Modern Law Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern Law Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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AleydisNissen, European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 323 pp, hb £85.0036
‘AI is not an Inventor’: Thaler v Comptroller of Patents, Designs and Trademarks and the Patentability of AI Inventions15
‘Lex Cryptographi(c)a,’ ‘Cloud Crypto Land’ or What? – Blockchain Technology on the Legal Hype Cycle10
The OMC, Intelligent Accountability and the Monitoring of National Tax Authorities8
The Beneficiary's Ownership Rights in the Trust Res in a Liberal Property Regime7
NaomiCreutzfeldt, ChrisGill, MarineCornelis and RachelMcPherson, Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy‐Poor Consumers: Just Energy?, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 336 pp, hb £85.00, pb £42.997
e‐Evidence Cooperation in Criminal Matters from an EU Perspective7
The Sky's the Limit? SkyKick v Sky and Speculative Trade Mark Registration6
Ernest J.Weinrib, Reciprocal Freedom: Private Law and Public Right, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp, hb, £90.006
UK Withdrawal from the EU: Supremacy, Indirect Effect and Retained EU Law6
Consent to Treatment for Transgender Youth: The Next Chapter – Bell & Anor v The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust & Ors6
MarySynge, The University‐Charity: Challenging Perceptions in Higher Education, 2023, xix + 504 pp, hb £120.5
The Charities Act 2022 and its Dissuasive Effects on Donors5
E. Micheler, Company Law: A Real Entity Theory, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, 320 pp, hb, £80.005
EnricoBonadio and Chen WeiZhu (eds), Music Borrowing and Copyright Law: A Genre‐by‐Genre AnalysisOxford: Hart, 2023, 704pp, hb £126.005
Public Nuisance and Climate Change: The Common Law's Solutions to the Plaintiff, Defendant and Causation Problems5
When is an Insured Vehicle an Uninsured Vehicle?5
ElizabethWicks, Suicide and the Law, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2023, 221 pp, hb £85.004
The Scope of the Medical Exception in Criminal Law4
The Shareholder's Standing to Challenge the Exercise of Directorial Power: Tianrui (International) Holding Company Ltd v China Sha4
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Judicial Biography in the National Security Constitution: Lord Diplock and a ‘Rather Silly Little Secret Racket’4
Vicarious Liability and Conferred Authority: Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses v BXB4
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Trial by Cognitive Ordeal: Irrational Approaches to the Opinions of Investigators, Trial Integrity and Proof4
Communicating Censure: The Relevance of Conditions of Imprisonment at Sentencing and During the Administration of the Sentence4
Authenticity and Identity in Adolescent Decision‐Making3
Beverley Clough, The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries, Routledge, 2021, hb, 208 pp, £130.003
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Characterising and Changing Charitable Purposes: Theories of Organisational Purpose3
Assessing States’ Obligations under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Post‐Brexit3
Prioritising Proof over Speculation: Resolving the Prospective Inability Problem in Contract Damages3
Natural Rights, Constituent Power, and the Stain of Constitutionalism3
The Unfree Commons: Freedom of Marine Scientific Research and the Status of Genetic Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction3
The Aarhus Convention 1998 and the Environment Act 2021: Eroding Public Participation3
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Judicial Review of the Improper Policy Implementation of Treaties2
Directly Discriminatory Algorithms2
Performative Environmental Law2
Zalewski and the Future of Irish Public Law2
Distinguishing Between Direct and Indirect Discrimination2
Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment and the Supreme Court: Why the Legal Detail Matters in R (Finch) v Surrey County Council2
The Change in Judicial Practice in Cases Concerning Civil Disobedience Protests and its Constitutional Significance2
Coercive Human Rights and the Forgotten History of the Council of Europe's Report on Decriminalisation2
Knowing receipt: continuing trusts and conscionability Byers v Saudi National Bank2
A New Definition of ‘Treasure’ under the Treasure Act 1996: Watershed Reform or Missed Opportunity?2
Proof of Foreign Nationality and Citizenship Deprivation: Pham and Competing Approaches to Proof in the British Courts2
