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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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Criminalising deceptive sex: sex, identity and recognition	8
The goals of EU competition law: a comprehensive empirical investigation	6
Automated facial recognition and policing: a Bridge too far?	6
Virtual coercion and the vulnerable consumer: ‘loot boxes’ as aggressive commercial practices	6
Love in the time of Covid-19: a case-study of the complex laws governing weddings	6
Exploring the emotional burdens and impact of medical negligence litigation on the plaintiff and medical practitioner: insights from Ireland	5
What shall I compare thee to? Legal journals, impact, citation and peer rankings	5
Understanding the barriers to defendant participation in criminal proceedings in England and Wales	4
Apologies as ‘shame management’: the politics of remorse in the aftermath of historical institutional abuse	4
Regulatory discretion: structuring power in the era of regulatory capitalism	4
Compulsory licensing: an effective tool for securing access to Covid-19 vaccines for developing states?	4
More paternalism in the regulation of consumer financial investments? Private sector duties and public goods analysis	4
Enforcing rights in employment tribunals: insights from age discrimination claims in a new ‘dataset’	4
Constitutional functions and institutional responsibility: a functional analysis of the UK constitution	3
Embedding alternative dispute resolution in the civil justice system: a taxonomy for ADR referrals and a digital pathway to increase the uptake of ADR	3
A capabilities approach to best interests assessments	3
The incoherent role of the child's identity in the construction and allocation of legal parenthood	3
Reasonable accommodation in Irish equality law: an incomplete transformation	3
Online tribunal judgments and the limits of open justice	3
Disputing death: brain death in the courts	3
The conflict between market competition and worker solidarity: moving from consumer to a citizen welfare standard in competition law	3
Practical obstacles and structural legal constraints in the adoption of ‘defensive’ policies: comparing the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and the US Proposal for a Border Carbon Adjustment	3
A theory of children's decisional privacy	3
The nature of property in cryptoassets	3
Les vulnérables : evaluating the vulnerability criterion in Article 14 cases by the European Court of Human Rights	2

The crisis in legally aided criminal defence in Wales: bringing Wales into discussions of England and Wales	2
Mental health and wellbeing at work in the UK: current legal approaches	2
Planning, discretion and the legacy of onshore wind	2
Re-examining judicial review of delegated legislation	2
(Legal) assistance in employment matters to low-paid EU migrant workers in the East of England	2
‘Climate Change isn't Optional’: Climate Change in the Core Law Curriculum	2
Executive compensation: investor preferences during say-on-pay votes and the role of proxy voting advisers	2
The neglected nexus between competition law and human rights: standard of proof for pecuniary penalties	2
Charging ‘overseas visitors’ for NHS treatment, from Bevan to Windrush and beyond	2
Gone and forgotten: Vinogradoff's historical jurisprudence	2
Schmitt, Dicey, and the power and limits of referendums in the United Kingdom	2
Vaccine damage schemes in the US and UK reappraised: making them fit for purpose in the light of Covid-19	2
Developing a relational law of contracts: striking a balance between abstraction and contextualism	2
Foreign-trained legal scholars in the UK: ‘irritants’ or ‘change agents’?	2
Where the wild things are: the challenges and opportunities of the unregulated legal services landscape in family law	1
Bridging the accountability gap of artificial intelligence – what can be learned from Roman law?	1
Comparing family property disputes in English and Singapore law: ‘context is everything’	1
The relational impact of social rights judgments: a trust-based analysis	1
Consumer-generated reviews: time for closer scrutiny?	1
Vaccination, conscientious objection and human rights	1
Delegated legislation in the pandemic: further limits of a constitutional bargain revealed	1
Education, Law and Diversity: Schooling for One and All? by Neville Harris. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 616 pp (£90, hardback) ISBN: 978-1-50-990670-3	1
Contesting the property paradigm amid ‘radical’ constitutional change: Living Rent and the Private Residential (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016	1
Insurer's liability under concurrent causation: English law and Chinese law compared	1
‘Mediators mediating themselves’: tensions within the family mediator profession	1
Conversations with friends: ‘friends of the Court’ interventions of the state parties to the European Convention on Human Rights	1
Permitting dual class shares in the UK premium listing regime – a path to enhance rather than compromise investor protection	1
Patents, healthcare and engaged shareholders: a pathway to encourage socially responsible patent use?	1
Homelessness and the ‘over-judicialisation’ of welfare	1
Professional identity, legitimacy and managerialism at the Crown Prosecution Service	1
The evolution and consequences of digital rights management in relation to online music streaming	1
Is the incompatibility of UK data retention law with EU law really a victory?	1
The law of fixtures and chattels: recalibration, rationalisation and reform	1
Exclusive jurisdiction clauses in international trust deeds – ERRATUM	1
The vicarious liability of sports governing bodies and competition organisers	1
The prospects for pluralism in contract theory	1
Statutory interpretation after Brexit: implications from a case study of VAT	1
Exclusive jurisdiction clauses in international trust deeds	1
Regulating high-cost short-term credit in the UK: is there scope for ‘libertarian paternalism’ based provisions?	1
When is illegality a defence to a tort?	1
Regulation of universities as charities: one step forward, two steps back	0
Criminal Law and the Man Problem by Ngaire Naffine. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019. 304 pp (£55.00 hardback). ISBN: 978 1-50-991801-0	0
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Developing VAT treaties: international tax cooperation in times of global recovery	0
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Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants by Maurice E Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi. USA: Harper Business, 2020, 402 pp ($32.50 paperback). ISBN:	0
The good character ‘backstop’: directions, defeasibility and frameworks of fairness	0
Obligations, consent and contracts in Scots law: re-analysing the basis of medical malpractice liability in light ofMontgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board	0
Quantification of damages for non-pecuniary losses deriving from breach of contract	0
The construction of patent claims	0

The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes	0
Comparative law outside the ivory tower: an interdisciplinary perspective	0
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The imperfect legitimacy of judicial umpires in European multilevel democracies	0
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Revisiting property transfer theory: English law and Chinese law compared	0
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Between nation and empire: how the state matters in global health	0
The modern rule of releases	0
Reconceptualising Strict Liability for the Tort of Another by Christine Beuermann. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019, 240 pp (£60 hardback). ISBN: 978-1-50-991753-2.	0
Food, dignity, and the European Court of Human Rights	0
The tort of malicious prosecution of civil proceedings: a critique and a proposal	0
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Trans (legal) parenthood and the gender of legal parenthood	0
The UK Pay Transparency Regulations: apparent transparency without accountability?	0
Access to justice and the role of parliamentarians: what happens to those who fall through the justice gap?	0
Discrimination in digital immigration status	0
Statutory interpretation and the administrative state: refocusing the purposivist/intentionalist debate	0
Analysing legal responses to coerced debt	0
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The wrong vaccine: custody time limits and loss of liberty during Covid-19	0
Is ‘conversion therapy’ tortious?	0
Revisiting the punitiveness of deportation	0
Justice for the blackest malefactors? Determinate prison sentences, early release, and the ECHR	0
The Extrajudicial Voice	0
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Enforcing charitable trusts: a study on the English necessary interest rule	0
Law and scale: lessons from Northern Ireland and Brexit	0
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	0
Incapacitous patients, assisted reproductive technology, and the importance of informed consent	0
Pharmaceutical patent law and policy in Africa: a survey of selected SADC member states	0
Legal dispositionism and artificially-intelligent attributions	0
Investigating the English public's awareness of the Bern Convention and their education on environmental issues and laws	0
Parliamentary sovereignty and the protocol pincer	0
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
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Public interest damages	0
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The Humanity of Private Law – Part II: Evaluation by Nicholas J McBride. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 200pp (£70 hardback). ISBN: 978-1-50-991199-8.	0
Orchestrating finance with Material Adverse Changes?	0
Does the dual-class share structure help stock markets attract issuers? Empirical lessons from global financial centres	0
An analysis of three distinct approaches to using defamation to protect corporate reputation from Australia, England and Wales, and Canada	0
Imprisonment for breach of injunctions: what is happening in the civil courts?	0
LST volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Education, Law and Diversity: Schooling for One and All? – ERRATUM	0
The probable and the nonarbitrary: evidential foundations for a finding of guilt	0
Medical negligence and disclosure of alternative treatments	0
Public order as a protectable interest	0
Abandoning individual enforcement? Interrogating the enforcement of age discrimination law	0
Vicarious liability in the UK Supreme Court and High Court of Australia	0
