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Professor Shemtov interviewed for CNN's Quest Means Business
The interview concerned the recently filed New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI.
Date added: Friday, January 5, 2024
Israel's war in Gaza
Professor Penny Green, Professor of Law and Globalisation, who has published extensively on genocide, is interviewed in a 24-minute segment on the Islam Channel.
Date added: Friday, January 5, 2024
Queen Mary launches the UK’s first LLB specialising in climate change
Our new undergraduate law degree allows you to gain knowledge, skills and practical experience in the ever-growing area of climate change and justice. Programme Director Professor David Whyte explains more:
Date added: Friday, January 12, 2024
Queen Mary law academics comment on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Professor Penny Green and Dr Thomas MacManus have both commented on the case being heard at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for Al Jazeera.
Date added: Wednesday, January 17, 2024
New Directors appointed at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
Professor Noam Shemtov and Professor Duncan Matthews take over from , who concluded her successful term as QMIPRI Director in December 2023.
Date added: Thursday, January 18, 2024
Is Israel guilty of genocide?
Professor Penny Green was featured in an Al Jazeera clip looking at the UN’s Genocide Convention and whether what is happening in Gaza today meets its definition.
Date added: Friday, January 19, 2024
Professor Maxi Scherer Appointed as Co-Chair of the IBA’s Arbitration Guidelines and Rules Subcommittee
This appointment follows on from her previous role as Co-Chair of the Investment Arbitration Sub-Committee at the International Bar Association (IBA) in 2022-2023.
Date added: Wednesday, January 24, 2024
What should insurers do about extreme weather events? Expert interview
Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer speaks to Institute for Innovation in Insurance and Reinsurance about climate change and the insurance industry.
Date added: Friday, January 26, 2024
Dr Noam Gur spoke at a University of Hull workshop on Virtue Jurisprudence
The online one-day workshop on 16 January 2024 explored new perspectives on the role of virtue in law and legal theory.
Date added: Tuesday, January 30, 2024
SEC Adopts Tougher Rules for SPACs
Dr Daniele D’Alvia speaks to Thomson Reuters about Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopting new rules for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
Date added: Tuesday, January 30, 2024
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
War on Gaza: Killing of Gaza’s academics amounts to ‘educide,’ say campaigners
Professor Neve Gordon describes the destruction of Gaza’s education system as “educide” in the Middle East Eye.
Date added: Monday, February 5, 2024
Queen Mary legal expert comments on the ICJ case against Israel
Professor Penny Green provides expert comment on South Africa's case against Israel in the International Court of Justice for Anadolu Agency.
Date added: Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Queen Mary academic advises the Republic of Marshall Islands on international and environmental law
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice advised the Republic of Marshall Islands in their submission for the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change.
Date added: Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Queen Mary nominated at the 14th annual Global Arbitration Review Awards
Queen Mary represents three of the five nominees in the ‘best lecture or speech’ category at this year’s GAR Awards. We were also represented in the ‘campaign for greener arbitration award for sustainable behaviour’ category.
Date added: Friday, February 16, 2024
New Report reveals innovative approaches by financial institutions can make a crucial difference to individuals affected by gambling-related harms
With a record number of people seeking help for problem gambling through the National Gambling Helpline last year, and the Gambling Commission’s new figures suggesting that as many as 1.3 million adults in Great Britain might experience gambling-related harms, new research from Queen Mary University of London reveals innovative and effective approaches by financial institutions to support affected individuals.
Date added: Monday, February 19, 2024
Academics warn of facial recognition technology’s ‘chilling effects’ and potential social harm
Dr Daragh Murray spoke to The Irish Times about the use of facial recognition technology in Ireland.
Date added: Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Professor Duncan Matthews receives Honorary Membership of CIPA
Duncan Matthews has been made a lifetime Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) in recognition of his contribution to the patent profession over the past two decades.
