Law

Firm whose lawyer helped initiate ACU saga handed job of finding leakers

Law professor discusses China’s position on AI and what’s really driving government intervention in the country’s technology companies

National Education Policy prioritises Indian knowledge, but many are against embedding certain historical documents into the curriculum

Lack of management nous leaves legal profession vulnerable as human and technological shifts expose need for people skills

Recruitment to vocational Bar course put on hold last year amid regulator’s concern over low pass rates

Evolving norms, expectations and laws usher both risk and opportunity for universities, according to blind law scholar

Named as founding law dean at High Point University, Mark Martin denies refusing congressional investigators but also keeps quiet about advice to defeated president on day of Capitol building assault

Embracing the concept just as many other US campuses back away, top-ranked school school hopes for lawyers who pursue public service

Letter urges Baroness Hale and Lord Reed to step back from Law Quarterly Review and Criminal Law Review until diversity improved

International community ‘should take in academics unable to continue teaching in Hong Kong’, say scholars

The grip of Silicon Valley on commerce and culture is huge and ever-growing. But as concerns mount about tech firms’ ethics, is there anything that universities – with vastly lower research and salary budgets – can do to put them on a more responsible trajectory? Four experts give their views

Conservative’s appointment as constitutional studies chief derailed over demeaning Biden plan for black female Supreme Court nominee

Removing Amy Wax from compulsory courses or revoking her named chair would not contravene her academic rights, says Daniel Carpenter

Scholar criticises lack of anonymised peer review at Law Quarterly Review

US and UK lose dominance in law, while social sciences, business and economics and education results also released

Students’ task is never to read authors uncritically but to fully grasp all sides of every argument, says Eric Heinze

Global HE community urged to help rescue scholars and students as outlook is potentially ‘disastrous’, particularly for women

Fields essential to country’s development could become ‘unviable’ as faculty are forced out, observers say

Scholars should model the constructive criticism of ideas, not yell ‘you're wrong’ during each other’s talks, says Katy Barnett

The REF and TEF should be brought together, but adopting low-quality shortcuts would undermine the whole purpose, says Thom Brooks 

Holberg Prize winner wants major reforms in college drinking culture and elite university sport

Students should not be left out of pocket for pursuing legitimate claims against their institutions, say Daniel Sokol and Bradley Talbot

Lincoln Allison enjoys a broad, sometimes speculative account of the mania for written constitutions that took hold in the 1750s

Controversial journal paper stirs debate on Asian wartime slavery

While Greg Craven warns competition for business and law students could bankrupt some universities, colleagues disagree

UK minister Kemi Badenoch’s disavowal of the theory plays into a misleading right-wing narrative, says Hannah Robbins

The human rights barrister and author reflects on his path into international law, the university course that changed history and what the UK’s ‘lazy’ and ‘narcissistic’ prime minister could learn from Keir Starmer

Law lecturer says decision marks ‘end of academic freedom’ in city, but institution insists it is acting in light of court judgment

The politician and barrister tells Anna McKie about human rights misconceptions, and the surprising connections between law and politics

China's top university has reportedly taken action against Xu Zhangrun, who called for government accountability

Fear permeates all aspects of higher education, from classroom teaching to overseas funding 

Friends say Xu Zhangrun was taken from his home, months after he was suspended by his university  

Jeffrey Kennedy, Simon Pek and Graham Smith explore ways of involving students far more deeply in the decisions that affect them

In contrast to other countries, philosophers, historians, theologians and jurists have played a major role advising the state as it seeks to loosen restrictions

University president who became a New York ‘Living Landmark’ remembered

Prince Andrew’s fall from grace a full decade after Jeffrey Epstein’s conviction underlines academia’s failure to probe modern power, says Jason Lee

Tributes paid to ‘a committed visionary’ whose research and lobbying helped transform the Californian legal system

Academic lawyers have helped to resolve legal puzzles, but wider engagement can be demanding and ineffective, says Kenneth Armstrong

Robert A. Segal applauds a striking analysis of the real relations between church and state in the US

Justine Pila describes how men co-opt women in their academic agendas

Facilitated meetings can encourage early admissions of guilt from perpetrators and provide recognition of victims’ experiences, says Clare McGlynn

Former president who won an ‘Emmy’ for his work to open US courtrooms to television cameras remembered

Tony Mann learns that ‘applied mathematics’ isn’t what it used to be

College of Arts and Law tells scholars to spend more time on grant applications as quality-related funding dwindles

Law students will undertake work experience at campus-based firm in each year of their degree

Joe Biden’s first presidential run was derailed by a scandal over a college law paper. Should he be allowed a second chance, asks Ararat Osipian

Book of the week: writers shine a light on the disturbing gap between human rights and realpolitik, finds Matthew Joseph

Find out which institutions are best in the world for social sciences, business and economics, education and law

The winner of the inaugural Letten Prize talks about using his research to fight discrimination and the battles between power and democracy

Ugly, hateful talk must be countered with debate and argument, not bans, says Joanna Williams

A forensic linguist’s compelling and sometimes chilling case files demonstrate how criminals’ punctuation can be their undoing

It’s time to make honest women out of the bodies that rescued the banks, argues Sir Howard Davies

University of Florence professor in line to lead coalition of the Five Star Movement and the League

The women’s rights lawyer on growing up in Bangladesh, meeting Mother Teresa and uniting against patriarchy 

Tributes paid to scholar of popular culture who was dubbed ‘Professor Rave’

Book of the week: An intellectual property battle over two dolls puts the focus on market competition, Laura Frost finds

Certain disciplines and institutions likely to suffer from pegging of teaching funding

Law lecturer’s unflattering account of Senate candidate Roy Moore triggers debate

Conversion course costs have hit social mobility in legal profession, leading QC warns

Jonathan Mirsky on a shocking study of how the US covered up Japan’s biological experiments