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As humans continue to search the cosmos for evidence of intelligent life from other worlds, and the UAP debate suggests the possibility that it may already have found us, legal scholars are now considering how laws would apply to potential contact scenarios.  Joining us on The Micah Hanks Program this week are Professor Michael Bohlander, the Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy in the Durham Law School, and Dr. John Elliott, an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science and the Coordinator for the SETI Post Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. Together we explore how international laws could apply if contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence were made, and how a recent survey the researchers are conducting could be used to develop post-contact protocols.  Have you had a UFO/UAP sighting? Please consider reporting your sighting to the UAP Sightings Reporting System, a public resource for information about sightings of aerial phenomena. The story doesn't end here... become an X Subscriber and get access to even more weekly content and monthly specials. Want to advertise/sponsor The Micah Hanks Program? We have partnered with the AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. If you would like to advertise with The Micah Hanks Program, all you have to do is click the link below to get started: AdvertiseCast: Advertise with The Micah Hanks Program Show Notes Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode: ELIZONDO: I Investigated UAPs at the Pentagon—Americans Can Handle the Truth  NEWS: Palmdale UFO Scare Leads To Revelations About Mystery Drone Incursions Over Plant 42  How Would Humans React to Contact with Extraterrestrials? UK Researchers Seek Answers in New Survey MICHAEL BOHLANDER: Professor Michael Bohlander - Durham University  BOOK: Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights ARTICLE: Take Me to Your Lawyer: The Legal Aspects of Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence JOHN ELLIOT: Dr John Elliott - School of Computer Science PAPER: Meeting extraterrestrials: scenarios of first contact from the perspective of exosociology  BECOME AN X SUBSCRIBER AND GET EVEN MORE GREAT PODCASTS AND MONTHLY SPECIALS FROM MICAH HANKS. Sign up today and get access to the entire back catalog of The Micah Hanks Program, as well as “classic” episodes of The Gralien Report Podcast, weekly “additional editions” of the subscriber-only X Podcast, the monthly Enigmas specials, and much more. Like us on Facebook Follow @MicahHanks on X. Keep up with Micah and his work at micahhanks.com.

Join Salman Qamar and Hanif Khan for Thursday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: "Elder abuse and loneliness" and "Racism" Unveiling a hidden crisis, domestic abuse among older people in England and Wales Elders abuse and loneliness Unveiling a hidden crisis, domestic abuse among older people in England and Wales reaches shocking proportions, with over 80,000 reported cases in a single year. Join us in raising awareness and taking action to protect our aging population. By integrating Islamic teachings and values, we can foster a just and inclusive society that ensures the rights and protection of every individual, regardless of age or circumstances. Let's strive for a society where human rights are cherished and upheld. Racism A recent, but not new, incident in the Spanish league saw the supporters of Valencia racially abuse Vinicius Jr. a Brazilian player that plays for Real Madrid. The reaction of the Spanish football authorities was not enough according to journalists and players. Join us as we discuss the need to stamp racism out of sports once and for all and how this can be achieved. reaches shocking proportions, with over 80,000 reported cases in a single year. Join us in raising awareness and taking action to protect our aging population. B integrating Islamic teachings and values, we can foster a just and inclusive society that ensures the rights and protection of every individual, regardless of age or circumstances. Let's strive for a society where human rights are cherished and upheld. Guests Robin Hewings - Programme Director of the Campaign to End Loneliness. Dr Hannah Bows- Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Deputy Dean at Durham Law School. Carrie Bower- domestic abuse lead at Age UK Ruth Lowe - Head of loneliness Services at Age UK Hourglass- Nationwide charity whose mission is to end the harm and exploitation of older people in the UK Producers Aisha Malik and Imam Salman Qamar

There are some reports today that Russia is struggling so badly to conquer Ukraine that a Russian victory may not be possible. The forces committed by Russia are suitable to secure the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk but not to subdue the entire population. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2022/03/15194141/1503Ukraine.mp3"][/audio] Aoife O'Donoghue, Professor of International Law and Global Governance in Durham Law School  and Tom Clonan, security analyst, former Irish Army Captain joined the Last Word to discuss. Catch the full chat by pressing the Play button on this page.

