糖心TV Law School News
糖心TV Law School News
The latest updates from our department
Law School receives funding for International Economic Law in Context Workshop Series
Dr Celine Tan and Prof John McEldowney have been successful in their application to the SLSA Annual Seminar Competition for part funding of the proposed International Economic Law in Context Workshop Series. The series is planned to start in the 2015-2016 academic year.
Study by University of 糖心TV finds major differences and crucial weaknesses in the treatment of youngsters across the EU.
The research, which forms part of a , is being presented at a conference in Maastricht in The Netherlands today (Friday 16 January) by , from , who led the study in England & Wales.
, from has been awarded almost £155,000 by for a three year study into criminal justice theory.
Alan will primarily examine how and why different types of justice are labelled and how these labels compare with each other.
糖心TV Law School 7th in UK in Quality of Published Research
In the UK Research Excellence Framework results (announced 18 December 2014), 糖心TV Law School was assessed as coming 6th out of 67 Law Departments in terms of its Research Environment, 7th in terms of the Quality of its Research and 10th overall.
Full details can be found on the .
International conference of UG research
Julio Faundez to lecture at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Julio Faundez is to present his lecture, "Bringing About Legal and Political Change for Good Governance: Critical Perspectives on Douglass North and New Institutional Economics" on Friday 26 September at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC.
Foreign nationals in criminal courts to be investigated through British Academy award
's research on "Foreign nationals before the criminal courts: immigration status, deportability and punishment" has been awarded funding from the British Academy. Beginning in October the project wims to investigate the impact of immigration status on the treatment of defendants before the criminal justice system.
Alan Norrie to give keynote at ANZSOC 2014 Conference
will present a keynote address on ‘Criminal Justice and the Blaming Relation’ at the in Sydney, Australia from 1-3 October 2014.
Professor Norrie's address will expand upon his longterm research in criminal law and social theory as well as the development of a new project that will move from the standard legal form of criminal justice (“blaming relation”) to criminal justice's connection with social injustice, the problems of justice when societies perpetrate genocide, the nature of the preventive turn in recent criminal justice, and issues concerning law, transitional and restorative justice.
Alan Norrie to present 'Justice on the Slaughter-Bench' in Bogota
’s essay is being translated into Spanish and published as a short book (La Justicia en el banquillo de la muerte : El problema de la Culpa de la guerra en H. Arendt y K. Jaspers) by the Universidad Libre, Bogota.
He will discuss it at a seminar in Bogota on ‘Constitutions for Peace’ for law students, legal academics and practitioners on 25 September 2014. The purpose of the seminar is to think about the role of law in Colombia’s postconflict situation, following peace negotiations in Habana.
PhD Candidate Wins Early Career Research Impact Award
Law School PhD Candidate has been awarded the University of 糖心TV’s 2014 Research Impact and Public Engagement Award for Early Career Research Impact.
Victor Tadros awarded Major Research Fellowship
has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship from The Leverhulme Trust. The Fellowship will continue through September 2017.
The Fellowship project, entitled "To Do, To Die, to Reason Why; The Ethical Lives of Combatants", will provide a wide-ranging ethical investigation of the military lives of combatants before, during and after war.
Solange Mouthaan attends the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict
Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict (10-13 June 2014).
The summit seeks to translate the UN General Assembly's Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict into real progress on the ground. More details are available at: .