Law

Robert Shoemaker wonders if the statistics, and the 'civilising process', tell the whole story

Senior RAE figures offer frank perspectives on the future of research funding. Zoe Corbyn reports

Gerard Kelly, a former president of lecturers' trade union Natfhe, died of liver failure on 2 August at the age of 40.

A surgeon says policing will improve by adopting medicine's research-led approach. John Gill writes

The AHRC wants to know which cultural elements, past and present, should inform policy-making. Zoe Corbyn reports

Joanna Bourke praises a 'must-read' on rape

National research pools are winning Scotland an international reputation, writes Olga Wojtas

Fiona Reid dissects an analysis that aims to move patent policy beyond faith and towards evidence

Scholars must challenge the copyright laws, which allow estates to stifle efforts to generate new ideas about an author's works, argues Alistair McCleery

A good primer on US law fails to look beyond the parochial in this global age, says Terence Kealey

Award recognises a role model who enables legal students to help others. Melanie Newman writes

Torture cannot be justified, says Philippe Sands, an academic and barrister who has traced how the US came to sanction the practice after 9/11. It doesn't work and it costs us dearly, he tells Matthew Reisz

Ministers accused of using academics to validate their policy decisions. Melanie Newman reports

The advent of the UK's first private law school has reignited debate about whether a law course should comprise liberal education or commercial training. Hannah Fearn hears the case for and against