, Senior Lecturer in Internet Law at Queen Mary, University of London, is to take part in discussions on Mobile phones: "Gambling and gaming: prison or a safe bet?" at the Society for Computers and Law event on 30 September 2010.
Date added: Thursday, September 23, 2010
More companies than ever use arbitration for conflict-resolution Professor Loukas Mistelis, of Queen Mary, University of London explains why in the FT.
Date added: Friday, April 16, 2010
The Legal Advice Centre at Queen Mary, University of London won at the Attorney General Student Awards at the House of Lords on Tuesday 30 March.
Date added: Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Queen Mary, University of London was represented by two teams in the new East London and Surrounds Inter-Varsity Mooting Competition at Stratford Magistrates Court on Wednesday 17 November 2010.
Date added: Friday, November 19, 2010
Date added: Thursday, August 19, 2010
Professor Richard Nobles and Professor David Schiff will be jointly chairing a session at the Council for European Studies Seventeenth International Conference, Montreal, Canada, 15-17 April 2010.
Date added: Monday, March 29, 2010
Professor Eric Heinze discusses international law and the world’s perception of Israel through the media lens.
Date added: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Date added: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Professor Peter Alldridge, financial crime specialist and Head of the Department of Law, was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Law in Action’ programme on Tuesday 9 March 2010.
Date added: Thursday, March 11, 2010
Professor Takis Tridimas and Dr Gabriel Gari were awarded a grant from the Nuffield Foundation to carry out a statistical analysis of the case law of the European Court of Justice on judicial review.
Date added: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Date added: Tuesday, November 9, 2010
On 27 January 2010, the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered one of its most important judgments so far. In A v HM Treasury [2010] UKSC 2 the Court held that the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2006 and the Al-Qaida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2006 were unlawful on the ground that they did not give the affected persons an effective remedy against their designation by the United Nations Sanctions Committee as suspected terrorists.
Date added: Monday, February 1, 2010
Dr Prakash Shah is to present his paper "Trans-jurisdictional marriage and family reunification for refugees in the United Kingdom" at the Conference on Contemporary Developments Concerning Refugees and Displaced Persons on 8 May 2010 in Istanbul.
Date added: Thursday, May 6, 2010
The programme project, RELIGARE, includes 13 partner institutions in 11 EU countries and Turkey, with leading experts in law, sociology and anthropology.
Date added: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Some of the world’s most senior judges are unqualified with little experience because of politicised voting systems and a lack of transparency.
Date added: Thursday, September 9, 2010
Dr Prakash Shah is organising a workshop on Legal Practice and Accommodation in Multicultural Europe together with Professor Marie-Claire Foblets (Catholic University Leuven) at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL), Onati, Basque Country, Spain.
Date added: Thursday, June 3, 2010
A new edition of Blackstone’s Criminal Practice was released on 14 October 2010. This is one of the leading practitioner manuals in criminal justice and is co-edited by with Rt Hon Lord Justice Hooper.
Date added: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Lord Bingham of Cornhill died on 11 September 2010 at the age of 76. He is widely recognized as one of the top judges since the beginning of the twentieth century.
Date added: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Congratulations to the Class of 2009 who graduated from the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London in December 2009.
Date added: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Maher Dabbah’s new book, International and Comparative Competition Law has been published by Cambridge University Press.
A paper given by Professor Kate Malleson at the International Political Science Association conference in Bologna on 21-23 June 2010 was reported in the Israeli media.
Date added: Monday, July 5, 2010
The proceedings from the Modern Law Review seminar on Extraterritorial Immigration Control have now been published as a book titled ‘Extraterritorial Immigration Control – Legal Challenges’.
Date added: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Sue Sullivan, LLM programme coordinator will be attending the LLM law forum at the QS World Grad Tour in Paris and Milan and Professor Loukas Mistelis, Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration will be at e-fellows net LLM Day in Frankfurt.
Date added: Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Date added: Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Professor Rosa Lastra and Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas have been invited to speak at the Tenth Annual World Trade Organisation Conference on 19-20 May 2010.
