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2025

The front of the New York Stock Exchange Building. There is a frieze in the pediment, held up by Corinthian columns.There is a 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.

Rosa Lastra and Daniele D'Alvia standing outside CCLS with Chris Bates and LLM students. 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.

A group photo of Lord Browne with CCLS students, Ioannis Kokkoris, Colin Bailey and James Dallas. 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 LLM students stood talking outside the Centre for Commercial Law Studies in Holborn. 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.

Then U.S. Senator J. D. Vance speaking to attendees at The People's Convention at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan in 2024. 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.

Destroyed buildings in Gaza. '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.

Group of students sit in a lecture theatre on a mixture of coloured chairs. 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.

Maxi Scherer smiling in a silver/grey suit. 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.

An engraved vintage illustration image of the trial of Catherine Of Aragon, Queen of England, UK. 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.

Lots of finger prints in different colours. 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).

Circuit board in pink, blue and purple hues. 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.

A collage of different people from different ethnicities and genders smiling 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.

the Sovereign Debt Forum logo, next to the #PublicDebtIsPublic logo. Below these is the Centre for Commercial Law Studies logo. 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 students from the Future of Law: Green Talks 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 sat on the panel of the GAR Live 2024. 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.

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