Fairness and the Rule of Law
The Body of Law: An exhibition of drawings by Isobel Williams
The Supreme Court welcomes and informs the public, but how does an artist interpret the coded theatre of the hearings? Isobel William's new exhibition of drawings, sketched from the public seats of the Supreme Court with the court's permission, and other locations,...
Briefing: How Brexit might affect EU audio-visual media services policy-making
This brief by Professor Alison Harcourt, University of Exeter, discusses the current issues affecting UK stakeholders in the cross-border audio-visual services sector. It is written in light of the replies to the public consultation on Directive 2010/13/EU on...
News: CMS committee approves Elizabeth Denham’s appointment as Information Commissioner
On Wednesday 27 April the government's preferred candidate for the new Information Commissioner appeared in front of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, whose remit now extends to this post. Video here. The CMS committee has now published its report,...
Notice-and-Fair-Balance: the Law of Fundamental Rights in European Intermediary Liability
On 11 April 2016, Christina Angelopoulos of the Information Law and Policy Centre, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and Stijn Smet of the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University gave a presentation at the BILETA Conference (which took place this year at the...
Needles on top of haystacks and reporting the courts in a digital age
An update on developments in digital court reporting by the Information Law and Policy Centre's Judith Townend How should courts be reported in the digital age? It’s a question that’s been preoccupying me for a number of years. My understanding of the technology, law...
Upcoming event, 21st April 2016: ‘Judgecraft and Emotions’
The focus of the Information Law and Policy Centre's work at the IALS is law and regulation relating to the control and flow of data and media, but we are also concerned with the way in which law is accessed and the study of law as a humanity discipline, and have been...
Upcoming event: Workshop on a Draft Convention on Electronic Evidence – 20 May 2016
The Information Law and Policy Centre is pleased to be supporting this upcoming event at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on a 'Draft Convention on Electronic Evidence', due to take place during the afternoon of 20 May 2016. Stephen Mason, an expert in this...
The Humanity of Barristers: Stories from the Bar
In this guest post Atalanta Goulandris, former barrister and PhD researcher at City University London, reflects on the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies' contribution to the Being Human festival: the 'Humanity of Lawyers', which focused on the work of the Bar......
Being Human: The humanity of lawyers – 19 November 2015
As a follow on to last year's successful 'Humanity of Judging' event at the Supreme Court, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is pleased to announce its 'Humanity of Lawyers' event, as part of the second Being Human festival, the national festival of the...
Can resolving disputes online deliver better access to justice?
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is well known within the legal profession for his numerous books predicting a dramatic transformation in legal practice, and calling for an overhaul of 21st century lawyering. In February 2015 he made national headlines for his proposed...