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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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AleydisNissen, European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 323 pp, hb £85.0043
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The Beneficiary's Ownership Rights in the Trust Res in a Liberal Property Regime9
‘AI is not an Inventor’: Thaler v Comptroller of Patents, Designs and Trademarks and the Patentability of AI Inventions9
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 £42.998
MarySynge, The University‐Charity: Challenging Perceptions in Higher Education, 2023, xix + 504 pp, hb £120.7
The Sky's the Limit? SkyKick v Sky and Speculative Trade Mark Registration7
Ernest J.Weinrib, Reciprocal Freedom: Private Law and Public Right, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp, hb, £90.007
The Charities Act 2022 and its Dissuasive Effects on Donors6
From Estimation to Discrimination: Algorithmic Bias, Predictive Uncertainty, and Anti‐Discrimination Law6
EnricoBonadio and Chen WeiZhu (eds), Music Borrowing and Copyright Law: A Genre‐by‐Genre AnalysisOxford: Hart, 2023, 704pp, hb £126.006
ElizabethWicks, Suicide and the Law, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2023, 221 pp, hb £85.006
When is an Insured Vehicle an Uninsured Vehicle?6
From Prohibition to Digitalisation: 100 Years of Cameras in the Courtroom6
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The Scope of the Medical Exception in Criminal Law5
Judicial Biography in the National Security Constitution: Lord Diplock and a ‘Rather Silly Little Secret Racket’4
Communicating Censure: The Relevance of Conditions of Imprisonment at Sentencing and During the Administration of the Sentence4
M. R.Leiser, Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design and the Law, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2025, 325pp, pb, £21.994
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Trial by Cognitive Ordeal: Irrational Approaches to the Opinions of Investigators, Trial Integrity and Proof4
Beverley Clough, The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries, Routledge, 2021, hb, 208 pp, £130.004
Vicarious Liability and Conferred Authority: Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses v BXB4
The Shareholder's Standing to Challenge the Exercise of Directorial Power: Tianrui (International) Holding Company Ltd v China Sha4
Peter OldhamKC, Law and Politics at the National Industrial Relations Court 1970‐75, Oxford, Hart, 2025, 208 pp, hb, £90.004
Authenticity and Identity in Adolescent Decision‐Making4
Characterising and Changing Charitable Purposes: Theories of Organisational Purpose3
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Assessing States’ Obligations under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Post‐Brexit3
The Change in Judicial Practice in Cases Concerning Civil Disobedience Protests and its Constitutional Significance3
Prioritising Proof over Speculation: Resolving the Prospective Inability Problem in Contract Damages3
The Unfree Commons: Freedom of Marine Scientific Research and the Status of Genetic Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction3
Natural Rights, Constituent Power, and the Stain of Constitutionalism3
The Aarhus Convention 1998 and the Environment Act 2021: Eroding Public Participation3
Zalewski and the Future of Irish Public Law2
Judicial Review of the Improper Policy Implementation of Treaties2
Does Digital Status Unlawfully Penalise EU Citizens Accessing the UK's Private Rented Sector?2
BeckyBatagol, KateSeear, HeliAskola and JamieWalvisch (eds), The Feminist Legislation Project: Rewriting Laws for Gender‐Based Justice, London, Routledge, 2024, 392 pp, hb, £145.002
Jacqueline Kinghan, Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021, 209 pp, (hb), £65.00.2
Regulatory Agencies and the Inclusion Trilemma2
Non‐Traditional Families and the Tenacity of Motherhood: Re C (Surrogacy: Consent) and Re Z (Surrogacy: Step‐Parent Adoption)2
Employment Status and Human Rights: An Emerging Approach2
Directly Discriminatory Algorithms2
Cormac S.Mac Amhlaigh, New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xi + 256pp, hb £70.002
The Impact of a Pre‐Existing Defect on Liability for Property Damage: Taylor v Jones2
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The Sins of the Fathers: Targeted Sanctions against Family Members of Primary Targets2
Performative Environmental Law2
A New Definition of ‘Treasure’ under the Treasure Act 1996: Watershed Reform or Missed Opportunity?2
Knowing receipt: continuing trusts and conscionability Byers v Saudi National Bank2
Coercive Human Rights and the Forgotten History of the Council of Europe's Report on Decriminalisation2
Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment and the Supreme Court: Why the Legal Detail Matters in R (Finch) v Surrey County C2
Distinguishing Between Direct and Indirect Discrimination2
TatianaDancy, Artificial Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 176 pp, hb £29.992
The Defence of Public Necessity2
Rafael N.Fasel and Sean C.Butler, Animal Rights Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 240 pp, pb £24.991
