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...Law courses. A microcosm of society, the jury room has always fascinated people: a variety of individuals from different backgrounds all working together to make a judgement on the fate of an individual. These judgements are some of the biggest decisions a person will face in their lifetime, and can have serious consequences for both individuals on trial (such as when...

...law student in Lebanon. He regularly went back to visit his family in Jobar, not far from the Syrian capital Damascus. Life was good. Then came the war. The bitter fighting between the Syrian army and the opposition intensified. Jobar became a battleground. “It [was] very dangerous. [There were] a lot of bomb, bomb, bomb,” he says. Soon neighborhood men started to...

...Law. These “illegal” settlements are tolerated by authorities to some extent; it serves their purpose to conceal the state’s stunted response behind the vital support offered by local and international activists who work there. But the new plans, following the agreement of the EU-Turkey deal, include that all new irregular migrants crossing from Turkey into Greek...

...law enforcement and corruption can exacerbate the risks of exploitation and modern slavery, as authorities may be complicit or ineffective in protecting vulnerable populations. The trauma experienced by refugees and asylum seekers from conflict, persecution and displacement can impact their ability to make informed decisions and recognise exploitative situations....

...laws to regulate business and to mitigate much of their profit-driven, harmful effects. And so it is no coincidence that through inter- and intra-class struggles, the origins of a system of social protection through regulation as put into place in Britain during the 1800s. Notwithstanding the long term construction of regulatory regimes in Britain since this period, this...

...law at various speeds, which consequently leads to a differing status of certain EU law in every Member State. This aspect is particularly of interest for the UK, when one of the aspects of the negotiation process relates to the exemption of the aim to create an ever closer union. In the Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957 and forming the basis for the European Union to date,...

...Law of Nature to govern it, which obliges everyone’, he writes, ‘[a]nd Reason, which is that law, teaches all Mankind that all being equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his Life, Health, Liberty or Possessions’. For Locke then, people thrive when they come together as citizens through a social contract, consenting to be governed in return for the...

...law and the courts, and an executive ultimately responsible to parliament, whose members are entitled to vote according to conscience and common sense.’[i] However, as I mentioned in an OxPol blog a week after the referendum: ‘While I again agree with him that, as a matter of principle, ‘MPs will have to do their duty to vote according to conscience and vote for...