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Conflict of Law: Asymmetrical Recognition of the Other (in Ourselves)
(Oxford University Press, 20-06-2024)This chapter focuses on the dynamic of question and response at work in conflict of laws. On the one hand, questions about jurisdiction and choice of law confront a collective with the experience of collective contingency: ... -
‘The Irregular’ and the Unmaking of Minority Citizenship: The Rules of Law in Majoritarian India
(SAGE Publications, 13-04-2024)This article focuses on the important aspect of India's democratic decline, the ascendance of the Hindu majoritarian state, and its relationship with the law. It argues that the law is central to the Hindu majoritarian ... -
The Importance of Being Small
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Making and Changing Law in Small Jurisdictions
(Springer, 2023-12-09)This book puts the spotlight on a different and neglected aspect of law drafting and reform: the question of size. Specifically, how does the size of a jurisdiction affect its ability to make and change its laws? -
Something old, something new: personation, photographic voter identification and the Elections Act 2022
The requirement to show photographic identification in order to vote at English local authority elections and UK general elections took effect in 2023. The reform was designed to prevent the offence of personation, where ... -
Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies Intersecting Fields
(Routledge, 2024-03-12)This book presents a set of related studies aimed at showing key points of intersection and common interest between jurisprudence and socio-legal studies, which are otherwise typically considered distinct fields. -
A Second Scottish Referendum on Independence?
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From Human Rights to a Politics of Care
Responding to claims that human rights have for too long dominated the imaginative space of emancipation, in this paper we aim to center stage the politics of care. After demonstrating the inadequacy of the so-called ... -
On Antisemitism and Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted, in part, as a response to the horrific antisemitism leading to the extermination of millions of Jews in World War II. Yet, today, organisations that utilise human ... -
Medical Lawfare: The Palestinian Nakba and Israel’s Attacks on Healthcare
In this article, the authors coin the phrase medical lawfare to describe how Israel has been justifying its systematic attacks on healthcare facilities in the Gaza Strip during its five military assaults on the besieged ...