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Professor Bryan Clark wins 2024 National Mediation Awards.
Bryan won the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Academic Researcher of the Year Award at a prize ceremony at the House of Commons on Thursday 12 December 2024.
02 May 2025
UK Academics engage with the Prime Minister of Fiji’s vision of the ‘Pacific as an Ocean of Peace’
Professor Sue Farran recently spent a week in Suva the capital of Fiji, at the invitation of the British High Commission, to engage with diverse representative groups to hear their views and understanding around the Prime Minister of Fiji’s concept of the Pacific as an Ocean of Peace
03 May 2024
Third International Lex Erudites Mediation Competition in collaboration with Newcastle Law School
Newcastle Law School is delighted to support Lex Erudites in their 3rd annual online mediation competition bringing together teams from India, the UK and across the world.
15 November 2023
PhD Studentship Competitions with NINE DTP
08 November 2023
Celebrating 100 years of Law at Newcastle
Michael Brown helps unveil the Law School's Wall of Poetry
19 July 2023
Book launch: Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives, Dr Emily Jones
A recording of Dr Emily Jones' launch for her new book Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives
07 March 2023
Congratulations to our Poetry Competition winner!
Michael Brown, PGR, from the school of English Literature, Language and Linguistics has won our Poetry Competition.
02 February 2023
Newcastle will be hosting the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar in 2023
Newcastle will be hosting the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar in 2023
26 September 2022
Law academic chosen to give the Laudatio for Emerita Professor Esin Örücü
Congratulations to Sue Farran, who was invited to give the Laudatio at the International Academy of Comparative Law.
07 June 2022
Newcastle Law School announces a new Postgraduate Scholarship for Mediation and International Commercial Dispute Resolution
The School has launched a new scholarship, to be awarded to 6 applicants who apply to commence the new LLM Mediation degree programme.
06 May 2022
Newcastle Law School joins forces with notable alumna Professor Funke Abimbola MBE for equality, diversity, and inclusion initiative
Newcastle Law School joins forces with notable alumna Professor Funke Abimbola MBE for equality, diversity, and inclusion initiative
14 April 2022
Newcastle University launches new online Masters course
Newcastle Law School has launched a new online Master in Laws (LL.M.) degree programme in Mediation and International Commercial Dispute Resolution.
27 March 2022
Dr Abimbola - Newcastle Law School's new Visiting Professor of Practice
Newcastle Law School is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Abimbola MBE as a new Visiting Professor of Practice.
31 January 2022
PhD Studentship Competitions with Northern Bridge Consortium
20 October 2021
PhD Studentship Competitions with NINE DTP
20 October 2021
Professor Lilian Edwards joins the Ada Lovelace Institute
18 October 2021
Professor Kathryn Hollingsworth awarded the SLSA Article Prize
Congratulations to Professor Kathryn Hollingsworth, for winning the SLSA Article Prize
28 April 2021
Dr Jacqueline Kinghan appointed as Scottish Human Rights Commissioner
Congratulations to Dr Jacqueline Kinghan, for her appointment as Commissioner
12 April 2021
Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and the thorny issue of robot rights
Ian McEwan’s latest book, Machines Like Me: A Novel offers an alternative history: Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher is waging an election campaign against Tony Benn and Alan Turing survived homophobic persecution to achieve breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.
12 January 2021
Happy the elephant was denied rights designed for humans – but the legal definition of ‘person’ is still evolving
Nobody knows how old Happy is. Sometime in the 1970s, she and six other youngsters were taken from their family group (probably in Thailand) and sold to an entertainment complex in California where they were forced to perform for paying guests.
06 January 2021
Cambodia: treason trials the latest in the country’s slide to autocracy
If you are simply going on the number of political trials in Cambodia at the moment, the country would seem to be politically unstable – a hotbed of unrest. Hundreds of people are on trial for incitement, conspiracy, and violence endangering the nation.
27 November 2020
Law academic chosen for UKRI applications panel
Congratulations to Sue Farran, who has been invited to be a panelist to assess applications submitted to UKRI.
06 April 2020
Doctors Without Borders study published
Research conducted by Dr Gil-Bazo with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has just been published at the OUP peer-review Refugee Survey Quarterly.
17 February 2020