News from the School of Law
Queen Mary LLM Students attended AIEN 2025 International Energy Summit
9 July 2025
LLM students, Danica Jankovic, Ipek Ince and Nikolaos Tsironis from the Energy & Climate Change Law Institute, at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) attended the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN)’s annual International Energy Summit, in Istanbul.
On 22 June 2025 School of Law PhD student and QMIPRI research associate Gertrud Metsa was awarded first prize at doctoral workshop of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property 43rd ATRIP Congress in Copenhagen.
QMIPRI hosts workshop exploring “evergreening” in intellectual property law
2 July 2025
On 27 June, the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) had the pleasure of hosting a brilliant roundtable workshop spanning four sessions, dedicated to exploring the complex and multifaceted concept of “ever-greening” in intellectual property law.
From Gaza to Iran, Netanyahu waging wars for his own political survival: Experts
27 June 2025
Professor Neve Gordon spoke to Yeni Şafak about how Israel’s conflicts are driven Prime Minister Netanyahu's objective of political survival.
Queen Mary London and Paris LLM Students Participate in the first ICC Dispute Resolution Universities Programme
26 June 2025
Silvia Lamprinopoulou, Comparative and International Dispute Resolution (CIDR) LLM London (class 2025), Claire Berns, CIDR LLM London (class 2025), and Francois Wouter Landman, Intellectual Property Paris LLM (class 2025), report on Queen Mary University of London's participation in the first ICC Dispute Resolution training Programme for Universities.
Seminal case on 'pullback' policy submitted by Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax is decided by Strasbourg Court
26 June 2025
Seven years after receiving the complaint, the European Court of Human Rights has delivered its judgment on the case of S.S. and Others v Italy (App. No. 21660/18).
Queen Mary PhD Law candidate secures prestigious scholarship
23 June 2025
Yijia Liu was awarded the Helen Reece Scholarship by the Modern Law Review for her critical work on international child abduction in the fields of feminist legal theory and family law.
Dr Davor Jancic delivers Keynote Lectures at the Jean Monnet Academy
23 June 2025
From 4-5 June 2025, Dr Davor Jancic, Senior Lecturer in Law, was Keynote Speaker at the Jean Monnet Academy in Bazoches-sur-Guyonne (West of Paris), France, delivering two lectures on parliamentary diplomacy in Europe and the world and a workshop on threats to parliamentary democracy.
Vote to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales
20 June 2025
Professor Ruth Fletcher explained recent abortion decriminalisation proposals for England and Wales in the Conversation and on BBC 4’s The World Tonight.
Professor Duncan Matthews and Dr Hanna Ostapenko host British Academy workshop on patents and genome editing in agriculture
On Thursday 5 June 2025 Professor Duncan Matthews, Director of Research in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), and Dr Hanna Ostapenko, British Academy/Cara Researchers At Risk Fellow in CCLS, co-hosted a workshop on the patent governance of agricultural genome editing, funded by the British Academy.
qLegal staff present at London Tech Week
19 June 2025
London Tech Week brings together the entire tech ecosystem under one roof, and qLegal staff enjoyed sharing the support available to founders across the qLegal programmes.
Queen Mary's Centre for Commercial Law Studies celebrates 45 years
18 June 2025
In 2025, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies is celebrating 45 years since its founding. On Monday 9 June 2025 members of the CCLS community from past and present gathered to celebrate this achievement and to commemorate Sir Roy Goode’s fundamental role in the existence of the Centre.
Lord Browne Essay Prize 2025 winners
18 June 2025
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Lord Browne Energy and Climate Change Law Essay Prize for 2024/25.
Maks Del Mar’s latest book chronicles the work of Scottish thinker Neil MacCormick
18 June 2025
Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy, and Law tells the story of one of one of the twentieth century’s most important legal philosophers and Scotland’s most influential public intellectuals.
Hoffmann Eitle award prize for best Queen Mary LLM essay in European Law of Patents
16 June 2025
Hoffmann Eitle, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in Europe, has announced that it will be sponsoring an annual prize for best essay in LLM European Law of Patents for students studying at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London.