Zainab BatulNaqvi, Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law; A Critical Feminist Analysis, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023, 239 pp, hb £85.001
Rethinking Reasonableness in Rape Prosecution: Lessons Learned in the Search for ‘End to End’ Justice in England and Wales1
AlysiaBlackham, Reforming Age Discrimination Law: Beyond Individual Enforcement, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, hb, 400 pp (also available as e‐book), £80.001
Xenophobic Discrimination1
Criteria of Validity1
A Tale of Two Cases and a Story Yet Untold: Access to Justice and Legal Advice under the Civil Limb of Article 6 ECHR1
ElizabethAgnew, Cyberbullying and Sexting: Regulatory Challenges in the Digital Age, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 197 pp, hb £59.501
William A. Robson and the Making of English Administrative Law1
Gambling Control in a Cost‐of‐Living Crisis: An Analysis of the White Paper High Stakes: Gambling Reform for the Digital Age (2023)1
The Authority of Constituent Power1
Discrimination in Abortion Law and the Message the Law is Sending: R (Crowter) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care1
PoornaMysoor, Copyright and Personal Property, Oxford, OUP, 2025, 252 pp, hb, £100.001
StinePiilgaardPorner Nielsen and OleHammerslev (eds), Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights: Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, x + 226, pb1
A Privileged and Conventional Relationship: Legal Professional Privilege and the Law Officers’ Convention1
Is the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 Sufficient to Promote the Uptake of Paperless Trading Systems?1
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
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
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MatthewFlindersandChrisMonaghan(eds), Questions of Accountability: Prerogatives, Power and Politics, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 344 pp, hb, £81.001
Human Rights, Public Law, and Administrative Burden: In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review1
The Travels of Treason1
Folúkẹ́Adébísí, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023, 204 pp, hb £85.99, pb £26.991
Animals and Nature as Rights Holders in the European Union1
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Eric R. Claeys, Natural Property Rights, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 350pp, hb, £1001
FedericoPicinali, Justice In‐Between: A Study of Intermediate Criminal Verdicts, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 278 pp, hb £80.001
Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK) Ltd v Attorney General: the Contemporary Scope of the Statutory Cy‐près Doctrine1
Modern Slavery and the Commercial Activity Exception to Diplomatic Immunity From Civil Jurisdiction: The UK Supreme Court's Decision in Basfar v Wong1
CatherineMitchell, Vanishing Contract Law: Common Law in the Age of Contracts, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 259 pp, hb, £85.001
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A Pyrrhic Victory for Unjust Enrichment in Singapore? Esben Finance Ltd v Wong Hou‐Lianq Neil1
What Judges Need to Know: The Anti‐Factual Challenge and Judicial Review1
Has the UK Supreme Court Become More Restrained in Public Law Cases?1
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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: Mackie Motors v RCI and Baird Textiles v Marks and Spencer0
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
Mobilising the Market: An Empirical Analysis of Crowdfunding for Judicial Review Litigation0
Cart before the Horse? BSH Hausgeräte v Electrolux and Exclusive Jurisdiction over Patent Validity0
Machine Learning and the Re‐Enchantment of the Administrative State0
Public (Trust) Rights in Open Space: Day v Shropshire Council0
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
Priority Setting as the Blind Spot of Administrative Law Enforcement: A Theoretical, Conceptual, and Empirical Study of Competition Authorities in Europe0
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and Non‐Traditional Families0
KathrynMcNeilly and BenWarwick (eds), The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2022, 240 pp, hb, £85.000
Reconciling Contract Law's Objective and Subjective Standards0
R (on the application of W80) v Director General of the Independent Office of Police Conduct: Landmark Ruling or Business as Usual?0
Imprisoned at Work: The Impact of Employee Monitoring on Physical Privacy and Individual Liberty0
Shazam v Only Fools and Horses: A Critique of the Classification of Literary or Dramatic Characters as Independent Copyright Works0
HeatherDouglas, KateFitz‐Gibbon, LeighGoodmark and SandraWalklate (eds), The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives, Oxford: OUP, 2023, 344 pp, hb £59.000
The Second‐class Citizen in Legal Theory0
JuliaDuffy, Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, xxi+286 pp, hb £95.000
HannaSchebesta and KaiPurnhagen, EU Food Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 432 pp, hb, £110.000
Hauptpersonalrat der Lehrerinnen: Article 88 GDPR and the Interplay between EU and Member State Employee Data Protection Rules0
Countering Terrorism in the Family Courts: A Dangerous Development0
