University of Leeds - School of Law
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The School of Law @universityofleeds.bsky.social is one of the leading law schools in the UK and has been providing instruction in law since its inception in 1899.
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AI is everywhere – but who’s making sure it’s ethical?
Launching Sept '26: The new MSc in AI Ethics and Society.
Covers real-world challenges. Interdisciplinary learning. Industry collaboration. Shape the future of AI responsibly.
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#AI #Ethics #PG @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Launching Sept '26: The new MSc in AI Ethics and Society.
Covers real-world challenges. Interdisciplinary learning. Industry collaboration. Shape the future of AI responsibly.
🔗 bit.ly/4oucNJf
#AI #Ethics #PG @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Creating future AI leaders
Students on a unique new course will learn sought-after leadership skills in how to responsibly manage Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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December 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
AI is everywhere – but who’s making sure it’s ethical?
Launching Sept '26: The new MSc in AI Ethics and Society.
Covers real-world challenges. Interdisciplinary learning. Industry collaboration. Shape the future of AI responsibly.
🔗 bit.ly/4oucNJf
#AI #Ethics #PG @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Launching Sept '26: The new MSc in AI Ethics and Society.
Covers real-world challenges. Interdisciplinary learning. Industry collaboration. Shape the future of AI responsibly.
🔗 bit.ly/4oucNJf
#AI #Ethics #PG @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Dr Sabine Jacques launched the School's Technology, Governance and Intellectual Property Law Group with a thought-provoking keynote: “Who Gets Paid When the Machine Makes Music?”, exploring the existential threat AI poses to performing artists and musicians’ livelihoods.👇
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December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Dr Sabine Jacques launched the School's Technology, Governance and Intellectual Property Law Group with a thought-provoking keynote: “Who Gets Paid When the Machine Makes Music?”, exploring the existential threat AI poses to performing artists and musicians’ livelihoods.👇
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School of Law academic in the news!
Our Professor Daniel Birks warns that unmet early health, education and care needs are pushing vulnerable children into the justice system, urging evidence-led, preventative, whole-system support.👇
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Our Professor Daniel Birks warns that unmet early health, education and care needs are pushing vulnerable children into the justice system, urging evidence-led, preventative, whole-system support.👇
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Children pulled into the youth justice system because their early health, education and care needs not being addressed - About Manchester
Children are being pulled into the youth justice system because their early health, education and care needs are not being addressed, according to a new
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December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
School of Law academic in the news!
Our Professor Daniel Birks warns that unmet early health, education and care needs are pushing vulnerable children into the justice system, urging evidence-led, preventative, whole-system support.👇
tinyurl.com/447cvmep
Our Professor Daniel Birks warns that unmet early health, education and care needs are pushing vulnerable children into the justice system, urging evidence-led, preventative, whole-system support.👇
tinyurl.com/447cvmep
This important webinar is happening tomorrow!
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⌛ There’s still time to register for our webinar “Responding to domestic abuse – lessons from Greater Manchester and Victoria, Australia”.
🗓️ 9 December 2025
🕛 12-1pm GMT
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
🕛 12-1pm GMT
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Responding to domestic abuse: lessons from Greater Manchester and Victoria
This webinar shares findings from the ‘Policing, Vulnerabilities and Domestic Abuse: Victims, Perpetrators, Interventions’ research project.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This important webinar is happening tomorrow!
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It was a pleasure to contribute to today's meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Cross-Border Cartels, run by UNCTAD. The WG highlights best practices, facilitates information exchange and consultations, and reports to the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy.
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It was a pleasure to contribute to today's meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Cross-Border Cartels, run by UNCTAD. The WG highlights best practices, facilitates information exchange and consultations, and reports to the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy.
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Our Minimum Policing Standard project explores what the public believes police should do and where boundaries lie.
The study has key implications for the future of policing.
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The study has key implications for the future of policing.
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Minimum Policing Standard - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
This research will explore what the public think policing is for, what they want from the police and what they think police should do.
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Our Minimum Policing Standard project explores what the public believes police should do and where boundaries lie.
The study has key implications for the future of policing.
Read more 👇
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/minimum-poli...
The study has key implications for the future of policing.
Read more 👇
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/minimum-poli...
Congratulations to @batesmith.bsky.social and Dr Ilaria Zavoli on their symposium being published #OpenAccess in the Journal of International Criminal Justice! 🎉
Several years in the making, we're pleased to finally see our Symposium in the Journal of Internat Crim Justice on #Professionals & #Professionalism in #InternationalCriminalJustice now out! Here's the Editorial, co-authored with Dr Ilaria Zavoli and Dr Nora Stappert academic.oup.com/jicj/advance...
Conceptualizing Professionalism(s) in International Criminal Justice: Editors’ Introduction
Abstract. This symposium examines competing and converging assumptions about professionalism, professional behaviour, and a professional sense of self held
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December 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Congratulations to @batesmith.bsky.social and Dr Ilaria Zavoli on their symposium being published #OpenAccess in the Journal of International Criminal Justice! 🎉
Our Dr Laura Bainbridge and Dr Amy Loughery play a key role on this project which examines the complex realities faced by young people involved in county lines drug trafficking, with a focus on those identified as ‘alpha-victims.
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Our Project AL-V explores the complex realities facing young people caught up in county lines drug trafficking – specifically those labelled ‘alpha-victims’.
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Project AL-V: Rethinking the ‘Alpha Victim’ - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Project AL-V (Alpha Victim) explores the complex realities facing young people caught up in county lines drug trafficking.
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Our Dr Laura Bainbridge and Dr Amy Loughery play a key role on this project which examines the complex realities faced by young people involved in county lines drug trafficking, with a focus on those identified as ‘alpha-victims.
Learn more👇
Learn more👇
This important new article from Prof @iliastrispiotis.bsky.social grapples with the question of whether criminal law is an appropriate tool in banning harmful 'conversion therapy'. Read more #OpenAccess 👇
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There is growing consensus that so-called 'conversion therapy' practices are harmful and must be banned.
But which legal mechanisms should be used to do this?
My article (with Stuart Goosey), Criminalising “Conversion Therapy”, published in the MLR, takes up this urgent question shorturl.at/AHkfb
But which legal mechanisms should be used to do this?
My article (with Stuart Goosey), Criminalising “Conversion Therapy”, published in the MLR, takes up this urgent question shorturl.at/AHkfb
Criminalising ‘Conversion Therapy’
An increasing number of jurisdictions have introduced legal bans on so-called ‘conversion therapy’ practices. Yet significant uncertainty and disagreement persist among legal scholars, policymakers a...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This important new article from Prof @iliastrispiotis.bsky.social grapples with the question of whether criminal law is an appropriate tool in banning harmful 'conversion therapy'. Read more #OpenAccess 👇
@lsjleeds.bsky.social
@lsjleeds.bsky.social
Professionalism as a site of resistance: Dr Tidmarsh gives a paper about professionalism in probation at a prestigious Berkeley, California event.
Read more about his important work 👇
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Read more about his important work 👇
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December 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Professionalism as a site of resistance: Dr Tidmarsh gives a paper about professionalism in probation at a prestigious Berkeley, California event.
Read more about his important work 👇
tinyurl.com/5dy84sj6
Read more about his important work 👇
tinyurl.com/5dy84sj6
Great to see this excellent article now published in the European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
@ccjsleeds.bsky.social @srmleeds.bsky.social @openresleeds.bsky.social
Read #OpenAccess 👇
@ccjsleeds.bsky.social @srmleeds.bsky.social @openresleeds.bsky.social
Read #OpenAccess 👇
'Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls', with Melissa Hamilton & @pwgtennant.bsky.social, just out at the European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Great to see this excellent article now published in the European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
@ccjsleeds.bsky.social @srmleeds.bsky.social @openresleeds.bsky.social
Read #OpenAccess 👇
@ccjsleeds.bsky.social @srmleeds.bsky.social @openresleeds.bsky.social
Read #OpenAccess 👇
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I am excited to join this panel hosted by Phenomenal World on Tuesday 2 December to discuss Argentina’s recurring debt traps, its relationship with the IMF and China, and the recent US intervention in support of the Milei government, among other matters.
