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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.

Against the backdrop of reactions in this country to Hamas' terror in Israel, Felix Klein, the German government's anti-Semitism commissioner, has called for tougher criminal law in cases of incitement to hatred.

The rules of war and human rights in the Israel-Gaza conflict Johns Hopkins human rights expert Len Rubenstein explains how laws governing war apply to health and human rights in the conflict In this

A handwritten letter from an incarcerated man got Benjamin Perrin rethinking Canada's criminal justice system.

Australia is world leading in its uptake of residential rooftop solar, installing new solar panels at ten times the global average rate.

Tilburg University has appointed dr. Phillip Paiement of Tilburg Law School to Professor of Law and Governance in the Anthropocene, effective September 1st, 2023.

In the past decade, a rising number of trade measures in the interest of national security have increased insecurity in the global economy.

For individuals forced to flee their homeland and experience the ordeal of stepping onto a smuggler's boat, being 'warehoused' on a barge will be terrifying.

In a piece for The Conversation, Dr Karen Nokes (UCL Laws) and Professor Richard Moorhead of the University of Exeter describe the origins of the Post Office scandal, possibly the largest miscarriage of justice in UK history, and explain why it is ongoing.

Research shows 'diverse' views on impact of remote hearings during the pandemic Research carried out by the University of Glasgow's School of Law and Ipsos Scotland on the adoption and use of remote hearings during the COVID-19 pandemic reveals a diverse range of views on the perceived impacts on stakeholders, with no consistent opinion on their effect or continued use.

Ordinary suburban motels, utterly banal and unremarkable to most. However, what goes on behind their closed doors intrigued Sydney Law School criminologist and artist, Carolyn McKay.

In an open letter addressed to Greek and EU authorities, 300 academics turn their attention to the migrant shipwreck of 14 June 2023 off the coast of Pylos, Greece, resulting in the loss of an estimated 650 lives.

A lack of understanding by, and encouragement from, management is proving a barrier to the uptake of technologies like artificial intelligence in the legal services sector, according to a new report by UCL, the University of Manchester, and the Law Society.

FACULTY Q&A The concept of third gender challenges the conventional notions of a binary gender system that have existed in various cultures worldwide, as in the case of Latin America, extending beyond the traditional male and female categorizations prevalent in the United States.