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Law in the spirit of our age: Between modernism and post-modernism? (2015)
Journal Article

The paper examines the epistemic position of the subject of law vis-à-vis modernity, postmodernity and the related themes of modernism and postmodernism, taking Western jurisprudence as the analytical paradigm. Western jurisprudence is given a wider... Read More about Law in the spirit of our age: Between modernism and post-modernism?.

Revitalising energy capital project development and execution strategies: Lessons from the energy sector (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This study sought to examine project delivery challenges currently being faced by energy clients and to determine how they could achieve value creation through better alignment of project delivery processes. There are impor... Read More about Revitalising energy capital project development and execution strategies: Lessons from the energy sector.

A diamond in the rough (2015)
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Editorial - The legitimacy of human rights courts in environmental disputes (2015)
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International human rights courts and environmental human rights: Re-imagining adjudicative paradigms (2015)
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Accessing the world’s most exclusive club – influencing decision-making on the UN Security Council (2015)
Journal Article

The UN Security Council’s (the ‘Council’) primary responsibility is to maintain international peace and security. With its remit having expanded well beyond anything originally imaged to include matters such as terrorist threats, climate change and t... Read More about Accessing the world’s most exclusive club – influencing decision-making on the UN Security Council.

The dark figure of money laundering: Editorial for the Journal of Financial Crime (2015)
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The dark figure of crime is concerned with the unrecorded crime or the unreported offence that has gone unnoticed by the police and statistics. As a component of the dark figure of crime, the difficulty in generating real life statistics for money la... Read More about The dark figure of money laundering: Editorial for the Journal of Financial Crime.

Children's social care: An evaluation of two pre-proceedings protocols (2015)
Journal Article

In April 2013, a team of researchers at the University of the West of England, Bristol was asked to monitor a pre-proceedings protocol that was about to be introduced in the field of Children’s Social Care by the Designated Family Judge for Bristol.... Read More about Children's social care: An evaluation of two pre-proceedings protocols.

Editorial: Setting the scene: The HSBC banking scandal (2015)
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At the beginning of February 2015, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp—or HSBC, as it is more widely known—was exposed by an international collaboration of news outlets and investigative journalists as a bank which assists transnational organised... Read More about Editorial: Setting the scene: The HSBC banking scandal.

The ratione temporis elements of self-defence (2015)
Journal Article

This article focuses on one particular factor that is of crucial importance to all self-defence actions. It is a factor that is almost always present in the application and appraisal of the right, but one that is not always explicitly engaged with: t... Read More about The ratione temporis elements of self-defence.

Contemporary problems with the GATS and internet gambling (2015)
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This article focuses on the issue of enforcement of the WTO rules on international cross-border trade in services. It is argued that the examination of the GATS jurisprudence and state practice reveal that the GATS does not address the needs of the d... Read More about Contemporary problems with the GATS and internet gambling.

Exhaustion-harmonization by case law or the clarification of a long standing principle (2015)
Journal Article

The article discusses the cases related to software companies UsedSoft and PC Box, and appellant Anders Grund regarding the ability of copyright holders in constraining the use of their work in the software field. It mentioned the concern of the Cour... Read More about Exhaustion-harmonization by case law or the clarification of a long standing principle.

Military targeting in the context of self-defence actions (2015)
Journal Article

For self-defence actions to be lawful, they must be directed at military targets. The absolute prohibition on non-military targeting under the jus in bello is well known, but the jus ad bellum also limits the target selection of states conducting def... Read More about Military targeting in the context of self-defence actions.

Transposing the EU directive on the right to information: A firecracker or a damp squib? (2015)
Journal Article

The article critically examines the way in which the European Directive on the right to information has been transposed into domestic law by amendments to the PACE Code of Practice C. It concludes that whilst the Directive has, broadly, been faithful... Read More about Transposing the EU directive on the right to information: A firecracker or a damp squib?.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing, June 2015: Australian Crime Commission highlights links between terrorism and organized crime (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing, May 2015: Fighters from Caribbean travelling to fight with extremists in Syria and Iraq (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing, March 2015: Spotlight on Polar regions: US Coast Guard announces extra measures to protect Polar regions as it repositions to Western Hemisphere and Arctic (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing, January 2015: Spotlight on Africa: United States gifts Nigerian Navy another warship to help in fight against organised crime and terrorism (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

Transnational organised crime monthly briefing, July 2015: Attack on tourists in Port El Kantaoui highlights threat of terrorism and organised crime in Tunisia (2015)
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Open Briefing: Postings on Transnational Organised Crime.

The innocent cannot afford to plead guilty: The impact of the criminal court charge (2015)
Journal Article

The article examines the impact of the controversial criminal court charge. The article suggests there are wide ranging consequences of the charge which exacerbate the already over crowded prison system. Furthermore, the charge is in direct conflict... Read More about The innocent cannot afford to plead guilty: The impact of the criminal court charge.