The Ukrainian President has said that the next 24 hours will be a crucial period for his country. Talks occurred today between the Russians and Ukrainian delegations today on the Belarussian border. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2022/02/28182008/2802ukraine2.mp3"][/audio] Diana Berg, artist and activist Mariupol, Ukraine, Aoife O'Donoghue, Professor of International Law and Global Governance in Durham Law School and Naomi O'Leary, Irish Times, Europe Correspondent joined the Last Word to discuss. Catch the full chat by pressing the Play button on this page.

The interaction between women representatives and their own communities is one reason why women's inclusion is seen to lead to more durable peace agreements. In this episode, we discuss concrete strategies to build linkages between these two, drawing on experiences from Palestine, Yemen and Northern Ireland. The topic is timely as digitalisation and the rise of different social movements underline the need to make peace processes more democratic. Guests are Heba Zayyan, the Head of UN Women Sub-office in Gaza; Kawkab Al-Thaibani, the co-founder of the Women for Yemen network; Dr Catherine Turner, Associate Professor at the Durham Law School. The podcast is hosted by CMI's Communications Manager Antti Ämmälä.

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna speaks to Thom Brooks.  Thom is an award-winning author, columnist, policy advisor, academic and public speaker. He currently serves as Dean of Durham Law School, one of the UK's most prestigious undergraduate law departments. At Durham, he's led the biggest expansion in the schools's 50 year history, doubling the academic staff count from 42 to 75. Using data-driven US-style management techniques, he's shaken up the department to give it a more internationalist outlook and a research remit which aims to be more relevant to wider society.Alongside his demanding role, he frequently writes in the press, including for the likes of the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Times and more. Originally from the United States, his background as a top legal academic and recent migrant has ensured he remains a popular source for public commentary in the fiery UK immigration debate.  He is also President of the Society of Legal Scholars and an Academic Bencher of the Inner Temple. Topics discussed include: Thom's career journey prior to becoming Dean of the Durham Law SchoolHow he's shaken up the department with a data-driven & internationalist mindsetHis work on making the school's research more relevant to policymaking & societyThe stark differences between UK and US law schoolsHis expert on the notorious SQEOut now on the Legally Speaking Podcast website and all major audio platforms.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/legallyspeakingpodcast)

This week Sally Penni MBE is Talking Law with QC Jolyon Maugham. Jolyon is an Honorary Professor at Durham Law School as well as founder of the Good Law Project, which brought a number of legal challenges to the Brexit process to court.   In this episode Jolyon shares highlights from his hugely varied career, as well as how the Good Law Project came about and some of its successes so far. Presented by Sally Penni MBE, barrister at law at Kenworthy’s Chambers Manchester and founder and chair of Women in the Law UK. Follow Sally on Twitter @SallyPenni1  Find us on LinkedIn or at WomenInTheLawUK.com

What if we’re been thinking about climate change the wrong way? What if it’s not a problem that can be solved, but something that can only be managed? What if climate change is here to stay? Thom Brooks is the author of Climate Change Ethics for an Endangered World. He is professor of Law and Government at the University of Durham, and the outgoing Dean of the Durham Law School. He is also a public policy advisor and the founding Director of the Labour Academic Network. This podcast is created in partnership with The Philosopher, the UK’s longest running public philosophy journal.  Register for free for the spring series of talks and events at: https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/events Music by Pataphysical Artwork by Nick Halliday

Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called "free speech" social network. Stephanie Hare explains why the action is being taken and what the chances of success are. And we get wider context from Helen Fenwick, professor of law at Durham Law School. Bitcoin has had a wild few years. When first created in 2009 a single bitcoin was worth less than a cent. Last weekend it peaked at over $40,000 and on Monday crashed to $32,000. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority said on Monday that investors must be prepared to loose everything they invest if they want to buy Bitcoin. The US Treasury is proposing reporting restrictions on large transactions. Bill Bambrough is a writer on technology, finance, economics, and business for Forbes Magazine. We asked him what investors should be prepared for when they invest in crypto-currencies. Plus would you perform a facelift on yourself? Vishala Sri-Pathma finds out about the beauty firms trying to survive in lockdown by offering do it yourself winkle lifts. Joining Jamie Robertson throughout the programme are Patrick Barta, Asia Enterprise Editor for the Wall Street Journal in Bangkok and in Washington, Alexis Goldstein, an activist and financial reform advocate. Photo: Parler Has Been Closed Credit: Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Parler has dropped offline as Amazon pulled support for its "free speech" social network. BBC disinformation reporter Marianna Spring explains why the site has been blocked by a number of big technology firms in the last few days. And we get wider context from Helen Fenwick, professor of law at Durham Law School. Also in the programme, the BBC's John Campbell reports from Northern Ireland on the impact the end of the Brexit transition period, less than a fortnight ago, is having there. Plus, our regular workplace commentator Peter Morgan reflects on how those of us working from home have had to find their way through a maze of new technologies to communicate, with varying levels of success.

Hannah is currently an Assistant Professor in Criminal Law and Director of Equality and Diversity within Durham Law School. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA). Her research interests are broadly located within the fields of violence against women, victimology, feminist and socio-legal theory. Over the last six years she has conducted research examining different forms of violence against older people, with a specific focus on domestic violence, sexual violence and homicide of older women. This work has led to a range of outputs, media interviews and articles, policy and public engagement activity. She was awarded an ESRC Outstanding Impact (runner-up) prize in 2017. She is currently working on a British Academy funded project with colleagues in the Department of Sociology examining Sexual Violence at UK music festivals. You can find out more about the study here: https://safetystudydurham.wordpress.com/. Outside of the university, Hannah is the founder and director of the International Network for Research into Violence and Abuse and co-director of the British Society of Criminology Victims Network (with Professor Pam Davies at Northumbria University). She is Chair of Age UK Teesside. In this conversation, we spoke about her work on violence against older people and specifically sexual violence against older people in the UK. Hannah shed light on the forms this violence takes, survivors, perpetrators, the 'real rape stereotype', the work that needs to go into tackling violence against older people and more. Research discussed: Bows, H. (2018) ‘Domestic Homicide of Older People (2010-2015): A comparative analysis of intimate-partner homicide and parricide cases in the UK’. British Journal of Social Work. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcy10 Bows, H. and Westmarland, N. (2018) ‘Rape of Older People In The United Kingdom: Challenging The ‘Real Rape’ Stereotype. British Journal of Criminology. 57 (1), 1-17. Available from: http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/24/bjc.azv116.full

Eliza Bechtold, PhD candidate at Durham Law School, speaking on Panel I: 'Free speech rights in the new communications ecology'. https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Bechtold.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law'. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

Eliza Bechtold, PhD candidate at Durham Law School, speaking on Panel I: 'Free speech rights in the new communications ecology'. https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Bechtold.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law'. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

Eliza Bechtold, PhD candidate at Durham Law School, speaking on Panel I: 'Free speech rights in the new communications ecology'. https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Bechtold.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

Eliza Bechtold, PhD candidate at Durham Law School, speaking on Panel I: 'Free speech rights in the new communications ecology'. Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Bechtold.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/

