by Tamara Hervey, School of Law, University of Sheffield. An extended version is at ablendedlifeblog How do you study a culture far from your own? I don’t mean geographically far. The cultures I’m trying to understand are close to home: in the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. What I’m talking of is social [...]
Flora Renz, Lecturer in Law, University of Kent How can we move beyond current contentious debates around the role of gender? Is it possible to (re)imagine gender within the legal sphere in a way that does not conceive it as either solely oppressive or purely self-determined? To address these questions I will draw on some [...]
by Shane Burke, Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University Sound Sound, as noted by Brandon LaBelle, through its intrinsic nature ‘disrespects borders, thereby making explicit the intensity of territory.’ He also states that in our efforts to capture and commodify sound we engage in a profound process through which we ‘toy with the present, undo origin and [...]
Neville Harris, Professor of Law, University of Manchester The Rights of Children with ASN: From Paper to Practice from Rare Bird on Vimeo. The report of an ESRC funded Anglo-Scottish research project on the rights of children and young people with special and educational needs and disabilities (SEND) (England) or additional support needs (ASN) (Scotland) [...]
by Natasha Carver, Research Associate, Cardiff School of Law and Politics It is held so frequently that undocumented migrants live ‘in limbo’ that the Migration and Home Affairs Committee of the European Commission contains a definition of the term in its glossary. As with many everyday phrases, the legal definition is far more restrictive and limited [...]
Authors: Tracy Kirk, Glasgow Caledonian University; Dr Ashley Rogers, Abertay University. With thanks to the academic colleagues we spoke to in putting this post together – across the UK. In how many jobs would employees expect to face anonymised attacks upon their appearance, their character, their ethnicity, their gender, their class, their clothing choices, their [...]
By Allison Lindner and Steve Crawford, PhD Candidates in Law at Kent Law School On 4th April 2019, the first Methods and Methodology Roundtable of the annual SLSA conference presented a thought-provoking and enlightening discussion hypothesising how varying legal academics might approach a paper for an edited collection: Bodies. The panel was chaired by Professor [...]
Alex Green & Jen Hendry Colonialism, we proclaimed on Twitter, ruins everything. Well, perhaps not everything, but a lot: so much, in fact, that detailing the complete legacy of moral disaster represented by European imperial expansion would be impossible, even in several hundred thousand words. In this blogpost we attempt something more modest, arguing that [...]
by Richard Collier, Newcastle Law School Recent years have witnessed growing concern internationally in wellbeing and mental health in the legal community, an interest encapsulated in the UK in the establishment, in 2016, of a Legal Professions Wellbeing Taskforce. To date much of the now extensive wellness literature in law has focused on legal professional [...]
by Dr James Hand, Reader in Law, Portsmouth Law School, University of Portsmouth The Final Guidance on Submissions for REF 2021 stresses the importance of equality and that the funding bodies “have made every effort to try to eliminate any incentives towards discriminatory practices by HEIs in the process, but to the extent that there [...]