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All four students from the LLB Law in Practice programme at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have been offered training contracts with global law firm Reed Smith LLP. The Law in Practice Programme is four years in duration and students spend year three on a professional placement at Reed Smith LLP.

Date added: Thursday, June 15, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas spoke at the 6th Annual international conference on Law, Regulation and Public Policy, Singapore

Date added: Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas spoke at the International Energy Charter Ashgabat Forum, Turkmenistan

Date added: Thursday, June 1, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas spoke on Brexit at the School of the Judiciary, Recife, Brazil

Date added: Friday, May 26, 2017

CCLS hosts workshop on Protection and Indemnity Clubs in Greece

Date added: Saturday, March 11, 2017

Sir Richard Aikens delivers the ‘Marine Insurance’ module in Piraeus

Date added: Monday, March 13, 2017

Commander Kontorouchas and Lieutenant Syrigos guest lecture on the LLM in International Shipping Law programme in Piraeus

Date added: Friday, September 16, 2016

Dr Alexandros X.M. Ntovas featured in leading Greek newspaper on shipping and finance

Date added: Friday, July 1, 2016

Dr Mehmet Kurt writes on New Turkey and old troubles

Date added: Thursday, June 1, 2017

International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) featured in 'The Guardian view on Myanmar: some humans have more rights than others'

Date added: Thursday, May 4, 2017

Professor Eric King quoted in article on More UK police put cash down for IMSI Catchers

Date added: Thursday, June 1, 2017

Professor Eric Heinze write on Israel, no-platforming – and why there’s no such thing as ‘narrow exceptions’ to campus free speech

Date added: Tuesday, May 2, 2017

QMUL's Criminal Justice Centre sponsors conference on European Criminal Law in the Global Context: Values, Principles and Policies

Date added: Friday, March 31, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas invited as expert on trade and environment at OECD, Paris

Date added: Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas was keynote speaker at the University of Eastern Finland

Date added: Friday, March 10, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas spoke at the Energy Governance Forum of the Vanderbilt University Law School

Date added: Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Professor Duncan Mathews addressed the European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee in Brussels on the Legal Consequences of Brexit for Intellectual Property

Date added: Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Professor of Labour Law wins prestigious legal book prize

Professor Lizzie Barmes from QMUL’s School of Law has won the 2017 Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize for Bullying and Behavioural Conflict at Work: The Duality of Individual Rights.

Date added: Thursday, May 25, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas as keynote speaker at the 5th Annual Energy Transitions, Finland

Date added: Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Professor Dr Uma Suthersanen spoke at the Intellectual property and global development: 50 Years after Stockholm, Texas A and M University School of Law

Date added: Thursday, March 16, 2017

Professor Dr Uma Suthersanen spoke at the Annual Congress of the International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI 2017) at university of Copenhagen in Denmark

Date added: Friday, March 17, 2017

Is Bail-in the Answer to All of our Problems?: A Multidisciplinary and Multijurisdictional Approach’, and was chaired by Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal Co-Director of IGLEF

Date added: Friday, March 17, 2017

The Inaugural Bridget Lindley Annual Memorial Lecture: Holding the Risk – the Balance between Child Protection and the Right to Family Life

Date added: Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas spoke on Governance of Renewable Energy, Milan, Italy

Date added: Friday, June 30, 2017

Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal key organiser on Symposium on the Internationalization of the RMB. Risks and Challenges Ahead. London

Date added: Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Dr Ruth Fletcher blogs on Northern Irish Abortion Law

Date added: Thursday, June 29, 2017

Dr Ruth Fletcher co-hosts the third open meeting of the London Irish Abortion Rights Campaign.

Date added: Thursday, June 29, 2017

Dr Ruth Fletcher’s new co-edited collection, ReValuing Care in Theory, Law and Policy: Cycles and Connection, is launched at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Speakers Professor Maria Drakopoulou (Kent), Professor Marie Fox (Liverpool), Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam (Goldsmiths) and Professor Ambreena Manji (Cardiff), joined chair Professor Diamond Ashiagbor (IALS) and co-editors Dr Ruth Fletcher (QMUL) and Professor Rosie Harding (Birmingham) for the launch of ReValuing Care in Theory, Law and Policy.

Date added: Tuesday, June 13, 2017

QMUL hosts ATLAS Agora 2017

Date added: Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Sam Fowles: 'Don’t worry about Brexit, worry about the Great Repeal Bill that comes after it'

Date added: Friday, April 28, 2017

Professor Geraldine Van Bueren wrote a letter to The Times on The Human Rights Act and social justice

Date added: Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Report by Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax finds asylum seeker boat turnbacks illegal and don't deter people

Date added: Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Dr Davor Jancic write on is the European Court of Justice here to stay?