Date added: Monday, April 26, 2010
Latif Tas a current PhD student at the School of Law presented a paper on 'Kurds in the UK: Legal Pluralism and Dispute Resolution in the Diaspora' at a recent seminar at Leicester University on 14 May 2010.
Date added: Monday, May 24, 2010
New legislation being introduced will make it an offence for British companies and their employees to be involved in any kind of bribery, which occurred during the Commonwealth Games earlier in the year.
Date added: Friday, November 5, 2010
Professor Ian Walden and Noam Shemtov have been awarded a gift of £47,500 by Microsoft Corporation to conduct research on Open Source Software licenses.
Date added: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Date added: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
PEDEC workshopScholars, activists and practitioners met at Queen Mary, University of London on 15 December under the auspices of the PEDEC Research Network at a workshop to discuss the implications of the current economic downturn for the promotion of equality and diversity.
Date added: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Professor Eric Heinze's presented his paper 'Plato on Freedom and Citizenship' at the Annual Conference of the United Kingdom Section of the Internationale Vereinigung für Rechtsphilosophie (IVR) at the University of Birmingham on 21-22 September 2010.
A major survey on international arbitration by the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary, University of London, sponsored by global law firm White & Case, is canvassing the views of in-house counsel in key markets worldwide.
Law students in the Queen Mary Student Pro Bono Group have raised nearly £2,800, for the Whitechapel Mission.
LLM and PhD students focusing on International Law can now publish articles in the "International Community Law Review", which aims to explore the implications of various traditions of international law, as well as more current perceived hegemonic trends for the idea of an international community.
Date added: Monday, June 21, 2010
Governments the world over must do more to safeguard internet shoppers from ‘rogue’ traders and their online scams, a new study from Queen Mary, University of London suggests.
Date added: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
A new breed of class actions are being positioned as a supplement to the current system: instead of people having to 'opt in' to the action, everyone affected will be deemed included unless they actively 'opt out'.
Date added: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
, who specialises in intellectual property law at the Queen Mary, University of London, is participating in a discussion on Copyrights and Wrongs at the British Society on 27 October.
Date added: Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Dr Maher Dabbah addressed representative of various governments from the developing world, practitioners, representatives of international organisations and regulators on "Can competition law play a role in eradicating extreme poverty" at a high level event held at the law firm Simmons & Simmons on 21 April 2010.
Date added: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Mrs Leatile Dambe has been appointed as a High Court Judge in Botswana, Africa. Mrs Dambe holds a Master of Laws (LLM) specialising in banking and finance law from Queen Mary, University of London.
Date added: Friday, June 4, 2010
CCLS students will continue to benefit from a fully-paid NICLAS summer school in Vienna and Budapest thanks to Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas who successfully negotiated a three-year agreement for Queen Mary, University of London.
Date added: Monday, January 4, 2010
Experts say that extremist religious material is unlikely to be removed from websites in the US because of the First Amendment to the constitution that protects free speech.
The Law Department has been successful in its joint AHRC bid with Queen Mary colleagues from the Department of Geography and the School of Business and Management for a two year award to set up a Research Network on Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis.
Date added: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas Valsamis Mitsilegas participated in the Frontex Capacity Building Stakeholders Conference which took place in Warsaw on 28-29 October 2010.
Date added: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Queen Mary, University of London has entered a landmark agreement with the Intellectual Property Institute (IPI). The IPI now operates from the School of Law's Centre for Commercial Law Studies, in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in collaboration with the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Institute (QMIPRI).
Date added: Monday, May 10, 2010
Professor Heinze comments on the Pope's forthcoming visit to Britain and Ann Widdecombe's defensive remarks on the Church.
Date added: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Dr Prakash Shah will be presenting a lecture on 'Muslims in the West: Legal and Social Concerns' at a course for German diplomats titled: Muslim Contexts: Perspectives & Challenges at the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, 8-9 June 2010.
One of the first law graduates at Queen Mary, University of London has just been appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal by Her Majesty, the Queen.
