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Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother (2021)
Book
Milne, E. (2021). Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother. Emerald

Analysis of criminal cases reveals that women suspected of killing their newborn children are some of the most vulnerable in our society and that infanticide is not just a historical issue but one that has modern implications. While women are less li... Read More about Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother.

Regulating loot boxes as gambling? Towards a combined legal and self-regulatory consumer protection approach (2021)
Journal Article
Xiao, L. Y. (2021). Regulating loot boxes as gambling? Towards a combined legal and self-regulatory consumer protection approach. Interactive Entertainment Law Review, 4(1), 27-47. https://doi.org/10.4337/ielr.2021.01.02

Loot boxes represent a popular and prevalent contemporary monetization innovation in video games that offers the purchasing player-consumer, who always pays a set amount of money for each attempt, the opportunity to obtain randomized virtual rewards... Read More about Regulating loot boxes as gambling? Towards a combined legal and self-regulatory consumer protection approach.

‘It’s like we’re locked in a box’: Girls’ and mothers’ experiences of the police and legal system following child sexual abuse (2021)
Journal Article
Butterby, K., & Hackett, S. (2022). ‘It’s like we’re locked in a box’: Girls’ and mothers’ experiences of the police and legal system following child sexual abuse. Children & Society, 36(1), 149-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12490

This article focuses on girls’ and mothers’ experiences of police and criminal justice system responses and the impact of investigation processes following reporting of child sexual abuse. Participants spoke of a lack of timely therapeutic provision... Read More about ‘It’s like we’re locked in a box’: Girls’ and mothers’ experiences of the police and legal system following child sexual abuse.

The Future of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Exploring China’s Changing Attitude (2021)
Book Chapter
Du, M., & Shen, W. (2021). The Future of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Exploring China’s Changing Attitude. In J. Chaisse, L. Choukroune, & S. Jusoh (Eds.), Handbook of international investment law and policy (2483-2506). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3615-7_86

The legitimacy of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) system has come under fire in recent years, and the call for reform or even transformation of global foreign direct investment governance is in vogue, with proposals ranging from incremental... Read More about The Future of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Exploring China’s Changing Attitude.

Litigating Brexit (2021)
Book Chapter
McCorkindale, C., & McHarg, A. (2021). Litigating Brexit. In O. Doyle, A. McHarg, & J. E. K. Murkens (Eds.), The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom: Constitutions Under Pressure (260-291). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108966399.014

The Brexit process has been characterised by hyper-litigation – an unprecedented level of strategic litigation brought to influence the process, substance and/or the politics of the UK’s departure from the European Union. Although strategic litigatio... Read More about Litigating Brexit.

On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism (2021)
Journal Article
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2021). On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism. Journal of ethics & social philosophy, 20(2), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v20i2.1382

In this discussion of Emad Atiq's article "There are No Easy Counterexamples to Legal Anti-Positivism" I pose three challenges to his construction of an Inclusive Anti-positivism. I firstly argue that, contra Atiq, the moral facts that both ground IA... Read More about On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism.

Safeguarding and Teleconsultation for Abortion (2021)
Journal Article
Romanis, E. C., Parsons, J. A., Salter, I., & Hampton, T. (2021). Safeguarding and Teleconsultation for Abortion. The Lancet, 398(10299), 555-558. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2821%2901062-x

In response to COVID-19 and measures implemented to control virus transmission, some governments adapted abortion law and policy to ensure access to abortion care through telemedicine. In Great Britain, approval orders were issued March 30–31, 2020,... Read More about Safeguarding and Teleconsultation for Abortion.

Case Note: Germany – Balancing the right of a parliamentary commission of enquiry to access classified evidence from anti-terrorist undercover operations with the requirements of national security – “Anis Amri Case” (2021)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2021). Case Note: Germany – Balancing the right of a parliamentary commission of enquiry to access classified evidence from anti-terrorist undercover operations with the requirements of national security – “Anis Amri Case”. Public Law, 2021(3), 638-641

Accountability (2021)
Book Chapter
Roeben, V. (2021). Accountability. In Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. Oxford University Press

No tyranny for failing Donald Trump – sad! Law, constitutionalism and tyranny in the twenty-first century (2021)
Journal Article
O'Donoghue, A. (2021). No tyranny for failing Donald Trump – sad! Law, constitutionalism and tyranny in the twenty-first century. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 72(AD1), 33-62. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v72iad1.935

Donald Trump’s presidency resulted in several accusations of tyrannical intent. The end of his term of office and particularly the rioting of January 6th, 2021 and the denial of the Presidential election results did little to dispel those accusations... Read More about No tyranny for failing Donald Trump – sad! Law, constitutionalism and tyranny in the twenty-first century.

Thailand: Shooting Star for Access to Medicines Through Compulsory Licensing (2021)
Book Chapter
Le, V. A. (2021). Thailand: Shooting Star for Access to Medicines Through Compulsory Licensing. In S. Ragavan, & A. Vanni (Eds.), . London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003176602-16

Within two relatively short periods – from November 2006 to January 2007 and in January 2008 – the government of Thailand, which has been a world trade organization member since 1995, issued seven compulsory licenses, citing public health as a ground... Read More about Thailand: Shooting Star for Access to Medicines Through Compulsory Licensing.

Abandoning Dishonesty – A Brief German Comment on the State of the Law after Ivey (2021)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2022). Abandoning Dishonesty – A Brief German Comment on the State of the Law after Ivey. Journal of Criminal Law, 86(3), 170-178. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220183211035179

The debate about the two-pronged Ghosh test for dishonesty has troubled academics and practitioners alike for some time. Concerns were raised about the jury’s ability to determine both the objective honesty standards and the defendant’s personal comp... Read More about Abandoning Dishonesty – A Brief German Comment on the State of the Law after Ivey.

Gaming the system: suboptimal compliance with loot box probability disclosure regulations in China (2021)
Journal Article
Xiao, L. Y., Henderson, L. L., Yang, Y., & Newall, P. W. (2021). Gaming the system: suboptimal compliance with loot box probability disclosure regulations in China. Behavioural Public Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2021.23

Loot boxes provide randomized rewards in video games; their purchase is linked to disordered gambling and they are present in approximately half of UK video games. The relative novelty of loot boxes means that regulators and policymakers in various j... Read More about Gaming the system: suboptimal compliance with loot box probability disclosure regulations in China.

Compulsory Childhood Vaccination: Human Rights, Solidarity and Best Interests (2021)
Journal Article
Archard, D., Brierley, J., & Cave, E. (2021). Compulsory Childhood Vaccination: Human Rights, Solidarity and Best Interests. Medical Law Review, 29(4), 716-727. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwab024

Across Europe an increasing number of States have set out policies which limit the right of parents to refuse routinely administered vaccinations on their children’s behalf. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Vavřička and Ot... Read More about Compulsory Childhood Vaccination: Human Rights, Solidarity and Best Interests.