School of Law, University of Southampton

The University of Law and Southampton Law School have recently announced a collaboration which will allow ULaw to provide post-grad law qualifications on our Highfield Campus. Based in building 4, this is aimed at our current students, new graduates, and anyone in the area who would like to study at our campus for their qualifying degree.

Thanks to this new partnership, you can now apply to study ULaw’s postgraduate Legal Practice Course (LPC) or LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2) course at the University of Southampton from this September.

Find out more here: https://fal.cn/3qvzU

Current LLB students should check their email for more information about this partnership!

The article 'Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales' has been published in The Political Quarterly, co-authored by Dr Harry Annison (Southampton Law School) and Dr Thomas Guiney (Nottingham).

The article can be accessed here: https://fal.cn/3qudz

Professor Werner Scholtz, Head of Southampton Law School, has recently published an article on international human rights law and climate change in the journal of Transnational Environmental Law alongside a number of scholars.

You can find the article cited as follows: Bellinkx, Vincent, Casalin, Deborah, Erdem Türkelli, Gamze, Scholtz, Werner and Vandenhole, Wouter, 'Addressing climate change through international human rights law: from (extra)territoriality to common concern of humankind' (2022) 11 Transnational Environmental Law 69-93.

Associate Professor at Southampton Law School, Dr Harry Annison, has been appointed as a thematic editor for the editorial board of the international journal Criminal Law Forum.

This is the official journal of the International Society for the Reform of the Criminal Law.

Find out more here: https://fal.cn/3qrvr and here: https://fal.cn/3qrvv

Professor Werner Scholtz, Head of Southampton Law School, has published an article in the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law.

The article, ‘Ethical and humane use, intrinsic value and the Convention on Biological Diversity: towards the reconfiguration of sustainable development and use" can be found here: https://fal.cn/3qrl5

Four members of the Law School's new Property & People research centre have participated in an international workshop, which took place on Thursday 30th June 2022 and Friday 1st July 2022 at the prestigious International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati, Spain.

Jointly organised by Prof Helen Carr, Property & People's Director, the workshop brought together an international audience from four continents to examine important issues arising from our increasingly dense living arrangements.

‘Living Cheek by Jowl’: Socio-legal explorations of the challenges of housing intensification, responds to the global phenomenon of urbanization, the importance of which has been demonstrated by the global pandemic. The United Nations predicts that by 2030, urban areas are projected to house 60 per cent of people globally and one in every three people will live in cities with at least half a million inhabitants (United Nations 2018).

Helen Carr, Sarah Nield, Dean Taylor and Emma Laurie, each presented papers to the international audience, exploring different aspects of housing densification and the challenges it poses.

A previous workshop organised by Helen Carr resulted in the publication: H Carr, B Edgeworth and C Hunter, Law and the Precarious Home: Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times (Hart, 2018).

In case you missed it: In the latest Complete University Guide table, Southampton Law School has been ranked 21st, climbing 13 places from last year. This is a great achievement for all!

Find out more here:

Law Subject League Table 2023 A Law degree will teach you about the legal systems underpinning society

Wonderful news that all three of our LLB Law with Year In Employment students, who have been on placement with leading international law firm Reed Smith, have been offered training contracts with the firm!

Congratulations!

Find out more about the University's Year In Employment schemes here:

Year In Employment Placements | Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise | University of Southampton Information for students about the Year In Employment scheme at the University of Southampton.

The first flight under the UK's controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was scheduled to take place on 14 June but was halted at the last hour by an interim measure by the European Court of Human Rights. This predictably prompted calls for UK withdrawal from the ECHR, and various members of the UK Government, including the Prime Minister, Home Secretary and Attorney General all indicated, directly or indirectly, that this is on the table.

In a blog for Verfassungsblog, published on 17 June, Prof examines the implications of this through the lens of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

The blogpost has been published at:

The UK’s anti-legal populism A call for UK withdrawal from the ECHR surfaces and resurfaces at fairly regular intervals in certain quarters of the Conservative party, but this week various members of the Government, including the Prime Minister, Home

The website for the ESRC-funded project 'Rehabilitating Probation' was launched last week, to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the unification of the probation services in England and Wales. This major 3-year research project will analyse the impact of reform at local, regional and national levels and from a variety of perspectives. It will provide lessons for criminal justice researchers and stakeholders, as well as providing wider lessons for those studying and engaging in organisational change. Dr Harry Annison, Associate Professor at Southampton Law School, is a member of the project team.

The website is https://fal.cn/3q4pN

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We are excited to share the news that Ms Hwon Lee, one of our doctoral students at the Southampton Law School, has been awarded funding by the Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, which is a state-run institution tasked with discovering new scientific knowledge about the ocean and fostering young researchers and PhD students specializing in the law of the sea. Ms Lee is currently developing her doctoral thesis on ‘New Maritime Security Threats and Law Enforcement Activities involving Unmanned Maritime Vehicles’, under the primary supervision of Dr Alexandros Ntovas, and the advice of Professor Andrew Serdy.

Dr Michael Da Silva has recently published a Teaching and Learning Guide to accompany his article Federalism: Contemporary political philosophy issues: https://fal.cn/3prtS