Professor Sue Westwood, Head of York Law School, along with other members of YLS, will visit India next week to discuss collaborative teaching initiatives with leading Indian universities and meet with the Bar Council of India. #YorkLawSchool #UniversityofYork #India #InternationalCollaboration

Dr Jenn Chubb from Sociology, Uni of York and Dr Peter Harrison from York Law School, Uni of York, discuss the implications of voice cloning in law and in life on the podcast The Last Human Voice. Link here: buff.ly/a2ouitb @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social #Law #UniversityofYork

Congratulations to Prof. Phillip Morgan, who has been appointed as a Deputy District Judge on the North Eastern Circuit, sitting in civil and family jurisdictions. This is a rare opportunity for an academic, with access to real-world cases that can benefit colleagues and students in YLS. #Law

🚨 Registrations are now open for our annual conference “Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice” 🚨 🗓️ 9-10 September 2025 📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK Register: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...

Welcome to YLS's new Head of Department, Professor Sue Westwood Sue said she felt honoured to be leading the School and thanked colleagues for their support, collegiality, and everything they do to make YLS such a caring, thoughtful, and principled community. #Law #YLS #Update #UoY

A submission by Dr Joanna Gilmore, Dr Graeme Hayes, Aston University; Dr Steven Cammiss, University of Birmingham; and Professor Brian Doherty, Keele University, has been cited in the Independent Review of the Criminal Courts Pt 1 (Leveson Review), addressing overcharging in protest-related cases. 👇

Students have spoken, and the results are in: YLS ranks 3rd amongst the Russell Group for 'Learning Resources' among Universities included for Law. Have a look here for more information on York Law School and what you could achieve. buff.ly/U6vkfsh #UoY #law #NSS2025 #RussellGroup

📰 NEWSLETTER! We are delighted to publish our second Beyond Compliance Consortium Newsletter. This issue provides a roundup of research progress, the latest events, resources & publications, and news from member and partner organisations. 👉 Read issue 2 here: bit.ly/BCC-Newslett...

Applications are open for one full-time PhD studentship. Including an annual stipend at UKRI rate & a fee waiver for three years. Join a leading research community with strengths across doctrinal, socio-legal, and interdisciplinary fields. More info: buff.ly/bIB8aqv #UoY #Law #Funding #Studentship

The Administrative Fairness Lab held a conference on Law and Fair Process in the Transformation of Public Services on 29 April in York Guildhall in collaboration with The York Policy Engine and funded by Research England. buff.ly/c2roBs1 #Law #YLS #Research

🌳 Urban Labor-a-Tree 🌳 Can you grow the ideal urban forest? Join us @york.ac.uk for a playtest of this new board game inspired by real-life insights from York, Cardiff & Milton Keynes🌱 📅 Fri 16 May, 12-2pm or 2:30-4.30pm 📍 Sustainability Clinic 🎟️ Free – Book here 🔗 ow.ly/bKEE50VP2OP #YESIFellows

Dr Alice Welsh's new monograph 'The Market Citizenship Illusion' is out now and is available open access. The book uses case studies of migrants in atypical work to argue that EU free movement rules are out of step with the new realities of work. Links and info below 👇 #Law #EU #WorkLaw #Action

Hugely important news: @universityofleeds.bsky.social and @york.ac.uk have been chosen to lead a new Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence! 🎉 Read more 👇 tinyurl.com/yc8w9ds2 @toby-davies.bsky.social @adamcrawford.bsky.social @annabarker.bsky.social @dralimalik.bsky.social @ccjsleeds.bsky.social

Another important collaborative endeavour combining research expertise across the Universities of Leeds and York. @universityofleeds.bsky.social @york.ac.uk @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social www.leeds.ac.uk/research-32/...

