Outputs (629)

Complementing UN Human Rights Efforts Through Universal Periodic Review (2024)
Journal Article

The UN undertakes numerous human rights activities. Various UN entities have been established solely to promote and protect human rights, such as the Human Rights Council and the human rights treaty bodies. Others, such as the Security Council, have... Read More about Complementing UN Human Rights Efforts Through Universal Periodic Review.

Investor Obligations: Transformative and Regressive Impacts of the Business and Human Rights Framework (2024)
Journal Article

The business and human rights (BHR) framework has regularly been considered the superior legal regime of corporate accountability for business-related human rights abuses, which must be both protected from and incorporated into investment treaties. H... Read More about Investor Obligations: Transformative and Regressive Impacts of the Business and Human Rights Framework.

Countermeasures and sanctions (2024)
Book Chapter

The issue of enforcement by means of non-forcible measures is one of the least developed areas of international law. Two legal regimes are relatively clear—non- forcible countermeasures taken by States (countermeasures) and non-forcible measures take... Read More about Countermeasures and sanctions.

Motherhood, Human Trafficking, and Asylum Seeking: The Experiences and Needs of Survivor Mothers in Birthing and Postnatal Care (2024)
Journal Article

This article aims to illuminate the little-studied phenomenon of asylum-seeking child-bearing women in the UK, survivors of violence and human trafficking. This is a significant issue in terms of the proportion of women affected and the paucity of ca... Read More about Motherhood, Human Trafficking, and Asylum Seeking: The Experiences and Needs of Survivor Mothers in Birthing and Postnatal Care.

Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in Higher Education in England (2024)
Journal Article

This article considers the context, development, and significance of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. The Act was relatively unusual in aiming to increase the normative strength of freedom of speech. The central justification given... Read More about Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in Higher Education in England.

Criminalizing survivors of modern slavery: the United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process (2024)
Journal Article

Bargaining the Rules of Evidence (2024)
Book Chapter

Plea bargains depend in large part on the available evidence against the defendant. Strictly speaking, these negotiations should be based only on evidence that is likely to be admissible at trial. Bargains therefore implicitly depend on the structure... Read More about Bargaining the Rules of Evidence.

Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment (2024)
Book Chapter

This Chapter examines implications for legal education and training of lawyers when working within an environment where clients are under pressure to plead guilty. After first considering the background to plea bargaining, and the increasing pressure... Read More about Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment.

Strengthening democratic control of UK war powers in an age of remote and hybrid warfare: Policy brief (2024)
Report

Differentiating between harm to users and third parties in the UK’s Online Safety regulations: The phenomena of TikTok Frenzies (2024)
Presentation / Conference

When concentrated discussion centres on online harms and the harms experienced online as a consequence of interactions, research and regulatory initiatives focus on the individual user interacting with the content. Whilst it is well documented that t... Read More about Differentiating between harm to users and third parties in the UK’s Online Safety regulations: The phenomena of TikTok Frenzies.