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Climate Change, Energy Transition, and the Global South: Learnings from the International Framework on the Ozone Layer (2024)
Journal Article
Azubuike, S. I., Emeseh, E., & Yibakuo Amakiri, D. (online). Climate Change, Energy Transition, and the Global South: Learnings from the International Framework on the Ozone Layer. Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, https://doi.org/10.1080/02646811.2024.2345012

The pursuit of climate action to meet net-zero targets has triggered the call for a global energy transition from fossil fuels to clean energy sources. However, this global energy transition does not entirely recognise all countries’ social, economic... Read More about Climate Change, Energy Transition, and the Global South: Learnings from the International Framework on the Ozone Layer.

Death and the artificial placenta (2024)
Journal Article
Nelson, A., Romanis, E. C., Adkins, V., Weis, C., & Kuberska, K. (2024). Death and the artificial placenta. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 11(2), Article lsae013. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsae013

Artificial Amnion and Placenta Technology (AAPT)—sometimes referred to as ‘Artificial Womb Technology’—could provide an extracorporeal alternative to bodily gestations, allowing a fetus delivered prematurely from the human uterus to continue developm... Read More about Death and the artificial placenta.

Inclusion in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: A ‘History of the Present’ (2024)
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Turner, C. (online). Inclusion in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: A ‘History of the Present’. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2365512

This article presents a ‘history of the present’ of the concept of inclusion and how it has been centred in analysis of the Northern Ireland process in recent years. Historical discourse analysis is used to deconstruct how the idea of inclusion as a... Read More about Inclusion in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: A ‘History of the Present’.

Precedent before Principle: Adverse Possession, “Reasonable Belief” and Statutory Interpretation of the Land Registration Act 2002 Sch.6 para.5(4) (2024)
Journal Article
Bevan, C. (2024). Precedent before Principle: Adverse Possession, “Reasonable Belief” and Statutory Interpretation of the Land Registration Act 2002 Sch.6 para.5(4). The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 88(2), 203-217

There are few areas of the adverse possession regime under the Land Registration Act 2002 still requiring clarification. One outstanding and live issue, however, is Schedule 6 paragraph 5(4)(c). Megarry & Wade note this as one aspect that, ‘remains t... Read More about Precedent before Principle: Adverse Possession, “Reasonable Belief” and Statutory Interpretation of the Land Registration Act 2002 Sch.6 para.5(4).

Overriding Interests under the Land Registration Act 2002: Time to Repair the ‘Cracked Mirror’? (2024)
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Bevan, C. (2024). Overriding Interests under the Land Registration Act 2002: Time to Repair the ‘Cracked Mirror’?. The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 2024(2), 123-139

This article revisits the vexed issue of overriding interests under the Land Registration Act 2002 and asks whether, now over 20 years since the 2002 Act came into force, the time has arrived to reform this controversial category of interests to repa... Read More about Overriding Interests under the Land Registration Act 2002: Time to Repair the ‘Cracked Mirror’?.

Parliamentary Questions to the House of Commons Commission: Accountability and Parliamentary Administration (2024)
Journal Article
Melhuish, F., & Yong, B. (online). Parliamentary Questions to the House of Commons Commission: Accountability and Parliamentary Administration. Parliamentary Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsae013

Parliamentary administration is integral to supporting the work of elected politicians. How is it held to account? This paper focuses on parliamentary questions-one means of scrutinising parliamentary administration. The paper uses a qualitative anal... Read More about Parliamentary Questions to the House of Commons Commission: Accountability and Parliamentary Administration.

Towards a New Criminal Offence of Intimate Intrusions (2024)
Journal Article
McGlynn, C. (2024). Towards a New Criminal Offence of Intimate Intrusions. Feminist Legal Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-024-09547-y

This article suggests a new approach to tackling women’s experiences of harm and abuse, particularly online, namely a criminal law of ‘intimate intrusions’. It seeks to reinvigorate Betsy Stanko’s (1985) concept of intimate intrusions, developing it... Read More about Towards a New Criminal Offence of Intimate Intrusions.

The Decline of the Judicial Retirement Convention, 1950-2020 (2024)
Journal Article
O'Brien, P., Yong, B., & Anderson, S. (in press). The Decline of the Judicial Retirement Convention, 1950-2020. Public Law,

What do judges do after they retire? Until recently, UK judges were subject to the judicial retirement convention which governed their behaviour in retirement. This convention had two parts. Firstly, it prevented judges from returning to legal practi... Read More about The Decline of the Judicial Retirement Convention, 1950-2020.

