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Featured List: Black History Month

Cover of Iris de Freitas Brazao: Legal Luminary and Trailblazer Caribbean, Canada, Wales, England, 1896-1989

Review: Joanne Collins-Gonsalves, Iris de Freitas Brazao: Legal Luminary and Trailblazer Caribbean, Canada, Wales, England, 1896-1989

June 2024

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

A photo of the plaque commemorating Eric Irons which is located on the wall of the National Justice Museum in Nottingham.

Eric Irons OBE – UK’s first Black Magistrate

October 2021

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On this day 28 August 1833 – Abolition of Slavery Act

August 2021

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Lawyers urged to ‘educate themselves’ over endemic racism in the justice system

July 2021

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A Look at the Archives

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Religion and the Law – records in the IALS Archives

April 2025

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

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Legal Education in Africa and of individual Africans in the UK – records in the IALS Archives

January 2025

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

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Legal Education in the Caribbean: records in the IALS Archives

October 2024

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

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War, Terrorism and the Law: records in the IALS Archives

August 2024

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

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On This Day

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On this day 25 December 1647 – Christmas was cancelled

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On this day 16 November 1989 – The Children Act

An black and white image of two hands in a pair of handcufffs

On this day 28 August 1833 – Abolition of Slavery Act

August 2021

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On this day….27 July 1967

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LHub Days

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Looking at Archives, 13 May 2025

Dr Jake Subryan Richards

A brass plaque on a brown wooden door with the following words engraved please close this door quietly, do not let it slam, thank you.

Quiet Law, 18 March 2025

Dr Jess Connolly-Smith

Compsition of hands of different sizes, United States dollar bills and words created by cutouts of different letters in varying fonts, sizes and colours.

‘On form’, 14th January, 2025

Shekinah Vera-Cruz

Dr Andrew Bricker outside one of the London Taxi huts in Russell Square talking to LHub members during their walk on LHub Day

Law’s Places and Spaces, 3rd December, 2024

Andrew Benjamin Bricker

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Highlights from the ILPC Blog

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Contempt of court, data protection and criminal records: the Law Commission’s consultation

October 2024

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Reformulating Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in UK Data Protection Law

October 2023

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Policy Developments at the UN regarding the Safety of Journalists

February 2023

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A Trustworthy Framework that Respects Fundamental Rights? The Draft EU AI Act and Police Use of Biometrics

August 2021

The Post Office Horizon Scandal

Digital Evidence and Computer Reliability on the Parliamentary Agenda in the Wake of the Post Office Horizon Scandal

March 2021

Recommendations for the probity of computer evidence requested by the Ministry of Justice, now published

December 2020

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Robustness and reliability in computer systems

June 2019

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The Use of Statistics and Software Code

June 2019

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Academic Careers Q & A

Dr Colin King, Director of Postgraduate Research.

Academic Careers Q & A: Professor Colin King

July 2020

Dr Enrico Albanesi

Academic Careers Q & A: Professor Enrico Albanesi, IALS Associate Research Fellow

May 2020

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Academic Careers Q & A: Tasneem Kausar, PhD Student

March 2020

Past Posts

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Launching Soon: Law and the Humanities Infrastructure Map

May 2025

Elena Zolotariof, Liaison Officer Mapping Humanities

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Religion and the Law – records in the IALS Archives

April 2025

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

Professor David Sugarman

Meet the JLS author: The Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case

March 2025

Professor David Sugarman, Lancaster University and IALS

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Legal Education in Africa and of individual Africans in the UK – records in the IALS Archives

January 2025

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

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