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Launch event of partnership between Queen Mary School of Law and The Institute of Law at Birzeit University, Palestine
5 December 2024
Earlier this year, the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context and the International State Crime Initiative, based in the School of Law, partnered with Birzeit University’s Institute of Law in Palestine. The partnership was inaugurated on 28 November with an online event titled ‘Legal Education in Palestine’, that brought together law students and staff from both universities.
Dr Noam Gur spoke at the 2024 World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
The event was centred on the theme of ‘The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy’, and was held at Soongsil University in Seoul on 7–12 July 2024.
The School of Law at Queen Mary announces partnership with the Institute of Law at Birzeit University in Palestine
10 June 2024
In the summer of 2023, two academics from the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, Dr Thomas MacManus (Director of the International State Crime Initiative - ISCI) and Dr Tanzil Chowdhury (Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context - GLSGC) visited Birzeit University in Palestine as part of the FOBZU PALS Fellowship.
Professor Del Mar presents on ‘Reflexive Legal Humanities’ in India`
28 March 2024
Maks Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities at Queen Mary University of London, presented on ‘Reflexive Legal Humanities’ on 26 March 2024, as part of the Samyukta Research Foundation lecture series on ‘Reflexive Humanities’.
Dr Noam Gur spoke at a University of Hull workshop on Virtue Jurisprudence
30 January 2024
The online one-day workshop on 16 January 2024 explored new perspectives on the role of virtue in law and legal theory.
Professor Del Mar publishes special issue on ‘Cognitive Legal Humanities’
4 September 2023
Maks Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities, has co-edited, together with Professor Simon Stern (Toronto), a special issue of CAL (Critical Analysis of Law) – an open-access, interdisciplinary legal studies journal – on ‘Cognitive Legal Humanities’.
Professor Del Mar is co-organising the WG Hart Workshop 2024
31 July 2023
The event is hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and will focus on the topic of Historicising Jurisprudence: Person, Community, Form. It will take place 26-27 June 2024, in person at Charles Clore House in London and is currently calling for paper submissions.
Dr Noam Gur gives lecture series at the University of Palermo
30 June 2023
Dr Noam Gur delivered a lecture series on obedience and disobedience to the law as a visiting scholar at the University of Palermo in May 2023.
Symposium published on Professor Maks Del Mar’s Artefacts of Legal Inquiry
4 January 2023
The Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy has published a symposium on Professor Maks Del Mar’s book, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication.
Queen Mary expert co-edits special issue on ‘Contextual Legal Pedagogy’
25 November 2022
Professor Maks Del Mar has co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Law in Context on ‘Contextual Legal Pedagogy’ with Kenneth Armstrong and Sally Sheldon.
Maks Del Mar’s book, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry, wins the IVR’s Commendation for Excellence
22 June 2022
Professor Maks Del Mar’s book, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry, has been awarded the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy’s Commendation for Excellence in the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.
Dr Noam Gur co-organises the UK-IVR Annual Conference 2022
22 June 2022
The UK-IVR Annual Conference (‘Law, Rationality and Practical Reason: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives’), co-organised by Dr Noam Gur and his colleagues on the UK-IVR executive, took place on 10 - 11 June 2022.
Professor Maks Del Mar to deliver Inaugural UK IVR MacCormick Lecture
20 January 2022
The title of Professor Del Mar’s lecture is ‘Reading Neil MacCormick’, and is based on his Leverhulme Trust and British Academy funded research into the life and work of Neil MacCormick.
UK-IVR 2022 Annual Conference
15 October 2021
The 2022 conference will focus on Law, Rationality and Practical Reason: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives and will take place 10-11 June 2022.
Professor Maks Del Mar delivers lecture in Amsterdam on Imagination in Legal Reasoning
On care, coercion and childbirth in the Court of Protection
7 July 2021
New blog from Dr Ruth Fletcher analyses Court of Protection decision involving a pregnant woman living with agoraphobia.
Scholarly Blog on Imagination hosts a Symposium on Professor Del Mar’s book
10 May 2021
The Junkyard of the Mind – a scholarly blog devoted to the study of imagination – has hosted a multi-disciplinary symposium on Professor Maks Del Mar’s Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication (2020).
Response to the Joint Committee of Human Rights call for evidence on the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill
15 September 2020
By Bethany Shiner (Middlesex University) and Dr Tanzil Chowdhury (Queen Mary University of London)
Professor Maksymilian Del Mar publishes monograph on imagination in legal reasoning
26 February 2020
The book is an interdisciplinary study of the value of ‘artefactual language’ and practices of imagination in the common law tradition
Deputy Director Opportunity for PhD Students
12 February 2020
The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) intends to appoint a Deputy Director from among Queen Mary University of London's PhD community
Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context welcomes new Co-Director Dr Tanzil Chowdhury
New book: The Juridification of Individual Sanctions and the Politics of EU Law
11 February 2020
Dr Eva Nanopoulos's new book, which offers a critical study of EU sanctions, is published by Hart.
Professor Maks Del Mar publishes collection on Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning
6 February 2020
Maks Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London, has co-edited a collection with Professor Amalia Amaya (Edinburgh/UNAM), on the relations between Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning (Hart).
Leading journal publishes symposium of papers on Roger Cotterrell’s 'Sociological Jurisprudence: Juristic Thought and Social Inquiry'
8 January 2020
Following a symposium in April 2018, Ratio Juris, a leading legal theory journal, has published a symposium of the papers on Roger Cotterrell’s 'Sociological Jurisprudence: Juristic Thought and Social Inquiry' (Routledge, 2017).
Prof. Maks Del Mar co-edits The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities
8 January 2020
Maks Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory at the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, has published The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities.
Dr Del Mar joins Editorial Board of Jus Cogens
25 February 2019
Call for Papers for 2019 EUPLANT Conference: The Internationalisation of EU Law and EU-China relations
14 February 2019
A Call for Papers on the Internationalisation of EU Law and EU-China Relations is organised in relation to the 2019 EUPLANT Conference, taking place on 10-11 June.
How can digital technologies help us to improve the way we communicate?
21 December 2018
Today’s interconnected world presents communications challenges that overwhelm even the experts. Professor Annelise Riles shed light on this when she gave the 2018 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence at Queen Mary University of London where she discussed Meridian 180, a platform for policy solutions and experimentation.
Dr Del Mar publishes keynote on educating the legal imagination
19 November 2018
New Directors, Members and Website for the CLSGC
16 November 2018
New book: 'Legal Directives and Practical Reasons' by Dr Noam Gur
26 September 2018
Dr Maks Del Mar to deliver lecture in Salzburg
24 October 2017
Dr Maks Del Mar gives seminar at the Aesthetics Research Centre
24 October 2017
QMUL hosts ATLAS Agora 2017
4 July 2017
Dr Maks Del Mar speaks in Paris in honour of Geoffrey Samuel
7 December 2016
Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott responds to Brexit judgement
3 November 2016
Constitutional and EU law specialist Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott responds to high court ruling that parliament must vote on triggering Article 50.
Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott responds to Brexit judgement
3 November 2016
Constitutional and EU law specialist Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott responds to high court ruling that parliament must vote on triggering Article 50.
Dr Maks Del Mar to lecture in Poland
21 October 2016
Dr Maks Del Mar speaks on legal fictions at Oxford
15 March 2016
