All Outputs (632)

Policy Brief: Autism and Policing (2024)
Report
Ropar, D., & Holloway-George, C. (2024). Policy Brief: Autism and Policing. University of Nottingham

More than one in 100 people in the UK are autistic. Despite the prevalence of autism within society, autistic people face barriers in their everyday lives. One example of this is within the criminal justice system. Autistic people are more likely... Read More about Policy Brief: Autism and Policing.

Complementing UN Human Rights Efforts Through Universal Periodic Review (2024)
Journal Article
Shah, S., & Sivakumaran, S. (2024). Complementing UN Human Rights Efforts Through Universal Periodic Review. Journal of Human Rights Practice, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huae008

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.

The legal treatment of nationality in the international intellectual property legal framework (2024)
Book Chapter
Torremans, P. (2024). The legal treatment of nationality in the international intellectual property legal framework. In Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Rights and Inclusivity (34-47). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803927268.00009

Inclusivity or inclusiveness is a concept that lies at the heart of intellectual property. IP is all about sharing innovation, brands and providing society with literary and artistic works. But what does that tell us about the legal treatment of nati... Read More about The legal treatment of nationality in the international intellectual property legal framework.

Resisting the State Crimes of the Global North (2024)
Journal Article
Hodgson, N. (in press). Resisting the State Crimes of the Global North. Journal of International Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqae010

Civil society actors are increasingly turning to international criminal law in response to harmful conduct by the states of the Global North. Legal and strategic concerns have been raised about this practice. It is unclear whether the International C... Read More about Resisting the State Crimes of the Global North.

Investor Obligations: Transformative and Regressive Impacts of the Business and Human Rights Framework (2024)
Journal Article
Van der Ploeg, K. P. (2024). Investor Obligations: Transformative and Regressive Impacts of the Business and Human Rights Framework. Business and Human Rights Journal, https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2024.8

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
White, N. D. (2024). Countermeasures and sanctions. In M. Evans (Ed.), International Law (521-547). Oxford University Press (OUP)

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
Bosatta, L., Crespi de Valldaura, M., Bales, K., Spiby, H., & Ni Bhriain, L. (2024). Motherhood, Human Trafficking, and Asylum Seeking: The Experiences and Needs of Survivor Mothers in Birthing and Postnatal Care. Societies, 14(5), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14050069

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
McGoldrick, D. (2024). Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in Higher Education in England. Human Rights Quarterly, 46(2), 287-329. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2024.a926223

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.

Bargaining the Rules of Evidence (2024)
Book Chapter
Thomason, M. (2024). Bargaining the Rules of Evidence. In M. Langer, M. McConville, & L. Marsh (Eds.), Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining & Criminal Justice. Edward Elgar Publishing

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.

Criminalizing survivors of modern slavery: the United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process (2024)
Journal Article
Lumley-Sapanski, A., Rodriguez-Huerta, E., Schwarz, K., Nicholson, A., & Young, M. (in press). Criminalizing survivors of modern slavery: the United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process. Journal of Social Policy,

Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment (2024)
Book Chapter
Kemp, V., & Gibson, C. (2024). Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment. In M. Langer, M. McConville, & L. Marsh (Eds.), Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice. Edward Elgar Publishing

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
White, N. D. (2024). Strengthening democratic control of UK war powers in an age of remote and hybrid warfare: Policy brief. Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights

Differentiating between harm to users and third parties in the UK’s Online Safety regulations: The phenomena of TikTok Frenzies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Colegate, E. (2024, April). Differentiating between harm to users and third parties in the UK’s Online Safety regulations: The phenomena of TikTok Frenzies. Paper presented at Conference Name: 'Digital and Green: Twin Transitions?' British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association 39th Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland

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.

The European Securitization Market: Effects of an Uneven Regulatory Playing Field (2024)
Journal Article
Papadogiannis Varouchakis, T. (2024). The European Securitization Market: Effects of an Uneven Regulatory Playing Field. Journal of Financial Regulation, https://doi.org/10.1093/jfr/fjae002

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.

How Edited and Disappearing Content Poses a Challenge to The UK’s Online Safety Regulations Tackling Harm Facing Young People Online (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Colegate, E. (2024, March). How Edited and Disappearing Content Poses a Challenge to The UK’s Online Safety Regulations Tackling Harm Facing Young People Online. Presented at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2024, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Two timelines are created when a piece of user-generated content is published online. One concerns the content and its existence; the other is connected to its impact on users exposed to or interacting with such. These timelines, if mapped, could ass... Read More about How Edited and Disappearing Content Poses a Challenge to The UK’s Online Safety Regulations Tackling Harm Facing Young People Online.

Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law: A Comparative Study (2024)
Book
Beheshti, R. (2024). Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law: A Comparative Study. Hart Publishing

An authoritative, in-depth examination of remedies in international sales of manufactured goods, this book provides a detailed analysis of the remedies available to a commercial buyer. The book concentrates on four prominent legal regimes, namely the... Read More about Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law: A Comparative Study.

The Parody Exception in EU Design Law: A Catalyst for Creative Evolution, Innovation and Cultural Discourse (2024)
Journal Article
Jacques, S., & Derclaye, E. (in press). The Parody Exception in EU Design Law: A Catalyst for Creative Evolution, Innovation and Cultural Discourse. European Intellectual Property Review,

This article delves into the recent proposals put forward by the European Commission, presented on the 28th of November 2022, which aim to revise key EU instruments governing the protection of design rights. With design legislation largely remaining... Read More about The Parody Exception in EU Design Law: A Catalyst for Creative Evolution, Innovation and Cultural Discourse.

Bringing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Home? (2024)
Journal Article
Mcgoldrick, D. (2024). Bringing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Home?. European Human Rights Law Review, 1, 57-68

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?.

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]