Articles about 'Simon Deakin'

Meet Bhumika Billa: the legal scholar with a poet’s love of language. Her Information Theory of Law pushes our legal systems towards justice and fairness.

Policies aimed at addressing the migrant crisis need to take into account the serious mental health issues faced by refugees and asylum seekers, say researchers at the University of Cambridge as they launch two films highlighting the plight of migrants and possible policy options to support them.

As the pandemic crisis has played out across the world, different governments have taken different approaches to controlling the spread of virus and supporting citizens – with different outcomes. Can we start to draw conclusions on how best to govern future catastrophic risks?

Researchers have built the single largest dataset of employment laws – spanning more than 100 countries across much of post-war history – to look at how worker rights affect economies over decades.    

Researchers at the University of Cambridge are helping to understand the world of work – the good, the bad, the fair and the future.

On 30 March, the day after the 'triggering' of Article 50 began the official Brexit process, a group of University of Cambridge lawyers, economists, historians and tax experts gathered in Peterhouse.    

Economists at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) have challenged the assumptions of the Treasury in their new forecast for the UK economy and the impact of Brexit in 2017.