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The Dickson Poon School of Law is delighted to welcome Professor Gillian Douglas as the new Executive Dean.

The basic human rights of autistic people are not being met, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, a world expert on autism, told the United Nations in New York today, to mark Autism Awareness Week.

Mark Elliott, Professor of Public Law, posted a number of tweets yesterday extracting key paragraphs from the Government's White Paper on the Great Repeal Bill and offering some preliminary thoughts.

UK workers are being illegally denied access to justice, according to Oxford academics in a forthcoming article in the journal,  Modern Law Review .

Academics debate the effectiveness of prison at Brighton event A sell-out audience gathered at the Brighton Museum this month to watch an expert panel of academics debate the effectiveness of prison.

Academics from the University of Bristol's newly formed Institute for Migration and Mobility Studies have expressed disappointment at last month's ruling by the Supreme Court which decided the minimum income immigration rule is lawful.

The role of law in maintaining peace in Asia's contested waters was the focus of a TLI Talk at King's College London this Monday.

The International Criminal Court's focus on African states has led to pushback from the continent, yet intervening anywhere else looks increasingly unlikely, argues Adam Branch from the Department of POLIS.

How do our brains behave in a virtual reality (VR) environment and what are the limits of believability?

Professor Sue Arrowsmith, an expert in Public Procurement Law at the University of Nottingham, was recently invited to present to the very first hearing of the European Parliament on Brexit, held in Brussels.

As cannabis laws become liberalised in many countries, experts from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London argue that there is an urgent need to explore how cannabis use can be made safer. Writing in The Lancet Psychiatry , the authors say that policy makers and researchers should consider regulating cannabis potency, reducing the use of tobacco (e.g.

University offers free housing law advice to local community The University of Sussex has launched a free legal clinic to give local people expert housing advice.

Sussex Law School teams up with University of Lagos on new research network Dr Femi Amao from the Sussex Law School has been awarded a research networking grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Co

With all the talk of 'fake news', is the world now best understood as a cartoon? Highly acclaimed artist Andy Holden provides his animated theory on the subject through a new exhibition just opened at Lancaster University's Peter Scott Gallery.

UCL has today published the outcome of its investigation into events that took place around the UCLU Friends of Israel Society meeting on 27th October 2016.

New guide helps public understand role of DNA in criminal investigations Researchers from King's working with the European Forensic Genetics Network of Excellence ( EUROFORGEN ) are launching a guide in partnership with the charity Sense about Science , to address misconceptions about DNA analysis and profiling and share exciting new developments in this area.

Davor Jancic , Lecturer at QMUL's School of Law writes about yesterday's Supreme Court judgement on Article 50.

Voters will be astonished that they voted in a referendum without the Government having the legal power to implement their wishes if the country voted to leave the EU.

The creation of a digital collection of the unpublished work of the first Scots Makar, Edwin Morgan, should have been easy.

Dr Holger Hestermeyer , from The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London, has been appointed as Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords EU External Affairs Sub-Committee.

Economists at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) have challenged the assumptions of the Treasury in their new forecast for the UK economy and the impact of Brexit in 2017.

Online shopping for Christmas is likely to be very different in the not too distant future. While today we use search engines for information, in the years ahead we will increasingly rely on digital personal assistants, voice-activated digital helpers and our smart phones.

Cardiff University has welcomed a leading legal scholar to deliver a keynote lecture on law and religion.

A unique collection held in deposit at the University will be brought to audiences worldwide thanks to a new grant.

Researchers at Durham University are aiming to unpack the issues behind the legal, constitutional and economic implications of Brexit.

Failure to invoke Article 127 of the EEA Agreement will not keep the UK in a Single Market by the back door after Brexit.

Aung San Suu Kyi is legitimising genocide in Myanmar and has entrenched the persecution of the Rohingya minority, according to state crime specialists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

University of Sussex affirms its place in the local community "We are not just the University of Sussex but we are the University for Sussex," said one of its senior leaders in a passionate speech last week about the University's commitment to volunteering in local communities.

In a landmark constitutional judgment handed down today, the High Court has put a stumbling block in the way of the Prime Minister's plan to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017.

Constitutional and EU law specialist Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott responds to high court ruling that parliament must vote on triggering Article 50.

In a landmark constitutional judgment handed down today, the High Court has put a stumbling block in the way of the Prime Minister's plan to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017.

Listen to some of the talks that were given as part of the University's 'Brexit Week' series, which took place from 18 - 22 October.

Many of us see our privacy as a basic right. But in the digital world of app-addiction, geolocation tracking and social oversharing, some may have cause to wonder if that right is steadily and sometimes willingly being eroded away.

A UK-first exhibition based on 10 years of research led by two University of Bristol archaeologists lends credence to the account Lawrence of Arabia gave of his own extraordinary exploits in the desert.

As more and more crime moves online, computer scientists, criminologists and legal academics have joined forces in Cambridge to improve our understanding and responses to cybercrime, helping governments, businesses and ordinary users construct better defences.

A team of researchers are helping shape the way forward for anti-trafficking initiatives at EU level.

A Parliamentary Group focusing on family and child protection is to hear how changes are needed to sex education in the classroom to protect young people from the damaging effects of pornography.

Dr Lee Jones from QMUL's School of Politics and International Relations writes about the death of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at Queen Mary University of London has warned that reports of attacks against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar may signal a new phase in what ISCI researchers say is genocide.