North East Law Review

In the final episode of the 2020/21 academic year, Matt and Niamh talk to Dr Funke Abimbola MBE, Newcastle Law School Alumni, about her career after law school, her work on diversity in the legal profession and non-traditional career paths following a law degree. Funke's website is below for more information:

https://funkeabimbola.com/

Guest hosts Amy Jones and Izzy Ponsonby talk to Alexa Netty, Executive Director of SolidariTee about the refugee crisis and its intersection with the law. SolidariTee is the largest student-led charity fighting for sustainable change in the refugee crisis. They sell organic t-shirts for £12 with 100% of profits going towards sustainable legal aid, contact [email protected] or [email protected] to buy one or find out more!

Or to keep up to date with their work visit https://www.solidaritee.org.uk/

Niamh and guest host Rozhin Shabbak talk to Dr Nikki Godden-Rasul about her research on Portraits of women in the law and Inspirational Women of the Law Event 2021. The full reference and link to the website is below.

Godden-Rasul N., 'Portraits of women of the law: re-envisioning gender, law and the legal profession in law schools' [2019] 39(3) Legal Studies, 415

https://www.iwlaw.uk/

All information correct at time of recording, 07/05/2021

Guest hosts Max Chau and Maleka Akuany talk to Robin Taylor, Executive Director of Lawyers Without Borders. Lawyers Without Borders is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to advance global rule of law, build capacity and integrity in the world’s justice sectors and support transitions and development. (https://www.lawyerswithoutborders.org/contact)

If you would like to get involved in the LWOB Newcastle Student Division, please email [email protected]

Matt and Niamh celebrate episode 10, by talking to Maya Ffrench Adam, former Newcastle Law School student who graduated in July 2020. They talk to Maya about life after law school, her research topic on Automatic Vehicle liability and her interest in competition law.

Guest Host Harri Thomas interviews Admiral Law Technical Director Michael Cordner. Michael talks about his career, what it's like being a manager of a legal team and the impact of COVID-19. Harri also asks Michael some quick-fire questions including a tricky rugby/football question for a born Englishman living in Wales!

Niamh and Matt talk to Newcastle Law School's Dr Sarah Morley about an interesting multidisciplinary piece of work she is leading called the Novel Beings Project. Sarah is specifically looking at the development of regulation to deal with novel beings such as Synthetic Genome Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. Check out the project's Twitter @novel_beings

Matt and Niamh talk to Kevin Crosby, senior lecturer at Newcastle University about his route to academia, his research on the Historical Development of the Jury Franchise and the future of the juries in the modern world. Check out the blog post we discussed below.

https://lawandhistoryreview.org/article/the-jury-franchise-and-ideals-of-citizenship-in-interwar-britain/

In our first guest host episode, Ricky Pancholi debates with Dr Josh Jowitt, Libby Klinke, Thomas Desilva and Frank Anderson about whether the Law is Fair, Just and Reasonable. From Animal Rights, Black Lives Matter and COVID-19, this episode covers a wide range of topics that both law students and non-law students can enjoy.

Matt and Niamh speak to Emilie Coutin, a 2020 Newcastle University Law School graduate currently working in Denmark. Emilie was awarded the Pride of Newcastle University for Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability & the Environment. The blog post we discussed is below:

https://thehiveofscience.com/post.php?id=70&fbclid=IwAR2aJ3juFETg5bHQibWSx_XxxoxW7GF3cxgc5Tnjv8tjBPHOm9EXRCaxQfc

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