News from the School of Law

The qLegal team standing with their LexisNexis award, next to Sir Tony Robinson. Double Success for Queen Mary at LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025
18 March 2025

Queen Mary claims victory in two categories at highly regarded event within the UK legal sector.

Big Tech shares tumble as Trump adds chaos to stock market mix
14 March 2025

Dr Daniele D'Alvia spoke to France 24 about the recent downturn of US tech giants' shares and whether US President Donald Trump is solely to blame.

Regulatory Insights: A Special Lecture and Networking Session with Chris Bates
13 March 2025

Chris Bates, Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London and Senior Consultant at Clifford Chance LLP, delivered a special lecture to Queen Mary Banking and Finance Law LLM students, at the invitation of Professor Rosa M. Lastra.

Climate Change - A clear and present danger
10 March 2025

The Energy and Climate Change Law Institute were delighted to welcome back Lord Browne of Maddingly to deliver the Annual Clifford Chance Lecture on its tenth anniversary.

Queen Mary launches two new LLM Programmes
5 March 2025

Queen Mary’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies has announced the launch of two new LLM Programmes in Fashion Law and AI and the Law for September 2025 start. These programmes are set to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to navigate two of the most rapidly advancing sectors in law today.

Censorship, abortion and the ‘threat within’: what a free speech expert thinks of J.D. Vance’s remarks to Europe
28 February 2025

Professor Eric Heinze has penned an opinion piece for The Conversation about US Vice President’s remarks to European leaders at the recent Munich Security Conference.

'Name Israel's Gaza genocide': International legal experts call for accountability
27 February 2025

Professor Neve Gordon and Professor Richard Falk took part in a conference organised by the Palestinian Return Centre criticising the lack of the term 'genocide' in political discussions and media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza.

Two London Metropolitan police officers in high-vis jackets sat on parked motorcycles. UK police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with predictive policing
25 February 2025

An interview from Amnesty International with Dr Daragh Murray was featured in an article for Computer Weekly on predictive police systems in the UK.

Queen Mary becomes the first London Russell Group university to offer integrated SQE preparation as part of an LLM
24 February 2025

Queen Mary’s School of Law has announced the combination of their prestigious Master of Laws programmes with SQE preparation in partnership with legal education company, BARBRI.

Queen Mary’s Professor Maxi Scherer to be the next President of the LCIA Court
21 February 2025

The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) is one of the world’s leading international institutions for commercial dispute resolution.

Maksymilian Del Mar to speak on 'Kinesic Legal Humanities' at Utrecht
19 February 2025

Maksymilian Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities, will be delivering an online lecture on 28 April 2025 to the Research Network for Culture, Law, and the Body at Utrecht University.

Elements in Legal Humanities launches
10 February 2025

Cambridge University Press has announced the launch of a new interdisciplinary series: Elements in Legal Humanities. This series is part of the Elements platform at CUP, which publishes short monographs (of no more than 30,000 words).

Dr Davor Jancic cited by the Financial Conduct Authority
5 February 2025

Dr Davor Jancic's research on the UK’s post-Brexit regulatory autonomy was cited in a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Research Note (no. 17, October 2024).

DeepSeek, Nvidia and the AI race that’s shaping the future
4 February 2025

Dr Daniele D’Alvia wrote a blog for The Conversation on developments in AI investment and how this will affect our everyday lives.

The problem of race positionality and research funding
4 February 2025

Dr Prakash Shah has penned an article for The Critic arguing that the racial identity of the researcher should not affect their progress in higher education.

SDF announces the launch of #PublicDebtIsPublic
28 January 2025

The Sovereign Debt Forum and Georgetown’s Massive Data Institute announce the launch of the #PublicDebtIsPublic initiative, which will create the first centrally-collated web-based sovereign debt documentation and data commons.

A woman looking into a screen with dots all over mapping her face, Deepfakes and the Law: Why Britain needs stronger protections against technology-facilitated abuse
24 January 2025

As the UK moves to outlaw sexually explicit deepfakes, Professor Julia Hörnle examines the urgent need for stronger legal protections.

qLegal encourages students to adopt a climate conscious approach to legal practice
21 January 2025

Embedding sustainability within programmes and operations to ensure qLegal’s work contributes positively to planet and society is a key focus this academic year.

Norah Gallagher spoke at a GAR Live Women in Arbitration event
6 January 2025

On 5 December 2024, Norah Gallagher took part in a panel was on international arbitration in energy: key issues and trends.

School of Law Lecturer, Dr Mohsin Alam Bhat listed as a leading intellectual of the next generation
13 December 2024

India’s ThePrint has recently unveiled its latest list of intellectuals to watch in the coming decade, with Queen Mary’s Mohsin Bhat earning a well-deserved spot. This list, the first since 2018, highlights leading thinkers who are reshaping the landscape of politics and other critical fields.

Hugh Wooding Law School visited the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre
13 December 2024

In November 2024, the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre (QMLAC) welcomed delegates from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago for their annual exchange programme.

Queen Mary academics investigate the future of banking law
6 December 2024

Dr Daniele D’Alvia and Dr Katrien Morbee are part of a new research project funded by the Society of Legal Scholars to investigate the trends, opportunities and challenges in Banking Law in the twenty-first century.

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.

ICSID Secretary General Martina Polasek Visits the School of International Arbitration
3 December 2024

On 26 November 2024, the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London had the privilege of hosting the Secretary General of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Ms Martina Polasek.

Professor Maxi Scherer gives keynote lecture on regulating AI in International Arbitration
25 November 2024

On 6 November, Maxi Scherer, Professor in International Arbitration, Dispute Resolution and Energy Law at Queen Mary University of London, delivered the Herbert Smith Freehills - SMU Asian Arbitration Lecture 2024 in Singapore.

The 'human shields' who tried to stop the Iraq war
22 November 2024

BBC World Service’s programme ‘The Documentary’ discusses the hundreds of anti-war activists who migrated voluntarily to Iraq to serve as ‘human shields’ in 2003.

Why Donald Trump’s election win fuelled a stock market surge
22 November 2024

Dr Daniele D’Alvia, Lecturer in Banking and Finance Law at Queen Mary University of London, writes for The Conversation about why Donald Trump’s victory has fuelled a surge in the stock market.

“Trump Trades”: Stock Market Speculators Lured by the Smell of Trumpism
15 November 2024