Corrigendum to ‘Constitutional Directives: Morally‐Committed Political Constitutionalism’0
Intersex Interventions as Human Rights Violations: The European Court of Human Rights Sets Out Guiding Principles in M v France0
Back to School: Matthew Kramer's Freedom of Expression as Self‐Restraint0
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
At Long Last: The Recognition of Intersectional Discrimination at the ECtHR in FM v Russia0
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KieranMcEvoy, LouiseMallinder and AnnaBryson, Lawyers in Conflict and Transition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 300 pp, hb, £85.00.0
Judicial Review: Substance and Procedure0
The Law at an Intersection: A Meeting of Attribution, Criminal Law, and the Constructive Trust0
Rights, Common Good, and the Separation of Powers0
Universal Jurisdiction: Law out of Context0
Chilling and Warming Effects on the Production of Legal Scholarship0
AI‐Involved Inventions and Patentability: Emotional Perception AI v Comptroller‐General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks0
Between rigid respect for international law and judicial deference: Front Polisario I and Front Polisario II0
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
The Challenge of ‘Factual Hard Cases’ for Guilty Plea Regimes0
Legal Parenthood, Novel Reproductive Practices, and the Disruption of Reproductive Biosex0
Byers v Saudi National Bank: What's the Wrong in Knowing Receipt?0
Anxieties about International Law: Law Debenture v Ukraine0
Selective Corporate Restructuring Strategy0
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Making Rights Fundamental: The 2022 Amendment to the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Radical Implications0
Police Use of Retrospective Facial Recognition Technology: A Step Change in Surveillance Capability Necessitating an Evolution of the Human Rights Law Framework0
The Citizen as Other: The Case from Within for Cosmopolitan State Duties and Freedom to Migrate0
Reasons, Mistakes, and Excuses0
Challenging Parole Decisions in England and Wales: Reconsideration and Set Aside0
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JamesThornton, Criminal Justice in Austerity: Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 192 pp, hb £85.000
Food Waste as a Property Problem0
Equity before ‘Equity’0
Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland0
C v D: A Missed Opportunity to Clarify the Distinction Between Jurisdiction and Admissibility0
MihneaTănăsescu, Understanding the Rights of Nature: A Critical Introduction, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022, 165 pp, pb, €40.00.0
Legal Protection Against Destitution in the UK: the Case for a Right to a Subsistence Minimum0
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Redefining Compensation under International Law: the Methodology of the International Court of Justice in DRC v Uganda0
Ideological Constitutionalism0
E Christodoulidis, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 350 pp, pb £34.990
Ways of Explaining Law0
The World Bank's Business Ready Project: The Labor Topic, ILO Standards and the Role and Impact of Labour Regulation0
The View from the Top: Visual Intrusion as Nuisance in Fearn v Tate Gallery0
Criminalising ‘Conversion Therapy’0
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RíánDerrig, The New Haven School: American International Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025, 240 pp, pb, £100.000
The Aims and Functions of Criminal Law0
Expertise, Public Health and the European Convention on Human Rights: Vavřička v Czech Republic0
NickPiška and HayleyGibson (eds) , Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell, Coventry, Counterpress, 2024, 242 pp, pb £18.000
Ordoliberalism: What We Know and What We Think We Know0
Authorising Crime: The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 20210
Skeleton Keys to Hospital Doors: Adolescent Adults who Refuse Life‐Sustaining Medical Treatment0
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
Institutional Choice in the Internal Market0
DeFi Common Sense: Crypto‐backed Lending in Janesh s/o Rajkumar v Unknown Person (‘CHEFPIERRE’)0
The Omissions Doctrine after Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police0
What's Choice Got to Do With It? Addressing the Pitfalls of Using Choice‐Architecture Discourse Within Poverty Law0
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ColinKing and JenniferHendry, Civil Recovery of Criminal Property, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 240 pp, hb £90.000
Human Trafficking: Iconic Victims, Folk Devils and the Nationality and Borders Act 20220
Knowing Receipt, Equitable Proprietary Rights, and Duties of Due Administration0
The Evolution of Birth Registration in England and Wales and its Place in Contemporary Law and Society0
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The Rule of Law and Full‐Bodied Promulgation0
A Bird's‐Eye View of Animals in the Law0
A Legal Framework for Using Smart Contracts in Consumer Contracts: Machines as Servants, Not Masters0
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Joseph Raz as a Political Philosopher0
Administrative Law as a Source of Rights0
Thinking Legally about Remedy in Judicial Review: R (on the application of Imam) v London Borough of Croydon0