Queen Mary PhD Graduate authors new book on domestic violence in Pakistan
10 June 2025
Dr Daanika Kamal (Lecturer in Law, Royal Holloway University of London) has published a new book titled Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of ‘Bad’ and ‘Mad’ Women. The book was published in May 2025 by Oxford University Press.
School of Law success at the QMSU Education Awards
2 June 2025
The School of Law came top in two categories at this year’s Queen Mary Students’ Union Education Awards.
Shaping the Future of Central Banking: Bank of England in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London
29 May 2025
On 7 May 2025, the Bank of England (Bank), in collaboration with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), hosted a panel event titled “Shaping the Future of Central Banking.”
Second Imagination Research Network Annual Meeting Held
28 May 2025
20-21 May 2025 saw the second annual meeting of the Imagination Research Network. Over 2 days and across 4 workshops, Network members and guests discussed the theory and history of imagination.
Queen Mary law experts advise the UK Government on the use of artificial intelligence in financial services
27 May 2025
Queen Mary’s Professor Rosa Lastra and Dr Daniele D’Alvia have submitted written evidence to the UK Parliament’s AI in Financial Services Committee.
New edited volume presents the first workers' inquiry of the UK legal sector
21 May 2025
Dr Tanzil Chowdhury (Queen Mary) and Dr Jamie Woodcock (King's College London) have published a new edited book titled Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing from Across the Sector in Britain. This is a joint research project between Queen Mary's Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context and the Socialist journal Notes from Below.
Professor Maks Del Mar to speak at Adam Smith Festival of Ideas
13 May 2025
Professor Maks Del Mar will be speaking in Kirkaldy, Adam Smith's birthplace, as part of the Adam Smith Festival of Ideas (5-8 June 2025).
Dr Daniele D’Alvia awarded funding to investigate the adoption of a Digital Euro
6 May 2025
The research, funded by the Policy Support Fund and in co-authored with the European Central Bank (ECB), will analyse the potential successes and challenges of adopting a new central bank digital currency.
Fashion Law Day Success
1 May 2025
Fashion Law Day on the 14th April commemorated the launch of our brand new Fashion Law LLM, which is the first and only LLM of its kind in the UK.
Queen Mary LLM student to present at an International Atomic Energy Agency conference
28 April 2025
Queen Mary University of London is pleased to share that Leneka Rhoden, a current Energy and Climate Change Law LLM student, has been selected to present at the International Conference on Stakeholder Engagement for Nuclear Power Programmes, hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The event will take place in Vienna, Austria, 26-30 May 2025.
Facebook hosts Israeli ads promoting illegal activity
24 April 2025
Professor Neve Gordon appeared in a YouTube Short from Al Jazeera English commenting on Facebook's advertising activity and practices.
BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street are the real power behind Big Oil’s climate retreat, report finds
15 April 2025
A small group of powerful investment firms is quietly fuelling the global oil industry’s retreat from climate targets, according to a new report published today by the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice at Queen Mary University of London.
Professor Lastra to deliver the Professor James Lecture in Leeds on 23 April
10 April 2025
The event is titled 'The Evolving Role of the Bank of England' and will take place on Wednesday 23 April 2025, 14:00 – 15:00.
Dr Noam Gur spoke at the University of Palermo about conflicts between law and state officials’ directives
8 April 2025
Dr Gur presented the paper ‘Obedience to Law vs Obedience to State Officials’ at the workshop ‘Authority, Obedience, and Autonomy’, which was held at the University of Palermo on 6-7 March 2025.
Queen Mary Students visit the International Maritime Organisation Legal Committee Meeting
4 April 2025
On the 25th of March, a group of LLM students from Queen Mary University of London were invited to attend the Meeting of the Legal Committee of International Maritime Organization at their London HQ. States discussed pressing issues to the law of the sea, such as human rights of abandoned sea farers.