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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.

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

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

Criminalizing survivors of modern slavery: the United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process (2024)
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The European Securitization Market: Effects of an Uneven Regulatory Playing Field (2024)
Journal Article

This article critically assesses the European securitization industry’s claim of the existence of an uneven regulatory playing field for securitization structures vis-à-vis financial instruments deemed ‘neighbouring’ to securitization by the industry... Read More about The European Securitization Market: Effects of an Uneven Regulatory Playing Field.

Bringing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Home? (2024)
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This article is a thought-experiment. Given that the United Kingdom's Human Right Act has had over two decades to bed down, could and should the same model be extended to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), thereby giving... Read More about Bringing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Home?.

The Lost Clause - Exploring the potential impact of amendments to the definition of harm to children in the UK's Online Safety Bill (2023)
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To what extent is the parody exception truly harmonised? An empirical analysis of the Member States’ case law post-Deckmyn (2023)
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Over the course of the last three decades, the European Union has adopted 11 legislative instruments in the field of copyright to harmonise many of its aspects and the Court of Justice of the European Union ( CJEU) has over the years been very active... Read More about To what extent is the parody exception truly harmonised? An empirical analysis of the Member States’ case law post-Deckmyn.

Protecting Human Rights in UN Peacekeeping: Operationalising Due Diligence and Accountability (2023)
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The Law Commission’s “Structured Discretion” Rape Shield: A Critique (2023)
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Taking up a Chapter of its own in the Law Commission’s mammoth Evidence in Sexual Offences Prosecutions Consultation Paper are proposals to reform the admissibility rules for sexual behaviour (née sexual history) evidence (SBE). Though the Law Comm... Read More about The Law Commission’s “Structured Discretion” Rape Shield: A Critique.

Standardizing an Ontology for Ethically Aligned Robotic and Autonomous Systems (2023)
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Domain-specific ontologies support system design and can establish a framework for fulfilling user-level, safety, or ethical requirements. The IEEE 7007-2021 Ontological Standard for ethically driven robotics and automation systems is the first indus... Read More about Standardizing an Ontology for Ethically Aligned Robotic and Autonomous Systems.

Constructive Trusts and Theft (2023)
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The Theft Act 1968 (UK) marked a major reform of United Kingdom criminal law resulting in numerous offences being superseded by a broad crime of theft. The Act explicitly provided that theft extended to interferences with equitable property rights. W... Read More about Constructive Trusts and Theft.

The position of the European security architecture within the international legal order (2023)
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With the universal architecture for peace and security centred upon the UN Charter of 1945 and the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968 being built on great power foundations, there are manifest problems when there is no consensus amongst those gre... Read More about The position of the European security architecture within the international legal order.

Legal consequences of the common law marriage myth (2023)
Journal Article

The 'common law marriage myth' is a well-established phenomenon. About half of the British public believe that simply cohabiting together as a couple entitles them to rights equal to spouses. Belief in the myth may lead to significant harm if it mean... Read More about Legal consequences of the common law marriage myth.

Case C-460/20, TU, RE v. Google LLC (C.J.E.U.) (2023)
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On December 8, 2022, in a case relating to a de-referencing request to an internet search engine operator on the basis of inaccurate information, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment (the Judgm... Read More about Case C-460/20, TU, RE v. Google LLC (C.J.E.U.).

Devolution Issues Under the Scotland Act 1998, Reference by the Lord Advocate (U.K. Sup. Ct.) (2023)
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On November 23, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered its judgment on whether the Scottish Parliament has legislative competence to introduce a Scottish Independence Referendum Bill (the Bill) to hold a referendum in Scotland asking... Read More about Devolution Issues Under the Scotland Act 1998, Reference by the Lord Advocate (U.K. Sup. Ct.).

Exploring Consumer Detriment in Immersive Gaming Technologies (2023)
Journal Article

Recent technological advances have led to immersive consumer experiences becoming increasingly common. However, there has been relatively little discussion of the consumer detriment that results from the exploitation of immersion. In this article, we... Read More about Exploring Consumer Detriment in Immersive Gaming Technologies.

Victims as Agents of Accountability: Strengthening Victims’ Right to Review at the International Criminal Court (2023)
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Providing justice to victims is one of the most important justifications for international criminal justice. At the International Criminal Court, states have sought to respond to victims’ justice interests in a number of ways, including by allowing v... Read More about Victims as Agents of Accountability: Strengthening Victims’ Right to Review at the International Criminal Court.

Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan (2023)
Journal Article

COVID-19 has caused far-reaching humanitarian challenges. Amongst the emerging impacts of the pandemic is on the dynamics of human trafficking. This paper presents findings from a multi-methods study interrogating the impacts of COVID-19 on human tra... Read More about Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan.