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The Laws of Public Data Gaps (2025)
Book Chapter
Tomlinson, J., Coakley, N., Butler, O., Aidinlis, S., Somers-Joce, C., Meers, J., & O'Loughlin, E. (in press). The Laws of Public Data Gaps. In Y.-F. Ng, & M. Groves (Eds.), Automation in Governance: Theory, Practice and Problems. Bloomsbury Publishing

One of the most significant developments in the digitalisation and automation of government infrastructure is that the capacity of officials to collect, with minimal costs, valuable data on the performance, users, and impacts of public services is in... Read More about The Laws of Public Data Gaps.

Collective Management in the United Kingdom and Ireland (2025)
Book Chapter
Furgal, U., & Torremans, P. (2025). Collective Management in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In D. Gervais, & J. Pedro Quintais (Eds.), Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights (315-342). (Fourth edition). Kluwer Law International

Bloomberg LP v ZXC [2022] UKSC 5: The Public Interest in Non-Publicity (2025)
Book Chapter
Butler, O. (in press). Bloomberg LP v ZXC [2022] UKSC 5: The Public Interest in Non-Publicity. In J. Russell, & L. Graham (Eds.), Private Law and the UK Supreme Court: Key Cases and Decisions. Routledge

This chapter explores the role played by the public interest in non-publicity in Bloomberg LP v ZXC, in which the UK Supreme Court held that a reasonable expectation of privacy was a  ‘legitimate starting point’ for individuals under investigation pr... Read More about Bloomberg LP v ZXC [2022] UKSC 5: The Public Interest in Non-Publicity.

Development and Experimentation in the Early Common Law Forms of Action: The Procedural Rules of Mort d'Ancestor and their Effect on Litigation in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (2025)
Journal Article
Eves, W. (in press). Development and Experimentation in the Early Common Law Forms of Action: The Procedural Rules of Mort d'Ancestor and their Effect on Litigation in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. Journal of Legal History,

This article considers the procedural design of the early common law action mort d'ancestor, introduced in 1176. It first considers how the action was developed to provide swift justice while also allowing the defendant (or 'tenant') adequate opportu... Read More about Development and Experimentation in the Early Common Law Forms of Action: The Procedural Rules of Mort d'Ancestor and their Effect on Litigation in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries.

International Cooperation and Extradition Scoping Review (2025)
Report
(2025). International Cooperation and Extradition Scoping Review. Law Commission of England and Wales

During the Law Commission’s consultation on its 14th programme of work the Commission received several suggestions that a law reform project was needed to address issues that were described as relating to ‘extraterritoriality and international cooper... Read More about International Cooperation and Extradition Scoping Review.

Algorithmic Decision-Making, Delegation and the Modern Machinery of Government (2025)
Journal Article
Butler, O. (2025). Algorithmic Decision-Making, Delegation and the Modern Machinery of Government. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaf018

The development of the principle of non-delegation in administrative law was a response to the perceived needs of a ‘modern machinery of government’, which emerged in post-war 1940s Britain. While it ostensibly sought to ensure that decision-makers a... Read More about Algorithmic Decision-Making, Delegation and the Modern Machinery of Government.

Judiciary chiefs in hybrid regimes: Kenya (2025)
Journal Article
Miyandazi, V., & Okubasu, D. M. (2025). Judiciary chiefs in hybrid regimes: Kenya. International Journal of Constitutional Law, Article moaf016. https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moaf016

This article examines the critical role of judicial chiefs in hybrid regimes using Kenya as a case study. It highlights how judicial effectiveness arises from the complex dynamics of leadership, institutional independence, interdependence, and public... Read More about Judiciary chiefs in hybrid regimes: Kenya.

Reasoning and reconciliation in twelfth-century Anglo-Norman legal writing (2025)
Journal Article
White, S. B. (2025). Reasoning and reconciliation in twelfth-century Anglo-Norman legal writing. Comparative Legal History, https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677X.2025.2500175

This article explores legal reasoning and reconciliation of sources in late twelfth-century legal writing, focusing on four Romano-canonical procedural treatises (‘Olim edebatur editio’, the ordo of Ricardus Anglicus, Actor et reus and the Ordo Bambe... Read More about Reasoning and reconciliation in twelfth-century Anglo-Norman legal writing.

