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The web of imposter moments

Carol Edwards, Senior Lecturer within the Law School, explores the subject of imposter syndrome or imposterism in her latest blog.

15th May 2024

Mini Pupillage - first step to a career at the Bar

A brief view from a week of mini pupillage as a final year Law Student  Abi Ryan, hopes to progress onto a career at the Bar.

7th May 2024

How to succeed: Level 1 and Level 2 Law Conferences 23/24 Our long-awaited BELFAST day

This is Rosie Watson's blog about her experience of hosting the Student Conference in Belfast with a wonderful team of academics, associate lecturers and lecturer/SEMs

30th April 2024

Applying legal theories about interpretation and judicial decision-making to the use of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in professional football.

Fred Motson talks about how legal theories of decision-making might apply to the controversial Video Assistant Referee (VAR) systems; combining two of his biggest interests in life.

22nd April 2024
Edinburgh Law conference

2024 Law Undergraduate Student Conferences - What happened in Edinburgh

Grace Allen talks about the 2024 undergraduate law conferences across all four nations - How to succeed: Level 1 and Level 2 Law Conferences and the positive impact it had on students and academic staff.

16th April 2024
women and child

Juggling study as a military wife

Law student Chelsea began with an access module to see if she could juggle looking after a child and studying. She never expected to love studying as much as she does. Now she's in the third year of her Law degree with a goal of becoming a barrister.

5th April 2024
picture representing marriage and covid-19

Is it preferable to have, or not to have, law?

In this post, Fred Motson and Stephanie Pywell outline their empirical work exploring how people professionally involved in weddings and other couples ceremonies behaved and felt when lockdown ended.

25th March 2024

The court room and the classroom are not that different

A blog post by Mel Holmes about her refections after not being inside a court room for 15 years.

18th March 2024

The law - A critical analysis - Why? Surely, I should know by now!

A blog post by Al Edmond on how how he navigated critical analysis in the discipline of Law.

7th March 2024

Abortion in Jamaica: Constitution and Coloniality

Abortion is a topic that, understandably, invokes varying thoughts, feelings and opinions, be they strong or weak, undecided or veering, static or malleable. The topic gained increased coverage in 2022 following the reversal of Roe v Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973) by the US Supreme Court, in which the court majority declared that there was no longer a constitutional right to abortion. The decision was received by some with joy, others with despair, but regardless of opinion, the question arose, and the resulting answer by the Supreme Court sparked debate and discussion on reproductive rights, spreading across the globe.

21st February 2024
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