Phil Glover, Protecting National Security: A history of British Communications Investigation Regulation, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, 318 pages, hb £120.002
BeckyBatagol, KateSeear, HeliAskola and JamieWalvisch (eds), The Feminist Legislation Project: Rewriting Laws for Gender‐Based Justice, London, Routledge, 2024, 392 pp, hb, £145.002
Cormac S.Mac Amhlaigh, New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xi + 256pp, hb £70.002
Employment Status and Human Rights: An Emerging Approach2
Does Digital Status Unlawfully Penalise EU Citizens Accessing the UK's Private Rented Sector?2
William A. Robson and the Making of English Administrative Law1
Is the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 Sufficient to Promote the Uptake of Paperless Trading Systems?1
The Impact of a Pre‐Existing Defect on Liability for Property Damage: Taylor v Jones1
MatthewFlindersandChrisMonaghan(eds), Questions of Accountability: Prerogatives, Power and Politics, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 344 pp, hb, £81.001
ElizabethAgnew, Cyberbullying and Sexting: Regulatory Challenges in the Digital Age, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 197 pp, hb £59.501
Xenophobic Discrimination1
AlysiaBlackham, Reforming Age Discrimination Law: Beyond Individual Enforcement, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, hb, 400 pp (also available as e‐book), £80.001
TatianaDancy, Artificial Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 176 pp, hb £29.991
James Penner, Property Rights: A Re‐Examination, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 256 pp, £84.001
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StinePiilgaardPorner Nielsen and OleHammerslev (eds), Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights: Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, x + 226, pb1
The Travels of Treason1
The Authority of Constituent Power1
Animals and Nature as Rights Holders in the European Union1
Zainab BatulNaqvi, Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law; A Critical Feminist Analysis, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023, 239 pp, hb £85.001
Eric R. Claeys, Natural Property Rights, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 350pp, hb, £1001
CatherineMitchell, Vanishing Contract Law: Common Law in the Age of Contracts, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 259 pp, hb, £85.001
Modern Slavery and the Commercial Activity Exception to Diplomatic Immunity From Civil Jurisdiction: The UK Supreme Court's Decision in Basfar v Wong1
FedericoPicinali, Justice In‐Between: A Study of Intermediate Criminal Verdicts, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 278 pp, hb £80.001
The Defence of Public Necessity1
A Pyrrhic Victory for Unjust Enrichment in Singapore? Esben Finance Ltd v Wong Hou‐Lianq Neil1
The Sins of the Fathers: Targeted Sanctions against Family Members of Primary Targets1
Jacqueline Kinghan, Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021, 209 pp, (hb), £65.00.1
A Tale of Two Cases and a Story Yet Untold: Access to Justice and Legal Advice under the Civil Limb of Article 6 ECHR1
Rights‐Restricting Rhetoric: The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act 20211
Has the UK Supreme Court Become More Restrained in Public Law Cases?1
The Right to ‘Inclusive’ Education1
KateLeader, Litigants in Person in the Civil Justice System, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2024, 179 pp, hb £85.00JessicaMant, Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System, Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishi1
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Rethinking Reasonableness in Rape Prosecution: Lessons Learned in the Search for ‘End to End’ Justice in England and Wales1
OrBrook, Non‐Competition Interests in EU Antitrust Law: An Empirical Study of Article 101 TFEU, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 400 pp, hb £120.001
Gambling Control in a Cost‐of‐Living Crisis: An Analysis of the White Paper High Stakes: Gambling Reform for the Digital Age (2023)1
Regulatory Agencies and the Inclusion Trilemma1
Criteria of Validity1
A Privileged and Conventional Relationship: Legal Professional Privilege and the Law Officers’ Convention1
Non‐Traditional Families and the Tenacity of Motherhood: Re C (Surrogacy: Consent) and Re Z (Surrogacy: Step‐Parent Adoption)1
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Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK) Ltd v Attorney General: the Contemporary Scope of the Statutory Cy‐près Doctrine1
