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User Rights and Adaptive A/IS – From Passive Interaction to Real Empowerment (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Ulgen, O. (2020). User Rights and Adaptive A/IS – From Passive Interaction to Real Empowerment. In R. A. Sottilare, & J. Schwarz (Eds.), Adaptive Instructional Systems: Second International Conference, AIS 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020 (205-217). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50788-6_15

Adaptive autonomous intelligent systems (A/IS) may satisfy design functionality and user experiential requirements but prior to deployment an assessment must be made of their impact on user rights. A/IS systems may assist rather than replace humans b... Read More about User Rights and Adaptive A/IS – From Passive Interaction to Real Empowerment.

Who is steering the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice? The influence of Member State submissions on copyright law (2020)
Journal Article
Favale, M., Kretschmer, M., & Torremans, P. (2020). Who is steering the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice? The influence of Member State submissions on copyright law. Modern Law Review, 83(4), 831-860. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12527

© 2020 The Authors. The Modern Law Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Modern Law Review Limited. The juridification of the European policy process is increasingly fragile, and little understood. This study develops a novel metho... Read More about Who is steering the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice? The influence of Member State submissions on copyright law.

The Procedure and Practice of Witness Testimony in English Ecclesiastical Courts, c.1193–1300 (2020)
Journal Article
White, S. B. (2020). The Procedure and Practice of Witness Testimony in English Ecclesiastical Courts, c.1193–1300. Studies in Church History, 56, 114-130. https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2019.7

In the twelfth century, the English church courts made considerable use of compurgation and of sworn members of the community to aid in the resolution of disputes, but by the end of the thirteenth century, academic canon law depended almost entirely... Read More about The Procedure and Practice of Witness Testimony in English Ecclesiastical Courts, c.1193–1300.

Adrian Zuckerman's New Evidence Scholarship (2020)
Book Chapter
Roberts, P. (2020). Adrian Zuckerman's New Evidence Scholarship. In R. Assy, & A. Higgins (Eds.), Principles, Procedure and Justice: Essays in Honour of Adrian Zuckerman (59-87). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Poverty and Children’s Rights (2020)
Book Chapter
Nolan, A. (2020). Poverty and Children’s Rights. In J. Todres, & S. M. King (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law (404-425). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190097608.013.21

This chapter addresses the ever-deepening relationship between child poverty and child rights. In doing so, it takes as its central focus the best known and most important child rights instrument, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). T... Read More about Poverty and Children’s Rights.

The Three Ages of Utmost Good Faith (2020)
Book Chapter
Bennett, H. (2020). The Three Ages of Utmost Good Faith. In S. Watterson, & C. Mitchell (Eds.), The World of Maritime and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Francis Rose. Bloomsbury Publishing

The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Immunities, Inviolability and the Human Right to Life (2020)
Journal Article
Milanovic, M. (2020). The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Immunities, Inviolability and the Human Right to Life. Human Rights Law Review, 20(1), 1-49. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngaa007

On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist residing in the United States, where he was a columnist for the Washington Post, was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. This article seeks to comprehensively analyze Khashogg... Read More about The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Immunities, Inviolability and the Human Right to Life.

Presumptuous or pluralistic presumptions of innocence? Methodological diagnosis towards conceptual reinvigoration (2020)
Journal Article
Roberts, P. (2021). Presumptuous or pluralistic presumptions of innocence? Methodological diagnosis towards conceptual reinvigoration. Synthese, 198(9), 8901-8932. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02606-2

This article is a contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship addressing the presumption of innocence, especially interdisciplinary conversations between philosophers and jurists. Terminological confusion and methodological traps and errors notorio... Read More about Presumptuous or pluralistic presumptions of innocence? Methodological diagnosis towards conceptual reinvigoration.

The League of Nations, autonomy and collective security (2020)
Journal Article
White, N. (2020). The League of Nations, autonomy and collective security. London Review of International Law, 8(1), 89–120. https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lraa010

This article tests the assumption that in institutional and legal design the League of Nations was incapable of providing collective security. The lens through which this issue is scrutinised is the concept of institutional legal autonomy, in other w... Read More about The League of Nations, autonomy and collective security.

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019), Pp. 336, GBP 90.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-108-49879-1 (2020)
Journal Article
White, S. B. (2020). Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019), Pp. 336, GBP 90.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-108-49879-1. American Journal of Legal History, 60(2), 247-249. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajlh/njaa007

Children's Economic and Social Rights and Child Poverty: The State of Play (2020)
Journal Article
Nolan, A., & Pells, K. (2020). Children's Economic and Social Rights and Child Poverty: The State of Play. International Journal of Children's Rights, 28(1), 111-132. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02801006

The article begins by outlining the state of the existing theoretical child rights literature on ESR, before going on to consider the growing body of CRS focused on specific ESR-thematic areas. The authors make clear the historic dominance of law in... Read More about Children's Economic and Social Rights and Child Poverty: The State of Play.

The Paradox of Scottish Life Imprisonment (2020)
Journal Article
van Zyl Smit, D., & Morrison, K. (2020). The Paradox of Scottish Life Imprisonment. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 28(1), 76-102. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718174-02801004

More people are serving life sentences in Scotland as a proportion of the national population than in any other country in Europe. Yet Scotland claims to adopt a welfarist rather than a penal approach to criminal justice. This paper uses a wide rang... Read More about The Paradox of Scottish Life Imprisonment.

Commercial Law Intersections (2020)
Working Paper
Castellano, G., & Tosato, A. (2020). Commercial Law Intersections

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 such dealings or activities falls concurrently within the p... Read More about Commercial Law Intersections.

The Characterization of Pre-insolvency Proceedings in Private International Law (2020)
Journal Article
Mevorach, I., & Walters, A. (2020). The Characterization of Pre-insolvency Proceedings in Private International Law. European Business Organization Law Review, 21(4), 855-894. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40804-020-00176-x

© 2020, The Author(s). The decade since the financial crisis has witnessed a proliferation of various ‘light touch’ financial restructuring techniques in the form of so-called pre-insolvency proceedings. These proceedings inhabit a space on the spect... Read More about The Characterization of Pre-insolvency Proceedings in Private International Law.

Courting failure: when are international criminal courts likely to be believed by local audiences? (2020)
Book Chapter
Milanovic, M. (2020). Courting failure: when are international criminal courts likely to be believed by local audiences?. In K. J. Heller, F. Megret, S. Nouwen, J. Ohlin, & D. Robinson (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of international criminal law. Oxford University Press

The primary role of international criminal courts and tribunals is to punish those deserving of punishment. But beyond dispensing individualized justice, the question still remains whether such tribunals can also help deeply traumatized and divided s... Read More about Courting failure: when are international criminal courts likely to be believed by local audiences?.

Digital legal rights: Exploring detainees' understanding of the right to a lawyer and potential barriers to accessing legal advice (2020)
Journal Article
Kemp, V. (2020). Digital legal rights: Exploring detainees' understanding of the right to a lawyer and potential barriers to accessing legal advice. Criminal Law Review, 2020(2), 129-147

This study involved using an App to explore with detainees their understanding of the right to a lawyer and to identify what factors influence the take-up of legal advice. Also examined in this paper, from the users’ perspective, are potential barrie... Read More about Digital legal rights: Exploring detainees' understanding of the right to a lawyer and potential barriers to accessing legal advice.

Procuring infrastructure for international sporting events: mapping the field for IPACS and beyond (2019)
Journal Article
Arrowsmith, S., Bayley, R., Gorczynska, A., Idoku, J., Kay, S., Faria Lopes, J., …Thurston, A. (2019). Procuring infrastructure for international sporting events: mapping the field for IPACS and beyond. Public Procurement Law Review, 28(6), 257-318

This article presents the results of a study of infrastructure procurement for international sporting events. The objective was to map both the institutional frameworks and the procedures and governance mechanisms. We were concerned only with the acq... Read More about Procuring infrastructure for international sporting events: mapping the field for IPACS and beyond.