‘Authors of their own life stories’? Young people with special educational needs and their new rights
The importance of Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014 When it announced reforms to the local arrangements governing educational provision for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) the Government undertook to make children and young...
read moreUK Military Strikes against the Syrian Government
In light of comments by the Foreign Secretary, Tanzil Chowdhury considers the force of the constitutional convention requiring the Government to consult Parliament on the deployment of the armed forces. The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, recently informed BBC Radio...
read moreLaw Schools in the Twenty-First Century
Professor Toby Seddon, Head of the School of Law and prior to entering academia and a Professor of Criminology at the School, spent 10 years as a researcher in the voluntary sector, working in the areas of penal reform, criminal justice, drug policy and homelessness....
read moreYamato Tanooka’s case and the lessons from Sweden’s total ban on corporal punishment
Our latest blog post compares international responses to corporal punishment and highlights the complexities of what many perceive as simply a two-sided debate. On the 3 June, Yamato Tanooka, a 7 year-old Japanese boy, was found in a military shelter after six...
read moreSchool attendance law in the High Court: term-time holidays despite the legal fog?
Parents of school-age children know all too well that family holiday prices have a tendency to sky rocket during school holiday periods. Most also know, or thought they did, that they could be fined if they took their children out of school, without good reason. ...
read moreBrexit and the English Social Constitution
In this blog Professor Robert Thomas discusses why England voted to leave the EU and the questions Brexit poses for the constitution. In his magisterial history of England, Robert Tombs notes that, following the 2014 Scottish Referendum, there would surely be greater...
read moreBlack Lawyers Matter
Ahead of Black Lawyers Matter, a public meeting hosted by the University of Manchester, we present an analysis of the backgrounds of students attending the University and compare it to that of other institutions . The analysis below compares the BME profile of...
read moreUndercover Policing, Democracy and Human Rights
Dr Graham Smith, Senior Lecturer in Regulation, outlines the Undercover Policing Enquiry in advance of a seminar on the 14th April 2016, for which places are available here. Policing is a tricky business. In the last twenty years or so the idea of democratic...
read moreLocal Government Devolution in England
Professor Robert Thomas writes on the concerns with the lack of public engagement and the legal framework in long awaited devolution in England. So far, devolution has concerned 15 per cent of the UK’s population leaving the remaining 85 per cent more or less as it...
read moreInternational Women’s Day – WILNET presents Jane Addams
On today, International Women’s Day, The School of Law’s Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) is proud to introduce the Women in International Law Network: The Olive Schill Society (WILNET). Founded by female researchers of MILC, this new platform aims to...
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