of Hull has regained its top 50
position by climbing four places from 53 to 49 in
the 2013 Times Good University Guide published
this week.

The Hull University Union has recently won the
award for Innovative Student Engagement at the
National Union of Students (NUS) Higher Education
Awards. The awards aim to showcase some of the
most innovative and successful activities
happening within students’ unions across the UK
on topics such as student engagement,
representation and campaigning.
The University of Hull is opening its doors on
Saturday 7 July to show prospective students, their
families and friends why it is such a popular place
to study.
Alumni
The Law School is producing an Alumni Directory
to feature on our website and we would like to
invite Alumni, both recent and past, to provide us
with details of their current employment and/or a
brief quote about their experiences of studying in
Hull. Please submit these to Kate Glover at the
address shown below.
Contact
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