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Participating in the International Law Virtual Conference

Recently Coventry Law School carried out a 3-day virtual International Commercial Law Conference, which enabled students to develop intercultural competencies by collaborating with each other and lecturers from partner Universities. This included Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL), in Chongqing, China and Nebrija University in Madrid.

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Who is in the driving seat? Autonomous Vehicles and the problem of responsibility

The technology for autonomous vehicles is developing rapidly but is the law keeping pace? Read all about it here and watch the video of the talk by Dr. Siraj Shaikh.

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The UK and the Future of Environmental Protection

The Environment Bill is key legislation for providing the direction of environmental law now that the UK has left the European Union and the transition period has ended. This blogpost focuses on two particular areas of concern within it: the creation of the Office of Environmental Protection (OEP) and biodiversity.

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Challenges in the Governance of Plastic Wastes

Plastic waste pollution is a huge issue with many detrimental economic, environmental and social impacts. Many questions therefore exist in relation to its most effective governance. This blogpost covers some of the motivation for a Special Issue on the Governance of Plastics.

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Using Private Property Rights to Avoid ‘Wasting’ Waste in the Linköping and Norrköping Industrial Symbiosis Network

Property rights in waste – in essence who owns waste and how waste can be used – are a key consideration in how waste is conceived and treated. Yet, they are not consciously engaged with to promote reuse, recycling, or recovery of waste. This post covers how private property rights are currently being used to facilitate the looping of wastes in one particular case study in Sweden.

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VIRTUE Roundtable: Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Human Rights in the area of Taxation

On the 29th of January 2021, a fascinating discussion took place during the Roundtable Discussion Series organised within the VIRTEU project. A very distinguished panel of experts discussed burning topics relating to “CSR, Business Ethics, and Human Rights in the Area of Taxation”. This blogpost summarises the outcomes of the event.

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AI and Law Forum: Fashion, Copyright and AI: Does the New Creative Environment Come with New Copyright Issues?

As the founders of the Forum, Dr Luo Li and Dr Amber Darr invited Ms Heidi Härkönen, Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku in Finland, to deliver a guest talk on 24 February 2021 on how AI raises complicated copyright issues in the fashion industry. Dr Luo Li provides an account of the session in this post.

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Disseminating Research in a Virtual World

Aaron Cooper highlights some of the ways in which he has been ensuring the dissemination of his research virtually during the pandemic.

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Three Minute Thesis: A Reflection on the Development of New Skills

Mahmoud Masud reflects on his experience of recently winning the People’s Choice Award and placing third in the judges’ choice in Coventry University’s Three Minute Thesis competition.

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CLS Staff Forum: Clowning Around? Expanding the Right to Accompaniment in Workplace Disciplinary Proceedings in English Law

I recently gave a presentation at the Coventry Law School Staff Forum on the potential changes to the ‘Right to be Accompanied’ at workplace disciplinary hearings. My PhD studies focus on the role of Natural Justice Principles at disciplinary proceedings, so this was related to my thesis. For those unfamiliar with this area of law […]