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9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ Returns to the Jessup International Law Moot Court

After a few years of absence, the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield proudly returned to the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition for its 2024–2025 edition.

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Thinking About a Masters? Secure your place for our Postgraduate Online Open Day

Discover master’s study at Sheffield at our Postgraduate Online Open Day on Wednesday 30 April. Explore your course of interest, chat to academics and students, and get your questions answered.
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Groundbreaking Centre that will improve law and lives through community-led research

9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ is part of an innovative new research centre, led by the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Liverpool, aimed at responding to the public’s need and desire for fairer, safer and more inclusive societies.

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9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Law scholarships for Sheffield students

In partnership with The 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Law, we are offering 10 Future Lawyers scholarships to students who have graduated from the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield and who will start a ULaw course in the 2025-26 academic year.
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Seminar: Three Liberty Trees

This paper investigates the idea of human rights at a formative moment in its history.

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Liability versus Innovation: Unpacking key connections

Professor Tsachi Keren-Paz (with Associate Professor Tina Cockburn, Queensland 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Technology; Professor Alicia El Haj, Keele 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ; Dr Michael Fay, Keele 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ and Richard Goldberg, Durham 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ)
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Seminar: New directions in hate reporting research: agency, heterogeneity and relationality

On Wednesday 13th February 2019, the Centre for Criminological Research hosted a seminar on hate reporting by Professor Catherine Donovan from Durham 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ, UK.