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Screen capture from a Rialto PD officer's body-worn-camera

First scientific report shows police body-worn-cameras can prevent unacceptable use-of-force

23 Dec 2014

As Obama pledges investment in body-worn-camera technology for police officers, researchers say cameras induce ‘self-awareness’ that can prevent...

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Nicklinson - The Right to Die?

10 Jul 2014

Nicola Padfield explores some aspects of the important decision of the Supreme Court in Nicklinson (R (Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice...

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Will one be forgotten? Internet Freedom and Data Protection After Google Spain

19 Jun 2014

David Erdos discusses C-131/12 Google Spain, Google v Agencia Espanola de Protection de Datos (2014), the Court of Justice of the European Union’s...

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Mona Siddiqui

Let’s talk about Islam and women’s rights

19 Feb 2014

Professor Mona Siddiqui will be in Cambridge from 10 to 13 March to give a series of public talks that go to the heart of the debate that surrounds...

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Sarah Louwen with Refugee Law Project logistics officer Fred Ssekandi

The researcher returns – with 100 books to give to the people she interviewed

18 Feb 2014

As a researcher in Uganda and Sudan, law specialist Dr Sarah Nouwen became increasingly aware of the ‘one-way’ nature of her fieldwork. She vowed...

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Jewish refugees from Russia in Liverpool, 1882

Migration: Britain’s hospitable past

10 Feb 2014

In the midst of current controversies over immigration law and policy, Professor Alison Bashford discusses why it's important to recall Britain’s...

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Three faces of London - St Paul's, Millenium Bridge and a homeless man

From ASBOs to IPNAs: how begging might become an official nuisance

18 Jan 2014

Johannes Lenhard, a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, discusses his experience of researching the lives of people who beg and considers how they...

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'Is EU criminal law a threat to British justice?'

03 Dec 2013

In eurosceptic circles it is widely stated that European criminal justice threatens to undermine the basic values of the common law, and this is put...

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Indian Parliament building (designed by British architect Edwin Lutyens) in 1944

How the Westminster parliamentary system was exported around the world

02 Dec 2013

As an expert in constitutional law, Sir Ivor Jennings played a pivotal role in the establishment of states emerging from British rule in the mid-20th...

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The Law Faculty, University of Cambridge

Announcement of the Prathiba M Singh Cambridge Scholarship

30 Oct 2013

Prathiba M Singh, an Indian alumna of the Faculty of Law, has donated a scholarship that will allow other Indian students to complete an LLM at the...

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Baghdad, Iraq as seen from a US Army Blackhawk helicopter

Post-Saddam Iraq: The first ten years

17 Oct 2013

It is almost ten years since Saddam Hussein was captured by US forces at a farmhouse outside Tikrit, following the swift collapse of his Ba’athist...

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Some of the 'exhibita' files stored at Cambridge University Library

Cambridge’s criminal past revealed in centuries-old court records

30 Sep 2013

Adultery, libel, bribery, attempted murder: Cambridge University’s criminal underbelly has been exposed after painstaking research on its Vice-...

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