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Papers

(The median citation count of Legal Studies 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.)

Article	Citations
Non-Competition Interests in EU Antitrust Law: An Empirical Study of Article 101 TFEU by Or Brook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 548 pp (£120 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-108-83760-6	8
Access to justice and the role of parliamentarians: what happens to those who fall through the justice gap?	8
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Organisational culture in UK finance at a crossroads: empirical typology and policy implications	7
The imperfect legitimacy of judicial umpires in European multilevel democracies	6
Delegated Legislation in the Pandemic: Further Limits of a Constitutional Bargain Revealed – CORRIGENDUM	5
Statutory interpretation after Brexit: implications from a case study of VAT	5
Against failed states: the constitutional consequences of fiscal earmarking, underspending and remobilisation	5
Review of Social Enterprises in Asia: A New Legal Form by Ernest Lim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 196pp (£85.00 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-108-83815-3	4
Disputing death: brain death in the courts	4
The Casey Review, institutional racism and police accountability for use of force: how assessing police accountability systems by reference to axes of accountability clarifies the issues	4
Rethinking China’s emerging case law system: empirical insights and challenges to prevailing assumptions	3
Criminal Justice in Austerity: Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice by James Thornton. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 192 pp (£85.00 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-50995-531-2	3
The application of contracts	3
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Imprisonment for breach of injunctions: what is happening in the civil courts?	3
‘Well, the burden never shifts, but it does’: celebrity, property offences and judicial innovation in Woolmington v DPP	3
Rotten medical compromise and the instrumentalisation of P: findings from a qualitative study of best interests decision making in adult kidney care in England	3
‘Everyone interfaces’: coding access to the digital welfare state	3
Beneficial ownership in domestic tax legislation, some clarity, but far from ‘well established’: Hargreaves Property Holdings Ltd v HMRC [2024] EWCA Civ	3
Reformers or reinforcers: an exploration of how legal educators perceive their role and its relationship with the legal profession	3
Policing, citizenship and the civil courts: how increased settlement of civil claims has impacted police accountability	3
Statutory interpretation and the administrative state: refocusing the purposivist/intentionalist debate	2
Planning, discretion and the legacy of onshore wind	2
Review of Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors: Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia by Sinead Ring, Kate Gleeson and Kim Stevenson. Routledge, 2022, 350pp (£104 hardb	2

Incapacitous patients, assisted reproductive technology, and the importance of informed consent	2
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Scholars of Contract Law edited by James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, xix + 416 pp (£85 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-50-993846-9	2
Trans (legal) parenthood and the gender of legal parenthood	2
Demand-side frameworks for patented inventions: analysing the licences of right system and the FRAND licensing system	2
European human rights law and the legality of sex offence prosecutions based on deception as to gender history	2
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Comparative law outside the ivory tower: an interdisciplinary perspective	1
Law and scale: lessons from Northern Ireland and Brexit	1
The vicarious liability of sports governing bodies and competition organisers	1
Judicial Individuality on the UK Supreme Court By Lewis Graham. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2025, 304pp (£85.00 hardback) ISBN 978-1-50997-110-7	1
Recognising foreign solvent proceedings under the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency: the Singaporean approach in Ascentra Holdings, Inc v SPGK Pte Ltd [2023] 2 SLR 421	1
Conspiracy! Or, when bad things happen to good litigants in person	1
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Professional identity, legitimacy and managerialism at the Crown Prosecution Service	1
Disqualification of directors and education requirements; supporting responsible directorship	1
Force majeure in the Supreme Court: MUR Shipping BV v RTI Ltd [2024] UKSC 18	1
Security interests and knowing receipt	1
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The impact of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) on undergraduate legal education in England and Wales: A content analysis	1
The UK Pay Transparency Regulations: apparent transparency without accountability?	1
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Time for Parliament to act? The PACCAR decision of the UK Supreme Court	1
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Compulsory curricula and human rights: a revised framework for balancing competing interests	1
Fathoming philanthropy: transparency in environmental grant-making philanthropic foundations	1
The illusory promise of mediation-based governance	1
‘State threats’, security, and democracy: the National Security Act 2023	1
100 years of actual occupation as an overriding interest in English & Welsh land law: challenging the rationale and making the radical case for abolition	1
Investigating the English public's awareness of the Bern Convention and their education on environmental issues and laws	1
Executive compensation: investor preferences during say-on-pay votes and the role of proxy voting advisers	1
Discretion to exclude improperly obtained evidence in civil proceedings in England and Wales	0
The incoherent role of the child's identity in the construction and allocation of legal parenthood	0
Securing therapeutic justice through mediation: the challenge of medical treatment disputes	0
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Fixing the misalignment of the concession of corporate legal personality	0
West of the Landstrasse: Searching for the Grundnormen in UK and Irish constitutional law	0
Parliamentary sovereignty and the protocol pincer	0
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Remote AI weapons detection: reversing ‘stop and search’ to ‘search and stop’?	0
Maternal infliction of harm via prenatal alcohol exposure – a public wrong?	0
Judicial review, ouster clauses, and the democratic credentials of the judiciary in the United Kingdom	0
Does the dual-class share structure help stock markets attract issuers? Empirical lessons from global financial centres	0
Medical negligence and disclosure of alternative treatments	0
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A matter of life and breath for Ella – the formally acknowledged threat of air pollution as a breach of the right to life	0
Causation or correlation: the chimera in section 11 of the Insurance Act 2015	0
Free Speech Theory: A Radical Restatement By Paul Wragg. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2025, 320pp (£81.00 hardback) ISBN 978-1-50995-828-3	0
Regulating the very limited partnership	0

The Collaborative Constitution by Aileen Kavanagh. Cambridge University Press, 2024, xvi + 492pp (£120.00 hardback) ISBN: 978 1 108 49326 0	0
Vaccination, conscientious objection and human rights	0
Bringing the idea of the environment to law: a comparative study of early environmental law textbooks	0
Design law for the technical versus affective designs	0
Insider rights as property rights: a historical analysis of the bindingness of the registered company constitution	0
Beyond consumer welfare: responsive priority-setting in the public interest in competition law enforcement	0
Revisiting property transfer theory: English law and Chinese law compared	0
Compensation schemes and the tort system in the context of occupational and public health	0
Low Paid EU Migrant Workers: the House, the Street, the Town by Catherine Barnard, Fiona Costello, and Sarah Fraser Butlin. Bristol University Press, 2024, 240pp (£27.99 paperback) ISBN 978 1 5292 295	0
The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes	0
Revisiting the punitiveness of deportation	0
Vicarious liability in the UK Supreme Court and High Court of Australia	0
Sexual diversity and the Nationality and Borders Act 2022	0
The legacy of Airey v Ireland: family law distortion of civil legal aid	0
The Procurement Act 2023’s kaleidoscopic view of the public interest	0
A framework for developing children’s legal capability	0
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Making Commercial Law Through Practice 1830–1970 by Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 483pp (£85 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-107-19889-0	0
The legitimacy gap in borrowed laws: a case study of competition law transplants in South Asia	0
Till death do these (financial relief) proceedings part: Unger and Another (in substitution for Hasan) (Appellants) v Ul-Hasan (Deceased) and Another (Respondents)	0
Bad faith for the good – legitimate purposes underlying a trade mark application: SkyKick UK Ltd v Sky Ltd [2024] UKSC 36	0
Reasonable accommodation for disabled university students: University of Bristol v Dr Robert Abrahart [2024] EWHC 299 (KB)	0
When is an administrator an ‘officer’ of the company?	0
Situating guilt: social injustice as a partial excuse	0
Legal research and the public good: the current landscape	0
The place of deemed fulfilment of condition	0
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Ireland's abstract review and the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill case	0
A call for clarity in contractual accessions to shareholder and partnership agreements	0
Economic abuse, the bank, and the devil in the detail: One Savings Bank plc v Catherine Waller-Edwards [2024] EWCA Civ 302	0
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Digital assets, personal property and categorisation: the Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025	0
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Between nation and empire: how the state matters in global health	0
Kelly v UCD [2025] IESC 6: clarifying the boundaries on judicial bias disqualification	0
Deportation and human rights: the right to respect for private life in MK (Albania) v Minister for Justice and Equality	0
The interpretation of policies in administrative law: the significance of audience	0
Justice in Private Law by Peter Jaffey. Hart Publishing, 2023, 178 pp (price and format) ISBN 978 0 192 88502 9.	0
Civilising loss of control? The role of criminal justice gatekeepers	0
Constitutional equality and executive action – a comparative perspective to the comparator problem	0
Backdoor Executive Empowerment	0
‘No way out’? Mens rea , the demonstration of hatred, and hate crime legislation	0
Contributory negligence and children’s rights: the (potentially) transformative role of courts in Scotland and South Africa	0
Contesting the property paradigm amid ‘radical’ constitutional change: Living Rent and the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 – CORRIGENDUM	0
Compulsory licensing: an effective tool for securing access to Covid-19 vaccines for developing states?	0
Sentencing with or without guidelines: a cross-jurisdictional analysis of England & Wales and Hong Kong	0
Food, dignity, and the European Court of Human Rights	0
Contesting the property paradigm amid ‘radical’ constitutional change: Living Rent and the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016	0
Transfer rules and evidential burdens: Case C-650/22 FIFA v BZ (Diarra) and the July 2025 amendments to the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players	0
Abandoning individual enforcement? Interrogating the enforcement of age discrimination law	0
Re-examining judicial review of delegated legislation	0
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Where the wild things are: the challenges and opportunities of the unregulated legal services landscape in family law	0
R (AAA) v SSHD and the implications of customary international law for the UK	0
Delegated legislation in the pandemic: further limits of a constitutional bargain revealed	0
Evaluating public participation and fairness in the public local inquiry	0
A terrorist mindset: findings from an empirical enquiry into prosecutions, evidence, and mindset material	0
Putting the country in English and Welsh town and country planning law	0
Legal sex status: the attitudes of non-binary people towards reform in England and Wales	0
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Addressing Xenophobia in EU Law: Slagelse Almennyttige Boligselskab, Afdeling Schackenborgvænge (C-417/23)	0
Of floors and ceilings: the devolution of social security in action	0
Falling behind the PACE: lie detectors, policing and lack of foreseeability – an FOI-based study	0
Inter-war interactions in the development of the protection of civilians: a historical perspective	0
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The industrialisation of fraud: understanding fraud in a digital era	0
Public interest immunity and judicial deference	0
Conversations with friends: ‘friends of the Court’ interventions of the state parties to the European Convention on Human Rights	0
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A limited case for the closed material procedure: natural justice, open justice and the clear advantage variation	0
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‘Climate Change isn't Optional’: Climate Change in the Core Law Curriculum – CORRIGENDUM	0
The nature of property in cryptoassets	0
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Defamatory Half-Truths in Malaysia: Seema Elizabeth Isoy v Tan Sri David Chiu Tat-Cheong	0
Charities and politics: where did we go wrong?	0
Involuntariness in negligence actions	0
Bridging the accountability gap of artificial intelligence – what can be learned from Roman law?	0
Corporate criminal liability under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023	0