Date added: Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Ten years of Le Café des Arbitres
Le Café des Arbitres, or LCDA, a series of Paris-based conferences hosted by Queen Mary University of London’s School of International Arbitration, marked its 10th anniversary with an event discussing the impact of technology and artificial intelligence and whether international arbitration as an industry will survive.
Date added: Thursday, February 29, 2024
Queen Mary University of London Academic Invited to Provide Expert Opinion at UK Music AI Inquiry
Noam Shemtov, Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law, has been invited to provide expert opinion at the UK Music AI Inquiry before the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on UK Music.
Date added: Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Professor Miriam Goldby has been shortlisted for a C4DTI Award
Professor Miriam Goldby has been shortlisted for the C4DTI Director’s Award for the Individual who has made the greatest contribution to the Digitalisation of International Trade.
Date added: Friday, March 1, 2024
Queen Mary Academic invited to the International Underwriting Association
Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer presented her new book, 'Insurance, Climate Change and the Law' at the International Underwriting Association (IUA).
Date added: Monday, February 19, 2024
D&O insurers grapple with ESG pressures
Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer comments on the UK’s approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) shareholder lawsuits for Insurance Day.
Date added: Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Professor Maks Del Mar to deliver lecture in Helsinki's Legal History series
Maks Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities, will deliver a lecture in the University of Helsinki's Legal History lecture series. This year, the series is on the theme 'Identities and Legal Histories.
Date added: Thursday, March 7, 2024
The UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law
On 8 February 2024, the hosted a Roundtable on 'The UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law'.
Date added: Friday, March 8, 2024
Israel-Gaza protests have cost the police at least £25m so far - can you put a price on free speech?
Professor Eric Heinze has published an article in The Conversation about the cost of political protests and how we should fund it.
Date added: Friday, March 15, 2024
New guidelines provide clarity for stakeholders involved in managing EU external borders
The SHARED Project: Shared Responsibility for Human Rights at the EU External Borders has published a set of guidelines to help authorities, agencies and third countries understand the shared responsibilities arising from their joint implementation of ‘integrated border management’, especially when working under the coordination of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex).
Date added: Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Dr Morgandi delivers Training Programme on Research Methodology
, Associate Professor of International Energy Law, has been invited to conduct a Training Programme on Research Methodology by the Centre for Trade and Investment Law (CTIL) in Delhi on 21 March 2024.
Date added: Tuesday, March 19, 2024
To what extent can judges be replaced by algorithms?
Dr Vasiliki Koukoulioti speaks to the Tax Journal about the use of artificial intelligence in judging the outcome of tax cases.
Date added: Thursday, March 21, 2024
Palestinian academic interviewed by Democracy Now!
Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian speaks to Democracy Now! on attacks on Universities, her suspension from Hebrew University, and the continuing war in Gaza.
Date added: Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Magistrates "poorly trained" - should they go?
The results of a survey co-led by Queen Mary's Dr Kate Leader on the effectiveness of magistrates was featured in The Times.
Date added: Friday, March 22, 2024
‘Insurance, Climate Change and the Law’: New book from Queen Mary academic, explores the insurance industry's role in climate action
Queen Mary University of London academic Franziska Arnold-Dwyer is set to release her latest book titled "Insurance, Climate Change and the Law". This timely publication delves into the pivotal role of the insurance industry in addressing the challenges posed by climate change.
Date added: Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Professor Del Mar presents on ‘Reflexive Legal Humanities’ in India`
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’.
Date added: Thursday, March 28, 2024
The Road to Famine in Gaza
Professor Neve Gordon has co-written an article about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza for The New York Review.
Date added: Friday, April 5, 2024
Who Will Pay for the Baltimore Bridge Collapse?`
Dr Franziska Arnold Dwyer speaks to the New York Times about who's liable for the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore.
Date added: Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Queen Mary publishes a government report exploring intellectual property in the metaverse
A new report by Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) delves into the potential ramifications of the Metaverse on intellectual property (IP) rights.
