OTHER NEWS

A team of researchers from UCL's Social Research Institute and the UCL Faculty of Laws are conducting a Nuffield Foundation funded project to map and synthesise the existing research about the experiences and views of public users of the justice system in the UK. As part of their diverse search strategy, they are seeking recommendations of literature from experts who are familiar with, or who have published research in this and associated areas. For more information and to suggest research, please follow the link below. The survey will close on 15 September 2025.

This survey, open to all legal educators in the UK and Poland, is focused upon the Impact of AI Tools on Academic Integrity, Originality, and Plagiarism in Legal Education.

Research team: Professor Piotr Piesiewicz and Professor Olga Piaskowska (SWPS University, Warsaw), Professor Caroline Strevens (University of Portsmouth) and Dr Emma Jones (University of Sheffield).

The Law Commission invites submissions for this project which aims to close a historic loophole and save homeowners millions in insurance costs.

Closing date: 15 November 2025.

How can we use archives to enliven legal education? 

We (Amanda Perry-Kessaris and Emily Allbon) are working in partnership with The Postal Museum to find out. 

We are beginning with an experiment: co-designing a set of 'sparks'--expert, accessible, commentaries--which link specific items from The Postal Museum Collections to each of the core law subjects (contract, criminal, tort, public, land, trusts, EU). These sparks will be directed to educators, students, and members of the public working from A-Level upwards. They will be made freely available online via Lawbore, the leading directory to resources for those studying law.

We hope to scale up the project to include other law subjects over time.

Our ambition is to help to make the law, and the Collections, engaging and accessible to a wide range of people. 

If you would like to contribute to this project by co-designing a spark, please complete the following sentences and email the results to Amanda Perry-Kessaris a.perry-kessaris@kent.ac.uk and Emily Allbon e.allbon@citystgeorges.ac.uk by 5 September 2025:

• You can tell that I am committed to legal education because ...

• The core law subject that I am most passionate about is ...

• My favourite and least favourite things about teaching law are ...

• This project caught my attention because ... 

• The people that I am most interested in reaching through this project are ...

To find out more see our project webpage. 

The Inspirational Women in Law Awards seek to identify individuals from across the legal profession who are leading the way in improving equality and diversity. In their 10th year in 2025, the Awards recognise those who are excelling in their areas of practice and are working for the changes needed to ensure women working in the law are able to thrive. There are 10 categories for nominations including mentor of the year, legal academic of the year and law student of the year. Closing date: 7 September 2025.

Amanda Perry-Kessaris invites you to participate in String Theory, an experiment exploring how model making, performance and exhibition can enhance legal conceptualisation that was designed for the 2025 Summer Research Residence on Conceptual Innovation, Methods & Law organised by Davina Cooper at Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.

The call for evidence outlines the recommendations in the Law Commission's report on murder, manslaughter and infanticide in 2006, and commentary on and developments in the law since then. The document sets out the scope of the new project and invites evidence from stakeholders on a range of issues that may be considered within the project.

The Talent Development Awards are available to promote the acquisition and advancement of skills in relevant areas by UK-based researchers, supporting innovative research methods, be that through skills development, collaboration or dissemination. The aim of the scheme is to enable researchers to build their skills and capacities in core areas to develop their current and future research.

Closing date: 8 October 2025.