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The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards] (2021)
Journal Article
Prestes, E., Houghtaling, M. A., Goncalves, P. J., Fabiano, N., Ulgen, O., Fiorini, S. R., …Haidegger, T. (2021). The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards]. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 28(4), 120-124. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2021.3117414

In the complex and rapidly evolving fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, the elaboration of ethical concerns, considerations, and requirements helps elucidate the nature of technology’s reach and impact on society where there is a leg... Read More about The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards].

Referral by the United Nations Security Council: International Criminal Court (ICC) (2021)
Other
Mistry, H. (2021). Referral by the United Nations Security Council: International Criminal Court (ICC). [Online]

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (EiPro) features detailed accounts of key events, concepts and institutions, original research, rich historical contextualization, in-depth legal analyses, and critical assessments of existi... Read More about Referral by the United Nations Security Council: International Criminal Court (ICC).

Intelligence Sharing in Multinational Military Operations and Complicity under International Law (2021)
Journal Article
Milanovic, M. (2021). Intelligence Sharing in Multinational Military Operations and Complicity under International Law. International Law Studies, 97, 1269-1403

This article examines the international legal framework applicable to intelligence sharing in multinational military operations, with a particular focus on complicity scenarios. It first provides a theoretical overview of the role of fault in complic... Read More about Intelligence Sharing in Multinational Military Operations and Complicity under International Law.

The United Kingdom's views on elections to the International Court of Justice during the Cold War (2021)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2021). The United Kingdom's views on elections to the International Court of Justice during the Cold War. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 21(3), 789-811

This article considers the process of nominating and electing candidates to the International Court of Justice ('ICJ') during the Cold War by focusing on a specific national encounter: the views of the United Kingdom government during elections to th... Read More about The United Kingdom's views on elections to the International Court of Justice during the Cold War.

The Effectiveness of Human Rights Due Diligence for Preventing Business Human Rights Abuses (2021)
Journal Article
McCorquodale, R., & Nolan, J. (2021). The Effectiveness of Human Rights Due Diligence for Preventing Business Human Rights Abuses. Netherlands International Law Review, 68(3), 455-478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-021-00201-x

Human rights due diligence is today a key aspect of the international, regional and national debates about corporate accountability for human rights abuse. It is a process by which businesses are expected to assess actual and potential human rights i... Read More about The Effectiveness of Human Rights Due Diligence for Preventing Business Human Rights Abuses.

Protecting the Right to a Fair Trial in an Era of Criminal Justice Transformation (2021)
Book Chapter
Jackson, J. (2021). Protecting the Right to a Fair Trial in an Era of Criminal Justice Transformation. In B. Dickson, & C. McCormick (Eds.), The Judicial Mind: A Festschrift for Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore. Hart Publishing

This chapter considers the manner in which the UK’s highest courts have met the challenge of maintaining fair trial rights in an era of unprecedented change in criminal justice. Emphasis is placed on the framework of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the... Read More about Protecting the Right to a Fair Trial in an Era of Criminal Justice Transformation.

Public Procurement Regulation in (a) Crisis? Global Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)
Book
Arrowsmith, S., RA Butler, L., La Chimia, A., & Yukins, C. (Eds.). (2021). Public Procurement Regulation in (a) Crisis? Global Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Hart Publishing

This timely book provides the first systematic analysis of global public procurement regulation and policy during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Through both thematic chapters and national case studies, this book: - explores the adequacy of tr... Read More about Public Procurement Regulation in (a) Crisis? Global Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.

International Non-State Humanitarian Actors outside of the International Legal System: Can there be any Legal Consequences for Humanitarian Actors? (2021)
Journal Article
McArdle, S., & Shucksmith-Wesley, C. (2021). International Non-State Humanitarian Actors outside of the International Legal System: Can there be any Legal Consequences for Humanitarian Actors?. Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 26(3), 525-550. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcsl/krab018

Humanitarians are saviours, people employed by organisations that were created to provide neutral and professional help in times of conflict, disaster or other emergencies. We assume that we can trust the humanitarians.1 This, at least, is the theory... Read More about International Non-State Humanitarian Actors outside of the International Legal System: Can there be any Legal Consequences for Humanitarian Actors?.

Admitting evidence by agreement: recalibrating managerialism and adversarialism in Crown Court criminal trials (2021)
Journal Article
THOMASON, M. (2021). Admitting evidence by agreement: recalibrating managerialism and adversarialism in Crown Court criminal trials. Criminal Law Review, 2021(9), 727-752

This paper challenges the orthodox academic view which assumes that the admissibility of evidence in Crown Court criminal trials is primarily regulated by rules of evidence. Instead, it offers an account, based on original empirical data (trial obser... Read More about Admitting evidence by agreement: recalibrating managerialism and adversarialism in Crown Court criminal trials.

The Case For A Hybrid Jury In Europe (2021)
Book Chapter
Jackson, J. (2021). The Case For A Hybrid Jury In Europe. In S. Kutnjak Ivković, S. Seidman Diamond, V. P. Hans, & N. S. Marder (Eds.), Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts: A Global Perspective (304-322). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108669290.015

This chapter proposes a model of a hybrid jury for both common law and civil law European criminal justice systems which is required to give a reasoned decision and fits well with the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

Non-State Actors' Rights in Maritime Delimitation: Lessons from Land (2021)
Book
Pappa, M. (2021). Non-State Actors' Rights in Maritime Delimitation: Lessons from Land. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108891936

Most of the world's maritime boundary disputes involve privately held rights - relating to such matters as fishing, petroleum exploration and scientific research - that states have unilaterally granted to non-state actors in areas of overlapping nati... Read More about Non-State Actors' Rights in Maritime Delimitation: Lessons from Land.

Contrasting Penal and Non-Penal Responses to Terrorism: Proportionality and Human Rights in the UK (2021)
Book Chapter
Jackson, J. (2021). Contrasting Penal and Non-Penal Responses to Terrorism: Proportionality and Human Rights in the UK. In E. Billis, N. Knust, & J. Petter Rui (Eds.), Proportionality in Crime Control and Criminal Justice. Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter examines the penal and non-penal executive measures that have been taken to combat two main phases of terrorist activity within the last 50 years, namely Irish or so-called 'troubles-based' terrorism dating back to the 1970s and more re... Read More about Contrasting Penal and Non-Penal Responses to Terrorism: Proportionality and Human Rights in the UK.

Commercial Law Intersections (2021)
Journal Article
Castellano, G., & Tosato, A. (2021). Commercial Law Intersections. Hastings Law Journal, 72(4), 999-1054

Commercial law is not a single, monolithic entity. It has grown into a dense thicket of subject-specific branches that govern a broad range of transactions and corporate actions. When one of these events falls concurrently within the purview of two o... Read More about Commercial Law Intersections.

Introduction : situating, researching, and writing comparative legal history (2021)
Book Chapter
Eves, W., & Hudson, J. (2021). Introduction : situating, researching, and writing comparative legal history. . Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955195.001

This volume is a selection of essays taken from the excellent range of papers presented at the British Legal History Conference hosted by the Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research at the University of St Andrews, 10–13 July 2019. The theme... Read More about Introduction : situating, researching, and writing comparative legal history.

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law (2021)
Book
Eves, W., Hudson, J., Ivarsen, I., & White, S. B. (2021). Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955195

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The... Read More about Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law.