Gendered Capital and Litigants in EU Equality Case‐Law1
At Long Last: The Recognition of Intersectional Discrimination at the ECtHR in FM v Russia1
Rafael N.Fasel and Sean C.Butler, Animal Rights Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 240 pp, pb £24.991
Discrimination in Abortion Law and the Message the Law is Sending: R (Crowter) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care1
Folúkẹ́Adébísí, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023, 204 pp, hb £85.99, pb £26.991
Selective Corporate Restructuring Strategy0
Criminalising ‘Conversion Therapy’0
VeraPavlou, Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Law and the Construction of Vulnerability, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021, 166pp, hb £76.500
Matthew C.Canfield, Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance, Stanford University Press, 2022, 280 pp, hb US/CAN $105.00, pb US/CAN $26.000
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C v D: A Missed Opportunity to Clarify the Distinction Between Jurisdiction and Admissibility0
LeahTrueblood, Referendums as Representative Democracy, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024, 168 pp, hb £76.500
Countering Terrorism in the Family Courts: A Dangerous Development0
Reconciling Contract Law's Objective and Subjective Standards0
The Global Minimum Tax and the Future of International Taxation0
Consumer Value as the Key to Trade Mark Functionality0
D. Brakman Reiser and S.A. Dean, Social Enterprise Law: Trust, Public Benefit, and Capital Markets, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 202 pp, hb £42.490
Allan C. Hutchinson , Rethinking Legitimacy: Courts, Constitutions and Politics, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2025, 192 hb £90.000
JamesThornton, Criminal Justice in Austerity: Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 192 pp, hb £85.000
The Possibility of Lawful Act Economic Duress:  Pakistan International Airlines Corp v Times Travel (UK) Ltd0
A Not Too Collaborative Constitution? Collaboration as Constitutional Value Versus Model0
Mobilising the Market: An Empirical Analysis of Crowdfunding for Judicial Review Litigation0
Accidents, Crises, and Events in the Supreme Court: Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust0
THE MODERN LAW REVIEW0
William Rodolph Cornish (1937‐2022)0
Ordoliberalism: What We Know and What We Think We Know0
KathrynMcNeilly and BenWarwick (eds), The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2022, 240 pp, hb, £85.000
Machine Learning and the Re‐Enchantment of the Administrative State0
Legal Protection Against Destitution in the UK: the Case for a Right to a Subsistence Minimum0
Institutional Choice in the Internal Market0
Shazam v Only Fools and Horses: A Critique of the Classification of Literary or Dramatic Characters as Independent Copyright Works0
Skeleton Keys to Hospital Doors: Adolescent Adults who Refuse Life‐Sustaining Medical Treatment0
Judging Under Authoritarianism0
CharlotteWoodhead, Caring for Cultural Heritage: An Integrated Approach to Legal and Ethical Initiatives in the United Kingdom, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pb, £34.990
Joseph Raz as a Political Philosopher0
HannaSchebesta and KaiPurnhagen, EU Food Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 432 pp, hb, £110.000
A Legal Framework for Using Smart Contracts in Consumer Contracts: Machines as Servants, Not Masters0
A Post‐Neoliberal European Order? Public Purpose and Private Accumulation in Green Industrial Policy0
Deceptive Sex: Rethinking Consent from the Gender Margins0
Intersex Interventions as Human Rights Violations: The European Court of Human Rights Sets Out Guiding Principles in M v France0
Squaring the Circle? Regional Airport Expansion, Climate Change and the Planning Regime0
Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic0
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Challenging Parole Decisions in England and Wales: Reconsideration and Set Aside0
The Citizen as Other: The Case from Within for Cosmopolitan State Duties and Freedom to Migrate0
Police Use of Retrospective Facial Recognition Technology: A Step Change in Surveillance Capability Necessitating an Evolution of the Human Rights Law Framework0
Universal Jurisdiction: Law out of Context0
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Rationalising Mid‐Century Choice of Law: Legal Technique and its Limits in the ‘Dark Science’ of Conflicts0
Unpicking Torts: Elements, Conditions of Actionability and Standing Rules0
