By André Luiz Freitas Dias, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and Wellington Migliari, University of Barcelona. Photo by André Luiz Freitas Dias, January 28, 2021. Córrego do Feijão, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, where the tailings dam collapsed. The mining integrated spectacle Sustainable development is still a long way to go in Brazil. It is one of the [...]
By Mariana Valverde, University of Toronto The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society, edited by Mariana Valverde, Kamari Clarke, Eve Darian-Smith, and Prabha Kotiswaran, is due to be published in March 2021 by Routledge UK. An innovative collection emphasising global South, anti-racist, feminist, Indigenous and post-colonial perspectives, it contains 60 short chapters written by an [...]
By Fiona Cownie, Keele University There appears to be an immensely shocking situation with regards to the e-books needed more than ever by both students and academics as a result of the pandemic. University librarians are reporting that very high prices are being charged for e-books (MUCH higher than print copies) making them unaffordable for [...]
By John Harrington and Lizzy Wilmington, for the Cardiff Organising Committee Cardiff School of Law and Politics are delighted to host the SLSA UK Annual Conference from 30th March to 1st April next. Celebrating 50 years of Law at Cardiff University, conference plenaries invite conference-goers to reflect on contemporary challenges with presentations from distinguished scholars [...]
By Arletta Gorecka, University of Strathclyde (@arlettagorecka) The magnitude of data collection raises challenges for both society and legislation, as personal data is seen as a tradable commodity, placing companies in a position where the data helps them to achieve a stronger position in a market. This post assesses the current progress of the debate [...]
Image Credit: Ben Kanter By Davina Cooper, Kings College London (@DavinaCooper5) The current conflict over sex and who gets to count as a woman is also a conflict about how to understand reality and how to have a discussion. While the conflict over defining sex and womanhood has received fierce attention, far less [...]
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, [...]