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2018-02-14 10:44
Landmark Cases in Public International Law
Eirik Bjorge and Cameron Miles
The past two hundred years have seen the transformation of public international law from a rule-based extrusion of d… Read More
2018-02-02 07:01
Divorce is perhaps the civil legal issue which most grabs the attention of modern society and one does not have to look far to see high profile media coverage of celebrity divorces and the i… Read More
2017-09-23 13:46
Edited by Jose Bellido
This volume explores the nature of intellectual property law by looking at particular disputes. All the cases gathered here aim to show the versatile and unstable char… Read More
2017-06-18 10:58
Landmark Cases in Criminal Law
Edited by Phil Handler, Henry Mares and Ian Williams
Criminal cases raise difficult normative and legal questions, and are often a consequence of compelling hu… Read More
2017-06-03 19:57
Historic Parliament
The UK’s General Election on 8 June 2017 provides a compelling backdrop for a discussion of the history of voting rights in Parliamentary elections. In particular… Read More
2017-05-06 04:51
The Lawyers Who Made America
From Jamestown to the White House
Anthony Arlidge QC
No other nation’s creation, both politically and socially, owes such a debt to lawyers as the United S… Read More
2017-04-08 13:30
Peter Edge*
The Isle of Man holds a unique place in English Legal History. From 1266 to the late 14th Century, the Island was alternatively ruled and vied for by Scotland and England. Eventu… Read More
2017-04-01 14:02
Ben Darlow and Charlie Eastaugh*
Talk of “sanctuary cities” has become flavour of the day in recent months, with a growing interest in their legality and—to the contrary&md&hell…Read More
2017-03-12 08:42
Granville Sharp’s Cases on Slavery
Andrew Lyall
The purpose of Granville Sharp’s Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally… Read More
2016-11-05 16:23
It is fair to say that the result of the United Kingdom’s Referendum on continued membership of the European Union is one of the most controversial and fiercely debated topics in mode… Read More
2015-03-21 17:43
The University of Law’s Guildford Centre (Braboeuf Manor)
Before discussing the specific history of the institution, we must look briefly to the 18th and 19th Century histor… Read More
2014-07-09 07:07
In the East London neighborhood of Wapping behind the Town of Ramsgate Pub lies a replica of a noose and hanging scaffold. This commemorates Execution Dock, most famous as the spot where pir… Read More
2014-02-10 18:52
Section 1: Contextual Overview of the Development of the English Legal Profession
Before a full sketch of the history of the Training Contract can be drawn, it is necessary to provide a brie… Read More
2013-10-18 20:08
The common law test for Defamation.
Before the early 1300s, actions for the predecessor of defamation were obscure and purely within the jurisdiction of the Church courts, it was not until m… Read More
2013-07-23 17:06
Detectives have had a special niche in popular culture for many years. Beginning in the nineteenth century with the works of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins and followed later in the cent… Read More
2013-07-05 18:54
Photograph by Riona Doolan.
The medieval Irish law tracts, popularly known as the Brehon Laws, were in use from the early medieval period to the start of the seventeenth century in Ireland… Read More
2013-06-17 20:07
A traitor being hung, drawn and quartered.
Treason is perhaps the most infamous crime in English Legal History, due in part to the horrendous punishment that came with it but also due to its… Read More
2013-06-10 19:58
A typical modern day 12 person Jury.
Trial by Jury has traditionally been seen as the cornerstone of democracy and the rule of law in this country. This led Lord Devlin to dramatically comme… Read More
2013-06-01 22:52
Hanging. The most popular method for the death penalty throughout English Legal History.
The legal history of capital punishment in the United Kingdom is an interesting one and ranges across… Read More
2013-05-30 09:09
An array of historical burglar’s tools.
Burglary is a crime which has changed significantly over the years but in all its forms has always reflected the seriousness of breaking into a… Read More
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