Law School Research Blog Archive | Law

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End of project event and research findings launch - Experiences of men forced-to-penetrate women in the UK

Dr Siobhan Weare blogs about the launch of the findings from her British Academy funded research project ‘Experiences of men forced-to-penetrate women in the UK’
Freedom of Information Act 2000 as a Research Tool in the Social Sciences

Dr Tom Webb reflects on the recent symposium hosted by the Centre for Law and Society on the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as a Research Tool in the Social Sciences.
Does “My Choice” really mean “NHS privatisation”?

The My Choice scheme at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was suspended in June 2019 amid Daily Mirror revelations of NHS patients being required to pay for treatment and criticisms of “NHS privatisation”. Dr Mary Guy reflects on what “NHS privatisation” means and its role in this story.
Tax with a capital ‘T’: exploring how tax professionals understand and define taxes

Dr Amy Lawton blogs about her current research project, exploring how tax professionals understand and define taxes. This research has been supported by a Law School Small Grant Funding Award.
‘Success’ or ‘failure’? The story of academic research leave

Every seven terms, academics at Lancaster University can apply for a four month period of either academic research leave or education research leave. I was awarded academic research leave from mid-December 2018 until mid-April 2019, to undertake activities linked to three of my current research projects.
BACL Postgraduate Workshop Recap

Thank you to Dr Mary Guy for organising this year’s annual BACL workshop, which was kindly supported by Intersentia and hosted by Lancaster University. As in previous years, many different comparative research projects were discussed by PhD students in this year’s workshop.
John Murphy reflects on the headway he has made with his new book project: The Politics and Province of the Economic Torts

The economic torts are sometimes thought of as a legal backwater. Very few law schools teach them; many textbooks don’t include them and in terms of their juridical content and structure they have a tendency to appear like “tort law gone mad”.
Law and Social Transformation: A Story of Success

It all started last spring! In May 2018, Preethi (then a first year PhD student in Law) had the idea of organising an international conference, an event where scholars from diverse legal backgrounds from far and wide could come to Lancaster University and interact with each other.
Making the Old(?) Guard Responsible: Shareholder Power in the 2017 Shareholder Rights Directive

Rafael Savva reflects on his paper titled ‘Shareholder Power as an Accountability Mechanism: The 2017 Shareholder Rights Directive and the Challenges Towards Enhancing Shareholder Rights’, as it was presented at the 3rd International Conference on European Company Law and Corporate Governance in Zagreb, Croatia.
Competition Policy in Healthcare and the NHS Long-Term Plan

Dr Mary Guy’s new monograph, Competition Policy in Healthcare – Frontiers in Insurance-Based and Taxation-Funded Systems, is published by Intersentia on 11 January 2019. Here she previews some of the book’s discussions following the recent introduction of the NHS Long Term Plan.