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
Author: Andrea Shieber
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
How did we fail our most frail?
In times long before COVID, but not so long ago, a report was tabled at the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting of 2019. Written … Read more
Whose redemption? The slave trade, abolition and British interventions on the high seas
As the Black Lives Matter movement continues to provoke a necessary and painful reckoning with the slave trade, colonialism and their legacies in the wider … Read more
Reflections on the humanitarian emergency facing refugees in Moria, Lesvos (Greece)
Last Wednesday, the first images began to circulate online from the fires in Moria, the large and infamous refugee camp on the Greek island of … Read more
Four top tips for turning your PhD into a book
Dr Serena Natile is a Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at Brunel Law School, where she teaches Public Law, International Law, Gender & Law, Finance … Read more
On being haunted by your body
Trying to write a paper on the ontological possibilities of ‘disability’ as a concept in the middle of a global pandemic I find myself being … Read more
International Economic Law and COVID-19
1. Introduction International economic law (IEL), broadly defined, refers to the rules governing the cross-border movement of goods, people, technology and finance capital, as well as … Read more
Study tour in Cyprus enriches research for doctoral legal scholar Mia Tamarin
Mia joined a three-day study tour to Cyprus with the UK Irrigation Association (UKIA) after being awarded a Jack Wright Memorial Trust Scholarship. Her thesis … Read more
Thinking between words and traditions
Earlier this year Thanos Zartaloudis kindly accepted my request to ask him some questions about his recent book The Birth of Nomos; a book I … Read more