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Party-hopping deja-vu: changing politics, changing law in New Zealand 1999-2018
(Thomson Reuters, 2018-08-31)
In 2017 the New Zealand Parliament saw the introduction of legislation designed to make vacant the seats of representatives who left their political parties of election, be that voluntary or not. This was not the first or ...
Legal Form, Commodities and Reproduction: Reading Pashukanis
(Routledge Cavendish, 2013-12)
This chapter offers a feminist reading of Pashukanis’s legal theory as a contribution to critical evaluation of the relationship between legality, commodification and gender. Contemporary feminist interests in the relationship ...
Peripheral governance: administering transnational health-care flows
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
This paper develops the concept of peripheral governance as a kind of legal transnationalism that is being generated by responses to outward travel for health care. I argue for a recuperation of the ‘peripheral’ in order ...
The paradox of non-evidence based, publicly funded complementary alternative medicine in the English National Health Service: An explanation.
(Elsevier, 2015-10)
Despite the unproven effectiveness of many practices that are under the umbrella term 'complementary alternative medicine' (CAM), there is provision of CAM within the English National Health Service (NHS). Moreover, although ...
Vulnerability, therapeutic misconception and informed consent: is there a need for special treatment of pregnant women in fetus-regarding clinical trials
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015-11-19)
Historically, pregnant women have generally been excluded from clinical trials. One of the reasons for this exclusion has been the belief that pregnant women are vulnerable as research participants. Although this view has ...
Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015-09-25)
There are a number of current projects and scholars seeking to find ways to make intellectual property work for the world's poor.46 For example, Madhavi Sunder argues that '[i]ntellectual property rights in poor ...