by alicetyson | Nov 26, 2020 | General
By Franklin De Vrieze, Senior Governance Adviser at Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), and Alex Read, Democratic governance practitioner COVID-19 could affect a shift towards a surveillance culture. Once introduced, privacy-infringing technologies may be...
by alicetyson | Nov 11, 2020 | General
By Franklin De Vrieze, Senior Governance Adviser at Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and Sean Molloy, Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University. COVID-19 emergency legislation is often fast-tracked, approved without much parliamentary scrutiny, expanding...
by alicetyson | Oct 29, 2020 | General
By Franklin De Vrieze, Senior Governance Adviser at WFD and Sarah Moulds, Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of South Australia. How do journalists and citizens find out about these real-world impacts of government’s policy responses to COVID-19? How can...
by alicetyson | Oct 15, 2020 | General
:By Franklin De Vrieze and Joelle Grogan In response to COVID-19, countries have applied different legislative models to introduce emergency measures. Some countries declared a state of emergency. Others decided to rely on existing legislation to face the...
by Lindsey Caffin | Sep 9, 2020 | General, Research
By Dermot Feenan, Associate Research Fellow (IALS) Introduction The death of George Floyd during an arrest in the US in May 2020 has accelerated international examination of, and reaction against, racism and the continuing legacies of slavery. The toppling of the...
by Lindsey Caffin | Aug 18, 2020 | Events, Legal News
Reposted by kind permission of the Council of Europe, European Committee on Legal Co-operation. The CEELI Institute, in Prague, launched a four-part webinar discussion series as part of its program with the Central and Eastern European Judicial Exchange Network in...
by alicetyson | Jul 31, 2020 | General, Research
The results of the 2019 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) are now available, and we are delighted at the very positive response for IALS. PRES collects feedback from postgraduate research students (PRGs) about their experiences, which allows us insight...
