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Dr Peter Whelan, a Lecturer in Law at UEA Law School, has completed a Visiting Professorship at the Institute of International Trade and Law in Moscow. In the first week of April 2013, while at the Institute, Dr Whelan conducted an intensive five-day course aimed at advanced law students in Russia. Specifically, the course covered the fundamentals of English Contract Law and detailed how EU Competition Law (in particular Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European...

Dr Peter Whelan and Dr Pinar Akman, both of whom lecture at UEA Law School, were invited to and attended the ‘Antitrust Marathon’ which was held at the Italian Competition Authority in Rome on 18 March 2013. Dr Whelan chaired a panel session dedicated to the discussion of criminal enforcement of competition law. He also contributed to the panel discussion on the use of private enforcement of competition law. He argued that, for various reasons, public enforcement is far superior to...

Law students from the University of East Anglia have been shortlisted for two National Awards celebrating their volunteer work with the local community . The university is one of six institutions shortlisted in the category of best contribution by a team of students for its Street Law project, in the annual LawWorks & Attorney General Student Awards. Final year law student Naomi Newell is also among eight finalists for best contribution by an individual student. The awards...

UEA Graduate on Supreme Court UEA Law School has its first member of the supreme Court. It is not however what you might think. Ashby Pate (who graduated with an LLM in 2010) was recently appointed to be a justice on the Supreme Court of Palau, a nation comprised of 250 islands east of the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean.     News article link - http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/03/birmingham_attorney_appointed.html The Law School offers Ashby our warmest...

High Sheriff's Law Lecture Professor Adam Crawford from the University of Leeds will present a lecture on the implications of Police and Crime Commissioners for police governance generally and, more specifically, the possible privatisation of policing.