On his 100th day in office, Donald Trump propelled Mark Carney to power. Trump has created a national emergency in Canada with his huge tariffs, intensified by fears that his “51st state” belligerence ...

Like many American academics living abroad, I regularly travel between the United States and my adopted home country—for conferences, holidays, and family visits. Until now, I have never been the ...

It's not just in the UK that a series of votes on assisted dying are taking place. There is also a flurry of activity across the Atlantic. If both supporters and opponents are to be believed, New York ...

On 16th April the UK Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, the term “sex” (and the terms “man” or “woman”) should be understood to refer solely to “biological sex”. That ...

Like a lot of middle-aged people, I am on Facebook not so much because I want to be, but because it feels essential to keep up with the minutiae of daily life in my circle of friends and family.

With just three weeks to go before the assisted dying bill returns to the Commons, it is worth looking at what happens next—and what is going on behind the scenes. Obviously, the biggest danger to the ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal text is the Environmental Information ...

Just nine months after the last general election and probably more than 40 before the next, the battle cry of “unite the right” has been both surprisingly quick and slow off the mark. Quick because we ...

Since 2017, Donna Ockenden has spent much of her time gathering testimony about the very worst things that can happen during childbirth: death or serious injury for mothers and babies. The senior ...

More curious goings-on at the Jewish Chronicle (JC), the only paper in British history, so far as I can see, where we are not allowed to know who owns it, or why. This cloak of secrecy led to five of ...

Jess O'Thomson is a legal researcher, writer & journalist. They are currently a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, School of Law. Their research explores the use of trans and disability human ...