Doing Development in Afghanistan
Professor Patrick McAuslan, from Birkbeck’s School of Law, wrote this blog from Kabul, Afghanistan. I have been working in Afghanistan, on and off, since the summer of 2005. I arrived in Kabul just...
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Can Russia ever be understood?
This post was contributed by Professor Bill Bowring from Birkbeck’s School of Law. Professor Bowring’s new book, published by Routledge, is entitled Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the...
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Experiences of Court
Researchers Jessica Jacobson, Gillian Hunter and Amy Kirby from the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR), School of Law at Birkbeck discuss their recently completed study about the experiences...
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Punitive Laws Undermine HIV Prevention Efforts
Some 34 million people globally are living with HIV. Since 1981, when the first cases of what we came to know as AIDS were diagnosed in the United States, more than 60 million people have been...
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Judicial Images
This post was contributed by Professor Leslie J Moran, of Birkbeck’s School of Law. 1st October 2009, the opening day of the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Judges of the Supreme Court dressed...
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The World Prison Brief: database of global imprisonment levels
This post was contributed by Roy Walmsley, Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies’ world-renowned World Prison Brief. In November ICPS was merged with the Institute for Criminal Policy...
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A reflection on the Research Excellence Framework 2014
This post was contributed by Professor Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck’s Pro-Vice-Master for Research. In December 2014 the UK higher education funding bodies published the results of the Research Excellence...
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Research round-up: A snapshot around campus
This post was contributed by Andrew Youngson, media and publicity officer at Birkbeck, University of London This summer, to celebrate Birkbeck’s standing as a world-leading, research intensive...
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Structured Mayhem: Personal experiences of the Crown Court
This post was contributed by researchers Jessica Jacobson, Gillian Hunter and Amy Kirby from the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR), School of Law at Birkbeck discuss a recent collaboration...
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Why and how to study queer inheritance and will-writing?
This post was contributed by Antu Sorainen, research fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research “Inheritance is a social and legal practice of profound significance. For many people, having...
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Why hate Human Rights? Understanding the case against the Human Rights Act
This post was contributed by Dr Frederick Cowell, lecturer in Law at Birkbeck. Dr Cowell’s forthcoming book, ‘Critically Understanding the case against the 1998 Human Rights Act’ is due to be published...
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The use and over-use of prison around the world
Catherine Heard, Director of ICPR’s World Prison Research Programme, writes on a new report looking at disparities in prison use in ten countries, across five continents. March 16th saw the launch of...
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Why are women prisoner numbers rising so rapidly?
Catherine Heard, from the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) at Birkbeck, discusses the latest data released in the World Female Imprisonment List. Catherine directs the World Prison...
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Crime and global justice: the dynamics of international punishment
Daniele Archibugi, Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at Birkbeck, and Alice Pease, a researcher working on a modern slavery campaign, discuss a new system of global criminal justice...
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A strange irony: How the EU withdrawal process ended up saving the Human...
Dr Frederick Cowell, Lecturer in Law, argues that the UK’s exiting the EU may have saved the Human Rights Act and secured Britain’s long term future as party to the European Convention on Human Rights...
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Me Too: the history of political change through personal stories
Dr Tanya Serisier, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, recently authored Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics, a critical study of feminist practices of ‘speaking out’ in response to rape....
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Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes in Law and Literature
Professor Adam Gearey from Birkbeck’s School of Law writes about the horrific scandal of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes, and how its representation in literature may play an important role in the...
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Pre-trial detention and its overuse
Catherine Heard, director of the World Prison Research Programme, at the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research at Birkbeck discusses pre-trial imprisonment. Justice for Kalief Browder...
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Re-imagining the Youth Court
Gillian Hunter from the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research shares findings from research conducted in collaboration with The Centre for Justice Innovation (CJI) on developing...
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Exploring global disparities in criminal sentencing
Catherine Heard directs the World Prison Research Programme, at Birkbeck’s Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research. The research team monitors trends in world prison populations and examines...
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