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Our legal order and democracy must be modernized. We have to ensure that we can continue to make acceptable decisions when interests clash.

New research from The University of Manchester has found that children are being swept up in murder and attempted murder cases - and being tried in adult courts - partly due to rap music culture being used as evidence against them. Rap lyrics and videos are regularly used as prosecution evidence in youth violence criminal cases in England and Wales.

The University of Glasgow has contributed to an evaluation of a Scottish law that restricts the use of evidence of a complainer's character or sexual history in sexual offences trials.

The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC, or the Centre) has moved to Oxford University after being awarded extension funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

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Abortion is still a crime in most countries. A new legal paradigm would change the lives of millions of women It took 30 years of activism for Ireland to legalise abortion.

An UdeM sociology professor who studies issues facing LGBTQI+ communities in Tunisia highlights their challenges, hopes and struggles.

Whitewashing the Jury Box: How California Perpetuates the Discriminatory Exclusion of Black and Latinx Jurors Living with Impunity: Unsolved Murders in Oakland and the Human Rights Impact on Victims' Family Members Who Will Be Left to Defend Human Rights?

Mickey Mouse, one of the most iconic cartoon characters of all time and Walt Disney's most endearing creation, is now in the public domain: The copyright on the landmark animated short Steamboat Willie -the earliest appearance of Mickey Mouse-expired at the start of 2024.

University of Warwick's 'School Tasking' Project enhances legal understanding for legally accountable 10-year-olds - research finds Most Year 5 children will know little about the law and their rights, yet at the stroke of midnight on their 10 birthday, they become criminally responsible in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT raise questions about how it can be used and controlled in the field of law, say two UdeM professors.

Their acceptance of responsibility and political motivation should be taken into account as a mitigating factor when sentencing Some climate activists, rather than receiving punishment, have in several cases successfully claimed to have acted on the grounds of necessity.

EXPERT Q&A The Supreme Court heard arguments last week in U.S. v. Rahimi, a case that involves a constitutional challenge to a federal law that strips gun ownership rights from people under domestic violence protection orders.

Report finds need for better measures to help people who are experiencing homelessness retain their belongings. A new report highlights a need to rethink practices that impact what happens to people's belongings when they don't have control over the spaces where they live. Geography professor Nick Blomley and collaborators Alexandra Flynn from UBC's Allard School of Law and Marie-Eve Sylvestre from the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law analysed current laws, policies and procedures and outline how they control the belongings of precariously housed and unhoused individuals across Canada.

We all have cherished belongings: a photo of your children, a beloved relative's ashes. These things are treasured, no matter where you live.

We provide transport companies with information about our mobility behavior when we use various modes of transportation. Researchers at the University of Basel and two technology and mobility consulting companies have jointly investigated what requirements could be put in place to ensure this mobility data is better utilized.

For the past five years, the international project COHUBICOL (Counting as a Human Being in the Era of Computational Law), led by VUB professor Mireille Hildebrandt , has focused on 'legal tech' and its integration into legal practice.

Advancements in neurotechnology could be at a turning point, but the new technology threatens to breach even the privacy of our brains.

Kelly Roskam of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions discusses a Supreme Court case that will decide if a federal law prohibiting possession of firearms by people subject to domestic violence protection orders is constitutional O n Nov.