School of Law: Recent submissions
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Law and the market: Private actors and self-regulation 'towards a new role of public international law'
(2018-01-01)This paper re-interprets the new governance of financial markets. Indeed, in the aftermath of the recent financial crisis (2007-2010) the features of risk and uncertainty have presented a new ontological realism, so that ... -
Contextual Impartiality: A New Approach to Assessing Impartiality in Investor State Dispute Settlement
This article proposes a new approach to assessing impartiality in investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). It builds on earlier work that criticises the current doctrine of impartiality in ISDS which applies irrespective ... -
Critical Childhood Studies Meets Critical Legal Scholarship
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023-11-30)This chapter examines what insights critical legal scholarship and critical childhood studies can offer each other, with a focus on three themes: fluidity, violence, and human faces. It is argued, first, that neither ... -
(Legal) uncertainty: Takaful between English common law and Shari'a law
(Qatar University, 2017-01) -
'Metarules, judgment and the algorithmic future of financial regulation in the UK
UK financial regulators are experimenting with the conversion of rulebook content into machine-readable and executable code. A major driver of these initiatives is the belief that the use of algorithms will eliminate the ... -
International Insolvency and Finance Law: Legal Constants in Times of Crises
(2022-01-26)Focusing on the Global Financial Crisis 2007-2010 and the new emerging Covid-19 crisis in 2020, this book examines the discourse on risk and uncertainty in the markets through the lens of financial crises. Such crises ... -
The AI global order: What place for the European Union?
(2023-01-24) -
One Country, Two International Status? The Evolution of Hong Kong’s International Positioning from Western Imperialism to Chinese Authoritarianism
(2022-01-01)Today, Hong Kong has become a very symbolic place where one can witness a global clash between authoritarian and liberal-democratic ideologies and forces. In particular, the National Security Law enacted in August 2020 ... -
What it means to suffer harm
(2022-01-01)In recent years, there has been a growing jurisprudential and philosophical literature on the concept of harm, in particular, what it means to suffer harm. This paper defends the most unpopular account of what it means to ... -
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(Taylor & Francis, 2022-10-02)