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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Angela Kintominas Classic contract law theory often assumes a foundational difference between ‘status’ and ‘contract’.[1] This echoes the wider ‘hostile worlds’[2] thesis that there is (or should be) a watertight commodity frontier separating what is done for money and what is done for love, and the related presumption against an intention to create binding contractual [...]
Frances Flanagan How should we make sense of the tenacity of the idea that basic public services should be provided by private actors via contract? It is not popular with the public. It has not engendered government that 'works better' and 'costs less'. Stories of failure, unaccountability, public de-skilling, economic waste, social harm and cost-shunting [...]
David J Carter Content Warning: This post discusses suicide and self-harm. If this raises distressing issues, support is available. Contact one of the services in your country listed on this website. There is value in attending to the ‘jurisprudential wisdom’ that quietly shapes our world. This phrase is given to us by Gillian Rose (1947-1995), [...]
Renata Grossi Contracts are everywhere. In this series we encounter them doing the work traditionally associated with governments (Flanagan), family (Kintominas), mental health care (Carter), consent during sex (Verdee), and in visual art conversations (Wright). Each of these contexts individually challenges the idea that a contract is or should be understood exclusively as an economic [...]