For all things research and impact at Newcastle Law Schoolhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mlq4npjkc22kOur @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social was part of the working group who oversaw the development of this report. Do have a read! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlq4npjkc22khttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mjjjviwdxx2rOur next seminar is on Wed 22 April 13:00-14:00 with @ncl-congov.bsky.social's Dr Francesco De Cecco on "Unpacking deference in EU fundamental rights law". Sign up here: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/ https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/15 Apr 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjjviwdxx2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mjfbftphpp2tLooking forward to this week's @ncl-congov.bsky.social workshop on Digital Constitutionalism! Our keynote 'What is Digital Constitutionalism?' is by @kinfe.bsky.social with panels on digital constitutionalism and China, and digital tech in international law. More info: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/item/digital-constitutionalism-workshop https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/item/digital-constitutionalism-workshop/13 Apr 2026 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfbftphpp2thttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mhbhegziuy2bProf Ian Ward's latest book "Law, History, Text: Writing Ironic Legal Histories" is now published! It presents a fresh approach to the writing of legal history as an essentially textual enterprise. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003470809/law-history-text-ian-ward17 Mar 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbhegziuy2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mghopntqcu2yJoin us on Wed 11 Mar 13h for our latest seminar "Mapping Discrimination: Building a New Taxonomy for Intersectional Justice" presented by Bernardo Carvalho de Mello.07 Mar 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mghopntqcu2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mfjowt5mns2yWhoops! This should be 25 Feb aka this Wednesday! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Feb 2026 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjowt5mns2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mfcn3ygnvk2tNew episode of #CalledToTheBar ft @ncl-congov.bsky.social @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & her co-editors @aoifemod.bsky.social & Cher Weixia Chen on their new Research Handbook on Global Governance. https://soundcloud.com/calledtothebar/65-global-governance-promise20 Feb 2026 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfcn3ygnvk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mfcma632ab2jWed 25 Mar, @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social will be discussing Common Good Constitutionalism, a controversial but increasingly prominent strand of legal thought. Many criticise it externally, but Josh argues it misunderstands the Thomist position it claims to be grounded in & fails on its own terms. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/20 Feb 2026 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfcma632ab2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mextsig7mc2hLast week Prof Sue Farran met with members of the Vanuatu Law Reform Commission to review and discuss family law in Vanuatu. They focused on the topics of children, adoption, matrimonial property and using comparative methodology in the context of law reform.16 Feb 2026 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mextsig7mc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mesuwefuof2aOn 18 Feb, Prof Ian Ward will be exploring how Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall can help us understand the ways in which law functions as a mechanism of production and reproduction of moral frames. Part of @ces-uc.bsky.social 's Law 'and' Books series. Register: https://ces.uc.pt/en/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2026/o-vitorianismo-e-o-sexo14 Feb 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mesuwefuof2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mdzhiy5ad42cJoin us on 11 Feb, 13:00 to hear from Conall Mallory, QUB, on "Lawfare, Accountability and the Conservative Governments of 2010-2024". You can register and find out about all upcoming research events at NLS here: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/ https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/04 Feb 2026 08:30 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdzhiy5ad42chttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mdldpjayxw2kOn 4 Feb 1pm, join Editors Helena Carrapico & @gemmadaviesuk.bsky.social discussing their edited collection 'UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit: Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement'. Hosted by @ncl-congov.bsky.social https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-978150996647929 Jan 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdldpjayxw2khttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3mbonbwc3kk2pWe are delighted to announce that Professor Richard Collier has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Research Fellowship, starting this month. The project is Men, Masculinities and the Legal Professions: Gender Equity and the 'Man Question'.05 Jan 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbonbwc3kk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3maqsxxb6zn2nNew article written by @ruthhoughton.bsky.social and Thais Andrade Brugnerotto, 'Constituent Power and the feminist approach: an analysis of the Constituent Assembly in Brazil in 1987' https://revistas.ufpr.br/rinc/article/view/100542/7648024 Dec 2025 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3maqsxxb6zn2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3ma4mzvb7ir2p@sylviademars.me & @colinmurray.bsky.social have played leading roles in preparing a major new research report for Northern Ireland's statutory human rights body, the NIHRC @nihrc.bsky.social https://nihrc.org/publication/detail/research-windsor-framework-article-2-enforcement-and-remedies16 Dec 2025 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4mzvb7ir2phttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3m6mwdhz6lx2nIf you happen to be a LinkedIn person, you can now find us there too: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newcastle-law-school-uk27 Nov 2025 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6mwdhz6lx2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3m6m3q5tyro2yWed 10 Dec, 13:00 Join us for Authoring the Nation: Madame de Staël and the Literary Origins of the State. Adam Rowe & Ruth Houghton will explore how Mme de Staël crafted a theory of the State and constituent power where the nation & its literature were co-constitutive. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/item/authoring-the-nation/27 Nov 2025 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6m3q5tyro2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3m6fdi24nsp2iCongratulations to @colinmurray.bsky.social & Tom Frost on being awarded the Melbourne International Law Journal's 2025 prize for their article on the application of self determination norms in the ICJ's Advisory Opinon on the Chagos Islands. https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flaw.unimelb.edu.au%2F__data%2Fassets%2Fpdf_file%2F0008%2F5364503%2F02_Frost-Unpaginated.pdf&data=05%7C02%7CHelen.Hampson%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C1a3980f6cc6d4b82348a08de2b5f9219%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C638995886641119783%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rhCS67JNftchxZdVZcteuUhLf1LVqCVMyoDnehLwwOg%3D&reserved=024 Nov 2025 17:19 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6fdi24nsp2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3m6ekmdqbxn2pOn 26 Nov 13:00, Dr Jon Quayle will be discussing Shelley's Poetical Pisgah as a model for understanding how Shelley conceptualises the future and how poetry can open up the mind to visions of the future and utopian prospects. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/item/poetical-pisgah/24 Nov 2025 09:54 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ekmdqbxn2phttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3m64w7lh6aq2dOn 26 Nov 13:00, Dr Jon Quayle will be discussing Shelley's Poetical Pisgah as a model for understanding how Shelley conceptualises the future and how poetry can open up the mind to visions of the future and utopian prospects. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/item/poetical-pisgah/21 Nov 2025 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m64w7lh6aq2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3m5jpsq72yq2dWatch the first episode of the Business & Law Research Group's podcast Conversations on Competition Law and Policy where Isaac Juma discusses the DMCCA with Prof Oles Andriychuk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wCit2fMuSo&list=PLb13oLdJDblrSPc2e6mZMcfyiCZE1uga313 Nov 2025 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5jpsq72yq2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3m5iv7bgdak2uLooking to do a Law PhD as part of a supportive and vibrant research community? Apply to NINE Doctoral Training Studentships. We host students in 4 pathways: Law & Society, Children Youth & Families, Conflict Security & Justice, and Environment Climate & Sustainability www.ncl.ac.uk/law/study/la... https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/study/law-funding/list-of-pg-scholarships/phd-studentships-in-law-at-newcastle-university/13 Nov 2025 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5iv7bgdak2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/research-nulawuk.bsky.social/post/3m5drpcgyvd22On 13th November 2025, at LSE Law, London, our Dr Emily Jones will present a talk titled ‘No Future for Future Generations: Who is International Environmental Law For?’ https://lselaw.events/event/pil-hub-no-future-for-future-generations-who-is-international-environmental-law-for/11 Nov 2025 09:03 +0000at://did:plc:5x5ye4ejfbizak2wvqcwhecc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5drpcgyvd22