On 18 April, the legal scholar Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who holds the Lawrence D. Biele Chair of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was arrested by Israeli police and held overnight.
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Applications for these roles closed on Friday, 10 May at 5.00 pm London time.
Dr Jason Warr, associate professor of criminology at the University of Nottingham, has been awarded this year’s Radzinowicz Memorial Prize.
There are a few things coming up this month that are worth looking out for.
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Our director, Richard Garside, was on Sunday Morning Live on BBC One yesterday, discussing whether we should send fewer people to prison.
We have joined forces with ten other organisations, pressing for reform of the dreadful Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.
A compassionate release programme, reparations and resentencing are among proposals in a new five-point plan from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies to resolve the IPP crisis.
An update on recent work attempting to reduce the scope of joint enterprise laws.
We have been working with the Labour MP Kim Johnson, JENGbA and legal experts in a fresh attempt to narrow the scope of joint enterprise prosecution.
Our Director, Richard Garside, gave evidence yesterday to the House of Commons Justice Committee, as part of its inquiry into the future prison population and prison capacity.
