by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Professor David Sugarman traces the bonds between law and the humanities and calls for greater dialogue and cross-fertilisation Law has long been a principal way of studying the human world. Before the rise of modern social science, speculation about society,...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Keeping it human means working very closely with abuse survivors and listening carefully to transform their problems into solutions, says Professor Jill Marshall. As part of his leading contribution to this issue of Talking Humanities, David Sugarman (The humanities...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Carl Stychin, director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, introduces a selection of articles that describe how the humanities provide a vital sensibility for cutting edge legal scholarship today. The contributors to this issue of Talking Humanities...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Features, Politics & Law
Can movies right the wrongs of miscarriages of justice inflicted by legal systems? They have the dramatic and persuasive tools that are increasingly helpful, writes Dr Mara Malagodi, assistant professor with The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Law is photogenic: it...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law
Michael Thomson, professor of health law at the University of Technology Sydney and chair in health law with the University of Leeds, looks to interdisciplinary dialogue to understand aspects of health care. In his leading contribution to this issue of Talking...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Should historians talk to government? An apparently straightforward question that’s actually far from it – unpacking the position ‘not talking to government’ gets us started, writes Dr Alix Green, reader in history at the University of Essex. The simplest argument for...