RobertStevens, The Laws of Restitution, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 496pp, hb £90.000
Rationalising Mid‐Century Choice of Law: Legal Technique and its Limits in the ‘Dark Science’ of Conflicts0
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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
The Retained EU Law Act and Regulations 2023/1417: Undercutting the UK's European Data Protection Rights Commitments?0
LindaMulcahy and AnnaTsalapatanis, Digital Justice: Engineering Disadvantage?, Palgrave Macmillan Socio‐Legal Series, 2025, 95 pp, hb, £34.990
Unpicking Torts: Elements, Conditions of Actionability and Standing Rules0
VeraPavlou, Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Law and the Construction of Vulnerability, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021, 166pp, hb £76.500
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The New Responsive Constitutionalism0
Managing Allegations Concerning Black and Asian Police Officers, Cultural Competence and Reflective Practice under the Police (Conduct) Regulations 20200
Extending the Reach of the ‘ Etridge  Protocol’ to So‐called ‘Hybrid’ Scenarios:  Waller‐Edwards  v  0
Debtholder Stewardship0
LeahTrueblood, Referendums as Representative Democracy, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024, 168 pp, hb £76.500
Reframing the English Foreign Act of State Doctrine0
PaolaZichi, Feminist Governance and International Law: A Critical Legal History from Mandate Palestine, Abingdon: Routledge, 2025, 253 pp, hb, £108.750
The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law0
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
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
Promises in Equity and at Law: Proprietary Estoppel after Guest v Guest0
Allan C. Hutchinson , Rethinking Legitimacy: Courts, Constitutions and Politics, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2025, 192 pp, hb, £90.000
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‘Palm Tree Justice’: The Inherent Jurisdiction in Adult Welfare Cases0
Melvin A.Eisenberg, Legal Reasoning, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 117 pp, pb, £22.990
A Not Too Collaborative Constitution? Collaboration as Constitutional Value Versus Model0
New Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Relatedness0
Mirosław MichałSadowski, Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past, Abingdon, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2024, 304 pp, hb, £135.000
Cass R.Sunstein, Manipulation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, What To Do About It, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 219 pp, hb £22.000
Deceptive Sex: Rethinking Consent from the Gender Margins0
Economic Imaginaries and Environmental Regulation0
Hidden Delegations: The Assignment of Contractual Rights and Consumer Debt0
Consent in Contracts of Employment0
RogerCotterrell, Jurisprudence and Socio‐Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields, London, Routledge, 2024, 252pp, pb £41.990
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Historiography and Constitutional Adjudication0
Making Law Possible0
Undermining loyalty to legality? An empirical analysis of perceptions of ‘lockdown’ law and guidance during COVID‐190
Reasonableness in Capacity Law0
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The Enduring Allure of Neoliberalism: Individualising Responsibility for Housing Costs in the English Private Rental Sector0
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The Continuity of a Legal System0
The Costs of Contractual Certainty: RTI v MUR Shipping0
Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic0
A Post‐Neoliberal European Order? Public Purpose and Private Accumulation in Green Industrial Policy0
K.Bowrey, Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author, Routledge, 2020, 228 pp, hb, £36.99.0
Squaring the Circle? Regional Airport Expansion, Climate Change and the Planning Regime0
Same‐Sex Unions in Hong Kong and the Misuse of Comparative Law: Sham Tsz Kit v Secretary for Justice0
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Children, Families and Social Security: Eleanor Rathbone's Welfare Legacy0
Re‐thinking the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Towards the Next Generation of Law0
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ImmiTallgren(ed), Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces?Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 560pp, hb £140.000
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Accidents, Crises, and Events in the Supreme Court: Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust0
The Global Minimum Tax and the Future of International Taxation0
Recognising Capabilities: The Importance of Recognition for Human Flourishing0
A New Self‐Defence Framework for Domestic Abuse Survivors Who Use Violent Resistance in Response0
The Connection‐Friction Axis in Devolved Health Policy and Law‐Making in the UK: A Case Study of Organ Donation0
SamiaBano (ed), The Sharia Inquiry, Religious Practice and Muslim Family Law in Britain, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, 142 pp, hb, £45.990
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