Date added: Monday, March 25, 2024
Queen Mary Insurance Law LLM students visit Lloyd's of London
On March 21, 2024, the LLM students from the Insurance Law and Shipping Law programmes had the opportunity to visit the Lloyd’s of London building, guided by a representative from the Lloyd’s Market Association.
Date added: Thursday, April 11, 2024
School of Law academics involved in conference on free Speech in academia
Professor Eric Heinze is among the speakers for Free Speech and Academic Freedom across the Disciplines, which takes place at Queen Mary University of London on 24 April 2024.
Date added: Friday, April 5, 2024
qLegal's Networking and Pitching Event with Morrison Foerster and Amazon
qLegal, alongside its long-standing partner Morrison Foerster, hosted a networking and pitching event on Wednesday, 13 March 2024. The event brought together over sixty attendees, including qLegal students and in-house legal professionals from Amazon.
Date added: Friday, March 29, 2024
Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre shortlisted for LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Award
The Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre (QMLAC) Student Support team have been shortlisted for Best Contribution by a Team of Students at the 2024 LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards.
Date added: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Israeli mass surveillance in Gaza and the use of AI to kill Palestinians
Professor Neve Gordon talks to Democracy Now! about the Israel's “massive surveillance apparatus” and its use of artificial intelligence tools to bomb targets.
Date added: Friday, April 19, 2024
The campaign to divest from BP and Shell isn't working. Here's why:
Professor David Whyte speaks to CityA.M. about his research into divestment from BP and Shell by investors.
Date added: Friday, April 19, 2024
Abortion Review
Dr Ruth Fletcher has co-signed a letter asking for the Irish government to implement the Review of the operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018.
Date added: Friday, April 19, 2024
Queen Mary hosted the annual EIPIN doctoral meeting
Professor Guido Westkamp hosted the annual EIPIN doctoral meeting and Congress on 10 and 11 April. The Congress covered a range of cutting-edge legal issues concerning artificial intelligence, especially with regard to current IP, copyright and competition law aspects.
Date added: Friday, April 19, 2024
Call for Papers - Western Sahara Research Group: Third Annual Conference
The Western Sahara Research Group's Third Annual Conference will be organised via several thematic panels with a view to interrogating Western Sahara’s international status and its significance from the vantage points of public international law and the law and policy of the European Union.
Date added: Monday, April 22, 2024
Queen Mary law academics take part in panel event in Greece
Professor Miriam Goldby and Dr Filip Saranovic took part in a panel session on “Shipping cases round-up: Hot off the press” in Greece on 23 April 2024.
Date added: Wednesday, May 1, 2024
The Central Bank of the Future: Opportunities and Challenges
Professor Rosa Lastra will give a keynote speech at the OeNB and SUERF Annual Economic Conference 2024, 10-11 June 2024.
Date added: Thursday, May 2, 2024
Will the US adopt IHRA’s anti-Semitism definition? What’s the controversy?
Professor Neve Gordon speaks to Al Jazeera about the problems of the US adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s definition of anti-Semitism.
Date added: Monday, May 13, 2024
Legal Voices for the Future
Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer participated in a panel discussion on 'Climate Change and Risk' organised by Legal Voices for the Future (LVF) and hosted at the LSE Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Date added: Monday, May 13, 2024
More Than Just a Game at Stanford University
The 18th edition in the of the More Than Just a Game (MTJG) series, MTJG Stanford, was the first time we brought MTJG to the US, in partnership with Stanford University. The event attracted a wide range of experts and introduced the concept to a predominantly US-based audience.
Date added: Monday, March 25, 2024
The Third World: At the Centre of International Law?
Professor Ratna Kapur appeared on the European Journal of International Law podcast to discuss the rise and critiques of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).
Date added: Friday, March 1, 2024
As the Middle East reforms, is the UK falling to Islamist radicalism?
Dr Prakash Shah appears on the Global Order YouTube channel discussing Islamic extremism in the UK.
