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Norah Gallagher spoke at a GAR Live Women in Arbitration event
On 5 December 2024, Norah Gallagher took part in a panel on “International Arbitration in Energy: Key Issues and Trends".
Date added: Monday, January 6, 2025
qLegal encourages students to adopt a climate conscious approach to legal practice
Embedding sustainability within programmes and operations to ensure qLegal’s work contributes positively to planet and society is a key focus this academic year.
Date added: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Deepfakes and the Law: Why Britain needs stronger protections against technology-facilitated abuse
As the UK moves to outlaw sexually explicit deepfakes, Professor Julia Hörnle examines the urgent need for stronger legal protections.
Date added: Friday, January 24, 2025
SDF announces the launch of #PublicDebtIsPublic
The Sovereign Debt Forum and Georgetown’s Massive Data Institute announce the launch of the #PublicDebtIsPublic initiative, which will create the first centrally-collated web-based sovereign debt documentation and data commons.
Date added: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Dr Davor Jancic cited by the Financial Conduct Authority
Dr Davor Jancic's research on the UK’s post-Brexit regulatory autonomy was cited in a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Research Note (no. 17, October 2024).
Date added: Wednesday, February 5, 2025
The problem of race positionality and research funding
Dr Prakash Shah has penned an article for The Critic arguing that the racial identity of the researcher should not affect their progress in higher education.
Date added: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
DeepSeek, Nvidia and the AI race that’s shaping the future
Dr Daniele D’Alvia wrote a blog for The Conversation on developments in AI investment and how this will affect our everyday lives.
Date added: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Elements in Legal Humanities launches
Cambridge University Press has announced the launch of a new interdisciplinary series: Elements in Legal Humanities. This series is part of the Elements platform at CUP, which publishes short monographs (of no more than 30,000 words).
Date added: Monday, February 10, 2025
Maksymilian Del Mar to speak on 'Kinesic Legal Humanities' at Utrecht
Maksymilian Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities, will be delivering an online lecture on 28 April 2025 to the Research Network for Culture, Law, and the Body at Utrecht University.
Date added: Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Queen Mary becomes the first London Russell Group university to offer integrated SQE preparation as part of an LLM
Queen Mary’s School of Law has announced the combination of their prestigious Master of Laws programmes with SQE preparation in partnership with legal education company, BARBRI.
Date added: Monday, February 24, 2025
Queen Mary’s Professor Maxi Scherer to be the next President of the LCIA Court
The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) is one of the world’s leading international institutions for commercial dispute resolution.
Date added: Friday, February 21, 2025
'Name Israel's Gaza genocide': International legal experts call for accountability
Professor Neve Gordon and Professor Richard Falk took part in a conference organised by the Palestinian Return Centre criticising the lack of the term 'genocide' in political discussions and media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza.
Date added: Thursday, February 27, 2025
Censorship, abortion and the ‘threat within’: what a free speech expert thinks of J.D. Vance’s remarks to Europe
Professor Eric Heinze has penned an opinion piece for The Conversation about US Vice President’s remarks to European leaders at the recent Munich Security Conference.
Date added: Friday, February 28, 2025
Queen Mary launches two new LLM Programmes
Queen Mary’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies has announced the launch of two new LLM Programmes in Fashion Law and AI and the Law for September 2025 start. These programmes are set to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to navigate two of the most rapidly advancing sectors in law today.
Date added: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
UK police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with predictive policing
An interview from Amnesty International with Dr Daragh Murray was featured in an article for Computer Weekly on predictive police systems in the UK.
Date added: Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Climate Change - A clear and present danger
The Energy and Climate Change Law Institute were delighted to welcome back Lord Browne of Maddingly to deliver the Annual Clifford Chance Lecture on its tenth anniversary.
Date added: Monday, March 10, 2025
Welcome Professor Peter Cameron to CCLS
The Centre for Commercial Law Studies is delighted to welcome Professor Peter Cameron to our academic staff as the Chair in Energy and Climate Law. Read our Q&A with Peter below to find out about his background, what excites him about joining Queen Mary, and his book recommendation for students wanting to broaden their understanding of law.
Date added: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Regulatory Insights: A Special Lecture and Networking Session with Chris Bates
Chris Bates, Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London and Senior Consultant at Clifford Chance LLP, delivered a special lecture to Queen Mary Banking and Finance Law LLM students, at the invitation of Professor Rosa M. Lastra.
Date added: Thursday, March 13, 2025
Big Tech shares tumble as Trump adds chaos to stock market mix
Dr Daniele D'Alvia spoke to France 24 about the recent downturn of US tech giants' shares and whether US President Donald Trump is solely to blame.
Date added: Friday, March 14, 2025
Double Success for Queen Mary at LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025
Queen Mary claims victory in two categories at highly regarded event within the UK legal sector.
