Blog Posts – Page 2

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 [...]

1 04, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: CSO Activism and its Complementary Role in Regulations Around Health Data Protection in Africa

By Maurice Kabazzi Lwanga| 2025-04-13T10:03:03+00:00 April 1st, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: Africa, AU Malabo Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection, CSO activism, digital health protection laws, health, heath data protection, law, technology|1 Comment

Maurice Kabazzi Lwanga, Human Rights Practitioner and Lawyer, Afya na Haki Institute The adoption of the AU Malabo Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection in 2014 marked a significant turning point for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Africa, galvanising their efforts in advocating for data protection across various sectors, including health. As digital health initiatives [...]

1 04, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: Dispensing Drugs and the Appification of Everyday ‘Health’ in Kenya

By Joy Malala| 2025-04-13T10:02:09+00:00 April 1st, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: appification, dispensing drugs, e-pharmacy, everyday health, health, Kenya, law, technology|0 Comments

Joy Malala, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick Introduction Digitalisation helps solve health system problems, especially in Africa. Digital infrastructure and smartphone use can improve healthcare access and equity. Governments are investing in universal health coverage and digital health initiatives to enhance healthcare delivery and outcomes. Policies and strategies are evolving to enable and prioritise digital [...]

30 03, 2025

Active and Passive Euthanasia vs. Act and Omission in Criminal Law: Moral and Legal Perspectives

By Roni Rosenberg| 2025-03-30T15:11:58+00:00 March 30th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts|Tags: act and omission, active euthanasia, assisted dying, causation, liberty, life-saving treatment, life-support machine, passive euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, withdrawal|0 Comments

By Dr. Roni Rosenberg, Senior Lecturer at Ono Academic College and Reichman University Active vs. Passive Euthanasia: Key Distinctions Euthanasia raises complex philosophical, ethical, legal, and religious questions and is typically divided into active and passive categories. Active euthanasia involves deliberate actions, such as administering a lethal injection, to end the life of [...]

12 02, 2025

Special Issue on climate-induced (im)mobilities: Glass of water is not the same for everyone: EU Mixed treaties with climate-vulnerable third countries

By Szymon Kucharski| 2025-02-12T10:51:49+00:00 February 12th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities|Tags: climate change, climate displacement, climate migrations, climate-vulnerable countries, EU Mixed treaties|0 Comments

Szymon Kucharski (S.K.J.), PhD candidate, Doctoral School for Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University (Kraków) Climate migrations, or climate mobilities, have been the subject of legal research for some time already. Many scholars have proposed numerous ways to aid persons in dire situations of that phenomenon including international conventions, protocols to the United Nations Framework Convention on [...]