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The Children and the Law Research Group
The Children and the Law Research Group brings together academics from across the University of Sheffield whose research interests relate to children, childhood, and parents, with a focus on how law and legal regulation affects each of these.
Bhutan justice project
The project is focused on understanding and supporting justice needs in Bhutan and has included work on juvenile detention, law reform and engagement with civil society organisations.
Project Fortitude
Project Fortitude aims to improve children and young people’s legal capability. Or, in other words, their ability to deal effectively with the many law-related issues that they encounter in their everyday lives - at home, at school and in their wider communities.
Fit For Law
Emma Jones
Developing evidence-based materials to improve the wellbeing of UK legal professionals
Procedural fairness, accountability and the ombudsman
The project’s aim is to understand the impact of the different means employed to verify the quality of ombudsman determinations and address user concerns.
Procedural fairness, accountability and the ombudsman project
Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade
This project aimed to address a global challenge that remains increasingly pressing: How to achieve the EU’s development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while meeting the global target of staying within two degrees global warming and avoid transgressing other planetary boundaries.
New rating reveals compliance of top 30 German companies
Andreas Rühmkorf
The first ever compliance rating of the top 30 German listed companies has been published today (30 August 2017), with input from an academic at the University of Sheffield.
Law in Context: Rapid Response Event & Podcast Series
What’s Law Got to Do With It? Quite a bit, as it turns out! Law in Context is a rapid-response event and podcast series that dives into the legal side of the latest news. Co-hosted by Dr. Anna Ventouratou and Dr. Sotirios Lekkas, this series unpacks the legal issues behind the headlines and explores the bigger picture of how the law operates in today’s world.
Egalitarian Digital Privacy: Image Based Abuse and Beyond
Tsachi Keren-Paz
The project takes image based abuse ('revenge porn') as a case study, explores liability of platforms and viewers for viewing IBA and develops a theory for liability for breach of privacy in cyberspace which is sensitive to egalitarian considerations, including gender justice.
The Peaceful Settlement of Cyber Disputes
Russell Buchan, Daniel Franchini and Nicholas Tsagourias
This project will construct an analytical and explanatory framework according to which the peaceful settlement of cyber disputes can be understood and practised.
Study on the Control and Enforcement Rules for Geographical Indication (GI) protection for non-agricultural products in the EU (January - August 2021)
Andrea Zappalaglio
The objective of the study consists in ‘providing the Commission with further evidence, analysis and advice on specific control and enforcement aspects of national, European and international trade marks and GI system which are relevant for the preparation of a possible EU system for the protection of non-agricultural GIs.’