Objection Overruled! Lay People can Distinguish Large Language Models from Lawyers, but still Favour Advice from an LLM (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Seabrooke, T., Krook, J., Hyde, R., Leesakul, N., Clos, J., & E Fischer, J. (2025, April). Objection Overruled! Lay People can Distinguish Large Language Models from Lawyers, but still Favour Advice from an LLM. Presented at CHI 2025: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Large Language Models (LLMs) are seemingly infiltrating every domain, and the legal context is no exception. In this paper, we present the results of three experiments (total N = 288) that investigated lay people’s willingness to act upon, and their... Read More about Objection Overruled! Lay People can Distinguish Large Language Models from Lawyers, but still Favour Advice from an LLM.

The Right to Freedom of Thought in Kenya (2025)
Book Chapter
Miyandazi, V., Mudeyi, M., & Okoth, H. O. (2025). The Right to Freedom of Thought in Kenya. In P. O'Callaghan, & B. Shiner (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Right to Freedom of Thought (12). Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (S. Afr. v. Isr.); Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures (I.C.J.) (2025)
Journal Article
Ulgen, O. (2025). Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (S. Afr. v. Isr.); Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures (I.C.J.). International Legal Materials, 1-126. https://doi.org/10.1017/ilm.2024.38

Genocide is the denial of the right of existence of a human group committed by intentional killing, destruction, or extermination of the group. Prohibited under international law as a jus cogens norm, it cannot be derogated from by international agre... Read More about Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (S. Afr. v. Isr.); Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures (I.C.J.).

Plaider au XIIIe siècle: Entre théorie et pratique (2025)
Book Chapter
White, S. B. (2025). Plaider au XIIIe siècle: Entre théorie et pratique. In E. Conte, & L. Genton (Eds.), Lire le droit du Moyen Âge. Comprendre et utiliser les sources juridiques (XIIe-XVe siècles) (483-501). Palumbo Editore

This chapter explores the theory and practice of legal argumentation in the 13th century, focusing on the relationship between procedural law and rhetoric in ecclesiastical courts. Using sources such as Tancred of Bologna’s Ordo and quaestiones from... Read More about Plaider au XIIIe siècle: Entre théorie et pratique.

Towards a Post-Jensenian Private Equity Paradigm: The Agency Costs of Multi-Product Suites (2025)
Journal Article
Moore, M., & Hale, C. (2025). Towards a Post-Jensenian Private Equity Paradigm: The Agency Costs of Multi-Product Suites. Stanford Journal of Law, Economics and Business, 30(1), 33-71

In 1989, the late Professor Michael C. Jensen rationalized private equity buyouts as a golden bullet for the "agency costs" problem in widely held companies. However, over the course of the succeeding three and a half decades, the private equity sect... Read More about Towards a Post-Jensenian Private Equity Paradigm: The Agency Costs of Multi-Product Suites.

Legacies and Legalities: Bequests of Land to Ecclesiastical Institutions in England c. 1180-1300 (2025)
Journal Article
White, S. B. (2025). Legacies and Legalities: Bequests of Land to Ecclesiastical Institutions in England c. 1180-1300. Law and History Review, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0738248024000324

In English testamentary history, there is a clear divide between Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman testamentary practice, with the primary difference being that in the latter case, heritable land could not be bequeathed. Once the transfer of land required... Read More about Legacies and Legalities: Bequests of Land to Ecclesiastical Institutions in England c. 1180-1300.

Navigating the Nexus of Elections, Technology and Democracy amid Escalating Disinformation and Misinformation Challenges in Kenya (2025)
Book Chapter
Miyandazi, V., & Thuo, L. (2025). Navigating the Nexus of Elections, Technology and Democracy amid Escalating Disinformation and Misinformation Challenges in Kenya. In R. J. Krotoszynski, A. Koltay, & C. Garden (Eds.), Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Legal Approaches in Comparative Context (311-342). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009373272.018

Despite Kenya’s transformative and progressive 2010 Constitution, it is still grappling with a hybrid democracy, displaying both authoritarian and democratic traits. Scholars attribute this status to several factors, with a prominent one being the do... Read More about Navigating the Nexus of Elections, Technology and Democracy amid Escalating Disinformation and Misinformation Challenges in Kenya.