A right to live without stigma? Examining negative stereotyping, negative messages, and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights	0
Law, politics, and pragmatism in the European Union and the United Kingdom - Alarums and Excursions: Improvising Politics on the European Stage by Luuk van Middelaar. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agend	0
Public perceptions on self-defence in householder and domestic abuse victim-defendant contexts	0
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Data, disclosure and duties: balancing privacy and safeguarding in the context of UK university student sexual misconduct complaints	0
Extra-territoriality and the UK Insolvency Act 1986	0
Analysing legal responses to coerced debt	0
What does Covid-19 teach us about English contract law?	0
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Local, democratic community justice in the Mental Health Act 1983	0
‘Fat-cats’ versus ‘church mice’: unveiling legal aid practice from behind the shadows of private legal practice in England and Wales	0
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Intimate image abuse offences: stakeholder perspectives of the effectiveness of the new offences in Hong Kong	0
Editorial	0
Reparation for non-recent institutional child sexual abuse in England and Wales and Australia: a matter for private law or the state?	0
The influencers: situating front-end constitutional guardianship	0
The importance of ‘acting yourself into new ways of thinking’: preliminary findings on the impact of embedding workplace experiences in law degrees to positively impact student skills growth, degree r	0
Missing in action? Mortgage enforcement under section 126 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974	0
‘Climate Change isn't Optional’: Climate Change in the Core Law Curriculum	0
Fiduciary powers, inadequate deliberation, and rescission of voidable transactions	0
Embedding alternative dispute resolution in the civil justice system: a taxonomy for ADR referrals and a digital pathway to increase the uptake of ADR	0
The prohibition of forced or compulsory labour and conditional welfare under the United Kingdom's Universal Credit Scheme	0
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Damages and the ‘essence’ of false imprisonment	0
Opening Pandora's box? Capturing the edifice of ‘hopefulness’ in the private rented sector	0
UK trade agreements and the double bind of devolved regulatory autonomy: the interplay of external commitments and domestic constraints	0
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The Attorney General and contempt of court – some political and constitutional concerns	0
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‘Mediators mediating themselves’: tensions within the family mediator profession	0
Pharmaceutical patent law and policy in Africa: a survey of selected SADC member states	0
A reappraisal of deference to expert regulators in light of the end of the Chevron doctrine	0
Into reverse: redesigning veil piercing	0
Intention and Quistclose trusts in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal: a disguised departure from the orthodoxy?	0
Informing a sociological jurisprudence of mutual trust and confidence	0
Earth system disruption, legal development and the company: a UK perspective	0
Legal dispositionism and artificially-intelligent attributions	0
The Extrajudicial Voice	0
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