Aug 2, 2016 | Adminstrative Justice, Blog, Children, Family Law, Law, Regulation
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...
Jul 26, 2016 | Blog, Children, Education, Family Law, Law, Regulation
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. ...
Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, EU Law, Law, Public Law, Regulation
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...
Apr 6, 2016 | Blog, Criminal justice, Regulation
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...
Mar 11, 2016 | Blog, Regulation
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...
Nov 19, 2015 | Bioethics, Blog, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Law
Alex Mullock and Catherine Stanton, co-editors of the newly launched festschrift, reflect on the impact of Professor Brazier’s scholarship on healthcare law and practice. Very few academics come to be described as pioneers in their field but Professor Margaret...
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