Belgium plays Beijing in the map with extradition treaty
8 July 2020
Dr Matthieu Burnay addresses some concerns on the Belgium-China extradition treaty for De Standaard
Queen Mary Postgraduate Law Student organises Global Advocacy Exercise
7 July 2020
Lauren Holmes, a full-time postgraduate student enrolled on the Laws LLM programme and a Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) Student Leader, shares her experience of organising a mock Plea in Mitigation advocacy exercise.
Regulating public heath on ‘Super Saturday’: misstatements and legal uncertainty
6 July 2020
Revised regulations make no reference to “two households”, “multiple households” or “groups of up to six”, or (for that matter) to ‘linked households’. The view - that two households "of any size" could get together in a “private dwelling" - was misplaced.
Black Protest Legal Support UK and Race Relations and Policing Project
2 July 2020
Yvonne Kramo has penned a blog for the Bar Council about the important work that Black Protest Legal Support UK are doing
Letter: A partnership model is a way to restrain excessive risk-taking
30 June 2020
Professor Rosa Lastra has co-written a letter in the Financial Times in response to an article suggesting that policymakers have not focused on how to restrain excessive leverage
Homophobia Disguised as Children’s Rights in Russia’s Constitutional Referendum
30 June 2020
Dr Hedi Viterbo and Yulia Ioffe comment on how Russia, and many other countries, have used the child rights rhetoric to defend homophobia and oppression
Holding gambling companies accountable across different countries
19 June 2020
Professor Julia Hornle discussed international gambling regulation on the BBC World Service Radio
Digital apps in times of Covid 19: an illusionary solution
18 June 2020
How is it possible to believe, and to make people believe, that the actions of digital tracking and detection of the movements of potential patients will make it possible to re-establish a "normalized" health and economic order with an acceptable victim rate and to deconflict without too much risk?
COVID-19 Lays Bare Ireland’s Selective Approach to Care
17 June 2020
Dr Ruth Fletcher has penned a blog post for the Bill of Health at Harvard Law School
Argentina: restructuring in the time of Covid-19
16 June 2020
Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal was featured in the Financial Times speaking on sovereign debt
Professor Rosa Lastra is Principle Investigator for Legal and Economic Conceptions of Money
16 June 2020
This project will reconsider the intersection between law and economics with an emphasis on the contribution that law can make to economic conceptions of money
The transition to decentralized energy: Challenges, opportunities and progress
15 June 2020
Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas publishes his work on the transition to decentralized energy in a new article
Complete University Guide Ranks Queen Mary 4th in London for Law
9 June 2020
The School of Law was ranked 27th overall, up two places from last year
An Exit Strategy from Covid-19 Lockdown: Surrendering to Surveillance with Different Design Choices
8 June 2020
There are many questions to be asked regarding digital contact tracing apps developed in response to the coronavirus crisis
Seeing State Secrets: The Significance of Abu Zubaydah’s Self-Portraits of Torture
4 June 2020
In piece for the ezine Jadaliyya, Dr Hedi Viterbo, along with Lisa Hajjar, explain how the drawings offer alternative ways of thinking about tourture
Covid-19: European rules for using personal data
4 June 2020
What existing national security legislation, new bulk analysis efforts, and emergency measures have different states deployed to curb the spread of Covid-19?
Covid-19: A New Struggle over Privacy, Data Protection and Human Rights?
4 June 2020
What existing national security legislation, new bulk analysis efforts, and emergency measures have different states deployed to curb the spread of Covid-19?
Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas just published new findings of his WiseGRID grant
3 June 2020
The article looks at regulation, innovation, and technology for the 21st century energy goals
New book provides comprehensive analysis of energy transition in the European Union
2 June 2020
Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas has just published a two-volume book with the findings of his WiseGRID research grant, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 program
Two Queen Mary PhD students win prestigious LAHP studentships
2 June 2020
The London Arts and Humanities Partnership offers up to 90 studentships a year and are highly competitive
Open textured legislation in the times of Covid-19: 'reasonable excuse’ and legal certainty'
2 June 2020
This blog examines the problems that can arise when Parliament chooses to regulate conduct in an open-textured manner
The Contribution of Free Trade Agreements and Bilateral Investment Treaties to a Sustainable Future
27 May 2020
Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas publishes his most recent research on free trade agreements, bilateral investment treaties, and sustainability
How one leaky rubber boat could sink the EU's entire migration policy
27 May 2020
Dr Violeta Moreno Lax comments on on Italy’s deal with Libya regarding migrant ‘pull-backs’ for The Correspondent
Responding to Covid-19: Surveillance, Trust and the Rule of Law
26 May 2020
The purpose of this analysis is to focus on the multi-level challenges that, regardless of its form, what is in effect a post-Covid system of mass surveillance poses on well-established principles of law, rights, trust and citizenship
Queen Mary launches Arts and Culture Support Centre
22 May 2020
The Legal Advice Centre and qLegal will support the new initiative by creating online toolkits
Why Britain should allow the UK and EU Parliaments to talk after Brexit
20 May 2020
Dr Davor Jancic has written a piece for the LSE Brexit Blog arguing the UK Government's position breaks with a tradition of inter-parliamentary co-operation that long predates the EU
Should private sector debt relief be part of the Exit Strategy?
19 May 2020
Professor Rosa Lastra and Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal took part in an online Private Debt Workshop
Bloomberg experts lead the way in a new qLegal Compliance programme
Professor Mitsilegas discussant at event on Covid-19 and the Rule of law with Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova