Tag: Parliament
LIAT at Evidence Week in the Houses of Parliament
3-5 July 2023 The Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology (LIAT) conducts a wide range of interdisciplinary research around various cutting edge technologies relating to the food system. As such we are close to emergent policy thinking and keen to engage with regulators and policy makers to both participate in such…
Lincoln Legal Experts Contribute to Important House of Lords Report
Professor Richard Barnes (Lincoln law School) and Professor Elizabeth Kirk (Professor of Global and Ecological Justice, Director of the Lincoln Centre for Ecological Justice) have made important contributions to a significant report published by the House of Lords on the law of the sea in the 21st century. On 1st…
Petitions Systems: Enhancing Representative Democracy
For centuries the public have raised grievances by submitting paper petitions to the House of Commons. In the late twentieth century use of the petition system declined, and in 2011 the Government introduced a new e-petitions system, allowing the public to launch and sign petitions online. While the new e-petitions…