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The Impact of the ICTY on the Former Yugoslavia: An Anticipatory Postmortem (2016)
Journal Article
Milanovic, M. (2016). The Impact of the ICTY on the Former Yugoslavia: An Anticipatory Postmortem. American Journal of International Law, 110(2), 233-259. https://doi.org/10.5305/amerjintelaw.110.2.0233

As a series of public opinion surveys indicate, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia seems not to have persuaded populations in the various successor countries that the findings in its judgments are true. These surveys highli... Read More about The Impact of the ICTY on the Former Yugoslavia: An Anticipatory Postmortem.

Foreign Prisoners in Europe: An Analysis of the 2012 Council of Europe Recommendation and Its Implications for International Penal Policy (2016)
Journal Article
Mulgrew, R. (2016). Foreign Prisoners in Europe: An Analysis of the 2012 Council of Europe Recommendation and Its Implications for International Penal Policy. Review of International Law and Politics, 12(1),

The issue of migration is attracting significant media and political attention in Europe. Migration has been one of the causes of the rapid rise in the number and proportion of foreigners in national prisons. In response to this problem, the Council... Read More about Foreign Prisoners in Europe: An Analysis of the 2012 Council of Europe Recommendation and Its Implications for International Penal Policy.

Overriding and over-extended?: actual occupation: a call to orthodoxy (2016)
Journal Article
Bevan, C. (2016). Overriding and over-extended?: actual occupation: a call to orthodoxy. Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 2016(2),

Those in actual occupation is one example of protection for an interest which although unregistered overrides a registered disposition and was first introduced by the notorious s70(1)(g) Land Registration Act 1925. Today the applicable law is provide... Read More about Overriding and over-extended?: actual occupation: a call to orthodoxy.

Sanctions against non-state actors (2016)
Book Chapter
White, N. D. (2016). Sanctions against non-state actors. In N. Ronzitti (Ed.), Coercive diplomacy, sanctions and international law. Brill/Nijhoff

Defying gravity: defining the international rule of law (2016)
Journal Article
McCorquodale, R. (2016). Defying gravity: defining the international rule of law. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 65(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589316000026

This article aims to offer a definition of the international rule of law. It does this through clarifying the core objectives of a rule of law and examining whether the international system could include them. It demonstrates that there can be a defi... Read More about Defying gravity: defining the international rule of law.

The Blood Libel in North America: Jews, Law, and Citizenship in the Early 20th Century (2016)
Journal Article
Fraser, D. (2016). The Blood Libel in North America: Jews, Law, and Citizenship in the Early 20th Century. Law and Literature, 28(1), 33-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2015.1110379

While Mendel Beilis stood trial for murder in Ukraine, the small Jewish population of Quebec City in Canada pursued legal action against perpetrators of the blood libel. This article traces the attempts by Jewish populations in Quebec City, Montreal,... Read More about The Blood Libel in North America: Jews, Law, and Citizenship in the Early 20th Century.

England and Wales: Empirical Findings (2016)
Book Chapter
Kemp, V., & Hodgson, J. (2016). England and Wales: Empirical Findings. In M. Vanderhallen, M. V. Oosterhout, M. Panzavolta, & D. D. Vocht (Eds.), Interrogating young suspects: procedural safeguards from an empirical perspective. Intersentia

Commercial agency and the duty to act in good faith (2016)
Journal Article
Tosato, A. (2016). Commercial agency and the duty to act in good faith. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 36(3), 661-695. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqv040

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Under Directive 86/653/EEC on the co-ordination of the laws of European Union Member States relating to self-employed commercial agents, commercial agents have an obligatio... Read More about Commercial agency and the duty to act in good faith.

Uses of macro social theory: a social housing case study (2016)
Journal Article
Bevan, C., & Cowan, D. (2016). Uses of macro social theory: a social housing case study. Modern Law Review, 79(1), 76-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12167

This article reflects on the use of macro social theoretical perspectives to explain micro social issues. It uses social housing allocations as a case study of the issues that arise in such explanations. There has been a number of important social th... Read More about Uses of macro social theory: a social housing case study.

Is there a EU copyright jurisprudence?: an empirical analysis of the workings of the European Court of Justice (2016)
Journal Article
Favale, M., Kretschmer, M., & Torremans, P. (2016). Is there a EU copyright jurisprudence?: an empirical analysis of the workings of the European Court of Justice. Modern Law Review, 79(1), 31-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12166

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has been suspected of carrying out a harmonising agenda over and beyond the conventional law-interpreting function of the judiciary. In relation to the development of a EU copyright law, the Court has... Read More about Is there a EU copyright jurisprudence?: an empirical analysis of the workings of the European Court of Justice.

Food security and the right to food: finding balance in the 2012 Food Assistance Convention (2016)
Journal Article
La Chimia, A. (2016). Food security and the right to food: finding balance in the 2012 Food Assistance Convention. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 65(1), 99-137. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589315000500

On 25 April 2012, after years of negotiations delayed by halts and setbacks, the Food Assistance Convention was adopted—the latest in a series of agreements that since 1967 have regulated the international provision of food aid. Great expectations ha... Read More about Food security and the right to food: finding balance in the 2012 Food Assistance Convention.

Exclusion zones in the law of armed conflict at sea: evolution in law and practice (2016)
Journal Article
Sivakumaran, S. (2016). Exclusion zones in the law of armed conflict at sea: evolution in law and practice. International Law Studies, 92,

This article analyses the changes in the law and practice of exclusion zones in the law of armed conflict at sea. It identifies three principal phases. First, it explores the exclusion zones of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, which were modest i... Read More about Exclusion zones in the law of armed conflict at sea: evolution in law and practice.

International environmental litigation in EU courts: a regulatory perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Grusic, U. (2016). International environmental litigation in EU courts: a regulatory perspective. Yearbook of European Law, 36(1), 180-228. https://doi.org/10.1093/yel/yew003

This article argues that the rules of European private international law, which frame international litigation in the courts of the Member States of the EU, fail in their pursuit of the cosmopolitan goals of EU environmental policy. The practical ap... Read More about International environmental litigation in EU courts: a regulatory perspective.

The role of civil liability in ensuring police responsibility for failures to act after Michael and DSD (2016)
Journal Article
Hyde, R. (2016). The role of civil liability in ensuring police responsibility for failures to act after Michael and DSD. European Journal of Current Legal Issues, 22(1),

Police failures may contribute to a failure to prevent injury, or worse. The question of whether the police should be liable for such investigatory failures has exercised the higher courts frequently since the seminal case of Hill. The Supreme Court... Read More about The role of civil liability in ensuring police responsibility for failures to act after Michael and DSD.