Prof. James Chalmers
Prof. James Chalmers was appointed to the Regius Chair of Law in 2012, and is currently REF Champion for the School of Law. He previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Follow him at @ProfChalmers
Adding injury to insult
The role of criminal law is to punish harm, not enforce politeness
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
