Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific det...

The Alwaleed Centre is hosting a critical conversation featuring Professor Saul Takahashi (Osaka Jogakuin University) and Dr Nora Jaber (University of Edinburgh) focusing on International Law and Pale...

by Chloë Kennedy In this post, I outline the argument I make in my recently published book, Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law, where I suggest that we consult the genealogy of legal…

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Understanding where emotions have received legal attention and the reasons behind it is the focus of a new research project involving the School of Law.

A public seminar featuring Dr Robert Knox (University of Liverpool) and co-organised by the School of Law and the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of ...

This article argues that trans people who choose not to disclose, or who lie about, their gender history prior to sexual intimacy should not be prosecuted for sexual offences, at least not in the abs...

We are seeking a post-doctoral research fellow to work on a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary project titled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The project is a collaboration between Prof Chl...

This article focuses on petitions presented before the English Divorce Court 1857–1914 to investigate women’s personal experiences and understandings of non-physical ‘cruelty’ in marriage and to re...

Cambridge Core - Socio-Legal Studies - Inducing Intimacy

Feminist Legal Studies is committed to an international perspective and to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal ...

The institution blamed "unsustainable" funding and a fall in student numbers for the decision.

Thread by @redhistorian: "Universities should indeed offer "value for money" - but how do we measure the value of education? Every test that nment is crassly econometric. We need to recapture a higher...