@nilegalq.bsky.social
Leading peer-reviewed journal providing an international forum for articles, commentaries and notes in all areas of law and from all methodologies. https://nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/nilq
We are delighted to share the fifteenth contribution to Reflections on Writing!
Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, explores the joy she finds in the process as well as ‘negative' feelings as sources of creativity.
Article doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Whole series doi.org/10.53386/nil...
We are delighted to inaugurate our new Reflections on Teaching series with a very special first contribution!
All contributions to the series will be freely available via our website.
Inaugural article doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Reflections on Teaching webpage nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...
Our final advance open access piece published this week is also freely available to read here doi.org/10.53386/nil....
In this piece, Robert Craig, University of Bristol offers his thoughts on Aileen Kavanagh’s ‘The Collaborative Constitution’.
A new advance access piece by Peter Coe, University of Birmingham, and Helen Fenwick, Durham University, is published freely available to view here doi.org/10.53386/nil....
26.09.2025 10:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new advance access piece by Sarah E Hamill, Trinity College Dublin is now available freely to view here doi.org/10.53386/nil....
26.09.2025 10:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the fourteenth contribution to our Reflections on Writing series, Michael Dougan @livunislsj.bsky.social describes his highly structured approach to writing, starting with an intuition, and moving on via shorthand notes and bullet points to create order out of chaos.
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
19.09.2025 10:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out our summer issue!
Fully open access here doi.org/10.53386/nil....
Individual contributions ⬇️.
‘Sentencing: R v Kenneth Clarke & Jamie McConnell (Reference by the Director of Public Prosecutions) [2024] NICA 52’
John Taggart @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
‘Putting participants at the heart of the public inquiry process: insights from the Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry on engaging with vulnerable witnesses’
Emma Ireton, Christopher Ratcliffe
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
‘Out of time and out of pocket: The Victoria Square apartments debacle and the (empty?) promise of the Defective Premises Act (Northern Ireland) 2024’
Louise Rhodes @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
‘Review of Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance After Brexit by Tamara K Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark L Flear and Matthew Wood’
Clayton Ó Néill @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
‘Nineteenth-century registers: constituting the market, professions and individuals’
Chris Dent @murdoch.edu.au
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
‘Views from the coal face: the development of international commercial mediation’
Bryan Clark @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social, Tania Sourdin
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
‘Fantasy legal exhibitions’
@aperrykessaris.bsky.social, Victoria Barnes @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
‘Sentencing policy reform in post-conflict Northern Ireland: charting a distinctive response to penal populism’
Kevin Brown @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
‘Investment arbitration and the autonomy of the EU’s legal order: a rule of law perspective’
@radosvetavassileva.bsky.social @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
‘The challenge of effective ‘corporate purpose law’ reform’
@hardmanlaw.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Our summer issue is now published and freely available on an open access basis!
Here are the contributions!
⬇️⬇️⬇️
We are delighted to share Conor Gearty @lselaw.bsky.social’s reflections on writing: 8 tips for surviving (and enjoying!) academic writing.
Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights!
Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Since it’s Friday, it may be wise to go easy on writing!
You may find it particularly useful to read Barbara Prainsack’s reflections on writing, and heed the advice: don’t write on Fridays!
Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Wider series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Emily Jackson @lselaw.bsky.social shares her reflections on writing: why, how and when.
This is the 12th contribution to the series.
Many thanks to Emily for her thoughts.
Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
We are delighted to participate in @slsauk.bsky.social’s journals initiative!
See slsa.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?....
The 11th piece in our Reflections on Writing series is extra special.
Nicola Lacey @lselaw.bsky.social meditates on 45 years of writing by highlighting key projects, and describing the hurdles of peer review, loneliness, co-writing and self-doubt.
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
@lwdsc.bsky.social and Simon Halliday @lawstrath.bsky.social share their experiences of working and writing together!
This is the 10th piece in our Reflections on Writing Series.
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Today is Empathy Day!
@librariesni.bsky.social had a great initiative today, which prompts us to ask:
Which law book has helped grow your empathy the most?
We’d ❤️ to read your responses ⬇️.
If you haven’t had a chance yet, you might want to take a look at our recent special issue ⬇️.
It’s entirely free to view and download!
Happy reading!
We are delighted to publish the 9th article in our Reflections on Writing series.
Thanks so much to @sylviademars.me for her efforts at such a very busy time of year!
Full open access article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
@markflear.bsky.social very kindly invited me to explore what my writerly 'voice' is and is for for the wonderful Reflections on Writing series in the @nilegalq.bsky.social.
(My $0.02: be yourself, even if that bucks disciplinary conventions; you'll be surprised at what doors you can open.)
@slsauk.bsky.social has kindly shared news of our latest special issue in their newsletter.
Very many thanks!
slsa.ac.uk/index.php/ne...
