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Excluding sexual behaviour evidence: back to first principles (2024)
Journal Article
Thomason, M. (2024). Excluding sexual behaviour evidence: back to first principles. Criminal Law Review, 692-719

Relevant sexual behaviour (SB) evidence should be admissible unless there are good reasons to exclude it. Starting from first principles, this article provides an in-depth analysis of reasons which might justify a rule of exclusion for relevant SB ev... Read More about Excluding sexual behaviour evidence: back to first principles.

COVID-19 and the World Health Organization: further exposing weaknesses in the foundation of the law of responsibility (2024)
Book Chapter
McArdle, S. (2024). COVID-19 and the World Health Organization: further exposing weaknesses in the foundation of the law of responsibility. In A. Berkes, R. Collins, & R. Deplano (Eds.), Reassessing the Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations: From Theory to Practice (263-286). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035309115.00023

The focus on the state within the development of the law of responsibility has left it stunted. The principles of responsibility in relation to organisations are problematic in themselves but become further limited when facing the growth of other non... Read More about COVID-19 and the World Health Organization: further exposing weaknesses in the foundation of the law of responsibility.

Late-Breaking Panel: ICC Arrest Warrants: Impunity in Check? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gallagher, K., Amann, D. M., Mohamed, S., & Eskauriatza, J. S. (2023, May). Late-Breaking Panel: ICC Arrest Warrants: Impunity in Check?. Presented at The Reach and Limits of International Law to Solve Today's Challenges, Washington DC

This panel was convened at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, March 31, 2023, by its moderator, Katherine Gallagher, a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law, who... Read More about Late-Breaking Panel: ICC Arrest Warrants: Impunity in Check?.

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. (2024). Criminalizing survivors of modern slavery: the United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process. Journal of Social Policy,

The United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is a framework for identifying potential victims of modern slavery (slavery, servitude, forced labour or human trafficking) and ensuring that they receive adequate care. This research explores di... Read More about Criminalizing survivors of modern slavery: the United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process.

Historical Perspectives on Law, Sexual Intimacy and Capacity (2024)
Book Chapter
Sandland, R. (2024). Historical Perspectives on Law, Sexual Intimacy and Capacity. In B. Clough, & . L. Pritchard-Jones (Eds.), Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, And Intimacy (17-37). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529235647.ch001

In this chapter, the principal aim is to analyse the law around sex and capacity which was repealed and replaced by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and Mental Capacity Act 2005. This law is to be found in a spasmodic trail of criminal caselaw, punctuate... Read More about Historical Perspectives on Law, Sexual Intimacy and Capacity.

Design and Evaluation of a Tool to assist Small-Medium Organisations (SMOs) to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM). (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baguley, K., Fischer, J., & Hyde, R. (2024, September). Design and Evaluation of a Tool to assist Small-Medium Organisations (SMOs) to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM). Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas

We present a new prototype tool intended to enable SMOs without specialist expertise in the area to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM) with confidence. We report on the design and (briefly) evaluation of the tool, demonstrating the potential u... Read More about Design and Evaluation of a Tool to assist Small-Medium Organisations (SMOs) to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM)..

Not the Law's First Rodeo: Towards regulating trustworthy collaborative industrial embodied autonomous systems (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leesakul, N., Clos, J., & Hyde, R. (2024, September). Not the Law's First Rodeo: Towards regulating trustworthy collaborative industrial embodied autonomous systems. Presented at TAS '24: Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas, USA

Does the law stifle technology adoption? At the surface, it may appear to be that there is a regulatory gap and, therefore, such uncertainty can hinder the development and deployment of collaborative industrial embodied autonomous systems (Cobots). C... Read More about Not the Law's First Rodeo: Towards regulating trustworthy collaborative industrial embodied autonomous systems.

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.

Personalisation under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017: how personal are personal housing plans? (2024)
Journal Article
Reeson, C. (2024). Personalisation under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017: how personal are personal housing plans?. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 46(3), 390-412. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2024.2381993

This article explores the personalisation of homelessness services in the context of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. This ambitious piece of legislative reform introduced requirements on local housing authorities in England to assess an individu... Read More about Personalisation under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017: how personal are personal housing plans?.

Entertaining Selectivity: ‘Narcos’, Netflix, and International Crimes (2024)
Book Chapter
Eskauriatza, J. S. (2024). Entertaining Selectivity: ‘Narcos’, Netflix, and International Crimes. In M. A. Drumbl, & C. Fournet (Eds.), Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions (327-346). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004677951_018

This chapter is about ‘atrocity as entertainment’. I draw from cultural studies, criminology, and post-colonial studies to explore the images of extreme violence produced for entertainment purposes. As a case-study, I focus on a situation which has b... Read More about Entertaining Selectivity: ‘Narcos’, Netflix, and International Crimes.

Fairness as Balance: Investor Obligations and Investment Treaty Reform (2024)
Journal Article
Van Der Ploeg, K. P. (2024). Fairness as Balance: Investor Obligations and Investment Treaty Reform. International Investment Law Journal, 4(2), 184-197. https://doi.org/10.62768/IILJ/2024/4/2/05

The normative asymmetry between the rights and obligations of investors and host states under investment treaties has been a key reason for the treaties’ common characterization as “unbalanced”. While initially a description of a justified treaty des... Read More about Fairness as Balance: Investor Obligations and Investment Treaty Reform.

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, 16(3), 794-818. 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 C. Sappa (Ed.), 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.

The effects of muscle strengthening training combined with aerobic training versus aerobic training alone on cardiovascular disease risk factors in coronary artery disease: a systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Terada, T., Thomas, A., Wei, R., Visintini, S., Noda, T., Pap, R., & Reed, J. L. (2024). The effects of muscle strengthening training combined with aerobic training versus aerobic training alone on cardiovascular disease risk factors in coronary artery disease: a systematic review. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 31(Supplement_1), https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwae175.395

Background
Aerobic training reduces the risk of secondary cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). While the long-term effects of aerobic interval training (AIT) are less clear, AIT has been shown to elicit... Read More about The effects of muscle strengthening training combined with aerobic training versus aerobic training alone on cardiovascular disease risk factors in coronary artery disease: a systematic 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.

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, 9(2), 221-249. 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.