📰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 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👇
🗞️ 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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📽️ 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
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
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...
📻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)👇
📢 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
🏳️🌈This Pride Month, we’re focusing on turning awareness into everyday action.
🤝 Across the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Environment, colleagues are working together to build more inclusive environments for LGBTQ+ staff and students.
👇Read about how!
tinyurl.com/346e5crs
📢 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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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...
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.
This Pride Month, we’re reflecting on how we can move beyond awareness to create meaningful, everyday inclusion for LGBTQ+ colleagues and students across our faculty.
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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...
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...
📣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
University of Leeds - School of Law
Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Hundreds if not thousands of people's homes are being taken over by UK gangs every week, say police.
'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/...
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
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
University of Leeds - School of Law
Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺
Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺
'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.
Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺
tinyurl.com
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...
