Blog Posts – SLSA Blog

2 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

By Lee Foley| 2025-06-16T09:50:06+00:00 June 2nd, 2025|Categories: Advancing our understanding of the field of space law and policy, Blog Posts, current series|Tags: cultural heritage, Moon, protection, Space Law|0 Comments

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 [...]

2 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?

By Fanni Gyurko| 2025-06-02T16:40:24+00:00 June 2nd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law|Tags: antenatal care, birth giving, birth justice, healthcare, law, maternity care, migration, postnatal care, precarities, UK|0 Comments

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 [...]

15 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

By Ciara Guy| 2025-05-15T14:42:47+00:00 May 15th, 2025|Categories: Advancing our understanding of the field of space law and policy, Blog Posts, current series|Tags: Astronomy, Dark Skies, Light pollution, Megaconstellations, Space Law, space policy|0 Comments

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 [...]

15 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

By Ayesha Pattnaik| 2025-05-15T09:31:44+00:00 May 15th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law|Tags: India, informal migrant workers, labour disputes, law, migration|0 Comments

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 [...]

6 05, 2025

NEW BLOG SERIES: Advancing our understanding of the field of space law and policy – Leave No Trace, is it the Same for Space?: Planetary Protection and Surface Space Waste

By Georgia Brown| 2025-05-15T14:32:04+00:00 May 6th, 2025|Categories: Advancing our understanding of the field of space law and policy, Blog Posts, current series|Tags: Leave no Trace, Outer Space Treaty, Planetary Protection, Space Law, Space Waste|0 Comments

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 [...]

6 05, 2025

BlOG SERIES: Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law‘ through the lens of migration – Low-wage’ not ‘low-skill’: moving away from the skills binary in labour migration discourse

By Arwen Joyce| 2025-05-15T09:24:36+00:00 May 6th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law|Tags: experience, law, low skilled, low wage, migration, migration policy, narratives, neoliberal, people|0 Comments

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 [...]

8 04, 2025

Board Selection Based on Sex under the EU “Women on Boards” Directive: Appraising the Impacts

By Joy Anwulika Debski| 2025-04-08T15:31:34+00:00 April 8th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts|Tags: Equal opportunities, Gender Balance, Women on Boards|0 Comments

by Dr. Joy Anwulika Debski, a dual-qualified Solicitor and Chartered Governance Professional (CGI), and Law Lecturer at Robert Gordon University's Law School, specialising in Global Corporate Governance and Sustainability Current research from the EU Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (R&I) affirms that gender imbalance is still a thriving issue among EU member states. The report reveals that [...]

1 04, 2025

Exceptions to the Mental Health Exemption: Examining and Re-examining Terror Offences

By Wannette Van Eg Dom -Tuinstra| 2025-05-06T09:52:54+00:00 April 1st, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, The Legal Treatment of Defendants with Partial Criminal Responsibility|Tags: criminal responsibility, defendants, mental health exemption, terror offences|0 Comments

Part of the SLSA Blog Series ‘The Legal Treatment of Defendants with Partial Criminal Responsibility’ Dr. Wannette Van Eg Dom -Tuinstra, Student Experience Manager and Associate Lecturer at The Open University Law School ‘How could a person commit such an act of inhumanity, of barbarity, of evil?’ This is the perennial question when the world faces [...]

1 04, 2025

Special Issue on climate-induced (im)mobilities: Contemporary Climate Mobility Governance in African, Caribbean, and Pacific Regions: Light at the End of Tunnel?

By KMS Tareq| 2025-04-01T17:33:56+00:00 April 1st, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities, current series|Tags: Africa, Caribbean, climate mobility governance, climate-induced (im)mobilities, Pacific Regions:|1 Comment

KMS Tareq, PhD in Law Candidate and Teaching Fellow, SOAS University of London International law lacks a mechanism for recognising and protecting cross-border climate mobility, except for some complementary protection mechanisms. The Nansen Initiative evidences that, in most cases, people take refuge in neighbouring countries when they cross borders due to the adverse impacts of [...]

1 04, 2025

Special Issue on climate-induced (im)mobilities: Surging Seas, Climate-Induced Entrapment, and Legal Vacuums: The Dynamics of Pacific (Im)mobility

By Vicky Kapogianni| 2025-04-01T17:29:29+00:00 April 1st, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities, current series|Tags: climate-induced (im)mobilitie, climate-Induced entrapment, dynamics, legal vacuums, Pacific (Im)mobility, surging seas|0 Comments

Dr Vicky Kapogianni, University of Reading Trapped mobility and surging seas within the Pacific Neighbourliness: if international legal frameworks are fragmented and non-specific to sea-level rise (SLR), then what dictates the (im)mobility pathways? This post examines how climate change plays a role both in displacement and entrapment considering the absence of applicable legal frameworks in [...]