Public Sexual Harassment with Dr. Fiona Vera Gray, Sarah Myhre & Emily May This episode explores public sexual harassment and cat-calling, a.k.a. "wolf-whistling" in the UK, with Dr. Fiona Vera-Gray, a Research Fellow in the Durham Law School and author of the new book "The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom For Safety." Over the course of 5 years, Dr. Gray spoke to women in the UK about their experiences with public sexual harassment and collected these accounts in her book; we also examine the amount of how women put into simply avoiding sexual violence. ​This episode also includes an interview with Emily May, the founder of the organization, Hollaback, who's mission is to stop public harassment through a global people-lead movement. ​And Dr. Sarah Myhre returns in this episode to recount her experiences with public sexual harassment and assaulted in the opening clip. The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom For Safety Dr. Fiona Vera-Gray Hollaback! Org Dr. Sarah Myhre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Brexit negotiations go on, the UK is facing an immigration scandal with the Windrush generation. These are people who moved to Britain from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971. Many of the kids arrived on there parents' passports and after decades, are facing issues of being denied services, losing their jobs and even being deported. Host Dan Loney looks at this situation and why Prime Minister Theresa May was forced to apologize with Thom Brooks, Dean of Durham Law School at Durham University, Terri Givens, Provost and Professor of Political Science at Menlo College in California, and Randall Hansen, Interim Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this lecture, which is based on his 2017 German Law Journal article, Matthew will argue for a reading of the work of Martti Koskenniemi—arguably the most significant international legal thinker of the post-Cold War era—as an exercise in (Lacanian) psychoanalysis. Excavating the links between Koskenniemi and French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and analyzing the origins of those links in Koskenniemi’s debt to the Harvard branch of the American Critical Legal Studies (‘CLS’) movement, Matthew will argue that over almost thirty years Koskenniemi has employed psychoanalytic techniques to rebuild the self-confidence of international law(yers). The success of this confidence-building project explains the acclaim Koskenniemi’s work enjoys. As international law’s psychoanalyst he has defined the identity of the international lawyer and mapped the structure of international legal argument, stabilizing international law’s present reality by synchronizing it with narratives of its past. Any attempt to destabilize that reality or depart from present structures into an alternative future must start from an analysis of Koskenniemi’s methods and it is in this sense, and not out of a more pure interest in Koskenniemi’s work, that Matthew seeks to deconstruct Koskenniemi’s oeuvre. This lecture seeks to situate Koskenniemi’s method, reveal his choices and explore their limits in an effort to develop (tentative) proposals for a “new” international law(yer) and an international legal future outside the structure that Koskenniemi has mapped so effectively and affectively. Dr Matthew Nicholson joined Durham Law School as Lecturer in International Law in September 2016. Before joining Durham he worked at the University of Southampton as Lecturer in Public International Law (2012-2016), having completed his PhD at UCL in 2013. Matthew's work has been published in specialist and generalist law journals with international reach. His 2015 article 'The Political Unconscious of the English Foreign Act of State and Non-Justiciability Doctrine(s)' won the International and Comparative Law Quarterly's 'Young Scholar Prize'. He has also published in Law and Literature, Law and Critique, and the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. His research and teaching interests cover all aspects of international law, with particular interests in international legal theory, international environmental law and policy (climate change in particular), and the relationship between national and international law.

Thom Brooks is Dean of Durham Law School, Professor of Law and Government, and Associate in the Department of Philosophy in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. His academic work focuses on issues in Ethics, Criminal Law, and Public Policy. But he is widely known as an outspoken critic of the UK Citizenship Test. His most recent book is Becoming British: UK Citizenship Examined (Biteback Publishing 2016). The "Why We Argue" podcast is produced by the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut as part of the Humility and Conviction in Public Life project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Thom Brooks is Dean of Durham Law School, Professor of Law and Government, and Associate in the Department of Philosophy in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. His academic work focuses on issues in Ethics, Criminal Law, and Public Policy. But he is widely known as an outspoken critic of the UK Citizenship Test. His most recent book is Becoming British: UK Citizenship Examined (Biteback Publishing 2016). The "Why We Argue" podcast is produced by the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut as part of the Humility and Conviction in Public Life project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Thom Brooks is Dean of Durham Law School, Professor of Law and Government, and Associate in the Department of Philosophy in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. His academic work focuses on issues in Ethics, Criminal Law, and Public Policy. But he is widely known as an outspoken critic of the UK Citizenship Test. His most recent book is Becoming British: UK Citizenship Examined (Biteback Publishing 2016).

