By Daniela Travaglia, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham (@danitravaglia1 and http://danielatravaglia.com) Content Warning: This post contains details of gender-based/sexual violence, and may be emotionally challenging and/or emotionally distressing for some readers to engage with. Please exercise caution. In November 2020, a decision on a rape case and the disclosure of part of the court’s proceeding shocked [...]

By Jed Meers, York Law School, University of York (@jed_meers) As England enters a new set of tiered restrictions, “wet pubs” – those establishments that do not serve food, accounting for over half of the sector – face a problem. The new Tier Two restrictions prohibit the sale of alcohol for consumption on a licensed [...]

By Fatima Ahdash, University of Goldsmiths (@Fatima_Ahdash) As part of the country’s wider crackdown on extremism in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, last week the French government announced new counter-radicalisation measures including a Bill that restricts the home-schooling of children and that gives children a specific ID number to ensure that they are attending [...]

Image: Protest outside Yarl's Wood IRC. Image credit: R Schlembach. By Beth Hudson (@Beth_Huds), University of Sussex and Raphael Schlembach (@RaphSchlembach) University of Brighton In September 2017, the BBC’s political programme Panorama showed footage filmed secretly inside one of Britain’s immigration removal centres, Brook House located near Gatwick airport. It revealed a toxic culture in which detainees, [...]

By Caroline Redhead, University of Liverpool on behalf of the Reset Ethics Team (@resetethics1) Covid-19 has disrupted, and in some cases overwhelmed, the functioning of healthcare systems across the world. It has led to new forms of healthcare prioritisation, including the reduction, suspension, or re-organisation of routine services. While resource allocation conflicts are inherent features of the UK’s [...]

By Suhraiya Jivraj, Kent Law School - @suhraiyajivraj Law-school teachers across the UK can begin to develop anti-racist curricula and classrooms by downloading ‘Towards Anti-racist Legal Pedagogy: A Resource’ which I launched at the beginning of the new academic year during a panel on legal education at the 2020 Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars. [...]

By Roger Cotterrell, Queen Mary University of London Photo credit: Keith Ewing When I arrived at the University of Texas to teach as an academic visitor three decades ago, it seemed a liberal oasis in a conservative state. But, exploring the Austin campus, I was surprised to find a huge, towering statue of Jefferson Davis, [...]

By Daria Onitiu, Northumbria University Setting the scene: discerning ‘fashion’ with AI and data personalisation I always was an enthusiastic observer of people’s styles. During my daily walk in Newcastle, the United Kingdom, I do recognise my own preferences in clothing, such as asymmetric clothing in dark colours and certain new fashion trends. Once I [...]

By Stephanie Pywell, Open University The law of England and Wales provides that a couple should be able to marry in a minimal ‘2+2’ civil ceremony – a ceremony conducted by a superintendent registrar in the presence of a registrar and two witnesses – for £127. This comprises £35 per person for giving notice of [...]