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Judicial training on children’s rights
In May, Professor Kathryn Hollingsworth was invited by the Canadian National Judicial Institute to deliver a keynote lecture in Quebec City for a 3-day training module for Canadian judges on children’s rights in the justice system. The training module, developed by senior members of the Canadian judiciary, was inspired by the Children’s Rights Judgments project that Kathryn directed with Professor Helen Stalford. Kathryn delivered a lecture on writing judgments for children.
Kathryn has also recorded a training video for the Singaporean judiciary on delivering judgments for children within a therapeutic justice framework, that will be part of a training programme taking place later in August.
Human Rights in the UK and the Influence of Foreign Jurisprudence - longlisted
Dr Hélène Tyrrell’s book Human Rights in the UK and the Influence of Foreign Jurisprudence (Hart 2018) has been longlisted for the Inner Temple Book Prize 2022 (main prize), a prestigious prize that is awarded only once every three years. Hélène’s book was also joint runner up for the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2019.
Doctoral Thesis awarded the European Award for Legal Theory
Dr Josh Jowitt’s doctoral thesis on contemporary natural law theory has been awarded the Eurpean Award for Legal Theory and will be published as Agency, Morality and Law by Hart in 2022/2023 as part of their European Academy of Legal Theory series. A list of previous winners can be found at the bottom of this page. As part of the award, it is also planned that Dr Jowitt will be asked to contribute as a guest lecturer to the LLM in legal theory currently organised by the Academy at J W Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Digital Remains Workshop in Tel Aviv University
For the last 15 years Lilian Edwards has conducted research on the intersection of digital technologies, law and the dead, which has led to the development of the notion and theory of post-mortem privacy, in collaboration with Edina Harbinja (Reader at Aston University and author of the book “Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy”).
Lilian Edwards (Newcastle) is co-organising a workshop, along Michael Birnhack (Tel Aviv University) on Digital Remains at TAU. The workshop will bring together scholars interested in the topic to discuss their own work, where – among other participants – both Lilian and Edina will present the results of their latest study. This workshop will also give the opportunity to early career researcher and doctoral students to present their insights and gain feedback from leading scholars on the field.
Congratulations to Professor Richard Collier who has been awarded the Socio-legal Studies Association 2022 Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community
Richard is one of our longest serving colleagues at Newcastle and we are delighted that his contribution to socio-legal studies has been recognised with this prestigious award from the SLSA. During his 30-year career, Richard has forged new areas of enquiry in socio-legal studies: in gender and masculinities, and wellbeing and the legal profession (for which he was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship). In his teaching, Richard’s passion and care, along with his depth of expertise, support students to develop new ways of thinking, seeing and ‘doing’ family law. He has given invited lectures, examined PhDs, and co-authored with colleagues across the world. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts. He is a worthy recipient of this year’s SLSA award.
The announcement and full nomination are available here.