Date added: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Professor Andrew Le Sueur and Professor Kate Malleson were invited by the Supreme Court to organise a seminar to mark the first year of the work of the Supreme Court.
Date added: Monday, October 4, 2010
The Department of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, has started a new book series called 'Queen Mary Studies in International Law'.
Stuart Andrews, teacher of Medical Law and Ethics at Queen Mary, University of London, died suddenly on Wednesday 28 July 2010.
Date added: Monday, August 16, 2010
Professor Ian Walden, Professor of Information and Communications Law at Queen Mary, was amongst speakers at the Public Service Events' Information Governance conference.
Date added: Monday, July 12, 2010
The grand final of Queen Mary's undergraduate internal mooting competition, The George Hinde Moot, was held on Thursday 25 March 2010 in the Octagon.
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren gives an insight to the legal profession in South Africa for lawyers potentially visiting the country for the World Cup.
Date added: Thursday, May 27, 2010
Professor Rachael Mulheron, of the School of Law, comments on the withdrawal of the proposed class actions for financial services claims: The recent demise of the proposed collective (class) actions regime for financial services claims was an important consequence of the legislative ‘wash-up’ which followed the announcement, on 6 April, of the general election.
Following the appointment of Sir John Dyson to the Supreme Court, the Equal Justices Initiative (EJI) today expressed disappointment at the missed opportunity to appoint a second woman to the Court.
Date added: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Noriswadi Ismail, a current PhD candidate at the Institute of Computer and Communications Laws, CCLS, School of Law will conduct a one day masterclass workshop on "Data Protection and Privacy Law: Strategic Implementation for Organisations" on 29 June 2010.
A major new project dealing with conflict and the peace process was launched on Friday 12 November at a packed event in Dundalk Institute of Technology.
Date added: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
This week sees the results of a major survey on international arbitration by the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary, University of London, sponsored by global law firm White & Case LLP.
Date added: Wednesday, October 6, 2010
, Queen Mary, University of London presented “Muslim Women and Marriage in Trans-jurisdictional Contexts” at the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging in the University of East London on 24 November 2010.
Date added: Friday, November 26, 2010
Professor Uma Suthersanen has been awarded a grant of £120,745.00 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the Small Grants (Beyond Text) Scheme.
Chatroulette.com has become a global internet sensation but it poses risks to users and is proving to be challenging for law enforcers. The site connects users to millions of other strangers around the world via video chat forums, although a large number of them are exposing themselves.
Date added: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Date added: Sunday, November 14, 2010
Dr Christiana HJI Panayi to give a lecture on 'The cross-border movement of companies and EU tax law – recent developments' at Cambridge University on 27 October 2010.
Date added: Monday, August 9, 2010
Professor Heinze wrote a comment piece about science and religion in the media. He said: “The usual question is: 'Are they compatible?' In its challenges both to religious dogma and to strict empiricism, the Greek legacy of metaphysical thought underscores the shortcomings of both. It offers further grounds for questioning orthodoxies, both scientific and religious.”
Date added: Friday, February 26, 2010
On 3 November 2010, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, held a conference to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The conference examined the first year of the UK Supreme Court and, more broadly, key developments in English law.
Professor George Walker has been awarded the Leverhulme Fellowship for two years, commencing October 2011.
Date added: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Congratulations to all who graduated from the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London this summer. Law students were awarded their degrees at the graduation ceremony held on 15 July 2010 in the Queens Building.
Date added: Friday, July 16, 2010
Nana Esi Atsem, a current student on the MSc Law and Finance programme won the $7,500 prize in an essay contest on banking regulation.
Date added: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Airline passenger records raise significant issues with privacy laws. Information on European travellers is passed to authorities in the US if they are flying there; although some are concerned this information will be mis-managed.
Date added: Thursday, April 29, 2010
The proceedings, held on 2 February 2010, dealt with the European Commission's anti-cartel enforcement. They were designed to explore ways in which deterrence and efficiency can be enhanced in cartel investigations.
