Outputs (183)

Guiding principles and codes of practice: Do teachers of deaf children and young people need them? (2025)
Journal Article

This article analyses the history of the profession of teachers of deaf children (ToD) in the United Kingdom, particularly in relation to the interaction they have with the health service. The views of ToDs were explored in relation to professionalis... Read More about Guiding principles and codes of practice: Do teachers of deaf children and young people need them?.

Book review: Fraud and Risk in Commercial Law, edited by Paul S Davies and Hans Tjio. Hart Publishing 2024 (2025)
Journal Article

This review of Fraud and Risk in Commercial Law examines this book, which is the second in the series on current issues in commercial law by Hart Publishing. The book comprises a collection of individually authored chapters on a range of topics which... Read More about Book review: Fraud and Risk in Commercial Law, edited by Paul S Davies and Hans Tjio. Hart Publishing 2024.

From barking dogs to roaring dragons the legal recognition of British and Irish sign language in the United Kingdom (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The United Kingdom's legislative efforts to recognise British Sign Language (BSL) highlight the intersection of law, language rights, and citizenship. Despite varying degrees of recognition across its four nations – England, Scotland, Wales, and Nort... Read More about From barking dogs to roaring dragons the legal recognition of British and Irish sign language in the United Kingdom.

Competition Law and Financial Crime (2025)
Book

The manipulation of any benchmark interest rate by bankers, colluding for their own gain, is likely to negatively affect a large proportion of the population, as many people have loans pegged to a benchmark interest rate. This monograph investigates... Read More about Competition Law and Financial Crime.

Deaf legal theory: Challenging the law’s hearing bias (2025)
Journal Article

Bryan and Emery introduced a new concept in legal jurisprudence through which a critical examination of how the law deals with deaf people can be undertaken: deaf legal theory (DLT). They define it as “how the law seeks to frame Deaf people” and argu... Read More about Deaf legal theory: Challenging the law’s hearing bias.

Damage to and the destruction of the natural environment: Terraforming warfare in Gaza and the humanitarian imperative informing accountability for ecocentric crimes (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

This contribution considers the significant and well-recorded environmental damage in Gaza, following Israel’s full-scale military operations that started in October 2023. It is argued that, in the absence of ecocentric legal frameworks, war crimes l... Read More about Damage to and the destruction of the natural environment: Terraforming warfare in Gaza and the humanitarian imperative informing accountability for ecocentric crimes.

Submission to the independent review of the criminal courts – Written evidence on neurodivergence, vulnerability and the criminal courts (2025)
Report

Recent years have seen increased attention to both neurodiversity as a general concept and social concern, and specifically to the way in which the CJS engages with individuals who are neurodivergent. Interest (and, to some extent, action) in this ar... Read More about Submission to the independent review of the criminal courts – Written evidence on neurodivergence, vulnerability and the criminal courts.

Adopting British Sign Language in deaf education: Lessons from Welsh and Gaelic (2025)
Journal Article

While UK deaf education typically focuses on integrating deaf children into hearing culture through auditory/oral methods, there is potential for bilingual and immersion settings with BSL, inspired by Welsh and Gaelic education experiences.

In Wal... Read More about Adopting British Sign Language in deaf education: Lessons from Welsh and Gaelic.

Co-producing the Deaf Legal Theory model final report (2025)
Report

The Deaf Legal Theory (DLT) framework represents a novel approach to understanding and addressing the unique position that deaf individuals find themselves in the world over when navigating the legal systems of their respective nations. Rooted in the... Read More about Co-producing the Deaf Legal Theory model final report.

The Russo-Ukrainian War Law Handbook (2025)
Book

The RUWAR Law Handbook is the first comprehensive legal text on the Ukraine War. It aims to serve as the "go-to" source for those researching or seeking to understand the new world legal order being created after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the... Read More about The Russo-Ukrainian War Law Handbook.