By Arletta Gorecka, PhD Candidate, University of Strathclyde, UK. Introduction Traditionally, competition law and privacy have been seen as separate. The influence of Google, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Amazon, and Microsoft has blurred the divide between privacy and competition law. This post provides a brief overview of the debate, with an attempt to map out the blurry [...]
Aleydis Nissen In June 2017, I followed the Socio-Legal Residential Masterclass on the politics of socio-legal scholarship. Five months later, it was time to put those insights in practice and to find out for myself what the ‘“cracks and dysfunctions” in existing legal systems’ are. These insights will be published by Cambridge University Press in [...]
Diamond Ashiagbor, Prabha Kotiswaran and Amanda Perry-Kessaris A decade ago, attention within academia and beyond was focused on learning lessons from the 2008 financial crisis. We shared an interest in how sociologically-inspired approaches might enhance our ability to (conceptually and empirically) investigate and (normatively) assess relationships between law and economic life; in drawing on and [...]
Professor Roger Cotterrell, Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London The much anticipated (and leaked) decision of the US Supreme Court in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v Wade, has already received much commentary, and will continue to do so. This comment on the case is not about the rights and [...]
By Davina Cooper, Research Professor in Law & Political Theory and PI, Future of Legal Gender Project, Dickson Poon School of Law, KCL Should a person’s sex and gender remain a “legally controlled” classification – defined, regulated, and (in some ways) produced by the state? This question sat at the heart of the Future of [...]
By James Hand, University of Portsmouth and Victoria Hooton, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory April 4th 2022 saw the deadline for private employers, who had a headcount of at least 250 employees on the snapshot date a year before, to report their gender pay gap information (with public bodies in England [...]
By Alice Smith, Student, University of Sheffield Katsh and Rifkin purport that a successful dispute resolution should consider convenience and trust.[1] This post will consider the application of these concepts to Online Dispute Resolution (‘ODR’). ODR is the online equivalent to alternative dispute resolution, that uses technology to resolve disputes between parties. Pubel and Schmitz [...]
David Gurnham, Professor of Criminal Law and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, School of Law, University of Southampton. When we think about what it is that legal scholars share in common, and whether there is any single concern that connects us all as part of a single endeavour, it is difficult to avoid concluding that marginalisation is [...]
By James Greenwood-Reeves, University of Sussex The public statue of Edward Colston, a slave trader during the 1600s, had been the subject of controversy for decades. Its uncritical commemoration of Colston, in the heart of modern, multicultural Bristol, struck many residents to be contrary to contemporary social values, and an ongoing insult to Black people within [...]