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Towards A Jurisprudence of State Communism: Law and the Failure of Revolution (2017)
Book
Cercel, C. (2017). Towards A Jurisprudence of State Communism: Law and the Failure of Revolution. Routledge

More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them.... Read More about Towards A Jurisprudence of State Communism: Law and the Failure of Revolution.

The concept of ‘due diligence’ in the UN guiding principles on business and human rights (2017)
Journal Article
McCorquodale, R., & Bonnitcha, J. (2017). The concept of ‘due diligence’ in the UN guiding principles on business and human rights. European Journal of International Law, 28(3), 899–919. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chx042

Due diligence is at the heart of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which establish the main parameters internationally for considering corporate responsibility for human rights violations. However, the Guiding Princi... Read More about The concept of ‘due diligence’ in the UN guiding principles on business and human rights.

Lebenslang in Europa: Die neue Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (2017)
Journal Article
van Zyl Smit, D., & Reichstein, A. (2017). Lebenslang in Europa: Die neue Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte

Die Europäische Haltung der lebenslangen Freiheitsstrafe gegenüber hat sich in den letzten Jahren deutlich gewandelt. Signifikant hierfür ist der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR), insbesondere die Große Kammer, welche sich in den let... Read More about Lebenslang in Europa: Die neue Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte.

Intellectual property license contracts: reflections on a prospective UNCITRAL project (2017)
Journal Article
Tosato, A. (2018). Intellectual property license contracts: reflections on a prospective UNCITRAL project. University of Cincinnati Law Review, 86(4), 1251-1297

IP licenses are the leading lady of the information age. The economic and strategic significance of this contract archetype have grown exponentially over the past 40 years. Under this glaring spotlight, it has become progressively more apparent that... Read More about Intellectual property license contracts: reflections on a prospective UNCITRAL project.

The Impact of Judicial Delimitation on Private Rights Existing in Contested Waters: Implications for the Somali-Kenyan Maritime Dispute (2017)
Journal Article
Pappa, M. (2017). The Impact of Judicial Delimitation on Private Rights Existing in Contested Waters: Implications for the Somali-Kenyan Maritime Dispute. Journal of African Law, 61(3), 393-418. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855317000286

This article raises concerns about the impact of judicial delimitation on private exploratory rights existing in contested waters. These concerns stem from the tendency of judges to disregard any non-geographic factors during the process of maritime... Read More about The Impact of Judicial Delimitation on Private Rights Existing in Contested Waters: Implications for the Somali-Kenyan Maritime Dispute.

Judging the Conducător: fascism, communism and legal discontinuity in post-war Romania (2017)
Book Chapter
Cercel, C. S. (2017). Judging the Conducător: fascism, communism and legal discontinuity in post-war Romania. In U. Belavusau, & A. Gliszczyńska-Grabias (Eds.), Law and memory: addressing historical injustice by law (228-245). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316986172.012

The proposed chapter aims to further the engagement with the past by bringing to the fore the legal and memorial dynamics at work in the post war trials dealing with Romanian participation to the Holocaust. While work in this area of Romanian legal h... Read More about Judging the Conducător: fascism, communism and legal discontinuity in post-war Romania.

Drone strikes: a remote form of self-defence? (2017)
Book Chapter
White, N. D., & Davies-Bright, L. (2017). Drone strikes: a remote form of self-defence?. In J. D. Ohlin (Ed.), Research handbook on remote warfare. Edward Elgar Publishing

Redefining contractual capacity? the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the incapacity defence in English contract law (2017)
Journal Article
Varney, E. (2017). Redefining contractual capacity? the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the incapacity defence in English contract law. Legal Studies, 37(3), 493-519. https://doi.org/10.1111/lest.12166

How can the incapacity defence in contract law coexist with the concept of universal legal capacity advanced by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)? In the absence of clear guidance from the CRPD on the link between le... Read More about Redefining contractual capacity? the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the incapacity defence in English contract law.