Academics Archives - Legal Cheek

Trinity College Dublin law profs split over whether student newspaper bugging halls to expose secret society’s ‘hazing’ was legal

Law school bigwigs wade into covert recording dispute

Mar 28 2019 10:02am
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Leicester Uni property professor pranks solicitor by pretending to be confused law student

He live-tweeted the amusing encounter

Feb 19 2019 12:24pm
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Law professor pens self-help book on how to do less tedious life admin

Turn yourself into a ‘super doer’, says Columbia Law School’s Elizabeth Emens

Feb 6 2019 8:50am
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Reading University law lecturer’s office door ‘covered in urine’ after transgender-rights debate

Professor Rosa Freedman fears for safety after raising concerns over proposed changes to Gender Recognition Act

Dec 6 2018 12:51pm
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UCL law lecturer shocks freshers with his ‘really bad’ first ever essay

They gave it a borderline 2:2/third

Oct 5 2018 11:10am
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Law tutors reveal why they pick on students for answers

Cold-calling phenomenon is terrifying but well-intentioned

Nov 14 2017 9:04am
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‘Fake law’: Professor debunks claims EU legally bound to punish Spain for Catalan violence

Nearly 40,000 retweets for #SpainOutOfEU call, but lawyer says Europe constrained to stay out of these disputes

Oct 2 2017 1:17pm
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‘Drunk’ law tutor thrown off Heathrow flight is ordered to pay £4,500

Humanitarian law expert, who the SRA says “is not a member of the profession”, reportedly set to take up teaching role at Durham University

Aug 21 2017 2:10pm
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Nottingham Trent lecturer uses Pokémon Go-inspired game to teach students land law

The nightmare of all subjects made fun?

Jul 13 2017 2:29pm
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Cambridge college names first female head in its 700-year history, and she’s an international and company law lecturer

She did her training contract at Clifford Chance

May 24 2017 10:27am
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Top lawyers clash over whether we should have a written constitution

Is now the UK’s ‘constitutional moment’?

May 5 2017 11:17am
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Students ‘proud’ as Kent Law School academics take on Donald Trump

But can a letter signed by 253 law scholars achieve more than a petition by nearly two million?

Feb 16 2017 1:34pm
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Barristers will have a better grasp of the law than solicitors under proposed changes to legal education, university academics warn

SRA super-exam takes another bashing

Jan 23 2017 10:28am
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An East Anglia University academic counted every word spoken in the Supreme Court Brexit challenge

Apparently this could be the way to predict which side will win…

Dec 12 2016 9:03am
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Why the new higher education bill is not the solution for improving the state of legal education

Will the negative consequences outweigh its good intentions?

Sep 20 2016 12:55pm
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Politician says parliament to be kept in dark about EU negotiations, lawyers not very happy about it

Basic principle of parliamentary sovereignty may be under threat from Brexit “farce”

Sep 13 2016 11:49am
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Academics rage after Michael Gove drops a risky Black Lives Matter gag at the Society of Legal Scholars conference

Former Justice Sec’s comments described as “unacceptable”

Sep 12 2016 2:30pm
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Westminster prof named ‘Law Teacher of the Year 2016’

Lisa Webley scoops coveted prize, seeing off competition from the likes of Oxford, Leicester and Nottingham Trent

Jul 4 2016 10:45am
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