‘If I Would Stay Alive, I Would Be Their Voice’: On the Legitimacy of International People's Tribunals0
Debtholder Stewardship0
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A New Self‐Defence Framework for Domestic Abuse Survivors Who Use Violent Resistance in Response0
CristyClarke and JohnPage, The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice, Edinburgh: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities, 2022, 225 pp, hb0
Administrative Law as a Source of Rights0
Conor Gearty0
The New Responsive Constitutionalism0
Governing Intersystemic Systemic Risks: Lessons from Covid and Climate Change0
SamiaBano (ed), The Sharia Inquiry, Religious Practice and Muslim Family Law in Britain, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, 142 pp, hb, £45.990
Redefining Compensation under International Law: the Methodology of the International Court of Justice in DRC v Uganda0
HenriettaZeffert, Home and International Law: Dispossession, Displacement and Resistance in Everyday Life, Oxford, Routledge, 2024, 234 pp, hb £135, pb £42.99, eb £34.390
Reframing the English Foreign Act of State Doctrine0
E Christodoulidis, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 350 pp, pb £34.990
Ideological Constitutionalism0
Plainly Wrong0
The UK GDPR, the Immigration Exception and Brexit: Interrogating Open Rights Group v Secretary of State for the Home Department and its Aftermath0
S.Fredman, Comparative Human Rights Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 512 pp, pb £47.490
R (on the application of W80) v Director General of the Independent Office of Police Conduct: Landmark Ruling or Business as Usual?0
HeatherDouglas, KateFitz‐Gibbon, LeighGoodmark and SandraWalklate (eds), The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives, Oxford: OUP, 2023, 344 pp, hb £59.000
The Omissions Doctrine after Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police0
Unreasonably Limiting Recourse to the Courts? R (on the application of Haworth) v HMRC0
JuliaDuffy, Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, xxi+286 pp, hb £95.000
Melvin A.Eisenberg, Legal Reasoning, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 117 pp, pb, £22.990
Hidden Delegations: The Assignment of Contractual Rights and Consumer Debt0
AbdiAidid and BenjaminAlarie, The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2023, 218 pp, hb £31.000
The Rights and Wrongs of No‐Platforming0
The Costs of Contractual Certainty: RTI v MUR Shipping0
Cautious scrutiny: The Federal Climate Change Act case in the German Constitutional Court0
Chilling and Warming Effects on the Production of Legal Scholarship0
Extending the Reach of the ‘ Etridge  Protocol’ to So‐called ‘Hybrid’ Scenarios:  Waller‐Edwards  v  0
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THE MODERN LAW REVIEW0
Equity before ‘Equity’0
R. Catterwell, A Unified Approach to Contract Interpretation, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 320 pp, hb £72.000
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ColinKing and JenniferHendry, Civil Recovery of Criminal Property, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 240 pp, hb £90.000
NickPiška and HayleyGibson(eds), Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell, Coventry, Counterpress, 2024, 242 pp, pb £18.000
Anxieties about International Law: Law Debenture v Ukraine0
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Undermining loyalty to legality? An empirical analysis of perceptions of ‘lockdown’ law and guidance during COVID‐190
MarijaJovanovic, State Responsibility for ‘Modern Slavery’ in Human Rights Law: A Right Not to Be Trafficked, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 240 pp, hb, £90.000
Between rigid respect for international law and judicial deference: Front Polisario I and Front Polisario II0
Historiography and Constitutional Adjudication0
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Jonas‐SébastienBeaudry, The Disabled Contract: Severe Intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, xix + 314 pp, hb £85.000
ImmiTallgren(ed), Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces?Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 560pp, hb £140.000
The Challenge of ‘Factual Hard Cases’ for Guilty Plea Regimes0
Rights, Common Good, and the Separation of Powers0
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LindaMulcahy and AnnaTsalapatanis, Digital Justice: Engineering Disadvantage?, Palgrave Macmillan Socio‐Legal Series, 2025, 95 pp, hb, £34.990
‘Palm Tree Justice’: The Inherent Jurisdiction in Adult Welfare Cases0
(Un)reasonable excuses – On R v Dunleavy, R v Copeland, and Section 580
Mirosław MichałSadowski, Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past, Abingdon, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2024, 304 pp, hb, £135.000
Institutionalising Interpersonal Ideas in Law0
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and Non‐Traditional Families0
Same‐Sex Unions in Hong Kong and the Misuse of Comparative Law: Sham Tsz Kit v Secretary for Justice0
MihneaTănăsescu, Understanding the Rights of Nature: A Critical Introduction, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022, 165 pp, pb, €40.00.0
Children, Families and Social Security: Eleanor Rathbone's Welfare Legacy0
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: Mackie Motors v RCI and Baird Textiles v Marks and Spencer0
Marie Tidball, Disabling Criminal Justice: The Governance of Autistic Adult Defendants in the English Criminal Justice System, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2024, 296 pp, hb, £85.000
Priority Setting as the Blind Spot of Administrative Law Enforcement: A Theoretical, Conceptual, and Empirical Study of Competition Authorities in Europe0
Promises in Equity and at Law: Proprietary Estoppel after Guest v Guest0
The Rule of Law and Full‐Bodied Promulgation0
The Heathrow Case in the Supreme Court: Climate Change Legislation and Administrative Adjudication0
Corrigendum to ‘Constitutional Directives: Morally‐Committed Political Constitutionalism’0
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Two Ways of Looking at a Printed Book0
The International Extension of Denial of Justice0
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The View from the Top: Visual Intrusion as Nuisance in Fearn v Tate Gallery0
RobertStevens, The Laws of Restitution, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 496pp, hb £90.000
Making Law Possible0
Public (Trust) Rights in Open Space: Day v Shropshire Council0
Imprisoned at Work: The Impact of Employee Monitoring on Physical Privacy and Individual Liberty0
The Second‐class Citizen in Legal Theory0
Hauptpersonalrat der Lehrerinnen: Article 88 GDPR and the Interplay between EU and Member State Employee Data Protection Rules0
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The Aims and Functions of Criminal Law0
Back to School: Matthew Kramer's Freedom of Expression as Self‐Restraint0
What's Choice Got to Do With It? Addressing the Pitfalls of Using Choice‐Architecture Discourse Within Poverty Law0
Recognising Capabilities: The Importance of Recognition for Human Flourishing0
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THE MODERN LAW REVIEW0
KieranMcEvoy, LouiseMallinder and AnnaBryson, Lawyers in Conflict and Transition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 300 pp, hb, £85.00.0
New Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Relatedness0
The Connection‐Friction Axis in Devolved Health Policy and Law‐Making in the UK: A Case Study of Organ Donation0
Cart before the Horse? BSH Hausgeräte v Electrolux and Exclusive Jurisdiction over Patent Validity0
Expertise, Public Health and the European Convention on Human Rights: Vavřička v Czech Republic0
Economic Imaginaries and Environmental Regulation0
False Beliefs and Consent to Sex0
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The Retained EU Law Act and Regulations 2023/1417: Undercutting the UK's European Data Protection Rights Commitments?0
Ways of Explaining Law0
S.Paterson, Corporate Reorganization Law and Forces of Change, Oxford University Press, 2020, 320 pp, hb £80.000
Legal Parenthood, Novel Reproductive Practices, and the Disruption of Reproductive Biosex0
Re‐thinking the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Towards the Next Generation of Law0
The Law at an Intersection: A Meeting of Attribution, Criminal Law, and the Constructive Trust0
The Continuity of a Legal System0
DeFi Common Sense: Crypto‐backed Lending in Janesh s/o Rajkumar v Unknown Person (‘CHEFPIERRE’)0
The Evolution of Birth Registration in England and Wales and its Place in Contemporary Law and Society0
KeithEwing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, MI5, the Cold War and the Rule of Law, Oxford, OUP, 2021, 511pp, hb £84.000
Reasonableness in Capacity Law0
Managing Allegations Concerning Black and Asian Police Officers, Cultural Competence and Reflective Practice under the Police (Conduct) Regulations 20200
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Human Trafficking: Iconic Victims, Folk Devils and the Nationality and Borders Act 20220
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