One of the more challenging questions confronting the approximately 115 University Law Schools within the UK is how to engage students, the wider public, legal and criminal justice professionals and community organisations in their research, teaching and outreach activities. All acknowledge that social media has an important role to play in achieving these goals, but a greater degree of institutional planning and coordination is required if this important resource is to be fu

The public Inquiry into undercover policing resumed on Monday 20 November 2017 with a two-day hearing held at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, London. The main business of the hearing was to consider and decide upon legal submissions on whether the real and/or cover names of police officers known or alleged to have been deployed in various covert operations should be withheld from the public record. The Inquiry has already raised more than its fair share of ethical

We cannot know whether the Cambridge University students who posted an open letter to their English Faculty requesting the decolonisation of “reading lists” (cambridgefly 2017) intended to make legal demands on the university. However, we would be wise to take heed of the many pointers in the text which indicate that curricula –in whichever discipline they are located –that ignores “non-white authors and postcolonial thought” may well bring universities into conflict with the