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  • 6 Feb 2024
    Alex Green

    The Making of States: Indeterminacy, International Law, and Creating New Political Communities

    We live in a world of States. With the exception of the high seas, outer space, and Antarctica, the entirety of our currently inhabitable environment falls within the jurisdiction of one State or another. States are some of the most powerful entities on our planet in terms of their social, environmental, and economic influence. For […]

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  • 30 Jan 2024
    Richard Clements

    Is a court of law a factory?

    With all the recent interest in the International Criminal Court – can it prosecute Putin? Will it intervene in the Hamas-Israeli War? Will it finally investigate crimes in Venezuela? – it would be easy to forget that this court is not simply a juridical black box for war criminals to be sent to. It is also an […]

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  • 22 Jan 2024
    Christel Querton

    Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice

    Despite the increasing number of persons fleeing across borders due to widespread violence in situations of armed conflict, there has long been a misconception that these individuals are not ‘refugees’ as defined by the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention. The Refugee Convention defines a refugee as a person who “owing to a well-founded fear of […]

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  • 4 Dec 2023
    Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

    The Flawed Foundations of the Electoral College

    Central to our concept of democracy is counting all votes equally. Who would support an election rule in which we add up all the votes and declare the person who came in second the winner?  But that is exactly what can—and does—occur under the electoral college.  In 1876, 1888, 2000, 2016, and, arguably, 1960, the […]

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  • 21 Nov 2023
    Charlotte Woodhead

    Caring for cultural heritage

    The journey towards caring for cultural heritageI have been interested for many years in how the UK looks after cultural heritage by law and ethical principles. I came to adopt the framework of care, in some ways by accident. The term ‘caring’ started for me as a way of explaining the wide range of activities […]

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  • 25 Oct 2023
    Adriana Sinclair, Alexander Brown

    Why Kathleen Stock is wrong to assume that ‘it’s not hate speech to say males can’t be women’

    Kathleen Stock identifies as a philosopher of (expert on) sex and gender identity partly on the grounds that she has spent years (let us take her word for it) thinking, researching, and building careful and comprehensive arguments about these issues. She also says, ‘it’s not hate speech to say males can’t be women’. But this […]

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  • 4 Oct 2023
    Pietro Sirena, Hao Jiang (Primary Author)

    Ideology, Legal Transplants and Moral Foundation, A Scholarly Account of the Chinese Civil Code

    The passage of the Chinese Civil Code in 2021 was a monumental event both for China and the international community. Yet, it is a daunting task to present a scientific account of the Code to a readership in both worlds. It is difficult for private law experts in the West to truly understand Chinese law […]

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  • 3 Oct 2023
    Hui Jing

    The Governance of Chinese Charitable Trusts

    In 2001, Chinese legislators introduced public welfare trusts to encourage the public to participate in charitable endeavours, drawing on the experiences of Japan and South Korea. However, despite being in existence for twenty years, the success rate of public welfare trusts in China has been low, with only twenty trusts being established. To address this […]

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