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A University of Leeds literary historian is embarking on a major project to shed light on an influential but neglected contemporary of Shakespeare.

Complicated leases are preventing improvements being made to England's coldest homes, says a new report co-authored by Professor Susan Bright from the Faculty of Law at Oxford University.

The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is taking place on Friday 26 June sponsored by the United Nations. On this date 26 years ago the international community committed to stamping out torture worldwide with the UN Convention against Torture coming into effect. Since 1998, 26 June has become an occasion to commemorate the historic treaty, in which nations agreed to eradicate torture, investigate and punish perpetrators, and provide redress to victims.

In this article, Professor Julia Hörnle, of QMUL's School of Law, considers the impact and rapid development of face recognition techniques on privacy.

Sussex Law School walks for justice The Law School at the University of Sussex is raising cash with a sponsored walk to expand the free legal services they are offering to the people of Brighton and Hove.

In this article, Sam Fowles, researcher in international law and politics at Queen Mary University of London, asks whether the European Parliament will 'save us' from the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

There is no evidence that family courts in England and Wales are discriminating against fathers because of gender bias, a new study by the University of Warwick 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 applications by fathers were in fact "overwhelmingly successful".

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Prior to the 2015 general election, the Conservative Party undertook in its manifesto to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to enact a British Bill of Rights. In this video, Mark Elliott addresses three key questions raised by these proposals.

In this post, Sam Fowles, postgraduate research student at QMUL's School of Law, argues that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a threat to British democracy, and should not be ratified.

In 2010, Parliament voted in favour of abolishing a rule that assumes men but not women intend to give property to family, as part of the then UK Government's commitment to European equal rights laws.

Western conservation groups are seeking stricter law enforcement to tackle a trade in endangered wildlife, but an Oxford University researcher warns that this is not a 'silver bullet' solution.

The writer-in-residence of an online magazine produced by the Centre for Human Rights in Practice at the University of Warwick has been shortlisted for her work by the prestigious George Orwell Prize for Journalism.

The United Nations must adopt binding international rules to help eliminate violence against women and girls, according to Professor Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women.

The Conservative Party has won the 2015 general election in a surprising result after a landslide victory for the SNP in Scotland that saw Labour and the Liberal Democrats lose a significant number of seats.

If we want more diversity in our courts, boardrooms, and parliaments, then our individualised approach to merit may "now require quite a serious rethink", according to Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond.

On 24 April 2015, QMUL's Centre for Commercial Law Studies convened a group of legal experts to consider and examine issues around gaming an intellectual property law.

Sarah Wolff, Lecturer at QMUL's School of Politics and International Relations, examines the tragic events in the Mediterranean and outlines what she describes as failed EU policy in the area of migration.

The wives of the missing and disappeared in Lebanon continue to suffer serious social, psychological, legal and financial effects on their lives and the lives of their children, says a new report by

Research from the University of Warwick is set to help genealogists better understand family history by providing a fresh insight into attitudes towards divorce, bigamy and bereavement through the ages. The findings are published in a new book written by Professor Rebecca Probert from the School of Law - a leading expert on the history of marriage law in England and Wales - who has been painstakingly investigating centuries-old legal precedents, newspaper accounts, statistics and census data to shed new light on our ancestors' behaviour.

The Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life (CORAB) is coming to the University of Glasgow on Monday 13th April for an evidence hearing from over 30 distinguished members of the Scottish faith and belief sectors, as well as Scottish politicians, journalists and civic leaders.

Andy Tattersall, Information Specialist at the University of Sheffield comments on the complications advances in technology might cause.

It has just been announced that Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi from the Centre for Human Rights in Practice at the University of Warwick has been long-listed for her work by the prestigious George Orwell Prize for Journalism.

Sussex appoints new Head of Law, Politics and Sociology An academic leader with research interests in criminal justice has been appointed as the new Head of the School of Law, Politics and Sociology (LPS) at the University of Sussex.

Dr Mark Pendleton, Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield comments on lessons learnt from the Tokyo sarin attack 20 years on.

We live in an age of near-total surveillance.

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Legal experts from The University of Manchester are campaigning for clarity on how justice can be dispensed in territories like Syria, Iraq and Ukraine.

A University of Liverpool report recommends extending the International Criminal Court Statute to allow corporations, as well as people and states, to be prosecuted for corporate human rights abuse.

The historic and significant role played by Indian soldiers in the First World War is the focus of a public lecture taking at The University of Manchester today (4 March).

The United Kingdom as we know it may not survive the next decade and is "no longer a fixed map in the collective UK mind", according to Lord Professor Peter Hennessy, who was speaking at the launch of the Mile End Institute (MEI), at Queen Mary University of London on 2 March.

Integration of healthcare (free at point of delivery from the NHS) and social care (means-tested and provided by local authorities) is under increasing scrutiny as the 2014 Care Act comes into effect.

2015 marks the 800th anniversary since the first Magna Carta was sealed at Runnymede.

A new programme of research and knowledge sharing is to play a key role in informing future policing policy, following funding for a major new research collaboration.

Cambridge criminologist tells White House task force that translating UK models of policing to US is the best hope in a generation for tackling dangerous rates of 'justifiable' homicides committed by US police, and the resultant haemorrhaging of police legitimacy across the nation.