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A Joint Seminar with a Guest Scholar Organised by the ACCPIL - 'Citizenship and Borders: The Meaning and Cost of 'Belonging' through the Lenses of the 'Public' and 'Private''

The seminar was held on the 13th June 2023 with the two speakers leading the two sessions and eight panels - Magdalena Zabrocka and Shahab Saqib. The event focused on the concept of citizenship, its different faces, meaning and places within various areas of law, as well as relevance to…

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Comments on the Hearing System Working Group Report

The final report of the Hearings System Working Group (HSWG) was published on 25th May. The report proposes a significant redesign of the existing children’s hearings system in Scotland. Dr Alyson Evans of the University of Strathclyde, an academic specialist in the children’s hearings system, has recently blogged on two…

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The Anti-SLAPP Research Hub reflects on media freedom on the 30th Anniversary of World Press Freedom Day

What is World Press Freedom Day?

The 3rd of May was proclaimed “World Press Freedom Day” by the UN General Assembly in 1993. The Day raises awareness about the importance of independent media, threats to media freedom, and presents an opportunity for States to reflect on and recommit to protecting…

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The Anti-SLAPP Research Hub calls for global cooperation in tackling SLAPPs at the UN's expert seminar on the safety of journalists

On Tuesday 25 March 2023, Dr Francesca Farrington represented The Anti-SLAPP Research Hub at an expert seminar on legal and economic threats to the safety of journalists organised by the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). She was accompanied by Anti-SLAPP Hub Member Ms. Magdalena…

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Negotiation skills - Can 'nice' people be good negotiators?

Something quite remarkable happened in Capitol Hill in Washington DC recently (24 March 2023). The US top trade negotiator, Katherine Tai (a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School), appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee of the US Congress to answer questions from lawmakers about the US trade policy.…

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Nigeria's Creative Industries Development Bill: A Private International Law Perspective

When Burna Boy, who is based in Lagos, negotiates a contract to perform at the Paris Stade de France, perhaps doing so from his second home in London; private international law (“PIL”) is unavoidably engaged.[1] All parties involved need certainty and predictability on the legal norms that govern any international…

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