The School of Law @universityofleeds.bsky.social is one of the leading law schools in the UK and has been providing instruction in law since its inception in 1899.
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📣New article alert!
Prof @henryyeomans.bsky.social and his co-author have a new #OpenAccess article out in the British Journal of Criminology:
'The emergence of criminology in Britain: A systematic review of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London , 1838–57'👇
tinyurl.com/3r8u9zbu
📣New article alert!
@jpinasanchez.eurosky.social has had his co-authored paper 'In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy' published by the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice!
Check it out👇
📰School of Law academic in the news!
Our Dr Amy Loughery has been speaking to the BBC about #cuckooing and county lines exploitation of vulnerable people. She calls for more guidance and policies to help identify exploitation and improve responses to cuckooing.
Read more👇
📢 New blog post!
Our Prof @subhajitbasu.bsky.social has published a new blog exploring how far we should expect #BigTech to go in protecting children online on his Substack: 'BIG Techs Must Protect Children. But Device Controls are only the Beginning'👇
tinyurl.com/5ect8hrc
@cblpleeds.bsky.social
📽️ School of Law academic in the news!
🚍 Our Professor Anna Lawson was interviewed by the BBC on the subject of floating bus stops and their negative effect on the visually impaired community.
🔗 Watch her interview in the short video 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@lsjleeds.bsky.social
📻School of Law academic in the news!
Last week @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social spoke on Times Radio about the claim that White British people are discriminated against by the criminal justice system.
Listen below (from 19:45 to 25:59)👇
Only 1 week to go until this hybrid two day conference:
'Socioeconomic Rights: Past, Present and Future'.
📅 16-17 June 2026
📍 Room G32, Liberty Building, LS3 1DB
The event is free, but please register for a place👇
tinyurl.com/nhcc94ve
🗞️ Research by @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social cited by the Crown Prosecution Service shows ethnic minority groups are more likely to be prosecuted than white British individuals, countering claims of “two-tier justice” following the Henry Nowak case.
Read about it in @theguardian.com👇
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📢 Social Class & Law Workshop (Oxford, 9 Sept). Co-organised by CIRCLE's Rachael O'Connor for PhDs/ECRs. Free to attend!
Apply by 30 June:
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Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law: A UK Perspective!
7th July 2026
Our Legal Professions Research Group @lawatleeds.bsky.social at the Uni of Leeds is hosting a free, full‑day interdisciplinary workshop on this area (I will be there too!)
Registration: www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's message to technology companies today was deliberately stark: stop children from sending and receiving sexually explicit images, or the Government will change the law.
Socioeconomic Rights: Past, Present and Future – Room G32, Liberty Building, Tue 16 Jun 2026 - Wed 17 Jun 2026 - It is 50 years since the UK ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and...
The Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education
Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law: A UK Perspective – LG.06, Liberty Building, Tue 7 Jul 2026 - The Legal Professions Research Group and the Centre for Innovation and Research in Criminological and...
Our postdoctoral researcher Dr Amy Loughery @lawatleeds.bsky.social has been speaking to BBC News about cuckooing and the exploitation of vulnerable people in county lines.
Read more 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Abstract. British crime research expanded significantly from the mid-1830s. Much of this first wave of empirical research was published in the Journal of t
'In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy'.
with @ianloader.bsky.social. Now peer reviewed and published by the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice,
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📣Three weeks to go until this hybrid two day conference:
Socioeconomic Rights: Past, Present and Future.
📅 16-17 June 2026
📍 Room G32, Liberty Building, LS3 1DB
The event is free, but please register for a place👇
tinyurl.com/nhcc94ve
Last Friday I spoke to Henry Bonsu (Times Radio) about the preposterous claim that White British are discriminated against by the criminal justice system.
www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...
From 19:45 to 25:59
#TwoTierPolicing
Hundreds if not thousands of people's homes are being taken over by UK gangs every week, say police.
Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
www.thetimes.com
New article! When did #criminology in Britain begin? Where did it come from? @jkivivuori.bsky.social & I explore the forgotten roots of British criminology in a burst of statistical research between the 1830s and 1850s. We show that British Criminology didn't first emerge in the later 1800s...(1/5)
Socioeconomic Rights: Past, Present and Future – Room G32, Liberty Building, Tue 16 Jun 2026 - Wed 17 Jun 2026 - It is 50 years since the UK ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and...
✊Are you interested in economic, social, and cultural rights?
If so, come along to this hybrid two day conference:
Socioeconomic Rights: Past, Present and Future.
📅 16-17 June 2026
📍 Room G32, Liberty Building, LS3 1DB
The event is free, but please register for a place👇
tinyurl.com/nhcc94ve
'In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy'.
New preprint with @ianloader.bsky.social
We challenge the consensus that walkable neighbourhoods are more criminogenic.
We highlight two flaws in the literature: i) overreliance on police statistics; and ii) neglect of motoring offences.
Henry Yeomans
Socioeconomic Rights: Past, Present and Future – Room G32, Liberty Building, Tue 16 Jun 2026 - Wed 17 Jun 2026 - It is 50 years since the UK ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and...
