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The Security Council and Impartiality in the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes (2023)
Book Chapter
White, N. D. (2023). The Security Council and Impartiality in the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes. In R. Buchan, D. Francini, & N. Tsagourias (Eds.), The Changing Character of International Dispute Settlement: Challenges and Prospects (317-343). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009076296.018

In this chapter, Nigel White assesses the contribution of the UN’s collective security system to the settlement of international disputes. This chapter tests the assumption that impartial law-based dispute settlement by the Security Council is neithe... Read More about The Security Council and Impartiality in the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes.

Legal Arguments and Citations in the 13th-Century Court of Canterbury (2023)
Conference Proceeding
White, S. (2023). Legal Arguments and Citations in the 13th-Century Court of Canterbury. In F. Demoulin-Auzary, N. Laurent-Bonne, & F. Roumy (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law: Paris, 17-23 July 2016 (585-600)

To what extent is the parody exception truly harmonised? An empirical analysis of the Member States’ case law post-Deckmyn (2023)
Journal Article
Derclaye, E. (2023). To what extent is the parody exception truly harmonised? An empirical analysis of the Member States’ case law post-Deckmyn. Intellectual Property Quarterly, 2023(2), 59-85

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.

Joint opinion (2023)
Other
Mistry, H. (2023). Joint opinion. [Online]

Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law (2023)
Book
White, N. (2023). Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law. (2nd edition). Edward Elgar Publishing

This updated and revised second edition of Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law provides a concise and insightful guide to the key principles of international law governing peacetime security, arms control, the use of forc... Read More about Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law.

Bringing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Home? (2023)
Journal Article
Mcgoldrick, D. (in press). Bringing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Home?. European Human Rights Law Review,

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 Law Commission’s “Structured Discretion” Rape Shield: A Critique (2023)
Journal Article
THOMASON, M. (2023). The Law Commission’s “Structured Discretion” Rape Shield: A Critique. Archbold Review, 2023(10), 4-10

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)
Journal Article
Houghtaling, M. A., Fiorini, S. R., Fabiano, N., Gonçalves, P. J. S., Ulgen, O., Haidegger, T., …Prestes, E. (2024). Standardizing an Ontology for Ethically Aligned Robotic and Autonomous Systems. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 54(3), 1791-1804. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2023.3330981

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)
Journal Article
Rotherham, C. (2023). Constructive Trusts and Theft. Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 54(1), 295-316. https://doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v54i1.8447

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)
Journal Article
White, N. D. (2023). The position of the European security architecture within the international legal order. Italian Yearbook of International Law Online, 32 (2022), 3-24

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.

Regulation 542/2014 on jurisdiction (2023)
Book Chapter
TORREMANS, P. (2023). Regulation 542/2014 on jurisdiction. In European patent Law: The Unified Patent Court and The European Patent Convention (185-196). De Gruyter

Unified Patent Court and International Law (2023)
Book Chapter
Van der Ploeg, K. P. (2023). Unified Patent Court and International Law. In D. Matthews, & P. Torremans (Eds.), European Patent Law: The Unified Patent Court and the European Patent Convention. De Gruyter

Legal consequences of the common law marriage myth (2023)
Journal Article
Bannister, S. (2023). Legal consequences of the common law marriage myth. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 2023(September 2023),

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.

Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) (2023)
Report
Jackson, B., Bosatta, L., & Schwarz, K. (2023). Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office). Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK)

Submission to the UK Government call for evidence (led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) International Development White Paper, September 2023. Response to questions submitted by the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham. Responses... Read More about Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office).

Private international law issues of moral rights (2023)
Book Chapter
Torremans, P. (2023). Private international law issues of moral rights. In Y. Gendreau (Ed.), Research handbook on Intellectual Property and Moral Rights (355-368). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904871.00031

In this chapter I will look at moral rights from a private international law perspective. Rather than look at the scope and exact content of moral rights I will look at issues of jurisdiction and choice of law. It is important to note that from a pri... Read More about Private international law issues of moral rights.

The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition (2023)
Book
Kattan, V., & Ranjan, A. (Eds.). (2023). The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition. Manchester University Press

This book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, col... Read More about The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition.