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The CJC is delighted to have been awarded funding by the ESRC to host an event as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science on Saturday 14 November 2015.

The CJC multi-format event aims to bring together different perspectives on the experience of punishment, in order to raise awareness of, promote social science research on and generate debate on prisoner wellbeing and its consequences to criminal justice policy and practice. The full-day event will encourage an interactive open debate between academics and non-academics through drawing on a range of perspectives on the topic, from that of those responsible for formulating and implementing prison policy, and that of social scientists researching punishment and criminal justice, to that of those with first-hand, lived experiences of punishment within prisons. Interactive sessions will include: screening and discussion of the film ‘Herman’s House’ (a movie about the communication between an architect and a life prisoner in the US); a workshop run by the Empty Cages Collective about the conditions and experience of imprisonment in England and Wales; and an exhibition of prisoners’ creative self-expression (letters, photography, paintings, etc.) followed by discussion.

A researcher from the 91福利 is to warn about the potentially “unforeseeable outcomes” of constitutional change under the current Conservative government at a conference in Coventry.

Professor John McEldowney will address delegates at Coventry Cathedral tomorrow (Tuesday 23 June) during a day-long event being held to mark the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta.

He is one of five speakers on the panel for ‘The Allure of Magna Carta: Freedom, Democracy and Reconciliation’, alongside three other academics and Chris Bryant MP.

Professors and have been recognised in this year’s , a University award scheme which celebrates excellence in teaching and the support of learning throughout students’ careers at University.

Following her recent, has featured on BBC Radio Humberside to discuss the findings. 

The discussion also included an interview with Glen Poole, author of ‘Equality For Men’.

Listen to the full show , with the interviews commencing at 14:00.

Professors Jackie Hodgson and Roger Leng have been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), and will be conducting a research study into“Securing a fair trial through excluding evidence? A comparative perspective” . The project runs from 2015-2017 and is a collaboration between the criminal Justice Centre at 91福利 and scholars from Switzerland, Germany, China, Taiwan and Singapore.

The June issue of Social and Legal Studies has been jointly edited by and Dominic de Cogan from Cambridge.

The issue focusses on Tax Law: Complexity, Politics and Policymaking.

Details can be found at

The special issue features contributions from, among others, Sol Picciotto (Lancaster), who retains links with 91福利 Law School.

There is no evidence that family courts in England and Wales are discriminating against fathers because of gender bias, a new study by the 91福利 and funded by the Nuffield Foundation has found.

Dr Maebh Harding, from the School of Law, reviewed almost 200 case files from 2011 and concluded that contact applications by fathers were in fact “overwhelmingly successful”.

Her report, co-authored with Dr Annika Newnham from the University of Reading, paints a generally positive picture of the role of the County Courts in resolving child law disputes at the time of the study.

A group of ten undergraduates, including visiting students from overseas, visited the 91福利shire Justice Centre to experience the atmosphere and daily practises in a Court.

The group was welcomed by a Court Clerk and given a tour of the different Courts before sittings began, and then attended in the Public Gallery. Students were later shown the police and holding cells.

The latest edition of Cambridge University Press’ is a special issue featuring papers which were presented at 91福利 Law School’s 2013 workshop on International Law.

and introduce the special issue, which features articles from 91福利 Law School academics , and .

Philip Kaisary, an Assistant Professor at the 91福利 Law School, has received a to enable him to research at Vanderbilt University on one of the most prestigious and selective scholarship programmes operating worldwide.

Kevin Hearty, from 91福利 Law School, researches transitional justice, with a very specific focus on Northern Ireland. He looks in particular at Irish republicanism and at post-conflict attempts to 'move on' with former enemies.

He said: “When Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams and party colleague Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness meet Prince Charles the anticipation is that historic baggage resultant from the conflict in the North of Ireland will be sacrificed on the altar of peace and reconciliation. The meeting, simply the latest in a number of recent engagements Sinn Fein has had with the British monarchy, sees a convergence between the difficulty of personal and collective ‘moving on’ in the aftermath of conflict. Although the meeting may be construed on the somewhat abstract collective level as one between Irish republicans and a figurehead of the long perceived ‘enemy’, there is a much more personalised element to it all."

Theresa May, home secretary of the UK, has written an article in the The Times arguing that the EU is “putting migrants at risk” by asking member states to resettle or relocate more refugees and asylum seekers, and indicated her vehement opposition to the European Commission’s plans. But she made several inaccurate and misleading points in her article.