This collection teaches us how language and legislation interact to produce effective laws. It brings linguistics, lawyers, theory, and practices together to show how linguistic tools, concepts, and m...

It is a pleasure to have Alma Diamond as our next interviewee. Alma obtained her LLM and JSD from NYU School of Law, where her dissertation was supervised by Jeremy Waldron. She has taught at the U…

A one-day conference will take place at the University of Leeds to mark the 25th anniversary of the Human Rights Act 1998. Few ...

TORY MSP Brian Whittle handed the SNP victory in a knife-edge Holyrood vote — after hitting the Yes button instead of No. The former Team GB relay runner’s blunder saved Nats from  defeat  as MSPs …

This paper explores the relevance of exemplarity to virtue argumentation theory. It does so by using the law as both an illustrative and a normative example. The paper proceeds as follows. First, it a...

A one-day conference will take place at the University of Leeds to mark the 25th anniversary of the Human Rights Act 1998.

‘Hard times is a scalar description that can cover a wide range of states of affairs, from the erosion of “rule of law” legal and institutional settings to new challenges for the judiciary, such as th...

Daniel Hannan explains why he thinks Britain would be better outside the EU