Date added: Friday, May 17, 2024
Winners of the inaugural Queen Mary School of Law Black Lives Matter Student Prize announced
The winners of the Queen Mary School of Law Black Lives Matter Student Prize are Vandy Widyalankara (2nd year LLB Student) and Sarah Nizarali (final year LLB Student).
Date added: Monday, May 20, 2024
Pioneering Guide Helps Judges to Navigate Digital Open Source Evidence
'Evaluating Digital Open Source Imagery: A Guide for Judges and Fact-Finders,' a groundbreaking resource from Dr Daragh Murray, Senior Lecturer and IHSS Fellow, is aimed at equipping judges and fact-finders with essential tools to effectively evaluate digital open source evidence in legal proceedings.
Date added: Monday, May 20, 2024
Professor Shemtov contributes to new UK Government report on AI and the music industry
The report was published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on UK Music, an influential cross-party group of MPs and Peers in the UK Government that discusses issues in the music industry.
Date added: Thursday, May 23, 2024
Theorising the ‘humanitarian camp’ as a stage in the genocidal process
Professor Penny Green’s Leverhulme funded Project investigating the idea of humanitarian camp as an extension of the genocidal process has been featured in the Leverhulme Trust 2023 Annual Review.
Date added: Friday, May 24, 2024
ICC seeks arrest of Israel and Hamas leaders. What happens next?
Professor Neve Gordon speaks to the New Statesman and Middle East Eye about the International Criminal Court seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders.
Date added: Friday, May 24, 2024
Recent application for International Criminal Court arrest warrants
Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche speaks to VRT news about the potential arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and members of Hamas.
Date added: Thursday, May 30, 2024
Can banks help stop gambling harm?
Professor Julia Hörnle and Dr Janelle Jones appeared on a special bonus episode of the Yours Lawfully podcast to discuss their research into gambling harm.
Date added: Wednesday, June 5, 2024
The School of Law at Queen Mary announces partnership with the Institute of Law at Birzeit University in Palestine
In the summer of 2023, two academics from the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, Dr Thomas MacManus (Director of the International State Crime Initiative - ISCI) and Dr Tanzil Chowdhury (Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context - GLSGC) visited Birzeit University in Palestine as part of the FOBZU PALS Fellowship.
Date added: Monday, June 10, 2024
Israel's Universities: The Crackdown
Professor Neve Gordon and Professor Penny Green have written an article for The New York Review about the repression of students' and academic staff's speech at universities in Israel.
Date added: Monday, June 10, 2024
Queen Mary ranked as one of the UK’s Most In Demand Postgraduate Law Schools in 2023/24
Postgrad Solutions Ltd, owner of two of the leading global postgraduate education portals, LLMstudy.com and Postgrad.com, has announced their most searched UK law schools for LLM degrees in the last 12 months.
Date added: Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Professor Rosa Lastra consulted on a UNIDROIT guide to bank liquidation
The Draft Legislative Guide on Bank Liquidation is being put together by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).
Date added: Thursday, June 13, 2024
The Hindu manifesto 2024: Warts and all
Dr Prakash Shah has written an piece for Asian Voice analysing the recently launched Hindu Manifesto of UK.
Date added: Monday, June 17, 2024
School of International Arbitration’s strong presence in the LIDW24
Daria Korniienko, Comparative and International Dispute Resolution LLM class 2023, reports on Queen Mary University of London's involvement in the London International Disputes Week 2024, including the several contributions from our LLM students to the Kluwer Arbitration Blog.
Date added: Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Preview Symposium held in Edinburgh on Professor Del Mar’s new book on Neil MacCormick
The 2024 Edinburgh Festival of Legal Theory opened with a preview symposium on Professor Maks Del Mar’s new book, Neil MacCormick: A Relational Life, which will be published early in 2025.
Date added: Friday, June 14, 2024
New research shows litigation funding improves access to justice for some, but is difficult to scale up
The research was led by Queen Mary University of London’s Professor Rachael Mulheron KC and commissioned by the Legal Services Board to analyse whether litigation funding improves access to justice and strengthens consumer protection and regulation.
Date added: Thursday, June 20, 2024
Row over jobs at UK's largest remaining steelworks in Port Talbot highlights challenges of moving to a fossil fuel-free future
Professor David Whyte speaks to Context News about how workers are coping with changes happening in the UK's steel industry.
Date added: Monday, June 24, 2024
qLegal announces winners of the “Law of the Future Competition 2024” supported by partners Ropes & Gray and Bloomberg
qLegal, dedicated to fostering innovation and supporting emerging legal minds, is delighted to announce the winners of the Law of the Future Competition 2024.
Date added: Thursday, June 27, 2024
2024 WG Hart Workshop held on 'Historicising Jurisprudence'
This year's WG Hart workshop was held on 26-27 June 2024 on the theme: ‘Historicising Jurisprudence: Person, Community, Form’. The workshop was held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and supported also by the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London and All Souls College, University of Oxford. The academic directors were Professor Maks Del Mar (Queen Mary) and Professor Michael Lobban (All Souls, Oxford and formerly at Queen Mary).
Date added: Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Professor Fitzmaurice invited to give a General Course at the Hague Academy of International Law
Being called to deliver the General Course is an honour bestowed only to the most eminent public international lawyers.
Date added: Thursday, July 4, 2024
Lufthansa’s Italian airline deal review is finally set to land
Professor Ioannis Kokkoris comments on the Lufthansa and ITA Airways merger for POLITICO’s Fair Play newsletter.
Date added: Thursday, July 11, 2024
White & Black award Isabel Vanhaeverbeke the Queen Mary LLM essay prize in European Law of Patents
Oxford based law firm White & Black has awarded the third annual prize for best essay in LLM European Law of Patents 2023-24 for students studying at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London to Isabel Vanhaeverbeke.
Date added: Thursday, July 11, 2024
The UK's Home Office is building a "national facial matching service"
Dr Daragh Murray’s research has been featured in an article from The Stack on The UK Home Office’s Strategic Facial Matching (SFM) Project.
Date added: Thursday, July 11, 2024
Professor Rachael Mulheron elected Fellow of the British Academy
The British Academy has elected Queen Mary University of London Professor Rachael Mulheron KC (Hon) as a new Fellow.
Date added: Friday, July 19, 2024
Dr Tibisay Morgandi co-convened conference at Leiden University
Dr Tibisay Morgandi co-convened a conference on ‘Counterclaims in International Law’ alongside Dr Jason Rudall from the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden Law School.
Date added: Monday, July 22, 2024
Dr Tibisay Morgandi appointed Distinguished Research Fellow at prominent environmental law centre
She was appointed by the Centre for Environmental Law (CEL) of Macquarie University, in recognition of her work in the field of climate law, environmental law, and business and human rights.
Date added: Monday, July 22, 2024
Human rights groups condemn shooting of pro-independence lawyer in West Papua
Professor David Whyte comments on the shooting of Yan Christian Warinussy in The National.
Date added: Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Celebrating 10 Years of qLegal: Honouring partnerships, innovation, and impact
qLegal, Queen Mary University of London’s renowned pro bono commercial law clinic, celebrated a decade of transformative impact at their annual summer party.
Date added: Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Dr Noam Gur spoke at the 2024 World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
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.
Date added: Wednesday, July 24, 2024
UK new Labour government under pressure to shift Israel-Palestine policy
Professor Neve Gordon speaks to the Middle East Monitor about what the new Labour government means for the UK's Israel-Palestine policy.
Date added: Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Protecting free speech
Dr Prakash Shah has co-signed a letter in The Observer criticizing Labour's decision to halt the progression of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act.
