Legal Cheek Journal
The most original writing about legal affairs on the internet.
Resting in peace? How we need to regulate the industry which thrives on your afterlife
What happens to your Facebook page after you die? Should someone be able to faceswap a photo of you as a corpse and post it on Snapchat?
Law firm flotations — buyer beware
Investing in UK-listed outfits may be profitable, but there are associated risks
Protecting data caught in the ‘dragnets’ of Facebook
Future trainee Wilkie Hollens explores why protecting data matters in an era when it's 'increasingly likely' we'll begin falling in love with our computers
GDPR: Good for social media users, bad for business
The EU regulations may not be the change the world of data protection actually needed, says law graduate Chloe Amies in her shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize
GDPR: social media and the right to be forgotten
George Ketsopoulos speculates why teenagers learn Latin but not how the internet works in his shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize
Should there be criminal liability for corporations?
Debate about corporate manslaughter thrust into spotlight following Grenfell Tower fire
Clause 8(e): The Cambridge Analytica enabling clause
Law student Joe Ferris delves deep into the Data Protection Bill in his runner-up entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize
In opposition to data ownership
Should you be paid for every page you like on Facebook? Read the winning entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize, by UCL law student Natalie Chyi
They say that data is the new oil — but who exactly owns it?
As part of Legal Cheek’s occasional series exploring buzzing legal research across the UK and internationally, today, on the day that new data protection rules come into force, we delve into the unchartered territory of the law on data ownership
Drunken consent in rape cases: Why the law leaves a lot to be desired
Legislation and case law raises questions
Consensual sadomasochism is private sex — not violence
Law students marvel at R v Brown, but has the law got it right?
Should sex offenders have access to the internet?
It's seen as a human right
Why DDoS protests won’t fit into freedom of expression rights
A response to 'Prioritise intent, not effects: A nuanced approach to DDOS cyber-attacks and free speech'
Brexit: Are we going to run out of time?
Politicians and academics grapple with Article 50 two-year deadline
Black Lives Matter: How to fix a failing criminal justice system?
A broken bridge to equality
Can we regulate Uber into ‘doing the right thing’?
In the first of its kind, Legal Cheek launches an occasional series exploring buzzing legal research across the UK and internationally
Yarl’s Wood hunger strike shines a spotlight on the shameful way the UK runs its immigration centres
120 detainees refuse food in protest
Why are British nationals being prosecuted for fighting against ISIS?
You risk your life fighting terrorists, then get treated like one when you come home
Is ‘national security’ fast becoming a tool of protectionism?
Growing use of national security grounds to intervene against foreign investments flies in the face of Theresa May's 'open for business' mantra
Joshua Rozenberg on the power of judicial review
Two major, and very different, cases step into the spotlight