12 11, 2024

Guest Series: Preserving Public Values in The Automated State

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Introduction to the Guest Blog Series Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Orla Lynskey, UCL Laws and the College of Europe, Bruges and Giulia Gentile, Essex Law School. As automated technologies such as artificial intelligence capture the imagination of the public, States have a renewed impetus to avail of the opportunities these technologies offer, including [...]

12 11, 2024

Digital Constitutionalism: What is it, what is at stake, and how is the current research distinct

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Post 2 in the Guest Blog Series  Preserving Public Values in The Automated State by Giovanni De Gregorio, PLMJ Chair in Law and Technology, Católica Global School of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon and Oreste Pollicino, Full Professor of Constitutional Law, Bocconi University, Milan.  The spread of digital technologies has profoundly affected society, fundamentally altering how people live, work, [...]

6 11, 2024

What if a citizen’s assembly were to design a future Cyprus peace process?

By | November 6th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

By Amanda Perry-Kessaris, University of Kent. This blog is was originally posted at amandaperrykessaris.org   Cyprus has passed its longest ever period without any negotiations to solve, the Cyprus problem. Civil society actors in Cyprus (including CPDC via its C-Up initiative), are pressing for greater public involvement in the peace process. Likewise, the Secretary-General of the [...]

6 11, 2024

Narrating Domestic Abuse When Women Kill – Lessons from R v Jackson

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Part of the SLSA Blog Series ‘The Legal Treatment of Defendants with Partial Criminal Responsibility’ Dr Kirsty Welsh, Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Law School R v Jackson[1] In 2021, Penelope Jackson, a 66year-oldwoman, was convicted of murdering her husband of 25 years.  After a disagreement over dinner, she stabbed him twice and then twice again whilst [...]

1 10, 2024

ICPR Guest Edited Blog 4: Peer Researcher Blog – ‘Our experience is second to none: we’ve rode that ride, haven’t we?’

By | October 1st, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Guest Series|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

By Jeanette, Nick, Pottsy, Anthony and Charlie In the fourth blog of this series, peer researchers working on our Lived Experience of the Law  project reflect upon how they are finding the project, their experience of peer research and the advice they would give to socio-legal scholars designing research involving lived experience and peer research. [...]

30 09, 2024

The role of communities and connections in social welfare legal advice

By | September 30th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Dr Sarah Nason, Bangor University The need for social welfare legal (SWL) advice has been increasing, with Covid and the cost-of-living crisis exacerbating existing issues and precipitating new problems. This increase in need is set against cuts to services and a drive towards ‘digital by default’ delivery. Local, community-orientated organisations, community centres and hubs, as [...]

20 09, 2024

Trauma-informed legal services and legal education

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Helgi Maki, Co-editor and Co-author with Marjorie Florestal, Myrna McCallum and J. Kim Wright of Trauma-Informed Law: A Primer for Practicing Lawyers and a Pathway for Resilience and Healing, ABA Book Publishing, Law Practice Division, 2023 Overview Trauma-informed legal services & legal education is an approach to law that both anticipates and aims to support [...]

6 09, 2024

The Future of Law: The Essential Role of Human Oversight in AI-Driven Decision-Making

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Ammar Zafar, PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool, School of Law Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the legal sector signifies a significant shift from traditional, labour-intensive methods to a more efficient, technology-driven approach. This transformation goes beyond mere convenience; it represents a fundamental change with the potential to revolutionise access to legal services and improve procedural [...]

6 09, 2024

Is there space for a cultural defence in international criminal law?

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Part of the SLSA Blog Series 'The Legal Treatment of Defendants with Partial Criminal Responsibility' Vera Piovesan X | LinkedIn | ORCID People’s cultural background determines how we each perceive, understand, and respond to the world around us. Normally, our own values align with those espoused by the criminal justice system, thus leading to fairly [...]

19 07, 2024

Contracts in Life and Law Blog Series Post 6 of 6: ‘It’s not all contracts and Non-Disclosure Agreements!’: The reality of BDSM Intimacy and Contract Law

By | July 19th, 2024|Categories: Blog Posts, current series|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Tahlia-Rose Virdee ‘Page three, Section 15.20: “The Submissive shall submit to any sexual activity demanded by the Dominant, and shall do so without hesitation or argument.”’ The Submissive’s Contract Scene, Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) The myth of legally binding contracts for BDSM (Bondage, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism) has been propagated by the [...]