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Techniques in international law-making: extrapolation, analogy, form and the emergence of an international law of disaster relief (2017)
Journal Article
Sivakumaran, S. (2017). Techniques in international law-making: extrapolation, analogy, form and the emergence of an international law of disaster relief. European Journal of International Law, 28(4), 1097-1132. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chx066

This article traces the emergence of an international law of disaster relief from a patchwork of norms through to a holistic body of international law. It argues that, for many years, the international law of disaster relief existed in piecemeal fash... Read More about Techniques in international law-making: extrapolation, analogy, form and the emergence of an international law of disaster relief.

The implications of Brexit for public procurement law and policy in the United Kingdom (2017)
Journal Article
Arrowsmith, S. (2017). The implications of Brexit for public procurement law and policy in the United Kingdom. Public Procurement Law Review, 2017(1), 1-33

Analyses the public procurement law implications of Brexit, including if the UK were to: (1) withdraw from the EU but remain a party to the Agreement on a European Economic Area 1992; (2) adopt the Swiss model of a bespoke trade arrangement with the... Read More about The implications of Brexit for public procurement law and policy in the United Kingdom.

American exceptionalism in parole release and supervision: a European perspective (2017)
Book Chapter
Van Zyl Smit, D., & Corda, A. (2017). American exceptionalism in parole release and supervision: a European perspective. In K. R. Reiitz (Ed.), American Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment (410-486). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190203542.001.0001

This chapter focuses on American exceptionalism in parole release and supervision. It first establishes a clear understanding of what is meant by granting parole and parole supervision in the United States and Europe within the respective sentencing... Read More about American exceptionalism in parole release and supervision: a European perspective.

The role of oversight in foreign-national only prisons: counteracting the disapplication of rehabilitation (2017)
Journal Article
Mulgrew, R. (2018). The role of oversight in foreign-national only prisons: counteracting the disapplication of rehabilitation. Crime, Law and Social Change, 70(1), 77-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-017-9720-4

© 2017, The Author(s). In several European countries, prisons have been created solely to house foreign national prisoners without leave to remain. Contrary to contemporary international human rights law and standards on prison management, there seem... Read More about The role of oversight in foreign-national only prisons: counteracting the disapplication of rehabilitation.

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. London: 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: 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.

A clash of conventions? Participation, power and the rights of disabled children (2017)
Journal Article
Sandland, R. (2017). A clash of conventions? Participation, power and the rights of disabled children. Media and Communication, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i3.955

This paper considers the neglected topic of the relationship between the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with regard to the participation rights of disabled children. It analyses ke... Read More about A clash of conventions? Participation, power and the rights of disabled children.