Sign up here: bit.ly/argentina-imf
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November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I am excited to join this panel hosted by Phenomenal World on Tuesday 2 December to discuss Argentina’s recurring debt traps, its relationship with the IMF and China, and the recent US intervention in support of the Milei government, among other matters.
Sign up here: bit.ly/argentina-imf
Sign up here: bit.ly/argentina-imf
80% of UK women have experienced public harassment, yet 75% report that no one stepped in.
Dr @annabarker.bsky.social's research has helped hundreds of park staff and volunteers across the UK to be trained in how to spot, safely challenge, and prevent harassment.
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tinyurl.com/99px5urh
Dr @annabarker.bsky.social's research has helped hundreds of park staff and volunteers across the UK to be trained in how to spot, safely challenge, and prevent harassment.
Read more👇
tinyurl.com/99px5urh
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
80% of UK women have experienced public harassment, yet 75% report that no one stepped in.
Dr @annabarker.bsky.social's research has helped hundreds of park staff and volunteers across the UK to be trained in how to spot, safely challenge, and prevent harassment.
Read more👇
tinyurl.com/99px5urh
Dr @annabarker.bsky.social's research has helped hundreds of park staff and volunteers across the UK to be trained in how to spot, safely challenge, and prevent harassment.
Read more👇
tinyurl.com/99px5urh
📢 School of Law academics in the news!
@drsamjlewis.bsky.social and @annabarker.bsky.social discuss the Feminist Research Into Violence & Abuse Network, driving vital research on gendered violence, from rural abuse to women’s safety in parks.
Read more in the Yorkshire Post👇
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@drsamjlewis.bsky.social and @annabarker.bsky.social discuss the Feminist Research Into Violence & Abuse Network, driving vital research on gendered violence, from rural abuse to women’s safety in parks.
Read more in the Yorkshire Post👇
tinyurl.com/2v2tf269
How West Yorkshire is stepping up to help eliminate violence against women - Alison Lowe & Dr Sam Lewis
November 25 marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It is a stark reminder that gender-based violence remains a widespread crisis. The statistics speak for themselves. ...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📢 School of Law academics in the news!
@drsamjlewis.bsky.social and @annabarker.bsky.social discuss the Feminist Research Into Violence & Abuse Network, driving vital research on gendered violence, from rural abuse to women’s safety in parks.
Read more in the Yorkshire Post👇
tinyurl.com/2v2tf269
@drsamjlewis.bsky.social and @annabarker.bsky.social discuss the Feminist Research Into Violence & Abuse Network, driving vital research on gendered violence, from rural abuse to women’s safety in parks.
Read more in the Yorkshire Post👇
tinyurl.com/2v2tf269
📣School of Law academic in the news!
Our Prof @grahamfarrell.bsky.social tells the BBC that public perceptions of rising crime are misleading, noting that offences like theft and violence have been falling since the mid 1990s, despite high profile knife incidents fuelling fear👇
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Our Prof @grahamfarrell.bsky.social tells the BBC that public perceptions of rising crime are misleading, noting that offences like theft and violence have been falling since the mid 1990s, despite high profile knife incidents fuelling fear👇
tinyurl.com/yfmud7p7
Eddie Kinuthia murder: Crime figures are falling despite violence
As a Bristol murder trial finishes, police say the fear of crime often does not match the figures.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
📣School of Law academic in the news!
Our Prof @grahamfarrell.bsky.social tells the BBC that public perceptions of rising crime are misleading, noting that offences like theft and violence have been falling since the mid 1990s, despite high profile knife incidents fuelling fear👇
tinyurl.com/yfmud7p7
Our Prof @grahamfarrell.bsky.social tells the BBC that public perceptions of rising crime are misleading, noting that offences like theft and violence have been falling since the mid 1990s, despite high profile knife incidents fuelling fear👇
tinyurl.com/yfmud7p7
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Prof. Iona Cismas joined us as part of the CLSJ Seminar Series, to talk about the Beyond Compliance Consortium project with @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social - centering harm + need to achieve better protections and restraint in armed conflict
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Prof. Iona Cismas joined us as part of the CLSJ Seminar Series, to talk about the Beyond Compliance Consortium project with @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social - centering harm + need to achieve better protections and restraint in armed conflict
Dr @anzapp.bsky.social and Prof @grahamdutfield.bsky.social tackle pressing issues of global food security in #Parliamentary inquiry.
Read more about their insights on 'Innovation and Global Food Security'👇
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@cblpleeds.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #AcademicSky #LawSky
Read more about their insights on 'Innovation and Global Food Security'👇
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@cblpleeds.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #AcademicSky #LawSky
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Dr @anzapp.bsky.social and Prof @grahamdutfield.bsky.social tackle pressing issues of global food security in #Parliamentary inquiry.
Read more about their insights on 'Innovation and Global Food Security'👇
tinyurl.com/y8mbj4dx
@cblpleeds.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #AcademicSky #LawSky
Read more about their insights on 'Innovation and Global Food Security'👇
tinyurl.com/y8mbj4dx
@cblpleeds.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #AcademicSky #LawSky
🧡 Today it is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and we are showcasing work from our researchers that supports this aim. This study from the @vp-centre.bsky.social explores Greater Manchester's response to domestic abuse.
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#NoExcuse #16Days #VAWG
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#NoExcuse #16Days #VAWG
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Our research explored Greater Manchester’s response to domestic abuse and how responses to perpetrators featured within the strategies and their implementation.
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vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/responding-t...
Our research explored Greater Manchester’s response to domestic abuse and how responses to perpetrators featured within the strategies and their implementation.
Read more 👇
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/responding-t...
Responding to family violence/domestic abuse: lessons from Greater Manchester (UK) and Victoria (Australia) - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Read the summary report "Responding to family violence/domestic abuse: lessons from Greater Manchester (UK) and Victoria (Australia)".
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🧡 Today it is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and we are showcasing work from our researchers that supports this aim. This study from the @vp-centre.bsky.social explores Greater Manchester's response to domestic abuse.
Read more 👇
#NoExcuse #16Days #VAWG
Read more 👇
#NoExcuse #16Days #VAWG
Some of our researchers are involved with this project which explores how racially diverse young people in Harehills experience policing, violence and injustice.
Check it out 👇
Check it out 👇
🗣️ “Changing the Narrative” explores how racially diverse young people in Harehills experience policing, violence & injustice.
A community-led project aiming to build trust and improve support.
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vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/changing-the...
A community-led project aiming to build trust and improve support.
Read more 👇
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/changing-the...
Changing the Narrative: Understanding the lived experiences of young people of colour in Harehills - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
This project engages with racially diverse young people and community leaders in Harehills, Leeds to understand experiences of youth violence
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Some of our researchers are involved with this project which explores how racially diverse young people in Harehills experience policing, violence and injustice.
Check it out 👇
Check it out 👇
Last week Professor @jpinasanchez.bsky.social @ccjsleeds.bsky.social joined the UOC Open University of Catalonia for a great discussion on what factors influence judicial sentences 👇
"Que factores influewn en las sentencias judiciaeles? Las sentencias penales como objeto de investigación criminológica", (www.youtube.com/live/94S9Al_...) desde la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, con Laura Arantegui, Daniel Varona y Josep M. Tamarit.
Las sentencias penales como objeto de investigación criminológica
YouTube video by UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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November 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Last week Professor @jpinasanchez.bsky.social @ccjsleeds.bsky.social joined the UOC Open University of Catalonia for a great discussion on what factors influence judicial sentences 👇
📣School of Law academic in the news!
Our Professor Graham Farrell leads a national conference urging rounded kitchen knives to curb stabbings, presenting research on knife-harm reduction to victims, campaigners and Home Office ministers.
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Our Professor Graham Farrell leads a national conference urging rounded kitchen knives to curb stabbings, presenting research on knife-harm reduction to victims, campaigners and Home Office ministers.
Clip 👇
tinyurl.com/zre95dru
Rima Ahmed - 20/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
Waking you up each weekday morning, it's Rima Ahmed.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📣School of Law academic in the news!
Our Professor Graham Farrell leads a national conference urging rounded kitchen knives to curb stabbings, presenting research on knife-harm reduction to victims, campaigners and Home Office ministers.
Clip 👇
tinyurl.com/zre95dru
Our Professor Graham Farrell leads a national conference urging rounded kitchen knives to curb stabbings, presenting research on knife-harm reduction to victims, campaigners and Home Office ministers.
Clip 👇
tinyurl.com/zre95dru
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Tackling online child sexual victimisation (OCSV) requires community-led solutions.
Our OCSV project worked with communities, police and services to co-design resilience strategies.
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vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/online-child...
Our OCSV project worked with communities, police and services to co-design resilience strategies.
Read more 👇
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/online-child...
Co-designing Community Resilience to Online Child Sexual Victimisation - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
This research project aims to develop evidence-informed responses and practices to prevent online child sexual victimisation.
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Tackling online child sexual victimisation (OCSV) requires community-led solutions.
Our OCSV project worked with communities, police and services to co-design resilience strategies.
Read more 👇
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/online-child...
Our OCSV project worked with communities, police and services to co-design resilience strategies.
Read more 👇
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/online-child...
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This week, reproductive rights specialist @whiterxbbit.bsky.social hosted a screening of the documentary 'Zurawski v Texas,' a film distributed by Together Films that exposes the legal, political, and physical suffering of pregnant people denied healthcare in Texas after the Dobbs SCOTUS case
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This week, reproductive rights specialist @whiterxbbit.bsky.social hosted a screening of the documentary 'Zurawski v Texas,' a film distributed by Together Films that exposes the legal, political, and physical suffering of pregnant people denied healthcare in Texas after the Dobbs SCOTUS case
Important House of Lords Constitution Committee report on the rule of law has been published, citing @lsjleeds.bsky.social members' submission. Check out the rule of law report and the LSJ submission 👇
The House of Lords Constitution Committee has published its report on the rule of law, citing a @lawatleeds.bsky.social submission drafted by CLSJ members
You can find the rule of law report here:
committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
You can find the rule of law report here:
committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
Rule of law: holding the line between anarchy and tyranny - Committees - UK Parliament
The rule of law in the UK is being weakened, and everyone must take steps to protect it against further erosion, says the House of Lords Constitution Committee.
committees.parliament.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Important House of Lords Constitution Committee report on the rule of law has been published, citing @lsjleeds.bsky.social members' submission. Check out the rule of law report and the LSJ submission 👇
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As part of my Parliamentary Fellowship, I've co-authored with David Torrance a short research briefing on parliamentary sovereignty. I'm working on a (much) longer piece, which will be out in 2026!
@policyleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social
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@policyleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social
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Parliamentary sovereignty
A short research briefing on the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, its origins and contemporary application.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
As part of my Parliamentary Fellowship, I've co-authored with David Torrance a short research briefing on parliamentary sovereignty. I'm working on a (much) longer piece, which will be out in 2026!
@policyleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
@policyleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...