Date added: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Queen Mary Students visit the International Maritime Organisation Legal Committee Meeting
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.
Date added: Friday, April 4, 2025
Law does not ensure 'revenge porn' images are deleted
Professor Fran Ridout, Director of Queen Mary’s Legal Advice Centre, spoke to the BBC about the shortcomings of laws around ‘revenge porn’.
Date added: Friday, April 4, 2025
Polluting Water and Fossil Fuel Bosses Are Being Put Under Citizen’s Arrest for Causing a ‘Public Nuisance’
Professor David Whyte speaks to the Byline Times about Citizens Arrest Network's targeting of executives at UK water and oil and gas companies.
Date added: Friday, April 4, 2025
Dr Noam Gur spoke at the University of Palermo about conflicts between law and state officials’ directives
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.
Date added: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Professor Lastra to deliver the Professor James Lecture in Leeds on 23 April
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.
Date added: Thursday, April 10, 2025
BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street are the real power behind Big Oil’s climate retreat, report finds
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.
Date added: Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Facebook hosts Israeli ads promoting illegal activity
Professor Neve Gordon appeared in a YouTube Short from Al Jazeera English commenting on Facebook's advertising activity and practices.
Date added: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Queen Mary LLM student to present at an International Atomic Energy Agency conference
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.
Date added: Monday, April 28, 2025
Fashion Law Day Success
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.
Date added: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Dr Daniele D’Alvia awarded funding to investigate the adoption of a Digital Euro
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.
Date added: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Professor Maks Del Mar to speak at Adam Smith Festival of Ideas
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).
Date added: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
New edited volume presents the first workers' inquiry of the UK legal sector
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.
Date added: Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Queen Mary law experts advise the UK Government on the use of artificial intelligence in financial services
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.
Date added: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Second Imagination Research Network Annual Meeting Held
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.
Date added: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Shaping the Future of Central Banking: Bank of England in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London
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.”
Date added: Thursday, May 29, 2025
School of Law success at the QMSU Education Awards
The School of Law came top in two categories at this year’s Queen Mary Students’ Union Education Awards.
Date added: Monday, June 2, 2025
Queen Mary PhD Graduate authors new book on domestic violence in Pakistan
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.
Date added: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Hoffmann Eitle award prize for best Queen Mary LLM essay in European Law of Patents
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.
Date added: Monday, June 16, 2025
Maks Del Mar’s latest book chronicles the work of Scottish thinker Neil MacCormick
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.
Date added: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Lord Browne Essay Prize 2025 winners
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Lord Browne Energy and Climate Change Law Essay Prize for 2024/25.
Date added: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Queen Mary's Centre for Commercial Law Studies celebrates 45 years
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.
Date added: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
qLegal staff present at London Tech Week
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.
Date added: Thursday, June 19, 2025
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.
Date added: Thursday, June 19, 2025
Vote to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales
Professor Ruth Fletcher explained recent abortion decriminalisation proposals for England and Wales in the Conversation and on BBC 4’s The World Tonight.
Date added: Friday, June 20, 2025
Dr Davor Jancic delivers Keynote Lectures at the Jean Monnet Academy
From 4-5 June 2025, , 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.
Date added: Monday, June 23, 2025
Queen Mary PhD Law candidate secures prestigious scholarship
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.
Date added: Monday, June 23, 2025
Seminal case on 'pullback' policy submitted by Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax is decided by Strasbourg Court
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).
Date added: Thursday, June 26, 2025
Queen Mary London and Paris LLM Students Participate in the first ICC Dispute Resolution Universities Programme
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.
Date added: Thursday, June 26, 2025
From Gaza to Iran, Netanyahu waging wars for his own political survival: Experts
Professor Neve Gordon spoke to Yeni Şafak about how Israel’s conflicts are driven Prime Minister Netanyahu's objective of political survival.
Date added: Friday, June 27, 2025
QMIPRI hosts workshop exploring “evergreening” in intellectual property law
On 27 June, the 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.
Date added: Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Queen Mary LLM Students attended AIEN 2025 International Energy Summit
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.
Date added: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Queen Mary doctoral researcher Gertrud Metsa awarded first prize for best presentation at the 43rd ATRIP Congress in Copenhagen
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.
Date added: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Outsourcing Gaza destruction
Professor Neve Gordon is quoted in The Guardian discussing the Israel Defense Forces advertising for bulldozer operators to demolish the Gaza Strip.
Date added: Monday, July 14, 2025
Professor Westkamp cited in Kraftwerk Pelham dispute
Professor Guido Westkamp has been cited numerous times and with approval by AG Emilliou in Case C-590/23 (Pelham II).
Date added: Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Europe’s Crackdown on Speech Goes Far and Wide
Professor Eric Heinze speaks to the Wall Street Journal on the differences between US and European views on free speech.
Date added: Wednesday, July 16, 2025