Date added: Tuesday, July 30, 2024
School of International Arbitration hosted a Co-Curricular with HKIAC's Secretary-General
On 6 June 2024, the School of International Arbitration of Queen Mary University of London organised another successful co-curricular. The event looked at arbitration in Asia.
Date added: Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Google loses antitrust case over search: "One of the seminal cases now in the US"
Professor Ioannis Kokkoris appeared on CGTN Europe to discuss the result of the antitrust case and what it could mean for consumers and the competition sector.
Date added: Thursday, August 8, 2024
Director of CCLS recognised as one of the world's leading experts in competition law and economics
For the second year in a row, Professor Ioannis Kokkoris has been featured as an expert in the WWL: Competition rankings; a comprehensive guide to the leading competition and state aid lawyers and economists around the world.
Date added: Monday, August 12, 2024
Chevening/Mansion House Scholarship provides invaluable opportunities for Queen Mary LLM student
Liudmyla Kasian is a Banking and Finance Law LLM student and Chevening/Mansion House Scholarship recipient at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London. She shares with us what the scholarship scheme means to her:
Date added: Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Call for papers - 7th Conference on Law & Macroeconomics
Submissions are open for the 7th Conference on Law & Macroeconomics. Submissions are due on or before 13 October 2024.
Date added: Thursday, August 29, 2024
Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats
A forthcoming article on employee monitoring, co-authored by Dr Jeevan Hariharan has been featured in The Register.
Date added: Friday, August 30, 2024
Three decades of legal scholarship under the lens: Study reveals impact of research assessments on UK academic publishing
Analysis of 30,000+ research outputs highlights shift in publication strategies and raises questions about diversity in legal scholarship.
Date added: Friday, August 30, 2024
The ICC is right to pursue Benjamin Netanyahu
Professor Neve Gordon has written an opinion piece for The Spectator about the ICC's extraordinary move to put out arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister.
Date added: Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Is Japanese Commercial Whaling Compatible With International Law?
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice speaks to MENAFN about Japan's violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Date added: Friday, September 6, 2024
Professor Rosa Lastra to speak at the IMF
On 12 September, Professor Lastra will present at the Sovereign Debt Workshop on the topic of 'Rethinking the Sustainability of Sovereign Debt'.
Date added: Monday, September 9, 2024
qLegal and the QMUL LAC co-host the annual CLEO conference
On 4 September, qLegal and the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre (QMLAC) were delighted to host the annual Clinical Legal Education Organisation (CLEO) conference at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies.
Date added: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Professor Neve Gordon Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Professor Neve Gordon, a distinguished scholar of international humanitarian law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London, has been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Date added: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Between Ultra-Zionism and antisemitism: Brazil as a Mirror of the World
Professor Eric Heinze has co-authored an article for the online magazine K.
Date added: Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Wall Street strikes back against New York's sovereign debt bill
Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal speaks to Reuters about the proposed changes to laws in New York State.
Date added: Monday, September 30, 2024
Is Hezbollah using civilians as human shields against Israel? What does the law say?
Professor Neve Gordon spoke to Firstpost about human shields.
Date added: Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Queen Mary dispute resolution students join YIAG LCIA Tylney Hall Symposium
The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) organised another of their flagship meetings at Tylney Hall, on 20 September 2024. It included a Symposium jointly organised with the Co-Chairs of the Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG) and provided a mentorship opportunity for a diverse group of ten students – mentees.
Date added: Monday, October 14, 2024
Chagos, Britain’s colonies and its neo-imperial repositioning
Dr Tanzil Chowdhury has written a blog for Legal Form: A Forum for Marxist Analysis and Critique about the Chagos Islands being handed over to Mauritius.
Date added: Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Queen Mary visits the International Maritime Organization
Students from the Environmental Law LLM, Human Rights Law LLM and Public International Law LLM programmes at Queen Mary University of London visited the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating maritime transport.
