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Recently, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, The Right Hon. The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, argued that the balance between litigation and arbitration as processes for resolving commercial disputes under the English and Welsh system had been taken too far in favour of arbitration. I was interested to…
The context
My research focuses on the laws relevant to innovation and creativity (particularly intellectual property and information control) and their impact on societal challenges such as health, communications and climate change. Other laws and policy activities tend to exist in respect of these challenges: for example, regarding climate change,…
In this post – the first this blog has hosted from one of our postgraduate community – he considers a point of international law linked to his research. A full biography can be found below.
The Senkaku Islands or Diaoyu Islands, as they are respectively known to the…
The last few years has seen the British public turn its attention to the alleged evils of shale gas extraction in the countryside. Community concerns include the contamination of ground water, the impact of the activity on the local environment, inability of shale gas extraction and agriculture to coexist, and…
This year the Mooting Society has gone from strength to strength. A promising cadre of first years were able to hone their talents in the annual first year competition, whilst increased participation in our main faculty and criminal law competitions enabled many students to participate in mooting for the first…
On 6 and 7 March 2015 I was lucky enough to participate in a conference celebrating the life and work of Professor David L. Carey Miller at the University of Aberdeen. David was both a wonderful scholar and a wonderful man, and his conference and the related dinner was befittingly…
On 17 December 2015, the Strathclyde Review, which was tasked with reviewing the relationship between both Houses of Parliament in the wake of the Government’s defeat on tax credits in the Lords on 26 October 2015, published its findings. This post will critically analyse the report’s recommendation for reform and…
How should a dispute be resolved? This is a complex question, which used to have a simple answer – by negotiation and, if this fails, straight to court. Nowadays, it is not so simple.
Firstly, how may an effective negotiation be conducted? Strangely, lawyers and business graduates are not routinely…
Four voters from Orkney and Shetland raised a court challenge after May’s general election, claiming that their MP, Alistair Carmichael, had breached election law by falsely denying complicity in the leak of a memo that suggested Nicola Sturgeon was secretly hoping for a Conservative victory. I wrote on the Scottish…
The first post on this site was published in October, looking at some compelling minutes documenting the lead-up to the Second World War. It is rare to describe dusty old minutes as compelling, but these really were, narrating as they did a Dutch law faculty seeking support as continental Europe…
