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Professor Alan Norrie visited Colombia and Chile in November 2016, giving lectures and classes at Universidad Libre, Bogota and the Pontifical University, Valparaiso.

In Bogota he gave a lecture entitled ‘Feeling Guilty In and Beyond the Law’, and in Valparaiso he participated in a seminar ‘Justicia Transicional’ presenting a paper entitled ‘’Working Through to the Polis’: Transitional Justice and Psychoanalytic Method’. The papers represent developments of his research project (‘Criminal Justice: the Blaming Relation’) as a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow.

Professor Dalvinder Singh presented part of his ongoing project with the World Bank at the recent , on December 12th 2016. The conference took place at the Ministry of Finance in Vienna, Austria, at the World Bank Group, Financial Sector Advisory Center (FinSAC).

The talk covered the topic of 'Cross-Border Bank Supervision and Resolution: The Home-Host Dilemma for Significant-Material Subsidiaries from a ‘Small’ Host State Perspective'

Dr Ania Zbyszewska has co-organized an international workshop “Theorising Labour Law in a Changing World: New Perspectives and Approaches”, which will be held on 13-14 December 2016 at the Maastricht University in Netherlands. Organized in collaboration with Dr Miriam Kullmann (Maastricht) and Dr Alysia Blackham (Melbourne) and with funding support from 糖心TV, Maastricht and Melbourne Law Schools/Faculties, and Hart Publishing, this two-day event will feature the work of early-career labour law scholars who seek to pushe the conceptual boundaries of labour law. A number of established scholars have been invited to comment on these contributions, with our key objective being to promote a broader, more inclusive and critical dialogue on an issues of fundamental contemporary importance.

Prof Jackie Hodgson and Asher Flynn from Monash have a new edited collection on 'Access to Justice and Legal Aid: Comparative Perspectives on Unmet Legal Need' published by Hart.

This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines.

Professor Ann Stewart recently visited Kenya as part of her current research project as a Leverhulme Fellow on ‘Caring for Older Women in Kenya’s plural legal system.'

During this visit she interviewed senior judges and members of civil society in preparation for a longer visit next year.

She has been supported in this research by three alumni from Kenya, David Otieno Ngeri, Dr Agnes Meroka and Martha Maneno Gayoye.

Whilst there, she delivered a number of lectures at various institutions and met with a number of 糖心TV Law School Alumni.

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The Centre for Human Rights in Practice co-director Prof Andrew Williams, publishes in History Extra, based on research for his recent book .

"A landmark in the history of international criminal justice, the Nuremberg Tribunal saw 24 major Nazi criminals brought to trial, with judges from the Allied powers presiding over the hearings. Eleven prominent Nazis were sentenced to death, while others received short prison sentences or no penalty at all. But, says Orwell Prize-winning author AT Williams, while the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol of the ‘free world’s’ choice of justice in the face of tyranny, aggression and atrocity, it was only a tiny fragment of a whole system of largely forgotten war crimes trials organised by the Allies across Europe".

The Centre for Human Rights in Practice co-director Professor Andrew Williams recently published an article on the in The Political Quarterly based on his ongoing research on the Iraq investigations.

A Very British Scandal: A 7-part special series investigating the realities behind the Iraq allegations.

Government and media have denied, dismissed and derided allegations of abuse by British soldiers in Iraq.

And yet despite all the political and media pressure the Iraq allegations haven’t gone away.

Lacuna tells the story as you haven't heard it before.

Over the next 7 days, editor-in-chief AT Williams and will be interrogating a very British scandal. From calls from the government to “stamp out” the practice of human rights defence to the mainstream media’s portrayal of the “legal witch hunt” supposedly carried out against UK soldiers, this digs deeper.

Ali Struthers organised a successful event on campus on the 11th of November with primary and secondary school pupils as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. The event saw 60 primary pupils from Widening Participation schools attend campus in the morning and 60 secondary pupils from WP schools in the afternoon. The pupils took part in workshops that addressed challenging issues in the social sciences through literature appropriate to young people. The workshops were run by Ali (human rights), Phil Gaydon (war), James Harrison (labour rights) and Lucy Hatton (immigration), and the event was well-received by all who took part.

Read about James' experience of his morning workshop .

A push to reform Islamic divorce could make Sharia councils redundant in Britain

Controversy over Sharia councils in Britain has resulted in an on their role and remit. Some of those giving evidence before MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee suggest Sharia councils should be abolished altogether, while others are calling for reform or for a code of conduct to be introduced to regulate these institutions. A separate independent review is about whether Sharia law is being used to discriminate against women.

On Friday 4th November at Conway Hall in London Alice Panepinto hosted a public event on 'Can Law Stop the Demolition of a Bedouin School in the West Bank? Spotlight on al-Khan al-Ahmar' based on her socio-legal on the significnce of the al-Khan al-Ahmar school demolition case. The event is part of a series of impact activities, funded by the ESRC-IAA Global Challenges Research Fund, which included a briefing with the Middle East Minister at the FCO.

Dr Kirsten McConnachie's recent report on Myanmar: Displacemet and the Peace Process has been published as part of an .