Date added: Monday, February 8, 2010
A survey of 31 Cloud computing contracts from 27 different providers has found that many include clauses that could have a significant impact, often negative, on the rights and interests of customers. The survey formed part of the Cloud Legal Project at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), within the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London.
Date added: Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Dr Prakash Shah is to present a lecture on "Muslim women and marriage in trans-jurisdictional contexts" at the Joint Seminar Series organised by the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, and Department of Development Studies, on 20 October 2010 in SOAS Room G51, 5-7 pm.
Date added: Monday, October 18, 2010
The event featured a panel discussion about the potential repercussions of the US Supreme Court’s decision in the Holder vs Humanitarian Law Project case. was on the panel, which included longstanding human rights activist, Bianca Jagger.
New working papers are now available in the Queen Mary, University of London's Legal Scholarship Network - Legal Studies Research Paper Series:
Date added: Monday, June 14, 2010
27 October 2010 at the Centre of European Legal Studies, Cambridge University, UK 5 November 2010 at New York University, USA 10 November 2010 at Boston College, USA
Date added: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas' latest book examines international trade and investment law at various levels of governance, including unilateral, bilateral, regional, and multilateral arrangements.
Professor MitsilegasAt the invitation of the President of Eurojust, Mr Aled Williams, Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas addressed the College of Eurojust on 28 April. The session formed part of the activities of the Task Force on the Future of Eurojust, whose purpose is to reflect on the future development of Eurojust under the Lisbon Treaty and the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor’s Office. Eurojust is a judicial cooperation body created to help provide safety within an area of freedom, security and justice.
Date added: Monday, May 17, 2010
Professor Eric Heinze to deliver the keynote speech "Rights Consciousness and the Mass Media” at the 2010 Westminster Graduate Conference on 11 June 2010.
is Director of the School of International Arbitration in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS). His lecture topic was "The Many Faces of International Arbitration".
You can now view contributions from the Legal Scholarship Network at Queen Mary, University of London on our new Working Papers Series page.
Date added: Friday, April 23, 2010
Dr Prakash Shah and Dr Derya Bayir (a former doctoral student at Queen Mary) have completed the fieldwork stage of a project investigating the Socio-legal Adaptation of British Immigrants in Turkey, funded by the Nuffield Foundation (£8,000) and the British Institute in Ankara (£1,000).
The Field Fisher Waterhouse Prize is an annual prize for Student Advisers in the School of Law’s Legal Advice Centre (LAC).
Date added: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Professor Kate Malleson and Professor Lizzie Barmes, together with a group of colleagues in academia and legal practice, have launched a new initiative to promote the equal participation of men and women in the judiciary.
Date added: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The Queen Mary undergraduate mooting team demonstrated their excellent mooting skills in the autumn term 2009.
Date added: Monday, January 11, 2010
Anand Ramlogan (Law 1994) has been appointed and sworn-in as a Senator and the new Attorney General to the parliament of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago.
Professor Ian Walden will speak on “Cloud computing and the effective governance of information” at the Information, Governance, Risk and Compliance conference on Thursday 20 May 2010 at the Barbican Centre, London.
Date added: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
New working papers are now available in the Queen Mary, University of London's Legal Scholarship Network - Legal Studies Research Paper Series Vol. 2, No. 6: September 30, 2010
Date added: Friday, November 12, 2010
Georgina Tsagas, Noriswadi Ismail and Yonit Manor Percival are to present their papers in Barcelona, Spain.
gives advice to those considering to study for their LLM, saying that students should choose carefully based on their own needs.
Date added: Monday, November 22, 2010
The Legal Research Conference “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” was held in the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) on 19 March 2010. The conference was initiated and organised by Burcu Kılıç, Marc D Mimler, Martin A Kuppers and Gaetano Dimita, current PhD students at the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London.
Date added: Monday, March 22, 2010
Gavin Sutter, lecturer in Media Law at Queen Mary, comments on The Defamation Bill which is due to go before the committee approval in the House of Lords.
Date added: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Queen Mary, University of London’s School of Law has been ranked first in London and third nationwide in The Guardian’s annual university guide.
Date added: Tuesday, June 8, 2010