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"Where be his quiddities now?": Law and Language in Hamlet
(Oxford University Press, 2013)Abuses of monarchy, nobility, church or wealth are certainly central to Shakespeare. However, depictions of law and its abuses do not casually blend into other critical images of power or authority in the corpus. In Hamlet, ... -
More than Just a Different Face? Judicial Diversity and Decision-making
(Oxford University Press, 2015-04-27)This article addresses a key question in debates around judicial diversity: what evidence is there that a more diverse judiciary will make a difference to substantive decision-making? The article begins by outlining the ... -
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 ... -
Judicial Diversity and the 'New' Judge
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Children's Voices: Centre-Stage or Sidelined in Out-of-Court Dispute Resolution in England and Wales?
(Jordan Publishing, 2015-04-01)The UK Government recently announced that children aged 10 and over should have the opportunity to be consulted on their views in both family court proceedings and family mediation. Drawing on data from the ESRC-funded ... -
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 ... -
Litigants in person in private family law cases
(Ministry of Justice, 2014-11-27)1. Context (p1-2 of the Report) The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) 2012 removed most private family cases from the scope of legal aid after April 2013. It was anticipated that the volume and ... -
Hate speech and the normative foundations of regulation
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-12-16)Racist incidents on American university campuses in the 1980s triggered a storm of publications by scholars who coined the phrase ‘hate speech’ for the legal lexicon. Some of the offences had already been subject to legal ... -
The Reality and Hyperreality of Human Rights: Public Consciousness and the Mass Media
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)Most human rights scholarship remains highly formalist, with a focus on norms and institutions. However, at least as powerful as, if not more powerful than, those norms and institutions, are the mass media. Consonant with ... -
The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA): Lessons for the European Union
(2012-10-15)This article revisits the arguments, debates and controversies that led up to the European Parliament’s rejection of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), reflects on what might happen once the Court of Justice ... -
When Framing Meets Law: Using Human Rights as a Practical Instrument to Facilitate Access to Medicines in Developing Countries
(Thompson Reuters, 2011)Over the past decade, the debate about the relationship between access to medicines and human rights has, to a large extent, come to define politics of intellectual property. This article describes how non-governmental ... -
Counterfeiting and Public Health
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012-10-31)