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Effectively holding ‘bad chaps’ to account?
Effectively holding ‘bad chaps’ to account?
Considering the Good Law Project’s procurement judicial review claims
Mark Thornton
Jan 11, 2022
Confronting the UK’s constitutional crisis — Part III: Northern Ireland and the problematic…
Confronting the UK’s constitutional crisis — Part III: Northern Ireland and the problematic…
Nick Gill
May 10, 2021
Confronting the UK’s constitutional crisis — Part 2: taming the Welsh dragon
Confronting the UK’s constitutional crisis — Part 2: taming the Welsh dragon
This is the second in a series of articles which explores the approaching constitutional crises confronting the United Kingdom.
Nick Gill
Apr 14, 2021
Confronting the UK’s constitutional crisis — the Scottish Question
Confronting the UK’s constitutional crisis — the Scottish Question
As Westminster continues to dust itself down after the Brexit fiasco of the past five years, another political wrecking ball threatens to…
Nick Gill
Apr 5, 2021
Worker Status in the Driving Seat: Uber in the Supreme Court
Worker Status in the Driving Seat: Uber in the Supreme Court
The much-anticipated judgment of the Supreme Court in Uber BV v Aslam [2021] UKSC 5, confirming that Uber drivers are workers under UK…
Jonathan Rutherford
Mar 1, 2021
The UK’s new human rights sanctions should punish states, not just individuals.
The UK’s new human rights sanctions should punish states, not just individuals.
Amid revelations of election rigging, opposition repression and torture, the UK has used its new human rights sanction regime — so-called…
Archie McCreath
Feb 7, 2021
Facial recognition technology: The recognition we deserve
Facial recognition technology: The recognition we deserve
There has been sustained concern in recent years about the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) which plays into a long-standing…
Marina Goodman
Jan 28, 2021
The ‘Shadow Pandemic’: Rising Femicide and Gender-Based Violence Rates During COVID-19
The ‘Shadow Pandemic’: Rising Femicide and Gender-Based Violence Rates During COVID-19
With a regional focus on Latin America
Fi Gilligan
Oct 12, 2020
Lowering the Privacy Shield: Schrems II and Its Implications
Lowering the Privacy Shield: Schrems II and Its Implications
On 16 July, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down the long-awaited judgment on the transfer of personal data from…
H Lee
Aug 8, 2020
Covid-19: Time to reform UK labour law à la Française?
Covid-19: Time to reform UK labour law à la Française?
If necessity really is the mother of invention, the need to protect jobs and preserve the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic has…
Jonathan Rutherford
Jul 20, 2020
Le Corbu and the Law
Le Corbu and the Law
Karlsruhe, a synecdoche for Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court, has recently caught the attention of the Twitterati as well as…
Nick Queffurus
May 29, 2020
Why the rebellion of the German Federal Constitutional Court may be the EU’s most difficult test…
Why the rebellion of the German Federal Constitutional Court may be the EU’s most difficult test…
“When it comes to matters with a European element, the Treaty is like an incoming tide. It flows into the estuaries and up the rivers. It…
Anders Jay
May 17, 2020
Is there space for green in a red, white and blue Brexit?
Is there space for green in a red, white and blue Brexit?
The environment was not a key battlefield of the Brexit referendum debate like immigration, sovereignty, or the economy. Yet as exit day…
Nick Kenny
Sep 30, 2018
What is the Macro-Trend in LegalTech?
What is the Macro-Trend in LegalTech?
LegalTech is booming. As the recent multimillion dollar investments in companies like Kira and Atrium show, investors have woken up to the…
Ludwig Bull
Sep 18, 2018
The Court of Public Opinion — The Role of Referendums in Protecting Human Rights
The Court of Public Opinion — The Role of Referendums in Protecting Human Rights
On the 25th May 2018, two-thirds of Irish voters backed proposals to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which severely…
Niamh Kelly
Aug 20, 2018
Why outcome probabilities > lawyer win rates
Why outcome probabilities > lawyer win rates
There are 16,198 barristers admitted to the bar in England. There are 10,933 lawyers admitted to the bar of the United States Court of…
Ludwig Bull
Aug 9, 2018
Data analytics in a fragile democracy
Data analytics in a fragile democracy
The revelations of the “Cambridge Analytica Files” have reverberated around the world. The morning after I touched down in Nairobi, to…
Nick Queffurus
Apr 22, 2018
A tale of two Koreas: How could North and South Korea be unified under public international law?
A tale of two Koreas: How could North and South Korea be unified under public international law?
Relations between North and South Korea have taken an unprecedented turn. No longer are all eyes on the North’s ballistic missile…
Toby Cohen
Feb 11, 2018
Legal Design: combining legal expertise and design to invigorate the law
Legal Design: combining legal expertise and design to invigorate the law
Legal design, an approach that combines legal expertise with the designer’s mindset, is quickly being recognized as a powerful tool to…
Meera Klemola
Jan 28, 2018
“The alligator nearest the boat” — the perilous future of UK-EU security
“The alligator nearest the boat” — the perilous future of UK-EU security
As the negotiations for the UK’s departure from the EU enter the new year, buoyed by the announcement that talks can move onto their second…
Nick Kenny
Jan 15, 2018
Working time in the gig economy
Working time in the gig economy
On 10th November 2017, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) handed down its judgment in Uber B.V and Others v Aslam and Others. The EAT…
Lottie Mallin Martin
Jan 8, 2018
Gender segregation in schools — Court of Appeal reaches right decision for the wrong reasons
Gender segregation in schools — Court of Appeal reaches right decision for the wrong reasons
On 13 October, the Court of Appeal in Ofsted v Al-Hijrah School held that Ofsted acted lawfully in putting Al-Hijrah School in Birmingham…
Rachel Hunter
Dec 28, 2017
Raising awareness of sexual misconduct does not constitute a “sexual counter-revolution”
Raising awareness of sexual misconduct does not constitute a “sexual counter-revolution”
“Of course wrongs should be righted, but beware moral panic”. So say many of those who believe the public’s reaction to sex scandals has…
Tristan Goodman
Dec 1, 2017
Two modern problems: Brexit and slavery
Two modern problems: Brexit and slavery
Modern problems often present old challenges. Brexit is one example: promoting free markets while appeasing social entitlements presents a…
Tristan Goodman
Nov 4, 2017
The twisting tale of free speech on campus
The twisting tale of free speech on campus
Universities have a long history of promoting free speech on campus. In fact, they have long had a legal duty to take steps that are…
Tristan Goodman
Nov 3, 2017
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