"Jess O’Thomson of GLP argued that recent decisions by Girlguiding and the WI to exclude trans women were the result of “lobbying and legal threats” from groups “pressuring organisations on the basis that the case is closed, and exclusion is now legally required – when that is far from the case”
11.12.2025 08:04 — 👍 185 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 0
Excellent work from our centre members!
10.12.2025 17:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This important webinar is happening tomorrow!
Sign up👇
08.12.2025 10:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our Dr Laura Bainbridge and Dr Amy Loughery play a key role on this project which examines the complex realities faced by young people involved in county lines drug trafficking, with a focus on those identified as ‘alpha-victims.
Learn more👇
02.12.2025 11:18 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Criminalising ‘Conversion Therapy’
An increasing number of jurisdictions have introduced legal bans on so-called ‘conversion therapy’ practices. Yet significant uncertainty and disagreement persist among legal scholars, policymakers a...
There is growing consensus that so-called 'conversion therapy' practices are harmful and must be banned.
But which legal mechanisms should be used to do this?
My article (with Stuart Goosey), Criminalising “Conversion Therapy”, published in the MLR, takes up this urgent question shorturl.at/AHkfb
01.12.2025 13:39 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
This important new article from Prof @iliastrispiotis.bsky.social grapples with the question of whether criminal law is an appropriate tool in banning harmful 'conversion therapy'. Read more #OpenAccess 👇
@lsjleeds.bsky.social
01.12.2025 14:50 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Image of RuPaul in background, a Black drag queen wearing a big white wig, balloons resembling USA flag colours red white and blue around her. Superimposed in the foreground is a tweet that says "RuPaul fracking while throwing a climate change themed ball episode of drag race is the neoliberal hellscape I've become accustomed to"
It's the #dragraceuk season finale tonight, and you know what that means!?
That's right! It's time to read our open access article about how RuPaul is an autocratic dictator
@drfoxpopuli.bsky.social @lawsadrag.bsky.social
@law-and-humanities.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
27.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Background of crops in the sunlight. Smiling pictures of Dr Zappalaglio and Prof Dutfield. #News flare. Text reads:
Shaping the future: Dr Zappalaglio and Prof Dutfield have contributed their insights to the Government’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s call for evidence on the critical theme of ‘Innovation and Global Food Security.’
Dr @anzapp.bsky.social and Prof @grahamdutfield.bsky.social tackle pressing issues of global food security in #Parliamentary inquiry.
Read more about their insights on 'Innovation and Global Food Security'👇
tinyurl.com/y8mbj4dx
@cblpleeds.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #AcademicSky #LawSky
26.11.2025 15:23 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing work 🙌 🙌 🙌
27.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Background of Woodhouse Moor. Smiling photo of Dr Barker in a circle. #News flare. Text reads: “We know that safer parks are not just about better lighting or design - they’re about people. This training gives staff and volunteers the confidence to act when they see or hear something that isn’t right. It empowers communities to look out for each other.”
80% of UK women have experienced public harassment, yet 75% report that no one stepped in.
Dr @annabarker.bsky.social's research has helped hundreds of park staff and volunteers across the UK to be trained in how to spot, safely challenge, and prevent harassment.
Read more👇
tinyurl.com/99px5urh
27.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Prof. Cismas in front of the screen, with a slide that says "What we aim to do," explaining that the focus is on harm reduction and needs provision, within a context of encouraging compliance with international law and restraint of armed actors, to provide better protection of human lives and interests
We were very grateful for her expertise and insights, explaining this complex sociolegal research into lived experiences of civilians and combatants, within a wider context of international law, humanitarian law, and international human rights
@lawatleeds.bsky.social
26.11.2025 15:37 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Prof. Iona Cismas, in black jumper and scarlet red bead necklace, stood at the front of the Seminar room. Behind her is a screen, detailing who is involved in the Beyond Compliance Consortium project, including the universities of York, Utrecht and Glasgow, alongside NGO partners
Prof. Iona Cismas joined us as part of the CLSJ Seminar Series, to talk about the Beyond Compliance Consortium project with @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social - centering harm + need to achieve better protections and restraint in armed conflict
26.11.2025 15:37 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Dr Tongue introduced the film with a speech explaining the developments of the federal and state law. After the screening, centre members discussed core issues in the film, through feminist, queer, and other critical legal approaches.
20.11.2025 11:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster for the film Zurawski v Texas, featuring one of the women who was denied medically necessary healthcare, stood at a podium with multiple cameras pointed at her. The caption is "This is not a drill."
This week, reproductive rights specialist @whiterxbbit.bsky.social hosted a screening of the documentary 'Zurawski v Texas,' a film distributed by Together Films that exposes the legal, political, and physical suffering of pregnant people denied healthcare in Texas after the Dobbs SCOTUS case
20.11.2025 11:33 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The University of Leeds, School of Law: Dr Paolo Sandro, Dr Stuart Wallace, Dr James Greenwood-Reeves, and Rebecca Moosavian – Written Evidence (ROL0048)
And you can find the University of Leeds School of Law's submission, co-drafted by Centre members @paolosandro.bsky.social @echrhawk.bsky.social @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social and Rebecca Moosavian, here:
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
20.11.2025 11:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Parliamentary sovereignty
A short research briefing on the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, its origins and contemporary application.
One of our CLSJ members, @paolosandro.bsky.social has contributed to this research briefing on Parliamentary sovereignty for the House of Commons Library, looking at the history and contemporary application of the doctrine:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
@lawatleeds.bsky.social
19.11.2025 13:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lunchtime Live - 17/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
News updates from Scotland and beyond, plus all your lunchtime sport, travel and weather.
📣School of Law academic in the news!
Yesterday our @echrhawk.bsky.social told BBC Radio Scotland that proposed asylum-law changes risk adding bureaucracy and overstating threats, while UK refugee obligations remain flexible but binding. Clip begins 1:05:00 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
18.11.2025 13:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I am so blessed that we are allowed to do drag as part of our ACADEMIC WORK
14.11.2025 11:45 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A lot of CLSJ members are part of this Ecological Law and Justice Group. Find out more about their work, and how to get involved!
13.11.2025 12:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📻This is a fascinating listen; do check out @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social on the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast speaking about their collaborative project with @lawsadrag.bsky.social👇
12.11.2025 13:55 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Abstracts (500 words), along with short author bio (200 words) are to be sent to Dr Clare James, School of Law University of Leeds (c.james@leeds.ac.uk) @cjames-law.bsky.social by Monday the 11th January. Decisions regarding acceptance to be communicated by the 30th January. Best of luck!
12.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This conference aims to consider socioeconomic rights in the UK, including rights to a healthy environment and rights of future generations, and future directions for research, including global threats and challenges like migration due to climate change, pandemics, and antimicrobial resistance.
12.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
2026 will mark 50 years since the UK ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Join us 16th-17th June 2026 for a conference, funded by the Society for Legal Scholars and @lawatleeds.bsky.social, to discuss future trajectories and challenges!
12.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Chair in Comparative Politics @york.ac.uk | #UKRIFLF Civil War Paths project @civilwarpaths.bsky.social | Award-winning author @cornellupress.bsky.social Mobilizing in Uncertainty | mom
Educator, traveler, Trekkie, U.S. Army veteran 💙🌊
Doctoral Researcher at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection (University of Cologne, Germany).
Comparative Constitutional Law | Rule of Law and State of Exception | Public Health | Critical Legal Studies | Michael Foucault
Home to Criminology, Social Statistics, Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Law, Social Anthropology and Sociology at
@official-uom.bsky.social
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/
Philosophy PhD student at the University of Leeds working on asexuality & aromanticism and organiser of the Aro/Ace Research Network 📚🎓🏳️🌈
International law, the (space) commons, and how they're made.
PhD @newcastleuni.bsky.social | 🇺🇸🇳🇱🏳️🌈 | 🔊: krɪs van aɪk | he/him
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research/students/current-pgr-students/cristian-van-eijk/
Prof of Law and Co-Director of Research at Manchester University's Law Dept. Socio-legal research interests in human rights, policing, public order, crowd management, football "hooliganism", Ethnography, and sports law.
Lecturer in Criminal Justice, University of Leeds. Interested in police governance, local resilience and climate vulnerability.
Once a geographer, avid practitioner of slow scholarship, Leeds Uni prof, philhellene, loves mountains & coasts, teaches intellectual property & justice, health, food, biodiversity. Time to take the money out of politics. Living in safe South London
Associate Professor at School of Law, University of Leeds. I hate it when people put 'all views are my own' here.
Head of Climate Change, Historic England
Climate Action, Policy, Communities and Heritage.
UK based.
Views are my own.
Associate Professor and Director of Student Success, School of Law, University of Leeds. Advocate for anti-racist praxis and inclusive education. National Teaching Fellow.
Academic research in Law, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology from the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool.
Our research centre addresses key questions in university education in Law and Criminal Justice, aiming to become an international leader in its field.
We are based in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leeds (https://socialresearchmethods.leeds.ac.uk/). Our objective is to support the dissemination and adoption of innovative and rigorous research methods in the Social Sciences.
Junior Vice Dean of Vibes, or better known as the Research Culture Engagement Officer at the University of Leeds.
https://researchculture.leeds.ac.uk/about/
#researchculture
He/him.
Sociology PhD Researcher and Graduate Teaching Fellow - University of Liverpool
Researching Drug Policy and responses to County Lines Drug Trafficking
Fringe Festivals and Health Law. 📚 Interests: childbirth, doulas, birthing/maternity care, obstetric violence, ectogestation, and gendered experiences of healthcare & consent. Research Associate: King's College London. She / her. 🏳️🌈
