Ever been trapped in a castle? Pursued by devilishly handsome and wildly eccentric aristocrats? Haunted by the ghost of someone who looks suspiciously like you? 

No? Me neither, unfortunately. But I have read a lot of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels about heroines facing such terribly thrilling adventures. I must admit, I am often at least a little disappointed when they don’t succumb to the kiss of darkness. Instead, they marry the heroic wet blanket.  

Arden School of Law invites you to attend the next School of Law Research Seminar, taking place on Friday 10th November 2023, at 1pm (GMT), via Zoom.

Speaker: Dr Nikky Ezerioha, Lecturer in Law at Arden University. 

Voicing the question of the potential for intelligent alien life out into the universe is often juxtaposed with a more pressing counter: forget the universe; we need to find intelligent life on Earth first. Although such comments are intended as playful, the proposal has some merit. Are we alone in the universe, and given the complexity of such a search, where should we begin? One of the most widely known views on this question merged from the work of James Lovelock and his Gaia hypothesis.