Our next seminar is on Wed 22 April 13:00-14:00 with @ncl-congov.bsky.social's Dr Francesco De Cecco on "Unpacking deference in EU fundamental rights law". Sign up here: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/

Looking forward to this week's @ncl-congov.bsky.social workshop on Digital Constitutionalism! Our keynote 'What is Digital Constitutionalism?' is by @kinfe.bsky.social with panels on digital constitutionalism and China, and digital tech in international law. More info: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...

New out from my @research-nulawuk.bsky.social colleague Prof Sue Farran and me in The Conversation on the challenges facing the UK Government's Chagos Agreement with Mauritius, amid legal cases and Trump's ... input: theconversation.com/why-the-chag...

Prof Ian Ward's latest book "Law, History, Text: Writing Ironic Legal Histories" is now published! It presents a fresh approach to the writing of legal history as an essentially textual enterprise. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

New Fellow Prof Gina Heathcote is Professor of Public International Law at @research-nulawuk.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social! Her current research analyses the international law of the sea and maritime security from a feminist perspective. acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

Join us on Wed 11 Mar 13h for our latest seminar "Mapping Discrimination: Building a New Taxonomy for Intersectional Justice" presented by Bernardo Carvalho de Mello.

New podcast episode on "Utopia as a method" frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/utopia-as-a-...

Whoops! This should be 25 Feb aka this Wednesday!

New episode of #CalledToTheBar ft @ncl-congov.bsky.social @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & her co-editors @aoifemod.bsky.social & Cher Weixia Chen on their new Research Handbook on Global Governance. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Wed 25 Mar, @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social will be discussing Common Good Constitutionalism, a controversial but increasingly prominent strand of legal thought. Many criticise it externally, but Josh argues it misunderstands the Thomist position it claims to be grounded in & fails on its own terms.

Last week Prof Sue Farran met with members of the Vanuatu Law Reform Commission to review and discuss family law in Vanuatu. They focused on the topics of children, adoption, matrimonial property and using comparative methodology in the context of law reform.

On 18 Feb, Prof Ian Ward will be exploring how Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall can help us understand the ways in which law functions as a mechanism of production and reproduction of moral frames. Part of @ces-uc.bsky.social 's Law 'and' Books series. Register: ces.uc.pt/en/agenda-no...

Join us on 11 Feb, 13:00 to hear from Conall Mallory, QUB, on "Lawfare, Accountability and the Conservative Governments of 2010-2024". You can register and find out about all upcoming research events at NLS here: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/

On 4 Feb 1pm, join Editors Helena Carrapico & @gemmadaviesuk.bsky.social discussing their edited collection 'UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit: Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement'. Hosted by @ncl-congov.bsky.social www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Richard Collier has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Research Fellowship, starting this month. The project is Men, Masculinities and the Legal Professions: Gender Equity and the 'Man Question'.

New article written by @ruthhoughton.bsky.social and Thais Andrade Brugnerotto, 'Constituent Power and the feminist approach: an analysis of the Constituent Assembly in Brazil in 1987'

Anurag Deb, Colin Murray and Gabriel Tan: Legacy Issues: In re Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [2025] UKSC 47 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/18/a...

@sylviademars.me & @colinmurray.bsky.social have played leading roles in preparing a major new research report for Northern Ireland's statutory human rights body, the NIHRC @nihrc.bsky.social nihrc.org/publication/...

New Article Spotlight: Connecting the Dots: Placing Children Within the Wider Landscape of Peace Studies Children remain consistently absent from formal peace negotiations. Sean Molloy of @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social reflects on how to fix this. Read here: peacenews.com/connecting-t...

When does empowering parties in mediation cross the line into undermining their rights? Viktoriia Hamaiunova, @newcastleuni.bsky.social, @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/recalibratin... #law

If you happen to be a LinkedIn person, you can now find us there too: www.linkedin.com/company/newc...

Wed 10 Dec, 13:00 Join us for Authoring the Nation: Madame de Staël and the Literary Origins of the State. Adam Rowe & Ruth Houghton will explore how Mme de Staël crafted a theory of the State and constituent power where the nation & its literature were co-constitutive. www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...

Congratulations to @colinmurray.bsky.social & Tom Frost on being awarded the Melbourne International Law Journal's 2025 prize for their article on the application of self determination norms in the ICJ's Advisory Opinon on the Chagos Islands.

Last week @ncl-congov.bsky.social held an Early Career Researcher workshop @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social on Environmental and Digital constitutionalism. @nifemiadesina.bsky.social, Marie and Li presented their fascinating research projects!

On 26 Nov 13:00, Dr Jon Quayle will be discussing Shelley's Poetical Pisgah as a model for understanding how Shelley conceptualises the future and how poetry can open up the mind to visions of the future and utopian prospects. www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...

