By Per Laleng In Part I, I noted that the threshold question (“Does the conduct engage the public interest?”), and the Patel … Read more
Mapping liminal legal consciousness and transitional legality
This post summarises the presentation delivered as part of the Legal Consciousness in Context stream, convened by Naomi Creutzfeldt, Fanni Gyurko and Stine Piilgaard Porner … Read more
Is ‘econo-socio-legal’ a useful term?
This post has been cross-posted on Amanda’s personal blog, Approaching law. It summarises a presentation delivered as part of the Law and Political Economy Stream … Read more
Acquitted but Denied: Insanity, Illegality and the Supreme Court in Lewis-Ranwell [2026] UKSC
By Per Laleng, Senior Lecturer in Law The Facts On 10 February 2019, a few hours after being released from police custody, Alexander Lewis-Ranwell … Read more
Deflecting, Not Protecting: The Limits of the UK’s Advertising Ban on Unhealthy Food
Asta is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice at Kent Law School. In January 2026, new statutory … Read more
Making the Engagement and Impact dimension of REF2029 meaningful for law schools
This blog has been cross-posted on the SLSA Blog and Amanda’s blog Approaching Law. Image 1: Modes of research contribution. Amanda Perry-Kessaris 2025. We have … Read more
Empire’s Law, or how to forget you ever had colonies
The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (Brexit) was long and protracted and placed the country’s uncodified constitutional arrangements under great strain. A system … Read more
‘Diversity’ of outputs in Law REF2029 submissions
This post has been cross-posted on the SLSA Blog and on Amanda’s blog Approaching Law. The Hidden REF project is on a mission to get … Read more
The Mountains of Metaphor: a visual journey of a PhD
The Mountains of Metaphor is an online interactive game based on Dr Williams’ PhD journey that visualises a working metaphor that she found useful. Here, … Read more
Who was failed the most?
In the ground-breaking book, The Spirit Level (2009), Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett showed that the more unequal a society, the greater its problems. What … Read more








