LLM Exam Results have been posted on the Student Intranet Site.

This edition of Osterhoff on Trusts has incorporated the vast changes in the law of trusts in recent years.

Our new Centre for Criminal Law was launched with a lecture on 'Risk and Harm Prevention in the Criminal Law' by Professor Andrew Ashworth. The lecture was followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Professor Bob Sullivan, Professor of Criminal Law at UCL, with Professor Jeremy Horder (Law Commission) and Professor Nicola Lacey (LSE). All speakers are on the Advisory Board of the Centre.

Ioannis Lianos has been appointed as a Non-Governmental advisor (NGA) at the International Competition Network (ICN), the inter-governmental network that oversees and promotes international convergence in competitition law. In particular, Ioannis has been appointed as a NGA to the unilateral practices working group, chaired by the US Federal Trade Commission and the German Bundeskartellamt as well as to the competition advocacy working group chaired by the UK Office of Fair Trading and the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service.

For the 2008 Hamlyn Lectures, Hazel Genn discussed reforms to civil justice in England and around the world over the last decade in the context of escalating expenditure on criminal justice and vanishing civil trials. In critically assessing the claims and practice of mediation for civil disputes, she questioeds whether diverting cases out of the public courts and into private dispute resolution promotes access to justice, looks critically at the changed expectations of the judiciary in civil justice and points to the need for a better understanding of how judges ‘do justice’.

The UCL Centre for Commercial Law, in association with the journal International Corporate Rescue, hosted a public seminar on Friday 16 October to preface the November publication of Sir David Walker's final recommendations on reform of corporate governance practices in the UK banking industry. The discussion was chaired by UCL Laws academic Dr Marc Moore and featured a keynote address by Edward Walker-Arnott, an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Laws and former senior partner of Herbert Smith.

The UCL Institute for Human Rights (IHR) was launched on 15 October 2009 with the event 'Corporate Social Responsibility & Human Rights: Have Ten Years of Voluntarism Worked?'. Speakers at the event included Professor Robert McCorquodale (BIICL), Dr Susan George (Board of the Transnational Institute), Dr Saladin Meckled-Garcia (UCL School of Public Policy), Dr George Letsas (UCL Laws) and UCL Visiting Professor Stephen Rubin (UCL Laws 1958; UCL Fellow 1995, and Chairman of Pentland Group plc).

The refurbishment of our new School of Energy and Resources, Australia (UCL SERAus) in Adelaide is now nearing completion and the School is set to open its doors to Masters students in February. The School is already running an executive education programme, and last week UCL's Professor of International Law, Catherine Redgwell, and Senior Research Fellow, Ian Havercroft, delivered an extremely well-received short course on Contemporary Legal Issues in Energy Regulation to a group of senior executives from the Australian energy industry and public sector. Catherine Redgwell also delivered a public lecture, which drew a large audience to the Santos Centre in Adelaide

We are delighted to announce that 2 Laws students have been awarded UCL Global Excellence Scholarships worth £5000 each. They are: Harry Kyle for the UK award and Katja Loncaric for the North America award.

Professor Korah was honoured at a two day conference on the reform of EC competition law on vertical restraints. The conference brought together leading competition law practitioners including Judge Nicholas Forwood, Sir Christopher Bellamy, Philip Collins, Peter Freeman and many others who have been influenced by the work of Professor Korah.

UCL has today climbed to fourth place in the annual Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. This is UCL’s highest ever position in the Rankings, placing it second among UK universities behind the University of Cambridge.