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The Namdaemun Sungnyemun Great South Gate, Seoul, Korea at night. The title and details of the event is listed over the top of the image. Dr Noam Gur spoke at the 2024 World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
24 July 2024

The event was centred on the theme of ‘The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy’, and was held at Soongsil University in Seoul on 7–12 July 2024.

A motion blur images of pedestrians walking across a crossing in Osaka, Japan. Professor Del Mar presents on ‘Reflexive Legal Humanities’ in India`
28 March 2024

Maks Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities at Queen Mary University of London, presented on ‘Reflexive Legal Humanities’ on 26 March 2024, as part of the Samyukta Research Foundation lecture series on ‘Reflexive Humanities’.

Luca Giordano, Justizia (1684–1686). Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence Dr Noam Gur spoke at a University of Hull workshop on Virtue Jurisprudence
30 January 2024

The online one-day workshop on 16 January 2024 explored new perspectives on the role of virtue in law and legal theory.

A recreation of the statue 'The Thinker' Professor Del Mar publishes special issue on ‘Cognitive Legal Humanities’
4 September 2023

Maks Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities, has co-edited, together with Professor Simon Stern (Toronto), a special issue of CAL (Critical Analysis of Law) – an open-access, interdisciplinary legal studies journal – on ‘Cognitive Legal Humanities’.

Old, worn books arranged on a shelf Professor Del Mar is co-organising the WG Hart Workshop 2024
31 July 2023

The event is hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and will focus on the topic of Historicising Jurisprudence: Person, Community, Form. It will take place 26-27 June 2024, in person at Charles Clore House in London and is currently calling for paper submissions.

University of Palermo Dr Noam Gur gives lecture series at the University of Palermo
30 June 2023

Dr Noam Gur delivered a lecture series on obedience and disobedience to the law as a visiting scholar at the University of Palermo in May 2023.

Artefacts of Legal Inquiry book cover Symposium published on Professor Maks Del Mar’s Artefacts of Legal Inquiry
4 January 2023

The Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy has published a symposium on Professor Maks Del Mar’s book, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication.

Special issue on Contextual Legal Pedagogy cover Queen Mary expert co-edits special issue on ‘Contextual Legal Pedagogy’
25 November 2022

Professor Maks Del Mar has co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Law in Context on ‘Contextual Legal Pedagogy’ with Kenneth Armstrong and Sally Sheldon.

Artefacts of Legal Inquiry book cover Maks Del Mar’s book, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry, wins the IVR’s Commendation for Excellence
22 June 2022

Professor Maks Del Mar’s book, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry, has been awarded the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy’s Commendation for Excellence in the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.

Lady Justice from behind holding a set of scales Dr Noam Gur co-organises the UK-IVR Annual Conference 2022
22 June 2022

The UK-IVR Annual Conference (‘Law, Rationality and Practical Reason: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives’), co-organised by Dr Noam Gur and his colleagues on the UK-IVR executive, took place on 10 - 11 June 2022.

Neil MacCormick with a city skyline behind him Professor Maks Del Mar to deliver Inaugural UK IVR MacCormick Lecture
20 January 2022

The title of Professor Del Mar’s lecture is ‘Reading Neil MacCormick’, and is based on his Leverhulme Trust and British Academy funded research into the life and work of Neil MacCormick.

View of Lady Justice holding scales from behind UK-IVR 2022 Annual Conference
15 October 2021

The 2022 conference will focus on Law, Rationality and Practical Reason: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives and will take place 10-11 June 2022.

Pregnant person caressing their stomach On care, coercion and childbirth in the Court of Protection
7 July 2021

New blog from Dr Ruth Fletcher analyses Court of Protection decision involving a pregnant woman living with agoraphobia.

Artefacts of Legal Inquiry book cover Scholarly Blog on Imagination hosts a Symposium on Professor Del Mar’s book
10 May 2021

The Junkyard of the Mind – a scholarly blog devoted to the study of imagination – has hosted a multi-disciplinary symposium on Professor Maks Del Mar’s Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication (2020).

Response to the Joint Committee of Human Rights call for evidence on the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill
15 September 2020

By Bethany Shiner (Middlesex University) and Dr Tanzil Chowdhury (Queen Mary University of London)

Artefacts of Legal Inquiry book cover Professor Maksymilian Del Mar publishes monograph on imagination in legal reasoning
26 February 2020

The book is an interdisciplinary study of the value of ‘artefactual language’ and practices of imagination in the common law tradition

Deputy Director Opportunity for PhD Students
12 February 2020

The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) intends to appoint a Deputy Director from among Queen Mary University of London's PhD community

The Juridification of Individual Sanctions and the Politics of EU Law cover New book: The Juridification of Individual Sanctions and the Politics of EU Law
11 February 2020

Dr Eva Nanopoulos's new book, which offers a critical study of EU sanctions, is published by Hart.

Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning Professor Maks Del Mar publishes collection on Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning
6 February 2020

Maks Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London, has co-edited a collection with Professor Amalia Amaya (Edinburgh/UNAM), on the relations between Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning (Hart).

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities book cover Prof. Maks Del Mar co-edits The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities
8 January 2020

Maks Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory at the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, has published The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities.

Call for Papers for 2019 EUPLANT Conference: The Internationalisation of EU Law and EU-China relations
14 February 2019

A Call for Papers on the Internationalisation of EU Law and EU-China Relations is organised in relation to the 2019 EUPLANT Conference, taking place on 10-11 June.

How can digital technologies help us to improve the way we communicate?
21 December 2018

Today’s interconnected world presents communications challenges that overwhelm even the experts. Professor Annelise Riles shed light on this when she gave the 2018 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence at Queen Mary University of London where she discussed Meridian 180, a platform for policy solutions and experimentation.

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott responds to Brexit judgement
3 November 2016

Constitutional and EU law specialist Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott responds to high court ruling that parliament must vote on triggering Article 50.

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott responds to Brexit judgement
3 November 2016

Constitutional and EU law specialist Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott responds to high court ruling that parliament must vote on triggering Article 50.

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