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International Law Through Time: On Change and Facticity of International Law (2022)
Book Chapter
Van der Ploeg, K. P., & Pasquet, L. (2022). International Law Through Time: On Change and Facticity of International Law. In K. Polackova Van der Ploeg, L. Pasquet, & L. Castellanos-Jankiewicz (Eds.), International Law and Time: Narratives and Techniques (313-333). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09465-1_15

International law has proved to be a highly dynamic legal order over time. However, dealing with change in international law is both analytically demanding and possibly normatively unsettling. The term ‘change’ regularly refers to distinct dimensions... Read More about International Law Through Time: On Change and Facticity of International Law.

Jordan and Palestine: union (1950) and secession (1988) (2022)
Book Chapter
Kattan, V. (2022). Jordan and Palestine: union (1950) and secession (1988). In J. Vidmar, S. McGibbon, & L. Raible (Eds.), Research Handbook on Secession (275-292). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788971751.00028

This chapter revisits the decision by King Hussein of Jordan in 1988 to recognise the right of the Palestinian people to secede from Jordan to establish an independent state in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. Surprisingly, internat... Read More about Jordan and Palestine: union (1950) and secession (1988).

Human rights indicators and implementation (2022)
Book Chapter
Landman, T., & Schwarz, K. (2022). Human rights indicators and implementation. In R. Murray, & D. Long (Eds.), Research Handbook on Implementation of Human Rights in Practice (309-326). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372283.00026

The last several decades have seen many advances in the development and application of human rights indicators, which has progressed alongside the continued development of international, regional, and national human rights legal frameworks. This chap... Read More about Human rights indicators and implementation.

Re-thinking the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Towards the Next Generation of Law (2022)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (2023). Re-thinking the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Towards the Next Generation of Law. Modern Law Review, 86(3), 659-700. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12774

It is now more than a quarter of a century since the Law Commission completed its ground-breaking report on mental capacity, a report that became the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Since that time, there have been fundamental changes in the legal, social,... Read More about Re-thinking the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Towards the Next Generation of Law.

‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice (2022)
Journal Article
Nolan, A., & Skelton, A. (2022). ‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice. Human Rights Law Review, 22(4), Article ngac026. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngac026

The last three decades have seen an explosion of academic, advocacy and policy-maker interest in both the theory and the practice of children's rights. There is a growing global body of strategic litigation focused on the advancement of those rights... Read More about ‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice.

Beccaria Now: (Re)Reading 'On Crimes and Punishments' (2022)
Book Chapter
Roberts, P. (2022). Beccaria Now: (Re)Reading 'On Crimes and Punishments'. In A. D. Bois-Pedain, & S. Eldar (Eds.), Re-Reading Beccaria: On the Contemporary Significance of a Penal Classic (161-198). Hart/Bloomsbury

Advancing Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice (2022)
Report
Nolan, A., Skelton, A., & Ozah, K. (2022). Advancing Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice. London: Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation project

This report approaches child rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Child as a framework to inform and assess the inputs, outputs, processes and outcomes of child rights strategic litigation (CRSL), in line with the view that children’s righ... Read More about Advancing Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice.

The requirement of 'power to dispose' in the Cape Town Convention and its protocols (2022)
Journal Article
Saidova, S. (2022). The requirement of 'power to dispose' in the Cape Town Convention and its protocols. Uniform Law Review, 27(2), 282–302. https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unac021

The concept of an 'international interest' is central to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. Once an international interest is created, it can be registered in the International Registry, established under the Con... Read More about The requirement of 'power to dispose' in the Cape Town Convention and its protocols.