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The story of REDD+ in Nigeria: A critical view of the participation of forest-dependent communities (2025)
Journal Article

The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme aims to reduce carbon emissions and improve forest degradation in developing countries. This paper analyses the extent of the involvement of forest-dependent communiti... Read More about The story of REDD+ in Nigeria: A critical view of the participation of forest-dependent communities.

‘Eat, sleep and repeat?’ Corporate criminal liability and extension of the failure to prevent model (2025)
Journal Article

This paper examines the law relating to corporate criminal liability in England and Wales. A doctrinal analysis of case law and legislation is undertaken in order to examine how the law has worked since the seminal case of Tesco v Nattrass. The probl... Read More about ‘Eat, sleep and repeat?’ Corporate criminal liability and extension of the failure to prevent model.

Leave no one behind: Making the ‘shared values of human dignity’ in international law central to achieving the SDGs agenda in relation to migrants in the global tropics (2025)
Journal Article

The global migration crisis, driven mainly by armed conflicts and human rights abuses in the world, is wreaking havoc on the ‘leave no one behind’ (LNOB) transformative promise of the UN Agenda 2030, thus raising questions whether the crisis is beyon... Read More about Leave no one behind: Making the ‘shared values of human dignity’ in international law central to achieving the SDGs agenda in relation to migrants in the global tropics.

Whistleblowers and bid rigging: Defining fair competition (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This webinar was hosted by the George Washington Competition and Innovation Lab. It was simultaneously live-streamed in the UK and US. The panel discussed the role of whistleblowing in the uncovering of bid rigging cartels, from both academic and pra... Read More about Whistleblowers and bid rigging: Defining fair competition.

International criminal tribunals as triggers of institutional change? Evidence from ad hoc tribunals and the icc’s referral and proprio motu cases (2025)
Journal Article

The current article examines whether international criminal tribunals (ICT) can be regarded as actors of international relations, which trigger domestic policy changes in countries under their jurisdiction. Drawing on the concepts of ‘third party enf... Read More about International criminal tribunals as triggers of institutional change? Evidence from ad hoc tribunals and the icc’s referral and proprio motu cases.

Disqualification of directors and education requirements; supporting responsible directorship (2025)
Journal Article

This paper considers how education can address two persistent problems concerning directors of smaller companies. Virtually anyone can be a company director, even though this is a complex role with
significant impacts. Director disqualification is t... Read More about Disqualification of directors and education requirements; supporting responsible directorship.

'Trusted to the ends of the earth'; Or Not. The solicitor's facilitating role in financial crime : A case study approach (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Jonathan presented on the facilitating role that solicitors can have in the commission and reproduction of financial crime in the UK. Jonathan draws from his own unique lived experience of financial crime and considers criminological theory to identi... Read More about 'Trusted to the ends of the earth'; Or Not. The solicitor's facilitating role in financial crime : A case study approach.

Insider Fraud (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Jonathan presented a key note at the Wales and South West Credit Management Conference on the 19th March 2025 at Atradius, Cardiff Bay. He discussed his experience of insider fraud and how best to identify red flags.

Hannah Arendt, Refugees and the phenomenology of human rights: On the perplexities, failures and prospects of the international human rights law protection regime (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

One common feature of most of the world’s greatest challenges of the last century—persecution, armed conflicts and systematic human rights violations is that they produced large numbers of refugees, thus triggering the global refugee crisis. The phen... Read More about Hannah Arendt, Refugees and the phenomenology of human rights: On the perplexities, failures and prospects of the international human rights law protection regime.

The permanent maritime boundary treaty: A pathway to the right to development for Timor-Leste and its people (2025)
Thesis

In 2018, Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste signed a treaty establishing their maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea (2018 Treaty). This research aims to investigate whether the provisions outlined in the 2018 Treaty will contribute... Read More about The permanent maritime boundary treaty: A pathway to the right to development for Timor-Leste and its people.

Protection from indiscriminate violence in armed conflict: The scope of subsidiary protection in the European Union (2025)
Journal Article

The article discusses the relationship between subsidiary protection status granted to persons fleeing indiscriminate violence in armed conflicts under Article 15(c) of the EU Qualification Directive/Regulation and international humanitarian law. Thi... Read More about Protection from indiscriminate violence in armed conflict: The scope of subsidiary protection in the European Union.

Environmental rights in a quagmire: A critical review of indigenous rights and plastic pollution (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The global problem of plastic pollution is now one of the biggest human and environmental rights problems affecting all ecosystems, organisms, people, and the health of the entire planet. Because of its affordability and ubiquity, plastic is used eve... Read More about Environmental rights in a quagmire: A critical review of indigenous rights and plastic pollution.

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.