20 May 2012
Dr Michael Naughton, Senior Lecturer in the Law School and SPAIS, and a leading expert on miscarriages of justice, has been interviewed on the Today programme and quoted in both The Sun and on the BBC website, in the wake of the quashing by the Court of Appeal of the conviction of Sam Hallam, who spent more than seven years in prison for a murder he always denied committing.
18 May 2012
Star hockey player and Bristol University Law student Georgie Twigg says she will be going for gold after being named in Team GB’s squad for the Olympics. The University of Bristol has supported Georgie with her studies, allowing her to split the final year of her law degree over two years and arranging for all her seminars and tutorials to be on a Friday to accommodate her intense training schedule.
18 May 2012
The School of Law congratulates Ben-Jacob Diewitz who has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
17 May 2012
Professor Paula Giliker will be delivering a lecture on European Contract Law entitled - A common sales law for Europe? - at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana on 24 May 2012, followed by a keynote address at the national Judicial Academy held at the Supreme Court of Slovenia on Friday 25 May 2012.
4 May 2012
Dr Michael Naughton took part in the BBC's The Big Questions live from Ashton Park School in Bristol, where the topic under discussion was "Do some crimes deserve the death penalty?"