LST volume 42 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Trial of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Jonathan Sumption. London: Profile Books Ltd, 2019, 112 pp (£8.99 softback). ISBN 978-1-78-816373-6.	0
When is an administrator an ‘officer’ of the company?	0
Local, democratic community justice in the Mental Health Act 1983	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
Extra-territoriality and the UK Insolvency Act 1986	0
LST volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Solicitors’ rights of audience, competence and regulation: a responsibility rights approach	0
‘Climate Change isn't Optional’: Climate Change in the Core Law Curriculum – CORRIGENDUM	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
What's law got to do with it? Is consumer law the solution to problems faced by student tenants?	0
‘Well, the burden never shifts, but it does’: celebrity, property offences and judicial innovation in Woolmington v DPP	0
The ‘code adjudicator’ model: the Pubs Code, statutory arbitration and the tied lease	0
Informing a sociological jurisprudence of mutual trust and confidence	0
Deportation and human rights: the right to respect for private life in MK (Albania) v Minister for Justice and Equality	0
‘Robinson Crusoe on a desert island’? Judicial education in Ireland, 1995–2019	0
The Attorney-General, politics and logistics – a fork in the road?	0
Constitutional equality and executive action – a comparative perspective to the comparator problem	0
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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	0
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What does Covid-19 teach us about English contract law?	0
Contesting the property paradigm amid ‘radical’ constitutional change: Living Rent and the Private Residential (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 – CORRIGENDUM	0
Structuring prosecutorial power	0
Policing, citizenship and the civil courts: how increased settlement of civil claims has impacted police accountability	0
Injunctions, land and the cynical breach	0
Security interests and knowing receipt	0
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Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature by Peter Goodrich. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, 119 pp (£15.95) ISBN: 978-1-78990-601-1.	0
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Self-employed surfers, universal credit and the minimally decent life	0
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Legal Pluralism in European Contract Law by Vanessa Mak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 288 pp (£80.00 hardback). ISBN: 978-0-19-885448-7.	0
Editorial	0
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Sexual diversity and the Nationality and Borders Act 2022	0
Transforming the legal profession: an interview study of change managers in law	0
Data, disclosure and duties: balancing privacy and safeguarding in the context of UK university student sexual misconduct complaints	0
Law, Judges and Visual Culture by Leslie J Moran. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, 260 pp (£120 hardback; £33.29 e book) ISBN: 978-1-13-861861-9	0
The end to testamentary freedom	0
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Beyond acts and omissions: remark-able criminal conduct	0
Exclusive jurisdiction clauses in international trust deeds – ERRATUM	0
Discretion to exclude improperly obtained evidence in civil proceedings in England and Wales	0
Legal sex status: the attitudes of non-binary people towards reform in England and Wales	0
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Time for Parliament to act? The PACCAR decision of the UK Supreme Court	0
Causation or correlation: the chimera in section 11 of the Insurance Act 2015	0
A decade of EU law in the courts of Scotland and Ireland: national legal systems compared	0
The Attorney General and contempt of court – some political and constitutional concerns	0
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Interpreting change through legal culture: the case of the Irish exclusionary rule	0
Involuntariness in negligence actions	0
A macro-level investigation of transatlantic controlling shareholder's fiduciary duty	0
The interpretation of policies in administrative law: the significance of audience	0
Taking market crime seriously	0
Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups	0
‘State threats’, security, and democracy: the National Security Act 2023	0
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	0
Delegated Legislation in the Pandemic: Further Limits of a Constitutional Bargain Revealed – CORRIGENDUM	0
Opening Pandora's box? Capturing the edifice of ‘hopefulness’ in the private rented sector	0
Legal research and the public good: the current landscape	0
The prohibition of forced or compulsory labour and conditional welfare under the United Kingdom's Universal Credit Scheme	0
Missing in action? Mortgage enforcement under section 126 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974	0
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Fixing the misalignment of the concession of corporate legal personality	0
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The ‘human element’ in the social space of the courtroom: framing and shaping the deliberative process in mental capacity law	0