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Medical disputes don’t always have to end in court – mediation can be a better way

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2 July 20252 July 2025

Dr Jaime Lindsey, Associate Professor of Law, explains how mediation can be a therapeutic process for people involved in health and care disputes. Is there a better way to resolve...Read More >

15 months on, our LGBTQ+ Travel Tool continues to inform and shape work travel policies

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18 February 202518 February 2025

In this blog, Frances Hamilton, Associate Professor in the School of Law, provides a further update on the LGBTQ+ International Travel for Work Policy Development Tool that she co-created with...Read More >

Car dealers took secret fees for recommending finance – and consumers could be owed billions

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20 January 20253 February 2025

Photo by Antoni Shkraba on Pexels Decades after tens of millions of consumers were mis-sold payment protection insurance, banks are facing another potential scandal in what has been dubbed PPI 2.0. In...Read More >

UK’s assisted dying bill would create the worst thought-out legal framework anywhere in the world – legal expert

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27 November 202413 December 2024

The terminally ill adults (end of life) bill will allow adults in England and Wales who are terminally ill to be provided with assistance to end their own life. The current law on assisted...Read More >

Cannon fodder: the criminal justice system as a vehicle for sacrifice

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28 October 202415 November 2024

I recently watched the actor Ian McKellan, playing Shakespeare’s iconic character Sir John Falstaff, announce that he had drawn together an army made up of prisoners to fight for King...Read More >

LGBTQ+ Travel Tool: What happened next

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24 July 202423 July 2024

The LGBTQ+ International Travel for Work Policy Development Tool won the Research Impact category at this year’s Research Awards. In this blog, the tool’s creators, Frances Hamilton and Tahlia-Rose Virdee...Read More >

Transforming how NATO does human security

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22 July 202431 July 2024

Dr Alexander Gilder shares his story of how his PhD and early career research has led to impact and knowledge exchange. In 2016 I embarked on a PhD in Law...Read More >

Understanding rising antisemitism since 7th October

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22 May 202422 May 2024

A major new anthology on contemporary antisemitism, co-edited by Professor Rosa Freedman, will be published this month. Ahead of the book launch at a free event in London, Professor Freedman...Read More >

Straw bale hung from London’s Millennium Bridge to comply with ancient law – just part of the River Thames’ long, legal history

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26 October 202313 December 2023

Maintenance workers on London’s Millennium Bridge – which spans the River Thames – have hung a bale of straw from the bridge’s undercarriage. An ancient byelaw requires that a bridge’s owner warn passing ships…Read More >

Why changing the law is not needed to support parents like Archie’s

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5 August 202215 February 2023

Professor Thérèse Callus, a family law expert at the University of Reading, considers the case of 12 year old Archie Battersbee and why the need is to inform, not reform…Read More >

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