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King’s Student Law Review (KSLR) European Law Blog hereby invites you to submit abstracts on the topic of “2013: Year of the Citizen”. A ringing declaration from the EU institutions heralded 2013 as “Year of the Citizen”, instigating debate suited to our call for papers. The KSLR European Law Blog is interested in hearing what [...]

Are you an academic or lawyer who has been published? Message from Peter Burbidge, Westminster University The University of Westminster has for many years had a partnership agreement with the University of Bordeaux, one of the leading French universities. During this time both universities have collaborated  on various courses during this time. Attached to Bordeaux [...]

Inaugural edition – June 2012 One of the stated aims of the English Law Students’ Association (ELSA)  is to support  and promote UK student endeavours and so, naturally, we were very happy when Christy Rush (Magdalen College) informed us about the new undergraduate law journal which has been produced by students at Oxford University. The journal [...]

Join us on Tuesday February 7th, 18.00 for 18.30 for a debate and a book launch Chair: Raymond Snoddy Panel: Kevin Marsh, former editor ‘Today’ and founder ‘Hacked Off’; Bob Satchwell, executive director Society of Editors; Richard Peppiatt, recovering tabloid journalist; Paul Connew, former deputy editor ‘News of the World’, ‘Daily Mirror’; Glenda Cooper, journalist and author ‘Privacy probity [...]

Former BBC correspondent Angus Roxburgh talks about his new book on the Putin years and Russia’s relationship with the West. Drawing on exclusive interviews conducted for a new BBC documentary series, he describes Putin’s descent into authoritarianism, and also argues that the West threw away chances to bring Russia in from the cold, by failing [...]

Seminar, book launch and reception Blair’s Just War: Iraq and the Illusion of Morality(Palgrave), Dr Peter Lee,  Lecturer in the Air Power Studies Division of the Defence Studies Department. Bringing together both contemporary and historical just war concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair’s illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraq invasion because the [...]