Welcome to the School of Law and Social Sciences Blog. The members of the School are actively engaged in research across a diverse range of areas. Our researchers regularly produce articles on Psychology, Information Management, Sociology, Construction and Arbitration Law, Extradition Law, Medical Ethics, Human Rights Law, Social Work, and more. This Blog offers insights into some of this work. We will regularly publish short pieces here that either deal with recent developments in law and social science or adopt a long-view approach towards legal and sociological issues.
Latest Blog Posts
- Childbirth – from fear and uncertainty, to confidence and calm
- Public Libraries matter. And here’s why.
- When ships crash at sea: legal issues arising from the collision between the Solong and Stena Immaculate
- The UK Supreme Court on Biological Sex: A Tale of Two Legal Perspectives
- Dealing with the past: a local and global imperative (Part III)
- The EU Directive on Women on Corporate Boards: Steering Out of the Limitations and Leveraging Opportunities
- Dealing with the past: a local and global imperative (Part II)
- Dealing with the past: a local and global imperative (Part I)
- The Humanity of Human Rights
- Generative Artificial Intelligence Skills in Schools (GenAISiS project)
- Is Assisted Dying a ‘Right’?
- Clarity, compassion and choice — what next for Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill and why status quo is ‘anything but safe’
- Inceldom: Adolescence and beyond
- Finders Keepers? The Ghost in the Museum
- The Assange Case – A Messy and Unsatisfactory Dénouement
- Time for a constitutional ‘deep clean’? Reflections on constitutional futures after the General Election
- The implications of the reform of the Identification Principle in the United Kingdom’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act
- A Return to the Hart–Fuller Debate – Part II
- ClientEarth v Shell Plc & Ors.: has an opportunity been missed to reassess directors’ duties vis a vis Climate Change risks?
- The Willy’s Chocolate Experience debacle: a classic case for solatium in damages for breach of contract?
- The Continuing Attack upon Human Rights: The Illegal Migration Act 2023
- Mr Bates v The Post Office and its lessons for the Law of Contract
- Scottish Airports’ future with hydrogen – Civil liability and safety considerations
- “Smart Contracts” versus “Smart Legal Contracts”: Shifting Terminology
- Disputes in Paediatric End-of-life Care: Understanding Causes and Pathways to Resolution in NHS Grampian
- Managing Sovereign Debt through International Tax Cooperation
- Considering the Ethical Implications of Generative AI
- Decentralised Justice, AI, and the Pursuit of Excellence
- The sentencing of Sean Hogg and the operation of the Scottish Sentencing Council Guideline on the Sentencing of Young People
- Reflections on the Protection of Human Rights
- A Return to the Hart-Fuller Debate – Part I
- Human Rights and the War in Ukraine
- The Importance and Intricacies of Extradition
