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The School of Law is delighted that Peter Hirst FCIArb, Partner at Clyde & Co LLP is joining teaching staff as an Honorary Professor on a number of programmes.

Dr Robert Taylor will be presenting at the upcoming ICON-S British-Irish Chapter Annual Conference entitled 'The United Kingdom’s Withdrawal from the European Union (?): Domestic and European Constitutional Implications'. The conference will be hosted by the University of Strathclyde on the 24-25th April. A brief summary of Dr Taylor’s presentation is included...

Professor Tina Soliman Hunter and Dr Madeline Taylor, from the University of Sydney, presented their new book entitled: ‘Agricultural Land Use and Natural Gas Extraction Conflicts’ at an event in Sydney this week. The Sydney Law School hosted the event which featured a panel including Bob Pritchard (Energy Policy Institute of...

English and Welsh Law has now has officially acknowledged upskirting as a criminal offence following a high-profile campaign by Gina Martin, supported by alumnus  Ryan Whelan, lawyer at Gibson Dunn. The law came into force after Gina Martin spent 18 months in court campaigning to make the highly intrusive practice illegal...

Dr Irene Couzigou participated in the first workshop of a new collaboration in International Law between the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow from 8 to 10 April.

Professor Abbe Brown will present a paper on 'Law below and beyond frontiers: marine genetic diversity, IP and information' at the BILETA 2019 Conference. This year, Queen's University Belfast will host the conference on the theme: 'Back to the futures: law without frontiers?' from the 16-17th April.  Professor Brown's abstract is included here.   

Professor Margaret Ross provides some comments from day two of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Conference.   The 11th April was the first day of the full conference – Shining the light on the parties in Dispute Resolution. It started with a Keynote conversation entitled  “No Risk, No Reward -...

Anne-Michelle Slater and Abbe Brown attended a workshop at the University of Northumbria on 9 April 2019 at the invitation of Professor Gita Gill. The interdisciplinary group across law and science explored best practices regarding approaches to uncertainty and precaution. This workshop was the first step in a project funded by...

Professor Margaret Ross recently participated in the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Conference in Minneapolis and shares some comments from day one of the Conference. The plenary on “Dispute resolution in the Court – delivery of Justice in the self-service society” was a fabulous start and made it well worth coming...

Dr Titilayo Adebola attended the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference at the University of Leeds, on 3 to 5 April. The conference brought together academics in the field of socio-legal studies to disseminate knowledge and foster networks. Dr Adebola delivered a paper on: ‘Variations in Intellectual Property (IP) Governance in Africa: Attempts...