US President Donald Trump is ‘still' waging war against the mainstream media. The issue being contested now is the attendance at Trump's inauguration event. Trump's war on media after taking office is slightly surprising, says Thom Brooks and adds that, “Donald Trump the candidate is very much Donald Trump the President”. After watching Brook's take on Trump vs. media war, viewers would be convinced that Trump's war against media is actually a war against facts. Brooks also shares his view on Brexit Supreme Court ruling due tomorrow. #US, #politics, #media, #Trump, #President, #UK, #Brexit, #macro

Dr Gleider Hernandez, Reader in Public International Law, University of Durham, October 2016 Dr Gleider I Hernández is Reader in Public International Law at Durham Law School and Deputy Director of the Durham Global Policy Institute. Originally from Canada, Gleider took a D.Phil from Wadham College, Oxford, an LL.M degree from Leiden, and BCL & LL.B degrees from McGill. His DPhil, The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Function, was published by the OUP in 2014, and was shortlisted for the Peter Birks Prize. His second book, International Law, will be published in 2017, also by the OUP. Gleider is currently an AHRC Research Leadership Fellow on a project entitled 'Constructing Authority in International Law'. Besides his academic position at Durham, Gleider serves as Junior Faculty with the Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy and is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the TMC Asser Institute in The Hague. He has previously has been Visiting Fellow at McGill and Amsterdam universities. In terms of practice and consultancy work, Gleider currently serves as Expert on the group of experts drafting the NATO/CCDCOE Tallinn Manual on Cyber Operations in International Law, and has just completed a mandate as Special Assistant to an ICSID investment tribunal. He also served from 2008-2010 as Associate Legal Officer to Judges Peter Tomka and Bruno Simma at the International Court of Justice. He is also a Member of the Legal Action Committee of GLANLaw.org, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to challenging injustice through innovative legal strategy. Finally, nearly a decade ago, he served as the Convenor of the Public International Law Discussion Group of the Oxford Law Faculty, to which he returns with fond memories. Abstract: This paper attempts to understand the authority asserted by certain norm-applying institutions (‘law-applying authorities’ or officials) as part of their practice of responding to situations of indeterminacy in the law. Indeterminacy is explored as but a temporary gap, one which can be resolved through mechanisms of determinability within the legal system. The authority of norm-applying institutions is purportedly defended as necessary for the existence of law and the legal system, but is in fact rooted in social practices that legitimate the exercise of authority through recognition. Such a claim to authority is specifically with respect to content-independent authority, to the extent that it relies on the identity of the law-applying actor, rather than on the substance of the reasoning invoked. There is a circularity in identifying law-applying authorities through reference to the rules of the legal system, yet presuming their existence as a necessary condition for the existence of the legal system. Instead, the answer is partly also to be found in the existence of common discourse rules between various international actors, who together constitute an epistemic community and whose canons, forms of discourse and methods serve to define the practice of international law. It is through this combination of social recognition and adherence to socially-constructed canons and discourse rules that authority in law-application, law-creation and development privilege, over all other priorities, the coherence and authority of the system as a whole.

On 5th June, Professor Fiona de Londras, from Durham Law School, gave a talk to the Oxford Human Rights Hub on the development of EU counter-terrorism measures. On 11 September 2001 the EU had no formal counter-terrorism law. Indeed, at that time even coordination in criminal justice generally speaking was contentious within the EU context. However, little more than a decade later the EU has a vast and well-developed body of law and policy on counter-terrorism comprising well over 200 ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ measures. Some, although not all, of these measures were introduced quickly and in the relatively immediate aftermath of the 11 September attacks; others have taken more time and been ground out at the slower pace of EU law-making that we are more accustomed to. However, in all cases concerns about the implications of EU counter-terrorism for the protection and enjoyment of rights have arisen. Professor de Londras considered the mechanisms by which rights are accounted for in EU counter-terrorism, critically assessing the practices of pre-legislative scrutiny and consultation, formal ex post facto assessment (on the rare occasions when it takes places), domestic analysis (by courts, parliament and statutory bodies), operational peer review processes, and analysis by the CJEU. Drawing on research from the FP7 project SECILE (Security Europe Through Counter-Terrorism: Impact, Legitimacy and Effectivenes), she identified serious deficiencies from a rights-based perspective at all of these levels (notwithstanding improvements post-Lisbon) and proposed structures for accounting more fully for rights within EU counter-terrorism.