This category contains posts from all previous series
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01, 2025
ICPR guest-edited blog 6 – Voicing Loss: ‘I know it’s all about the death, but somehow it becomes about their life when you’ve got the inquest’
Jessica Jacobson, Alexandra Murray and Lorna Templeton This is the second blog post about the project Voicing Loss, which explored the role of bereaved people in coroners’ inquests in England and Wales. Voicing Loss was funded by the ESRC (grant reference ES/V002732/1) and conducted by the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research at Birkbeck [...]
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11, 2024
ICPR Guest Edited Blog 5: Lived Experiences of the Law: Collecting stories about encounters with the law
By Gill Hunter, Amy Kirby, Nicola Campbell and Zahra Wynne In earlier blogs for this series, we have introduced our project – lived experience of the law, funded by the Nuffield Foundation – and outlined its aim to explore people’s experiences of the family and criminal courts in the context of their wider encounters with [...]
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10, 2024
ICPR Guest Edited Blog 4: Peer Researcher Blog – ‘Our experience is second to none: we’ve rode that ride, haven’t we?’
By Jeanette, Nick, Pottsy, Anthony and Charlie In the fourth blog of this series, peer researchers working on our Lived Experience of the Law project reflect upon how they are finding the project, their experience of peer research and the advice they would give to socio-legal scholars designing research involving lived experience and peer research. [...]
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06, 2024
ICPR Guest Edited Blog – Voicing Loss: ‘I needed more than answers’
Jessica Jacobson and Alexandra Murray (image credit Tyla Scott Owen, tylascott1998@gmail.com) In England and Wales, coroners are independent judicial officers with responsibility for investigating deaths suspected to have been violent or unnatural, where the cause of death is unknown, or where the person died while in prison or another form of state detention. The purpose of the investigation [...]
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06, 2024
Introduction to Blog Series: Right-Wing Extremists in Power: Party Bans in Europe under Focus
The present SLSA Blog Series engages with one of the most pressing human rights issues in present-day Europe, that is, the rise of right-wing extremism, and with it, the success of right-wing parties on the extreme side of the political spectrum, including parliamentary representation. The Series places a dedicated focus on constitutional venues such as [...]
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06, 2024
A legal weapon against the Far Right? Legal perspectives on the prohibition of political organisations in France
Augustin Berthout, PhD candidate, Montpellier University On the 11th of May 2024, the far-right organisation “Comité du 9 mai” marched through the streets of Paris after the administrative judge had suspended the ban on the demonstration imposed by the Préfet a few days earlier. The demonstration commemorated the 30th anniversary of the death of an [...]
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06, 2024
Banning AfD – Homage to an Inclusive Idea of Democracy
Jessika Eichler, affiliated with Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute It seems that a one-sided idea of democratic thinking has been gaining ground in the public discourse, and with it, a steady alienation from what constitutional courts at least would qualify as non-derogable principles such as, famously, human dignity and the protection against discrimination [...]
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05, 2024
ICPR Guest Edited Blog – Lived Experience of the Law: Public law proceedings in the family court
By Nicola Campbell and Gill Hunter As shared in the first blog post of this guest edited series, The Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research (ICPR), Birkbeck and Revolving Doors (RD) are working in partnership on a research and policy project - Lived Experience of the Law. The project is funded by the Nuffield [...]
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05, 2024
Welcome to the SLSA Guest Edited Blog Series by the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research
By Dr Amy Kirby and Professor Jessica Jacobson X: @ICPRtweet Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jessica-jacobson-b36a5522 A very warm welcome to the first post of this new SLSA Guest Edited Blog Series from academics and researchers at the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research (ICPR), at Birkbeck, University of London. At ICPR we have a long track record of producing academically-grounded, policy-oriented research into [...]