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Project Funder From To Lead DLS Academic

Legal Support for Enhancing Ambition under the Paris Agreement 

The Rockerfeller Foundation 20/09/2021 31/05/2022 Petra Minnerop

Regulating Assisted Gestative Technologies: A preliminary investigation into future legislation in England and Wales

British Academy 01/09/2021 31/08/2023 Chloe Romanis
Northern/Ireland Feminist Constitutions ESRC IAA 19/11/2021 19/11/2021 Aoife O'Donoghue
Harming vulnerable women to 'protect' foetuses? ESRC 01/07/2021 30/06/2022 Emma Milne
Unravelling The Causes Of Complexity In The UK VAT Law: Tracking The Links Between Uncertainty And Litigation Chartered Institute of Taxation 01/01/2022 30/06/2023 Yige Zu
The Judicial Afterlife: What judges do after they leave the bench? (1950-2020) British Academy 01/06/2021 31/12/2022 Ben Yong

Building capacity to enhancing compliance with (domestic legal) implementation of the Paris Agreement

ESRC

15/02/2021 15/02/2022 Petra Minnerop
Reforming Cohabitation Law in England and Wales: Building Networks and Informing Policy Durham RIF 01/04/2021 30/09/2022 Andrew Hayward
The impact of Covid-19 on local authority homelessness provision Durham RIF 01/04/2021 31/03/2022 Chris Bevan
The Feminist Constitutions Network: Imagining New Constitutional Futures for the Island of Ireland Durham RIF 01/05/2021 30/04/2022 Aoife O'Donoghue
International Society of Family Law World Conference travel application Society of Legal Studies 01/07/2021 31/07/2021 Andrew Hayward
Demoicracy: Constitutional Structures for a “Government of Peoples” Leverhulme Trust 01/10/2021 30/09/2023 Robert Schuetze 
Sexual Violence at UK Music Festivals British Academy 01/12/2018 31/05/2021 Hannah Bows
Revenge Pornography - The implications for law reform Australian Research Council 01/09/2017 28/02/2021 Clare Mcglynn
Virtual Sandpits Follow on Funding Global (Dis)Order British Academy 01/04/2021 31/03/2022 Jane Rooney 
Prosecuting, defending, sentencing: Infant killing and the role of the law and courts in England and Wales British Academy 31/03/2021 30/03/2023 Emma Milne 
Freedom of Conscience - Emerging Challenges and Future Prospects British Academy 01/01/2018 31/12/2021 Ian Leigh 
From Report to Court: Crimes Against Older People British Academy 23/03/2020 22/09/2023 Hannah Bows 
Ethical advice and ethics committeess in the pandemic British Academy 01/08/2020 31/07/2021 Emma Cave 
Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine Leverhulme Trust 01/10/2020 30/09/2022 Shaun Pattinson 
The #metoo momentum and its aftermath: digital justice seeking and societal and legal responses Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation 01/07/2019 30/06/2022 Clare Mcglynn 

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