Date added: Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas spoke at Roundtable on the future of international energy governance at Vanderbilt University Law School

Date added: Saturday, April 29, 2017

Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas to speak on decarbonization and energy security at the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility

Date added: Monday, July 17, 2017

Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas to speak on Empowering citizens for common concerns in Ghana

Date added: Monday, July 17, 2017

Dr Stephen Allen speaks to The Foreign Desk about the dispute between the UK and Mauritius over Chagos Islands

Date added: Monday, July 17, 2017

Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas cited in House of Lords EU Committee Report on Brexit and Data Protection

Date added: Tuesday, July 18, 2017

VICE speaks to Amber Marks about Catalonia’s Ground-Breaking New Weed Law

Date added: Monday, July 24, 2017

Amber Marks featured in VICE article on ‘Why Sniffer Dogs Should Be Banned at Clubs and Festivals’

Date added: Friday, July 21, 2017

Dr Prakash Shah co-signs petition calling for greater representation of the Arts and Classical Indic Heritage in the National Educational Policy

Date added: Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Professor Ian Walden discusses new legal dilemmas facing law firms in The Guardian

Date added: Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Applications open for Penal History Project Stipendiary Internships

Date added: Monday, August 7, 2017

Dr Gabriel Gari speaks on services in new Free Trade Agreements

Date added: Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Professor Eric Heinze quoted in OZY on Free speech and banning newspapers

Date added: Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Professor Roger Cullis writes letter to The Guardian on the value of international students

Date added: Tuesday, August 29, 2017

QMUL School of Law hosts 2017 George Hinde Moot Final in UK Supreme Court

Date added: Thursday, April 27, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas quoted by Sputnik on Brexit negotiations

Date added: Friday, September 1, 2017

Professor Rudi Fortson QC quoted in article on arrests for laughing gas

Date added: Friday, September 1, 2017

LAC's Frances Ridout speaks to Regulation Matters on how pro bono can benefit all

Date added: Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Dr Costanza Russo to comment on the relationship between Law, Ethics and Culture in Banking

Date added: Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas published policy paper on the EU response to the Barcelona terrorist attacks

Date added: Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Professor Penny Green speaks to the BBC’s Spanish language service about the crisis of the Rohingyas in Myanmar

Date added: Friday, September 15, 2017

Alicia de la Cour Venning writes on the Rohingya crisis for the Conversation

Date added: Friday, September 15, 2017

Amy Corcoran writes 'Art the Arms Fair: making art not war' for the Red Pepper

Date added: Thursday, September 14, 2017

Professor Eric Heinze pens 'The left’s version of hate speech: guilt by association' for Free Speech Debate

Date added: Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Myanmar Violence: Interview with Professor Penny Green

Date added: Monday, September 11, 2017

Sam Fowles pens 'Brexit Britain’s feud with European courts: this is not taking back control' for The Conversation

Date added: Friday, September 8, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas spoke on trade agreements and climate change in Rome

Date added: Tuesday, September 5, 2017

New book published: ‘Human Rights of Migrants in the 21st Century’

Date added: Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris interviewed by Bloomberg on the Intel case

Date added: Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott writes for Prospect Magazine about the potential loss of rights in the Brexit Withdrawal Bill

Date added: Friday, September 22, 2017

Professor Penny Green spoke to BBC Radio 4 on 'The Rohingya violence: a textbook example of ethnic cleansing?'

Date added: Monday, September 25, 2017

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott pens 'An "utterly pernicious" Bill?' for ‘The UK in a changing Europe’

Date added: Monday, September 18, 2017

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott gives expert evidence to the Scottish Parliament European and External relations committee

Date added: Friday, September 22, 2017

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott's contribution to the 2017 Putney debates published in new book

Date added: Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas participated in the 2nd Yale sustainability leadership forum

Date added: Friday, September 15, 2017

Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas publishes new research on Sustainability, common concern, and public goods, in the George Washington International Law Review

Date added: Monday, September 25, 2017

Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas co-edits the first ever Research Handbook on EU Energy Law and Policy

Date added: Monday, September 25, 2017

ISCI featured in Teen Vouge article on 'Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Explained'

Date added: Thursday, September 28, 2017

Professor Penny Green appears on TRT World Roundtable: 'Rohingya Crisis - One month on, can it be stopped?'

