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May 14, 2025 David Jeffery, _University of Liverpool_ MPs will soon vote on Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill. Analysis of the second reading shows how religion, identity and party shaped

support and opposition. May 13, 2025 Daniel Gover, _Queen Mary University of London_ The bill passed its second reading by a large majority but things get far more complicated from here.

April 29, 2025 Justice Tankebe, _University of Cambridge_ Ghanaian police and judicial practice treats the right to protest as less valuable than the restrictions that may be applied.

December 18, 2024 Peter Vaughan, _Nottingham Trent University_ A legal expert looks at the dozens of laws Father Christmas is likely to be violating. August 27, 2024 Stephanie Wescott,

_Monash University_ and Steven Roberts, _Monash University_ The rise of misogynist attitudes among Australian boys occurs alongside an existing crisis — endemic levels of gender-based

violence and murder perpetrated against women. August 9, 2024 Alan Greene, _University of Birmingham_ Calling these acts of fascist violence terrorism may feel cathartic, but it’s not that

simple. April 23, 2024 Joshua Jowitt, _Newcastle University_ Like asking us to believe that 2+2=5, the bill requires decision makers to ignore documented fact and give legal priority to a

fiction. January 12, 2024 Catherine Hobby, _University of East London_ It’s hard not to support the plan to right this miscarriage of justice but the government is setting a dangerous

constitutional precedent in order to correct its own mistakes. December 21, 2023 Ugljesa Grusic, _UCL_ Abu Zubaydah is accusing the UK government of involvement in his torture and unlawful

detainment. November 24, 2023 Evan Easton-Calabria, _University of Oxford_ The government of Rwanda must commit to eliminating the forced return of refugees and asylum seekers. November 1,

2023 Mark Walters, _University of Sussex_ A legal expert explains the complicated process of prosecuting speech hate crimes. June 23, 2023 Caroline Derry, _The Open University_ Sex between

women has never been specifically outlawed. June 14, 2023 Claire Pierson, _University of Liverpool_ In the past eight years, police in England and Wales have investigated at least 17 people

for procuring their own abortion outside the law. June 9, 2023 Branislav Hock, _University of Portsmouth_ and Mark Button, _University of Portsmouth_ It’s a complicated and growing grey area

of the law. June 9, 2023 Robert Craig, _University of Bristol_ Baroness Hallett says she should be the one to decide which government messages are relevant to her inquiry, but is she right?

May 10, 2023 Lee John Curley, _The Open University_ and James Munro, _The Open University_ A Scottish pilot will see rape trials conducted without juries in what could set a dangerous

precedent. April 17, 2023 Sercan Ozcan, _University of Portsmouth_; Joe Sekhon, _University of Portsmouth_, and Oleksandra Ozcan, _University of Portsmouth_ We may know what ChatGPT can do,

but questions remain over who owns the copyright. March 17, 2023 Helen Jones, _University of South Wales_ and Fiona Brookman, _University of South Wales_ CCTV is a popular form of digital

evidence but it can be unreliable and problematic. March 9, 2023 Tonia Novitz, _University of Bristol_ The UK parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has suggested changes to the

strikes bill but even those may not go far enough. February 28, 2023 Alice Welsh, _University of York_ The British citizenship of the children of EU nationals born before October 2 2000

could be at risk.