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Attempting constitutional reform on the island microjurisdiction of Alderney
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-11)
Research into state size and democracy has revealed that the very smallest states are more likely to be democratic than their larger counterparts. Being an island, as well as having a British colonial past, is also associated ...
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 ...
The Rome Statute: Global Justice and the Asymmetries of Recognition
(Indiana University Press, 2018-08-28)
The democratic puzzle of 'living' megaregional agreements: TTIP and TPP
(Routledge, 2018-07-03)
Foundations of Sovereign Authority
(Palgrave, 2018)
As post-Renaissance Europe creates modern concepts of statehood and sovereignty, figures like Bodin, Grotius, and Hobbes undertake ‘constructive’, system-building theories of sovereign authority. Dramatists, in the meantime, ...
Coherence, Strategy and Legitimacy – Variations of a Theme in the Case of EU-China Relations
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-12-21)
Ronald Dworkin and the Curious Case of the Floodgates Argument
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018-08-03)
This article juxtaposes a jurisprudential thesis and a practical problem in an attempt to gain critical insight into both. The jurisprudential thesis is Dworkin’s rights thesis. The practical problem revolves around judicial ...
The emergence of the ‘social licence to operate’ in the extractive industries?
(Elsevier, 2018-10-24)
The ‘social licence to operate’ (SLO) is a construct that has potential to transform the mining sector internationally. The SLO is increasing in importance because it can reduce all risks during the energy project life-cycle ...
Soft law and sovereign debt
(UNCTAD, 2018-11)