Date added: Friday, October 18, 2024
Can the Law Keep Up with AI? Dr Keri Grieman’s Latest Book Tackles High-Risk AI Regulation
A comprehensive look at how law can evolve to keep pace with artificial intelligence in critical sectors like healthcare and autonomous vehicles.
Date added: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Queen Mary law alum’s success at the Bar
Matilda McDermott-Krasker graduated from Queen Mary University of London in 2022 with an LLB in Law. Since graduating, she has gone on to study for the Bar at Gray’s Inn, one of the Inns of Court, with two scholarships.
Date added: Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Israel has taken human shields to a whole new criminal level
In an opinion piece for Al Jazeera, Neve Gordon, Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Queen Mary, discusses Israel’s controversial use of Palestinian civilians as “human shields” during military operations in Gaza.
Date added: Thursday, October 24, 2024
Chinese delegation from Guangdong IP Protection Centre visits the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
A high-level delegation of Chinese experts from the Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Centre visited the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) on Monday 21 October for a meeting at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI).
Date added: Thursday, October 24, 2024
Spiking: the case for a new statutory offence
Amber Marks has written an article for the Criminal Law Review looking at the efficacies of the current legislation around spiking.
Date added: Monday, October 28, 2024
Trigger warnings are nothing but tribal slogans
Professor Eric Heinze wrote an opinion piece for the Times Higher Education about how trigger warnings stifle debate at UK universities.
Date added: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
“Trump Trades”: Stock Market Speculators Lured by the Smell of Trumpism
Dr Daniele D'Alvia comments on how Donald Trump’s victory is affecting the stock market for France 24.
Date added: Friday, November 15, 2024
Why Donald Trump’s election win fuelled a stock market surge
, Lecturer in Banking and Finance Law at Queen Mary University of London, writes for The Conversation about why Donald Trump’s victory has fuelled a surge in the stock market.
Date added: Friday, November 22, 2024
The 'human shields' who tried to stop the Iraq war
BBC World Service’s programme ‘The Documentary’ discusses the hundreds of anti-war activists who migrated voluntarily to Iraq to serve as ‘human shields’ in 2003.
Date added: Friday, November 22, 2024
Professor Maxi Scherer gives keynote lecture on regulating AI in International Arbitration
On 6 November, Maxi Scherer, Professor in International Arbitration, Dispute Resolution and Energy Law at Queen Mary University of London, delivered the Herbert Smith Freehills - SMU Asian Arbitration Lecture 2024 in Singapore.
Date added: Monday, November 25, 2024
ICSID Secretary General Martina Polasek Visits the School of International Arbitration
On 26 November 2024, the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London had the privilege of hosting the Secretary General of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Ms Martina Polasek.
Date added: Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Launch event of partnership between Queen Mary School of Law and The Institute of Law at Birzeit University, Palestine
Earlier this year, the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context and the International State Crime Initiative, based in the School of Law, partnered with Birzeit University’s Institute of Law in Palestine. The partnership was inaugurated on 28 November with an online event titled ‘Legal Education in Palestine’, that brought together law students and staff from both universities.
Date added: Thursday, December 5, 2024
Queen Mary academics investigate the future of banking law
Dr Daniele D’Alvia and Dr Katrien Morbee are part of a new research project funded by the Society of Legal Scholars to investigate the trends, opportunities and challenges in Banking Law in the twenty-first century.
Date added: Friday, December 6, 2024
Hugh Wooding Law School visited the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre
In November 2024, the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre (QMLAC) welcomed delegates from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago for their annual exchange programme.
Date added: Friday, December 13, 2024
School of Law Lecturer, Dr Mohsin Alam Bhat listed as a leading intellectual of the next generation
India’s ThePrint has recently unveiled its latest list of intellectuals to watch in the coming decade, with Queen Mary’s earning a well-deserved spot. This list, the first since 2018, highlights leading thinkers who are reshaping the landscape of politics and other critical fields.
Date added: Friday, December 13, 2024