Research YLS Professor Caroline Hunter and colleagues was reported by the civil liberties organisation the Manifesto Club on the 16th April, and was reported by The Guardian too. Manifesto Club 👉 buff.ly/d06AktL The Guardian article 👉 buff.ly/5MX3ZXJ #YLS #UoY #Research #Law

🌍Introducing a new YESI International Fellows project with @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social + University of Belgrade's Faculty of Law's Environmental Law Clinic. Looking at "Advancing engagement with Environmental Sustainability in HE through Clinic-based education". Learn more➡️ ow.ly/Zqw450VpFGS

Applications are open for one full-time PhD studentship. Including an annual stipend at UKRI rate & a fee waiver for three years. Join a leading research community with strengths across doctrinal, socio-legal, and interdisciplinary fields. More info: buff.ly/bIB8aqv #UoY #Law #Funding #Studentship

Two UoY students took their experience of the Global Day of Action at YLS to this year's Student Sustainability Research Conference 2025 at the Uni of Leeds. Want to know more? Contact [email protected] or visit the website: buff.ly/GaeDa4j #UoY #YLS #GlobalDayofAction

The Sam Pegram scholarship covers tuition fees, accommodation, travel, visa costs, & provides a monthly living stipend for one international student pursuing the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice. More info here 👉 buff.ly/ASkdkUN #UoY #Scholarship #International #Law #HumanRights

How many UK Supreme Court judges do you think ever acted as lawyers for a claimant in a social security case? ZERO. *Extremely nervous* to announce this rather bolshy ('somewhat contentious' and 'robust in tone') piece in the JSSL. I argue there is a 'professional diversity deficit' in UKSC, AND...

Dr Kajsa Dinesson @dinesson.bsky.social has supported Liberty in submitting evidence to the Public Bill Committee on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill. The Bill proposes introducing offences aimed at organised immigration crime. #Asylum #Immigration #YLS #UoY #Law #UKLaw #Research

Fascinating interview with Prof Jim Phillips @uofglasgow.bsky.social on the pardoning of striking miners in Scotland, citing ongoing research by our Dr Joanna Gilmore and Matt Foot on extending pardons to England & Wales at 1hr33m. #Law #YLS #UoY

Wishing all our Muslim staff and students a blessed Ramadan and Eid Mubarak. The month of Ramadan is the holiest month of the Islamic year and will take place between 28 February and 30 March this year (depending on moon sightings). #UoY

Dr Peter Harrison talks about why he wanted to be involved in the SQE. See here for more information on the SQE at YLS: https://buff.ly/4k24hAc #Law #SQE #YLS #UoY

YLS Lecturer, Paul de la Pena talks about why you should do the SQE with the York Law School. More info on the SQE here: https://buff.ly/4k24hAc #Law #YLS #UoY #SQE

Police services across Britain are failing to meet the public’s minimum standards of service delivery. Our Co-Director @adamcrawford.bsky.social outlines research findings from our Minimum Policing Standard project in @uk.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/police-are-f...

Currently a student in YLS? Join us Monday 24th Feb in the Law & Soc Building 9am to 3pm, to chat with faculty and reps from College of Legal Practice, try materials, win prizes, attend presentations (11:30 & 12:30), and learn about the Solicitor Qualifying Exam (SQE) & LLM programme. #Law #UoY

How is an SQE beneficial? Professor Stephen Levett discusses this. youtu.be/4z37H45HFrQ See here for more information on studying for the SQE at YLS: www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr... #SQE #Law #YorkLawSchool #UoY

See our 2023-2024 Year 3 Family Law prize for the top student, kindly sponsored by Stowe Family Law. Congratulations to Emily Thomas who won the Family Law Prize, sponsored by Stowe Family Law! Read More: www.york.ac.uk/law/about/ne...

The article "Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism" has been included in Bristol Press Digital's most downloaded articles in 2024, despite it only being published in October 2024 👏 Keep reading 👇 #law #YLS #UoY #decriminalise #terror

This video explores some of the benefits of publishing research openly, looking at the potential positives for both individual researchers and for society in general 👍

My PhD thesis, Human Rights as Sources of Penality, is now available online! It explores how human rights foster and justify penality. I'm revising it for a book with OUP, but the thesis offers a preview. Feedback welcome! etheses.lse.ac.uk/4474/ @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @cahr-york.bsky.social

Welcome to the University of York, York Law School Bluesky profile. We are one of the leading Law Schools in the UK. We aim to offer a distinctive space for socially engaged legal scholarship and innovative problem-based teaching and learning.

We have a couple of articles on the @timeshighered.bsky.social which effectively serve as two parts of the same process, aimed at University departments, professional services etc. 1) How to get your department off X: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/its-t... >>

YLS Seminar Series Introduces: Dr Lea Raible, from the University of Glasgow on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Relation to Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Open to all UoY students and staff to attend, please email [email protected] for more information on the event and to register your interest.