Date added: Friday, September 29, 2017

Professor Penny Green denounces Spain’s attempts to block the referendum in Catalonia in a co-written letter

Date added: Friday, September 22, 2017

Professor Penny Green featured in article on the 'Call to strip Myanmar’s leader Aung San-Suu Kyi of Ulster-degree'

Date added: Friday, September 22, 2017

ISCI's Alicia de la Cour Venning and Dr Thomas MacMannus speak to The Diplomat on the Rohingya Crisis

Date added: Thursday, September 21, 2017

Law at Queen Mary ranked 37th in the world

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has been named among the top 50 universities in the world for Law in the prestigious Times Higher Education subject ranking 2018.

Date added: Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Professor Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas presented his research at annual conference on sustainable development in Croatia

Date added: Friday, October 6, 2017

Professor Penny Green quoted in ASEAN Today article on Aung San Suu Kyi possibly allowing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar

Date added: Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott publishes edited volume on fundamental rights in the EU

Date added: Thursday, October 12, 2017

QMUL and White and Case launch international arbitration survey

The Centre for Commercial Legal Studies (CCLS) at QMUL has launched its 2018 International Arbitration Survey, carried out in conjunction with Global law firm White & Case LLP.

Date added: Thursday, October 12, 2017

Dr Maks Del Mar to deliver Keynote Lecture at Joint Conference of the Netherlands Association of Legal Philosophy and the Netherlands Association of the Sociology of Law

Date added: Friday, October 13, 2017

Professor Douglas-Scott appointed to a panel of experts to give evidence on the UK's decision to leave the EU

Date added: Tuesday, October 17, 2017

2015 International Arbitration Survey cited in The China Business Law Journal

Date added: Wednesday, October 18, 2017

ISCI report on genocide in Myanmar cited by the Daily Star

Date added: Friday, October 13, 2017

Dr Guan H. Tang quoted in article on Stamping out trademark theft in China

Date added: Thursday, October 12, 2017

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott nominated to Expert Working Group on the EU (Withdrawal) Bill and the Rule of Law

Date added: Monday, October 23, 2017

Alicia de la Cour Venning, Dr Thomas MacManus and Professor Penny Green write on exposing the genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya

Date added: Monday, October 23, 2017

Dr Maks Del Mar gives seminar at the Aesthetics Research Centre

Date added: Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Dr Maks Del Mar to deliver lecture in Salzburg

Date added: Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott speaks to the Financial Times’ Brexit Unspun podcast

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Professor Eric Heinze featured in BBC article 'Nazi forums closed as Reddit purges "violent content"'

Date added: Thursday, October 26, 2017

Fifth Annual Renmin – Queen Mary Criminal Justice Conference held in China

Date added: Tuesday, October 24, 2017

QMUL Criminal Justice Centre co-organises lecture on Mutual Recognition in Criminal Matters: The CJEU and the Goldilocks Squeeze

Date added: Thursday, October 26, 2017

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott speaks to the Financial Times’ Brexit Unspun podcast

Date added: Tuesday, October 24, 2017

BBC Radio 4’s Law in Action speaks to Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott EU withdrawal bill

Date added: Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Dr Maks Del Mar becomes Co-Editor of the Law in Context series at Cambridge University Press

Date added: Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Dr Prakash Shah interviewed about the proposed law on caste discrimination

Date added: Friday, November 3, 2017

Professor Penny Green comments on the increasing pressure faced by universities to break ties with institutions in Myanmar

Date added: Thursday, November 2, 2017

First 2017-18 State Crime Seminar Series delivered by Professor John Chalcraft on 'Transnational Activism and State Violence'

A report by Kelly Parkington on a talk by Professor John Chalcraft of London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Date added: Monday, November 6, 2017

Frances Ridout speaks to Wired about Facebook trial to tackle online revenge porn

Date added: Thursday, November 9, 2017

Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas discusses the challenges and opportunties for EU energy policy

A new book from QMUL's Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas presents, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the most important research and latest trends in EU energy law and policy. In this article, he talks about some of the major challenges facing the EU in terms of energy policy.

Date added: Tuesday, October 31, 2017

QMUL Criminal Justice Cente and Centre international de criminologie comparée and École de criminologie, Université de Montréal host joint seminar

Date added: Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas and Fabio Giuffrida publish policy paper on the European Public Prosecutor’s Office for the Centre of European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Date added: Friday, December 1, 2017

Professor Rafael Leal-Arcas co-organized and hosted a conference on The Role of Climate Change Research in Fostering Climate Action

Date added: Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott pens 'Amendment seven: has parliament finally taken back control on Brexit?' for Prospect Magazine

Date added: Thursday, December 21, 2017