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Carol Edwards, Senior Lecturer within the Law School, explores the subject of imposter syndrome or imposterism in her latest blog.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
A blog post by Mel Holmes about her refections after not being inside a court room for 15 years.
A blog post by Al Edmond on how how he navigated critical analysis in the discipline of Law.
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.