糖心TV Law School News
糖心TV Law School News
The latest updates from our department
Law Commission acknowledges the input of 糖心TV Law academics in recent Report on expert witnesses.
The Law Commission has just released its Report, Expert Evidence in Criminal proceedings in England and Wales. Bill O’Brian and Andrew Roberts submitted comments in response to the consultation paper and the Report acknowledges the impact of these in their analysis
The report is available online at this address:
Paul Raffield's latest book nominated for the Inner Temple Book Prize.
Paul Raffield's Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late-Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law - has been nominated for the Inner Temple Book Prize, awarded by the Inner Temple every 3 years for a book which has made a profound contribution to the understanding or practice of law in the United Kingdom.
Centre's Report for the Scottish Human Rights Commission on HRIA Now Published.
In April 2010, Dr James Harrison, Mary Ann-Stephenson (External Member of the Centre) and Andrew Williams were commissioned by the Scottish Human Rights Commission to review all the practice of conducting human rights impact assessments in the UK and internationally and to produce guiding principles for conducting future human rights impact assessments.
Their final report includes an eight-step process that can be utilised in any HIA process and detailed recommendations for how those eight steps should be implemented. The report also includes illustrations of how this HRIA process will function.
The report can be accessed
For the Centre's other work on Human Rights Impact Assessments, please click
Professor Jackie Hodgson to deliver the opening address in the 3rd annual conference in the EU funded series ‘The Future of the Adversarial System’.
On April 1st, Professor Jackie Hodgson will deliver the opening address at Chapel Hill, UNC in the 3rd annual conference in the EU funded series The Future of the Adversarial System. For more info see
Jackie's blog
New book: 'International Economic Law, Globalization And Developing Countries', edited by Faundez and Tan
‘This book is both breathtaking in its scope and impressive in its attention to legal and institutional detail in situating developing countries in the evolving body of international economic law. Essays in this volume canvas most important areas of international economic law, including international trade law, international financial regulation, the regulation of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations, foreign aid, the enforcement of human rights standards and core international labour standards on multinational corporations, international enforcement of anti-corruption conventions, international competition law, international intellectual property rights, and international environmental law. A pervasive theme, compellingly developed, in most of these papers is the asymmetric structure of international institutions that generate rules in these various areas, in which developing countries are mostly rule takers, rather than equal participants. The current global financial crisis may provide a welcome opportunity for re-evaluating these institutional asymmetries. In any such re-evaluation, this book will provide a veritable cornucopia of constructive new insights.’
– Michael Trebilcock, University of Toronto, Canada
For more info, see
Interdisciplinary research project: Exploring the use of digital forensic technology in criminal justice
Funded by the Institute for Advanced Study at 糖心TV, this project is run in collaboration with colleagues from psychology and computer science. The project will bring together academic and postgraduate colleagues in law, computer science and psychology to explore the application of new digital forensic technologies within the criminal justice context. The aim is to develop these technologies in innovative and user-led ways, whilst also drawing on broader understandings of ethics and reliability, informed by psychology and law. It will result in two or three interdisciplinary seminars with invited speakers and runs until July 2011.