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Solar Power for Resilient Healthcare Systems in Nigeria: Regulatory, Financial and Organizational Options for Sustainable Business Models (2023)
Journal Article
Paim, M., Gershon, O., Adeyemi, A., Azubuike, S., Mu, X., & Roeben, V. (2023). Solar Power for Resilient Healthcare Systems in Nigeria: Regulatory, Financial and Organizational Options for Sustainable Business Models. The Journal of energy and development, 48(1-2), 175-194

This article investigates sustainable business models for the electrification of primary healthcare facilities (PHCs) through Renewable Energy (RE) in Nigeria. The PHCs using Luminous or lithium batteries require careful allocation of costs potential... Read More about Solar Power for Resilient Healthcare Systems in Nigeria: Regulatory, Financial and Organizational Options for Sustainable Business Models.

Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law (2023)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P. (2023). Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law. Global Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13219

This article argues that the protection of ‘community interests’ in international law includes intertemporal obligations of States, in cases where it is scientifically foreseeable that (fully) maintaining the ‘status quo’ of a protected community int... Read More about Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law.

Multinational Corporations, Human Rights, and Global Governance (2023)
Book Chapter
Rooney, J. (in press). Multinational Corporations, Human Rights, and Global Governance. In R. Houghton, A. O’Donoghue, Y. Brunger, C. Weixia Chen, & D. Ngira (Eds.), Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Global Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing

Explaining China’s approach to investor-state dispute settlement reform: a contextual perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Du, M. (2023). Explaining China’s approach to investor-state dispute settlement reform: a contextual perspective. European Law Journal: Review of European Law in Context, 28(4-6), 281-303. https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12468

China's approach to ISDS reform is widely perceived as undecided and ambiguous. This paper provides the first detailed analysis of China's submission to the UNITRAL Working Group III and situates China's approach in the context of global dialogue of... Read More about Explaining China’s approach to investor-state dispute settlement reform: a contextual perspective.

International Human Rights Law, Devolution, and Democratic Legitimacy: the Case Study of Abortion Reform in Northern Ireland (2023)
Journal Article
Rooney, J. (2023). International Human Rights Law, Devolution, and Democratic Legitimacy: the Case Study of Abortion Reform in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 74(1), 28-62. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v74i1.1021

This article uses the case study of abortion law reform to critically assess what is required to secure democratic legitimacy in complying with international human rights law (IHRL) obligations. The case study exposes the inadequacy of the devolution... Read More about International Human Rights Law, Devolution, and Democratic Legitimacy: the Case Study of Abortion Reform in Northern Ireland.

The (mis)use of fetal viability as the determinant of non-criminal abortion in the Netherlands and England and Wales (2023)
Journal Article
Halliday, S., Romanis, E. C., De Proost, L., & Verweij, E. (. (2023). The (mis)use of fetal viability as the determinant of non-criminal abortion in the Netherlands and England and Wales. Medical Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwad015

Time plays a fundamental role in abortion regulation. In this article, we compare the regulatory frameworks in England and Wales and the Netherlands as examples of the centrality accorded to viability in the determination of the parameters of non-cri... Read More about The (mis)use of fetal viability as the determinant of non-criminal abortion in the Netherlands and England and Wales.

Estimating the impact of new high seas activities on the environment: the effects of ocean-surface macroplastic removal on sea surface ecosystems (2023)
Journal Article
Spencer, M., Culhane, F., Chong, F., Powell, M. O., Roland Holst, R. J., & Helm, R. (2023). Estimating the impact of new high seas activities on the environment: the effects of ocean-surface macroplastic removal on sea surface ecosystems. PeerJ – the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences, 11, Article 15021. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15021

The open ocean beyond national jurisdiction covers nearly half of Earth’s surface and is largely unexplored. It is also an emerging frontier for new types of human activity. Understanding how new activities interact with high seas ecosystems is criti... Read More about Estimating the impact of new high seas activities on the environment: the effects of ocean-surface macroplastic removal on sea surface ecosystems.

New Technology and the Protection of the Marine Environment (2023)
Book Chapter
Woker, H. J., Roland Holst, R. J., & Harden-Davies, H. (2023). New Technology and the Protection of the Marine Environment. In R. Rayfuse, A. Jaeckel, & N. Klein (Eds.), Research Handbook on International Marine Environmental Law (409-427). (Second Edition). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909081.00028

This chapter focusses on the multifaceted relationship between new technology, the protection of the marine environment, and law. It identifies four categories to classify and analyse this relationship: (1) new technologies for marine resource exploi... Read More about New Technology and the Protection of the Marine Environment.

Reflections on the Governance Function of Compulsory Dispute Settlement in the Legal Order for the Ocean (2023)
Journal Article
Roland Holst, R. J. (2023). Reflections on the Governance Function of Compulsory Dispute Settlement in the Legal Order for the Ocean. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 38(2), 283-301. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718085-bja10122

This article takes the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea as an opportunity to reflect on the role that the compulsory dispute settlement system under Part XV of the Convention plays in maintaining the legal o... Read More about Reflections on the Governance Function of Compulsory Dispute Settlement in the Legal Order for the Ocean.

Unpacking the Black Box of China's State Capitalism (2023)
Journal Article
Du, M. (2023). Unpacking the Black Box of China's State Capitalism. German law journal, 24(1), 125-150. https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.2

Much ink has been splashed on the ideological, conceptual, and practical challenges that China’s state capitalism has posed to global trade rules. There is a growing perception that the current international trade rules are neither conceptually coher... Read More about Unpacking the Black Box of China's State Capitalism.

Restoration Activities in the Marine Environment: Balancing Diverging Perceptions of ‘Risk’ (2023)
Book Chapter
Roland Holst, R. J. (2023). Restoration Activities in the Marine Environment: Balancing Diverging Perceptions of ‘Risk’. In F. M. Platjouw, & A. Pozdnakova (Eds.), The Environmental Rule of Law for Oceans: Designing Legal Solutions (95-107). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009253741.012

This Chapter analyses the legal challenges raised by the use of new technologies for marine environmental restoration purposes, using as a case study The Ocean Cleanup’s plastic cleanup activities in areas beyond national jurisdiction. While the obje... Read More about Restoration Activities in the Marine Environment: Balancing Diverging Perceptions of ‘Risk’.

Huawei Strikes Back: Challenging National Security Decisions before Investment Arbitral Tribunals (2023)
Journal Article
Du, M. (2023). Huawei Strikes Back: Challenging National Security Decisions before Investment Arbitral Tribunals. Emory international law review, 37(1), 1-54

As a direct reaction to rising investment from China amid the transformation of the geopolitical context in which China has emerged as a great power, Western countries, including the United States, have introduced new or reinforced existing national... Read More about Huawei Strikes Back: Challenging National Security Decisions before Investment Arbitral Tribunals.

European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights (2022)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P. (2023). European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights. Berkeley journal of international law, 40(2), 207-262

The “European Consensus” is a key doctrine in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. It assists the Court in establishing an international human rights standards vis-à-vis a national margin of appreciation. This article argues that... Read More about European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights.