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🎙️ the lawmanity podcast🎙️

How does human rights law work in practice?
And how do activists use the law to create change?

The Lawmanity podcast, hosted by human rights lawyer Jen Ang, brings you one-to-one interviews with activists and lawyers across the UK who are using the law in creative ways to secure justice for people and communities who are excluded, discriminated against and overlooked. ✊🏽

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Law, Poverty, and Political Power: Justice for Single Parent Families, with Satwat Rehman

This week, we speak with anti-poverty campaigner and One Parent Families Scotland Chief Executive Satwat Rehman about the relationship between law, poverty, and political power, and whether legal systems are truly capable of delivering justice for single parent families.

Not Without Us: Disability Justice, with Heather Fisken, Tressa Burke, and Louise Whitfield

This week, we hear from disability rights activists Heather Fisken and Tressa Burke and human rights lawyer Louise Whitfield about disability justice, strategic litigation, and the gap between legal rights on paper and disabled people’s lived experiences of inequality in the UK.

More Than a Label: Migration Law and Justice in the UK, with Pinar Aksu

This week, we speak with researcher, theatre-maker, and human rights campaigner Pinar Aksu about migration justice, hostile immigration law, and the possibilities and limitations of using law to create social change.

“We’re Going to Have a Party”: Law, Protest, and Social Change, with Lily Greenan

This week, we speak with feminist activist, researcher, and former Scottish Women’s Aid Chief Executive Lily Greenan about decades of campaigning on violence against women and girls and LGBT+ rights, the limits of legal reform, and the role of activism in creating social change.

“Grasping things by the root”: radical justice and systemic change, with nani jansen reventlow

In this week’s episode, we chat with human rights lawyer and author Nani Jansen Reventlow about her new book ‘Radical Justice’ and what it means to confront injustice at its roots.

Redistributing Power: What’s at Stake for Scotland in 2026, with Talat Yaqoob

In this week’s episode, we speak with feminist campaigner, political analyst, and commentator Talat Yaqoob about how law shapes power and inequality, and whether it can genuinely deliver justice for marginalised communities.

“Not Built for Us”: Law and Justice for Scottish Travellers, with Davie Donaldson

In this week’s episode, we speak with Scottish Traveller advocate and social justice campaigner Davie Donaldson about the realities of navigating the legal system as a Traveller in Scotland, and what true justice could look like for Traveller communities.

Access to Justice: A Student Perspective on Law Clinics, with Amanda Amaeshi

In this week’s episode, we speak with activist and law graduate (and Lawmanity’s new Legal Caseworker!) Amanda Amaeshi about what meaningful access to justice really looks like in practice.

Equal Under the Law: Advice to my younger self (Pt 4)

In this fourth and final episode of our special series, ‘Equal under the Law?’, our expert panel of inspiring activists and lawyers from across the UK come together to reflect on their journeys to this very moment, and offer advice to young activists.

This episode features: Davie Donaldson, Sandy Brindley, Talat Yaqoob, Andy Sirel, Lily Greenan, Amanda Amaeshi, Pheona Matovu, Heather Fisken, Tressa Burke, Satwat Rehman and Alison Pickup.

Equal Under the Law: What Does Justice Look LIKe? (Pt 3)

In this third episode of our special series, ‘Equal under the Law?’, we delve into the complex relationship between law and social justice through the voices of inspiring activists from Scotland. We explore the pivotal question: “What does justice look like – for you, and for your community?”

This episode features: Heather Fisken, Tressa Burke, Pheona Matovu, Satwat Rehman, Talat Yaqoob, Pinar Aksu, Davie Donaldson and Amanda Amaeshi.

Equal Under the Law: Is the Law a Tool or a barrier to change? (Pt 2)

In this second episode of our special series, ‘Equal under the Law?’, we explore whether the law serves as a barrier or a tool for marginalised communities striving for equality, with a little help our expert panel of 11 inspiring activist leaders from Scotland.

This episode features: Talat Yaqoob, Pinar Aksu, Tim Hopkins, Pheona Matovu, Satwat Rehman, Amanda Amaeshi, Tressa Burke, Heather Fisken and Sandy Brindley.

Equal Under the Law: Does the law treat you equally? (Pt 1)

In this first episode of our special series, “Equal under the Law?,” we delve into the complex relationship between law and social justice through the voices of inspiring activists from Scotland. We explore the pivotal question: “Does the law treat you and your community equally?”.

This episode features: Pheona Matovu, Satwat Rehman, and Pinar Aksu, Talat Yaqoob, Tim Hopkins, Sandy Brindley, Tressa Burke and Heather Fisken.

climate justice: The Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal Case, with Maria McCloskey

This week, we talking to activist lawyer, Maria McCloskey, former director of Public Interest Litigation Support in Belfast, NI about how she worked with grassroots climate justice activists to bring a successful legal challenge that stopped plans to develop a major fossil fuel terminal in a quiet seaside town near Belfast.

Breaking Barriers: access to education for young migrants, with andy sirel

This week, we’re speaking to Andy Sirel, Legal Director at JustRight Scotland, about a legal challenge that secured access to further and higher education for potentially thousands of young people in Scotland.

Justice for Women Who Kill,
with Harriet Wistrich

This week, we’re talking to activist lawyer, Harriet Wistrich, founder of the Centre for Women’s Justice about her decades-long commitment to seeking justice for women who kill their abusive partners, and her determined fight for justice for women, in a system designed for men.

lgbt+ rights in scotland,
with tim hopkins

This week, we sit down with legendary LGBT+ activist, Tim Hopkins, former director of the Equality Network, to explore the complex relationship between activism and the law in the fight to achieve equality for LGBT+ people in Scotland, from the 1980s to the present.

Challenging the uk Govt’s rwanda policy, with Alison Pickup

This week, we’re talking to Alison Pickup, Director of Asylum Aid, to hear all about how she and her colleagues led a successful campaign to challenge the UK Government’s Rwanda policy, that went all the way to the UK Supreme Court.