University of Bristol Law School Blog
A window into the legal research carried out at the Law School
by Professor Gwen Seabourne, University of Bristol Law School The common law of England, in the medieval centuries and long afterwards, was man-made law: created by and in the interests of free men, drawing on and reinforcing ideas of women as inferior. Its assumption of the superiority of men was intensified during marriage, with the […]
by Alyane Almeida de Araujo, Université de Lille (France) and Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) [This blog is part of a series on the pandemic. The introduction to the series can be found here.] What happened to work/life balance from a gender perspective during the covid pandemic in Brazil and France? This blog post attempts to […]
By Prof Joanne Conaghan (University of Bristol Law School) The recent debate on gender recognition reform, as played out in the press and on social media, has been painful to behold. With passions running high, much of the discourse has been marked by a lack of regard for the viewpoints of others, on occasion spiralling […]
By Dr Peter Dunne, Lecturer in Law (University of Bristol Law School) and Dr Marjolein van den Brink, Assistant Professor (University of Utrecht). *This blog post reflects the views of the authors alone. The blog has not been approved by, and should not be understood as the opinion of, the European Commission or European Network […]
By Mr Peter Dunne, Lecturer in Law (University of Bristol Law School). In the coming months, the United Kingdom (UK) and Irish governments will (separately) review the legal processes by which transgender (trans) persons can have their preferred gender (currently referred to as the ‘acquired gender’ in UK law) formally recognised. Drawing upon my scholarship […]
by Dr Jane Rooney, Associate Professor in International Law at Durham Law School This blog post is a post-colonial critique of the narrative produced by Judge Turner in the High Court decision of Kadie Kalma v African Minerals Ltd that dismantles the distance between England and Sierra Leone. This blog is part of the Extractive […]
by Isabel Inguanzo Associate Professor Department of Political Science & Administration, University of Salamanca, Spain. In this blog post Professor Inguanzo evaluates the efficacy of free, prior and informed consent for protecting indigenous people against appropriation of ancestral land for business enterprise.
by Colin Gavaghan, Professor of Law, University of Bristol Law School The debate around the latest assisted dying bill – Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (TIA Bill) – has taken some unexpected turns. The usual arguments around choice and safety, the sanctity of life and dignity in death, have been supplemented […]
by Professor Margherita Pieraccini, Professor of Law at the University of Bristol Law School As 2024 is drawing to a close, Conferences of the Parties (COPs) of three major Multilateral Environmental Agreements are happening in close succession: COP 16 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was held between end of October and the beginning […]
Albert Sanchez-Graells, Professor of Economic Law, University of Bristol Law School This blog post is based on the paper that was jointly awarded the Best Paper Prize Award 2024 by the Society of Legal Scholars. The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts […]