The SLSA Blog has moved!
Following the move to our new website, the SLSA blog has a new home. Please visit the new site to find all our previous blogposts as well as new posts, blog series and submission instructions for new authors.
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07, 2025
Binary Boundaries: Gender Parity Under the Supreme Court’s Biological Definition of Woman
Following the decision of the Supreme Court in For Women Scotland the SLSA blog received immediate submissions discussing different aspects of the judgment. The post below is the first of these responses. Further responses will be posted in the following weeks. If you would like to submit a blog on this topic for consideration and inclusion in [...]
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07, 2025
BLOG SERIES: Advancing our understanding of the field of space law and policy – Who’s Moon? Framing Lunar Activities from an Indigenous Cosmopolitics Perspective
Sarah Peltz, Space Law LLM Student, Northumbria University “Cosmopolitics is now the common situation for all collectives. There is no common world, and yet it has to be composed, nonetheless.” Bruno Latour The new age of space exploration has ascribed outer space the status of the final frontier. The final locale for [...]
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07, 2025
BLOG SERIES: Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law‘ through the lens of migration – Legal imitations in emigrant infrastructure: Overseas Indian “Citizenship”
This blog is part of SLSA blog series ‘Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law’ through the lens of migration’ (Edited by Dr Simran Kalra and Dr Fanni Gyurko), which takes a socio-legal approach to migration related issues in a variety of contexts and jurisdictions. In this blog-series we shift the focus from the nation-state understanding of [...]
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07, 2025
BLOG SERIES: Advancing our understanding of the field of space law and policy – Lunar Landowners: Questions Regarding the Ownership of Lunar Bases and the Land upon which they are Built
Lucy Guest, Space Law LLM Student, Northumbria University In recent years, it has become evident that when it comes to the Moon, the ambition of both State and Non-State actors alike is not only to put a person on the surface of this celestial body but to also utilise the resources found on and [...]
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06, 2025
BLOG Series: Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law‘ through the lens of migration – Partner Migration to the UK and Hyperlegality
This blog is part of SLSA blog series ‘Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law’ through the lens of migration’ (Edited by Dr Fanni Gyurko and Dr Simran Kalra), which takes a socio-legal approach to migration related issues in a variety of contexts and jurisdictions. In this blog-series we shift the focus from the nation-state understanding of [...]
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06, 2025
BLOG SERIES: Advancing our understanding of the field of space law and policy – Echoes of Exploration: The Legal Aspects of Cultural Heritage Sites on the Moon
Lee Foley, Space Law LLM Student, Northumbria University https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-p-foley/ In 1959, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) Luna 2 spacecraft impacted the lunar surface, marking one of the greatest moments in human exploration history. Leaving Earth and arriving on another celestial body defined the following decade (commonly known as the space race), culminating in [...]
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06, 2025
BlOG SERIES: Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law‘ through the lens of migration – Migrants and birth justice in the UK: why should we focus on the migration experience itself?
This blog is part of SLSA blog series ‘Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law’ through the lens of migration’ (Edited by Dr Simran Kalra and Dr Fanni Gyurko), which takes a socio-legal approach to migration related issues in a variety of contexts and jurisdictions. In this blog-series we shift the focus from the nation-state understanding of [...]
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05, 2025
BLOG SERIES: Advancing our understanding of the field of space law and policy – A Not-So Starry Night: The Socio-Legal Importance of a Dark Night Sky
The Northumbria University Law School is home to an expert Space Law Team researching on current legal issues and challenges in Earth’s orbits, on celestial bodies, and across tech such as governance challenges regarding cybersecurity or the use of AI with satellite systems. The Law School also hosts various space law and regulating tech modules [...]
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05, 2025
BlOG SERIES: Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law‘ through the lens of migration – Moving Between Law: Lived Experiences of Informal Migrant Workers in India
This blog is part of SLSA blog series ‘Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law’ through the lens of migration’ (Edited by Dr Fanni Gyurko and Dr Simran Kalra), which takes a socio-legal approach to migration related issues in a variety of contexts and jurisdictions. In this blog-series we shift the focus from the nation-state understanding of [...]