Law

Canadian university dean says fundraising is an important – and fun – activity for academics

University and College Union warns Russell Group institution will struggle to raise teaching quality while cutting jobs

Beyond the noise of the front pages, the UK’s decision to leave the EU offers an opportunity to hone students’ skills in critical thinking and evaluating sources, says Paul James Cardwell

Institutions in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and the Netherlands feature in top 20 of new listings by discipline

Stephen Toope says universities must continue to work across borders even as societies become more inward looking

Times Higher Education will publish expanded league tables for 11 different subject areas

Academic whose writing fused law and literature remembered

Book of the week: Bryan Cheyette straddles truth and fiction in observer accounts of anti-Semitic persecution

Tributes paid to land law expert who became Leicester pro vice-chancellor

Influential Berkeley legal scholar remembered

University will establish 50 degrees over the next five years

HEC Paris’ Alberto Alemanno says academics who influence policy ‘often’ do it in return for money

We talk diversity, the joy of family meals and Professor Stephen Hawking with the new Cambridge college master

Hotly anticipated figures on salaries show that for subjects such as economics and law, the university attended has stronger link to high earnings

Vice-chancellor believes international scholars can be tempted away from the golden triangle and to the North of England

Book of the week: Mary Evans praises a life’s work addressing the inherent gender inequalities in the legal system

Steven Vaughan admires a powerful, rich and moving legal history of same-sex union

Imaginative method is detailed in sector ombudsman’s latest annual report

Paul Bernal on whether we can simply dismiss privacy concerns in order to embrace the world of big data

Book of the week: Americans have to reach out to fight the political division fed by social media, says Angelia Wilson

New study into medieval universities describes how paupers studied alongside the elite despite financial barriers

Sarah Wise on how the insanity plea developed in English law and why ‘homicidal mania’ became acceptable to experts

A survey of the labour landscape under the Chinese Communist Party would be stronger with more voices of working people, says Jonathan Mirsky

Research projects have spurred governments to pass vital humanitarian legislation

Book of the week: our distrust of female testimony in all its forms is proof feminism still has far to go, says Laura Frost

Spanning 200,000 years of human trading, this study considers the influence of technology and the fallout of global interconnectedness, says Juliet Webster

Book of the Week: lack of effective antitrust oversight leaves us at the mercy of digital platforms, says Julia Powles

University College Cork to host controversial event British institutions seemed ‘afraid’ to touch

A leading expert on corporate crime and social responsibility, who also wrote extensively about the funny side of the law, has died

Students may crumble in court if they’re not exposed to ‘disturbing’ ideas, George Washington University academic claims

University of Oxford law graduates earn considerably more than counterparts at University of Bradford, figures in ‘experimental’ data release show

Book of the week: From the black stuff to books, who gets the goods in a sharing and streaming era? asks Paul Bernal

An exceptional, bold and fearless expert on family law has died

Renee Ann Cramer explains how classroom role-play helped her students to humanise voters with whom they disagree

Repeal the Human Rights Act? A study explains why we would be mad to do so, says Rachael Ita

Ronald Daniels says universities have not fully comprehended ‘profound disillusionment’ within society

Paul Bernal on a vital and comprehensive survey of how our era of ubiquitous observation arose

Stefania Milan on the socio-legal complexities of digital redemption and digital reinvention

Academia is used to robust debate. But the trolling that happens online should not be tolerated, writes Elaine Campbell

Academics explore how the seemingly sedate game of housey-housey has attracted many different kinds of government intervention

Liverpool’s Michael Dougan on ‘poisonous’ anti-expert rhetoric and the UK’s EEA deal chances

Two recipients of a new initiative at Portsmouth Business School describe their experience of joining a UK university

Fewer students expected to come to UK from Continent in wake of Brexit

Steven Vaughan has been experimenting with a new way of writing, and despite the odd bit of cheating, it’s going very well

We talk match-fixing, sporting scandal and irritating acronyms with a sports law academic

An anecdote about a sandwich illustrates the Allies’ struggle to make the Nazis pay, says Hester Vaizey

Researchers find variation in marks given by same lecturers to similar students when working in different departments

We talk about helping shape a country’s direction and the rise of managerialism in HE with the Bingham Centre’s new director

Paul Bernal on the role of corporate lobbyists in manipulating politics and law to align internet policy with business interests

The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by our editorial team

Twenty-five years after it was founded to promote openness in the post-Soviet era, the Central European University is grappling with new threats to democracy

Growth in university leaver vacancies is slowing, AGR study suggests

In the third blog from nominees for Most Innovative Teacher of the Year at the THE Awards, Philip Drake recalls his experience of setting up a legal advice clinic

University academics answer an appeal for help from country's inspirational leader

Law professor at Queen Mary University of London organises open days for refugees and asylum seekers

With a module on diversity to teach, law academic Steven Vaughan muses on his decision to out himself to his students

A study of the Fab Four’s legal woes reveals their naivety and reads like a thriller, says Martin James

Proportion of university staff training through Erasmus has more than doubled in six years, finds report

International Policing and Justice Institute integrates practical police training into an academic context

We are sleepwalking towards virtual transparency after an oversharing binge, discovers Paul Bernal