On 26 Nov 13:00, Dr Jon Quayle will be discussing Shelley's Poetical Pisgah as a model for understanding how Shelley conceptualises the future and how poetry can open up the mind to visions of the future and utopian prospects. www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...

Watch the first episode of the Business & Law Research Group's podcast Conversations on Competition Law and Policy where Isaac Juma discusses the DMCCA with Prof Oles Andriychuk.

Looking to do a Law PhD as part of a supportive and vibrant research community? Apply to NINE Doctoral Training Studentships. We host students in 4 pathways: Law & Society, Children Youth & Families, Conflict Security & Justice, and Environment Climate & Sustainability www.ncl.ac.uk/law/study/la...

On 13th November 2025, at LSE Law, London, our Dr Emily Jones will present a talk titled ‘No Future for Future Generations: Who is International Environmental Law For?’

Don't forget to register online for Dr David Reader discussing his latest research in "Paws, claws and market flaws: A tail of walkies through the UK veterinary sector". Taking place online Wednesday 12 November 16:00-17:00

PhD Studentship Alert! We are looking for someone to join us from Sep 2026 researching Law & the Nonhuman. We welcome proposals that reflect candidates' own interests within this theme and can embrace a variety of methods and frameworks, particularly critical theory.

Register now for Prof Ian Ward's talk on 'Slippery Supplements: Law, History, Text' on Wed 12 Nov 13:00-14:00. Ian will contemplate vying conceptions of truth in legal and literary conversation, drawing on Roman and early modern English law.

Register now to hear Professor Gina Heathcote speaking on Non-Dominant Feminisms in Global Governance next week: Pluriloguing with ourselves: non-dominant feminisms in global governance (a conversation with Gina Heathcote and Amena Yassine) | Faculty of Law www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events...

Join our Law and Business Research Group online for Dr David Reader discussing his latest research in "Paws, claws and market flaws: A tail of walkies through the UK veterinary sector". Taking place online Wednesday 12 November 16:00-17:00

In November @ncl-congov.bsky.social will host a seminar on digital & environmental constitutionalism. Excited to witness Li, Marie and @nifemiadesina.bsky.social bring their ideas together.

Tomorrow 5 Nov 13:00, Dr Penelope Giosa will be explaining how design weaknesses in public procurement can enable bid rigging and collusion and how reforms can make public tenders collusion proof. Join us online to hear more!

Looking to do a Law PhD as part of a supportive and vibrant research community? Apply to NINE Doctoral Training Studentships. We host students in 4 pathways: Law & Society, Children Youth & Families, Conflict Security & Justice, and Environment Climate & Sustainability www.ncl.ac.uk/law/study/la...

On 5 Nov 13:00, Dr Penelope Giosa will be explaining how design weaknesses in public procurement can enable bid rigging and collusion and how reforms can make public tenders collusion proof. Join us online to hear more!

Earlier this month, out star ConGover @ruthhoughton.bsky.social participated in the Durham Cathedral Institute Debate on Magna Carta and its influence today. You can watch the debate here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS2X...

Join us on 29 October, 13:00 for Prof Richard Mullender discussing "Bleak Liberalism, Deconstruction, and Tension in the Law"

Thank you to the excellent panelists, panel chairs, and attendees for making this symposium possible, we couldn’t have done any of it without you.

We would like to say a big thank you to the organisers of this amazing symposium, Dr. Michael Ashworth, Professor Gina Heathcote and Helen Hampson, for bringing us together and creating a space for us to reimagine how we think about methodologies within legal research.

We were thrilled to welcome Dr. Tamsin Paige, an Associate Professor at Deakin Law School, as our keynote speaker. Dr. Paige explored how law could be interpreted as stories and the usefulness of storytelling as a method of legal research.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Kay Lalor discussed Alternative legalities and transnational LGBTQI+ rights within international human rights law.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Juliana Santos de Carvalho gave an excellent presentation titled ‘Category is: international law realness’.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Iyan Offor took us on a journey of re-imagination through the presentation ’Solarpunk (Legal) “Worlding”: Crafting Multispecies, Queer, and Hopeful Futures’.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Matteo Bassetti, a doctoral researcher at the University of Essex, gave an excellent presentation titled ‘Legal gender recognition beyond recognition - depathologisation as a challenge to States' absolute power to know gender’.

Day 2 of our Methodologies Symposium continued with a panel discussion chaired by Dr. Emily Jones. Drawing on their own methodologies, the panelists explored the topic ‘Queer-as-method’.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Afsha Jameel, a doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, gave on interesting presentation on the use of food as legal method.

Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Puja, a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, discussed the use of oral narratives in forest governance legal research as a way of interrogating colonial continuities and legacies within the context of India.