Legal parenthood, novel reproductive practices, and the disruption of reproductive biosex (2024)
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Romanis, E. C., & Brown, A. (in press). Legal parenthood, novel reproductive practices, and the disruption of reproductive biosex. Modern Law Review,

There are reproductive technologies on the horizon that challenge the fundamentals of human reproduction – the need for sperm, eggs, and someone to gestate the pregnancy. We argue that such technologies collectively undermine our conception of reprod... Read More about Legal parenthood, novel reproductive practices, and the disruption of reproductive biosex.

Delivering a Culture Change in Property Guardianship: Recommendations for Reform to the Regulatory Landscape (2024)
Journal Article
Bevan, C. (2024). Delivering a Culture Change in Property Guardianship: Recommendations for Reform to the Regulatory Landscape. Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, https://doi.org/10.1108/JPPEL-02-2024-0007

Purpose Property guardianship is increasingly being viewed as an alternative and, in many cases, a last resort to the unaffordable private rental market. This upsurge in the incidence of guardianship necessarily amplifies the existing legal grey a... Read More about Delivering a Culture Change in Property Guardianship: Recommendations for Reform to the Regulatory Landscape.

Liability For Rugby Related Neuro-Degenerative Disease: A Question of Tort (2024)
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Cave, E., Purshouse, C., & Purshouse, J. (2024). Liability For Rugby Related Neuro-Degenerative Disease: A Question of Tort. Journal of Personal Injury Law, 2, 93-112

This article examines the potential liability of rugby governing bodies in negligence for their alleged past failures to protect players from known risks associated with the neurodegenerative consequences of rugby-related traumatic brain injury. Not... Read More about Liability For Rugby Related Neuro-Degenerative Disease: A Question of Tort.

Going Federal – A longitudinal study of 196 judges’ career trajectories to the German Federal Court of Justice from 2000 to 2020 (2024)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (in press). Going Federal – A longitudinal study of 196 judges’ career trajectories to the German Federal Court of Justice from 2000 to 2020. Journal of Comparative Law,

The structural and political tropes around judicial recruitment and promotion in Germany have so far received the lion’s share of the attention, yet, as every judge in every country’s judiciary knows, there are formal and informal contacts, relations... Read More about Going Federal – A longitudinal study of 196 judges’ career trajectories to the German Federal Court of Justice from 2000 to 2020.

Right to Food Cities: the Role of Local Governments in the Fight against Hunger (2024)
Journal Article
Morris, K. (2024). Right to Food Cities: the Role of Local Governments in the Fight against Hunger. Journal of Human Rights Practice, Article huae010. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huae010

The state-centric nature of international law has been recognized as a severe barrier to the realization of human rights since the outset and remains a concern today across the globe. However, the dominant space the state has historically occupied wi... Read More about Right to Food Cities: the Role of Local Governments in the Fight against Hunger.

'Everything is Obstetric Violence Now': Identifying the Violence in 'Obstetric Violence' to Strengthen Socio-legal Reform Efforts (2024)
Journal Article
Pickles, C. (2024). 'Everything is Obstetric Violence Now': Identifying the Violence in 'Obstetric Violence' to Strengthen Socio-legal Reform Efforts. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqae016

Since its global uptake, 'obstetric violence' is increasingly used to capture any/all violations during reproductive healthcare, with few conceptual limits. Consequently, it runs the risk of becoming an overgeneralised concept, making it difficult to... Read More about 'Everything is Obstetric Violence Now': Identifying the Violence in 'Obstetric Violence' to Strengthen Socio-legal Reform Efforts.

The Dejudicialization of International Dispute Settlement: A Paradigm Shift in International Economic Law? (2024)
Journal Article
Du, M., & Peng, D. L. (in press). The Dejudicialization of International Dispute Settlement: A Paradigm Shift in International Economic Law?. Journal of World Trade, 58(6),

The objective of this article is to reflect on the rise and decline of judicialization in international trade and investment regimes and explore the future of international economic dispute settlement. It makes three key arguments. First, the severe... Read More about The Dejudicialization of International Dispute Settlement: A Paradigm Shift in International Economic Law?.