Climate Change and Climate Anxiety at the Law School

In this post, Dr Lovleen Bhullar and Professor Natasa Mavronicola discuss how climate change and climate anxiety can shape students’ experiences and pursuits within and beyond the Law School.

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Use of force and legal reasoning: selectivity unbound?

In this post, Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili comments on contributions relating to the legal regime of the use of force by professors Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk and Monica Hakimi, co-editors in chief of the American Journal of International Law.

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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Dr Samantha Schnobel

The month’s Research Spotlight is on Samantha Schnobel and her work on doctrinal and theoretical approaches to relational obligations in negligence.

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Roundabouts, groundhog days and patient safety in the NHS

In this post John Tingle discusses the circular nature of NHS patient safety policy making, practice and warns about the risk of health care staff becoming desensitised by the frequency of patient safety reports into crises and repetition of messages.

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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Dr Felix Torres

This month’s Research Spotlight is on Felix E. Torres and his work on transitional justice, reparations and economic and social rights in post-conflict societies.

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Coding Like a Lawyer: Learning to Programme Can Be Useful (and Fun) for Curating Legal Knowledge?

In this blogpost, Dr Chen Zhu reflects on the benefit of learning software programming for studying law. He shares his own experience of learning music copyright law with a selected few programmable computational tools. He concludes with a caveat that many computational tools are not necessarily easy to learn, but there can be intrinsic joy in coding even without external rewards.

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