Keep Calm Talk Law
Keep Calm Talk Law is an online journal, specialising in commentary on contemporary legal issues. Its articles are written by law students, for law students.
History
Keep Calm Talk Law was founded on the 11th November 2013 by Chris Bridges, a law graduate from the University of Birmingham.[1]. Bridges served as the journal's first Editor in Chief from the founding date until November 2016, at which point he passed on the role to Keir Baker, a final-year law student at the University of Cambridge who had been writing articles for the journal on a regular basis since July 2015[2].
To date, Keep Calm Talk Law has published 573 articles written by 99 authors. Its articles have been praised by a number of prominent legal and political commentators[3][4][5], and been cited in academic literature[6][7][8].
On the 5th January 2016, Keep Calm Talk Law was one of the first publications to publish an article highlighting the issues facing so-called Accidental Americans, American citizens who - after more than 77,000 financial institutions agreed to pass information to the Inland Revenue Service about the bank accounts of American citizens overseas - became liable to pay tax and faced the freezing of their accounts under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act 2010, despite being unaware of their citizenship status[9].
Contributors
As of March 2018, Keep Calm Talk Law has an editorial board of 14 members and 7 staff writers[10].
On the 22nd November 2014, Keep Calm Talk Law published an article by Lauren Riley - a solicitor and English television personality who rose to fame in 2014 by taking part in the tenth series of The Apprentice.
Two of Keep Calm Talk Law's writing team have gone on to write for The Guardian: Oliver Palmer[11] - who wrote an article as a guest contributor - and Keir Baker[12][13] - the journal's current Editor in Chief[14]. Anirudh Mandgere, the journal's current Law and Social Policy Editor, has also worked as the judicial assistant for the retired Court of Appeal judge, Sir Rupert Jackson[15].
Keep Calm Talk Law's current Family Law Editor, Sudhershen Hariram, is a former professional football player who spent two seasons playing for Tanjong Pagar United FC in Singapore's S.League[16][17]
See also
References
- ↑ "Chris Bridges (Executive Editor) | Keep Calm Talk Law". Keep Calm Talk Law. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ "Keir Baker (Editor in Chief) | Keep Calm Talk Law". Keep Calm Talk Law. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ Barrister, The Secret (4:31 AM - 11 Apr 2017). "This is a valuable and accessible analysis of an important development in professional negligence, helpful to practitioners and law studentshttps://twitter.com/keepcalmtalklaw/status/851751728760442880 …". @BarristerSecret. Retrieved 2018-03-09. Check date values in:
|date=(help); External link in|title=(help) - ↑ Wagner, Adam (2014-05-27). "How Would the Prison Book Ban Fare Judicial Review? - good post from Keep Calm Talk Lawhttp://www.keepcalmtalklaw.co.uk/prison-book-ban-fare-judicial-review/?utm_source=KCTL&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=Subscriptions …". @AdamWagner1. Retrieved 2018-03-09. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ Armitage, Jim (6:06 AM - 13 Oct 2017). "Fascinating legal opinion here states TfL acted disproportionately on Uber, as it was largely only a transparency issue...https://twitter.com/Jamesm_Mulligan/status/918798883379130368 …". @ArmitageJim. Retrieved 2018-03-09. Check date values in:
|date=(help); External link in|title=(help) - ↑ Dukore, Bernard F. (2017-10-17). Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw. Springer. ISBN 9783319627465. Search this book on
- ↑ Finchett-Maddock, Lucy (2016-03-17). Protest, Property and the Commons: Performances of Law and Resistance. Routledge. ISBN 9781136004643. Search this book on
- ↑ Joyce, Peter (2017-07-06). Criminal Justice: An Introduction. Routledge. ISBN 9781317395577. Search this book on
- ↑ "Accidental Americans: The US Citizenship Conundrum | Keep Calm Talk Law". Keep Calm Talk Law. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ "About | Keep Calm Talk Law". Keep Calm Talk Law. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ "Oli Palmer". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ "Keir Baker". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ "Is Legal Journalism the Key to Commercial Awareness? – Interview with Keir Baker – Future Lawyer". blog.lawbore.net. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ "Keir Baker (Editor in Chief) | Keep Calm Talk Law". Keep Calm Talk Law. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ "Anirudh Mandagere (Law and Social Policy Editor) | Keep Calm Talk Law". Keep Calm Talk Law. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ "Sudhershen Hariram - Detailed line data". Retrieved 2018-03-09.
- ↑ "Sudhershen Hariram (Family Law Editor) | Keep Calm Talk Law". Keep Calm Talk Law. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
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