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Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC to speak at the launch of the UK Common Rights Project
Date added: Wednesday, December 18, 2013
On the heart in the body politic: Professor Geraldine Van Bueren reviews Martha Nussbaum's 'Political Emotions'
Date added: Monday, November 11, 2013
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC to take part in Oxford Union debate “This House Believes University Education is a Right, Not a Privilege” on 31 October 2013
Date added: Monday, July 15, 2013
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren to speak on 'Are Human Rights Selfish' at Kellogg College, Oxford
Date added: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
UK Human Rights Blog Post: Should we have an enforceable right to food? Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC writes on the UK Human Rights Blog: "People are going hungry in England because England, to the detriment of the poor, has forgotten its legal history. Nearly eight hundred years ago, in 1216 English law first recognized a right to food. Yet between April and September this year over 350,000 people received three days’ emergency food from the Trussell Trust food banks, triple the numbers helped in the same period last year..." Read the full post on the UK Human Rights Blog.
Date added: Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax chairs a panel discussion on refugee law and human rights
Date added: Friday, November 15, 2013
Boat Refugees and Migrants at Sea - Integrating Maritime Security with Human Rights
Date added: Friday, December 13, 2013
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC to chair the UCL / Bindmans Debate on International human rights breaches on 19 June
Date added: Monday, June 3, 2013
Dr Jessie Hohmann to speak on 'Making a Claim, Making a Person? Investigating the Role of Human Rights Claims in Human Personhood' at Lancaster University on 13 May
Date added: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC 'Making Waves: Should boat-race protestor Trenton Oldfield be deported?' Times Higher Education
Date added: Friday, July 12, 2013
Leading light in construction of post-Apartheid South Africa launches Human Rights Collegium at Queen Mary
Date added: Thursday, February 28, 2013
Rights against democracy - recalling International Human Rights Day
Human ‘rights’ have emerged progressively, over centuries. They have transformed millennia of thinking about politics, culture and law. They paint a portrait of individuals as, by nature, equal holders of inalienable rights. (Many protagonists have countered with notions of group rights, but those remain controversial in theory and practice.)
Date added: Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Law professor turns to theatre to highlight the human rights abuses committed by global businesses
A series of thought-provoking plays, aimed at raising the awareness of the controversial issue of human abuses carried out by international businesses working in developing countries, will be premiered across the UK.
Date added: Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Dr Jessie Hohmann's book on Housing Law is shortlisted for Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2013
Date added: Friday, August 23, 2013
Dr Jessie Hohmann's book 'The Right to Housing Law, Concepts, Possibilities' is published
Date added: Monday, March 4, 2013
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren pens 'How we stood up for human rights' for the Jewish Chronicle
Date added: Friday, March 9, 2018
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren pens 'Religion and human rights are a double lock on dignity' for The Times
Date added: Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC asks who has the right to rule on Alfie Evans?
Date added: Friday, April 27, 2018
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren published a piece on the right of food for The Independent
Date added: Sunday, December 2, 2018
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren writes on the Universal Declaration for the Times Literary Supplement
Date added: Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren write on The Human Rights Act and social justice
Date added: Tuesday, May 2, 2017
British Institute of Human Rights offers summer internship programme
Date added: Friday, March 3, 2017
Prof. Geraldine Van Bueren QC to work with Angelina Jolie on Amnesty book
Date added: Friday, April 5, 2019
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Professor Merris Amos presents her research on COVID-19 and human rights law
Date added: Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Professor Amos and Dr Chowdhury provide written evidence into the Overseas Operations Bill
Date added: Thursday, September 24, 2020
Professor Shazia Choudhry ratified as an Academic Bencher at the Inner Temple
The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as the Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London.
Date added: Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Why UK approach to replacing the Human Rights Act is just as worrying as the replacement itself
Queen Mary's Professor of Human Rights Law, Merris Amos, has written for the Conversation about plans to replace the 1998 Act with a new UK Bill.
Date added: Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Calls Grow for Prisoner-Hostage Exchange as Israel’s War on Gaza Escalates
Dr Hedi Viterbo's social media posts about Palestinian prisoners were cited in an article from Truthout.
Date added: Thursday, November 9, 2023
Professor Fitzmaurice takes part in L’Institut de Droit International 150 anniversary
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice returns from a special 150 anniversary of L’Institut de Droit International, held in Angers between 27 August - 2 September 2023.
Date added: Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Saturday Morning Live with Esther and Phillip
Professor Eric Heinze appeared on the GB News programme to discuss how the Labour Party's proposal for a new Racial Equality Act could play a helpful role.
Date added: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Dr Hedi Viterbo wins Socio-Legal Studies Association Early Career Book Prize
Dr Viterbo won this award for his book, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine, published by Cambridge University Press
Date added: Thursday, April 14, 2022
Socioeconomic rights deserve legal protection
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren has co-authored a letter to the Guardian regarding the new protected social rights proposed by Gordon Brown’s Commission on the UK’s Future.
Date added: Monday, December 12, 2022
The Times letters to editor
Geraldine Van Bueren, Professor Emerita in Queen Mary’s School of Law, argues that now is the time to revive and expand the medieval right to food.
Date added: Monday, September 26, 2022
Dr Hedi Viterbo wins APSA Human Rights book award
This is the second award given to Dr Viterbo for his book, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine, published by Cambridge University Press.
Date added: Thursday, September 22, 2022
Professor Eric Heinze speaks at the 15th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations
Date added: Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Professor Eric Heinze took part in a panel at the Fažana Media Festival
Date added: Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Professor Eric Heinze spoke at a conference on 21st Century Antisemitism
Date added: Thursday, September 15, 2022
Professor Eric Heinze delivers a guest lecture on ‘Human Rights and Free Speech’
The lecture was organised by the Ethical Society of North Winchester.
Date added: Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Professor Eric Heinze discusses‘What do judges need to know about hate speech?’
The panel event was hosted by Asser Institute.
Date added: Friday, October 7, 2022
A human right to nature: The people suing governments for environmental damage
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice speaks to Science Focus about the trend of giving nature its own rights.
Date added: Tuesday, January 25, 2022
New book: Research Handbook on Energy, Law and Ethics
The book is edited by Professor Malik R. Dahlan, Professor Rosa María Lastra and Gustavo Rochette and published by Edward Elgar.
Date added: Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Greece accused of violating European citizen rights and forcing people fleeing persecution back across the border in landmark legal case
An unprecedented legal application has been submitted at the European Court of Human Rights, challenging the racially motivated pushback of a French citizen from EU territory. Prof Violeta Moreno-Lax, from the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, is providing legal representation alongside a team of international lawyers.
Date added: Thursday, February 24, 2022
Rwanda asylum seekers: UK government criticised over 'cruel' plan
Dr Niovi Vavoula and Professor Elspeth Guild featured in the media discussing the latest plans.
Date added: Tuesday, April 19, 2022
The Bruce Willis Deepfake Is Everyone’s Problem
Professor Johanna Gibson comments on the Bruce Willis Deepfake for Wired.
Date added: Monday, October 17, 2022
Queen Mary Law Professors formally sworn in as Honorary QCs
On Monday 1 November, Professors Rachael Mulheron and Alan Dignam from the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London were formally sworn as Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causa by the Lord Chancellor at the Queen’s Counsel Appointment Ceremony at Westminster Hall.
Date added: Thursday, November 4, 2021
Professor Lastra to be part of panel event on the role of Central Banks in dealing with environmental and social challenges
The round table events is organised by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
Date added: Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Queen Mary Lead Study Investigates the EU Approach to Migration in the Mediterranean
Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was lead author of the expert study that examines the EU approach on migration in the Mediterranean, covering developments from the 2015 refugee crisis up to the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath.
Date added: Thursday, June 17, 2021
As the Corona pandemic worsens, EU borders shut down: “A new low point for the EU’s respect for refugee rights and international law”
Professor Elspeth Guild has co-written a blog for the Horizon 2020 project PROTECT! on refugees and external borders in Europe during Covid19
Date added: Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Queen Mary Law Professors appointed as new Queen’s Counsel
Professor Rachael Mulheron and Professor Alan Dignam from Queen Mary’s School of Law have been appointed as new Queen’s Counsel (QC) in England and Wales.
Date added: Thursday, December 17, 2020
Woodrow Wilson's racist legacy and decolonising modern sanctions
Dr Eva Nanopoulos pens an opinion piece for Al Jazeera about Woodrow Wilson's racist legacy
Date added: Friday, July 17, 2020
How one leaky rubber boat could sink the EU's entire migration policy
Dr Violeta Moreno Lax comments on on Italy’s deal with Libya regarding migrant ‘pull-backs’ for The Correspondent
Date added: Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Greek data watchdog to rule on AI systems in refugee camps
Dr Niovi Vavoula speaks to ComputerWeekly.com about the forthcoming decision on the compliance of surveillance and security systems in Greek refugee camps.
Date added: Friday, November 3, 2023
Why the death penalty is incompatible with democracy
Professor Eric Heinze has written for The Conversation arguing that the death penalty is in itself incompatible with democracy. This is following the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith on 25 January for murder in Alabama, using the untested method of nitrogen asphyxiation.
Date added: Thursday, February 1, 2024
