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The French 2021 Bill on the fight against climate change and on resilience strengthening in the face of its effects – first overall impressions (2021)
Journal Article
Dadomo, C. (2021). The French 2021 Bill on the fight against climate change and on resilience strengthening in the face of its effects – first overall impressions. Environmental Liability, 26(4),

The 2021 Climate and Resilience Bill: 12 key measures to give a new impetus in the fight against global warming and a double objective to meet France's international commitments and make the planet more habitable for present and future generations.

A right to read object code – software copyright law and the development of a decompilation exception in South Africa (2021)
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Jooste, C. (2021). A right to read object code – software copyright law and the development of a decompilation exception in South Africa. South African Intellectual Property Law Journal, 9(1), 35-66. https://doi.org/10.47348/saipl/v9/a3

The opportunity to read and extract knowledge from a lawfully obtained copy of any published work is a cornerstone of copyright law, except in the case of computer programs. This article examines the development of an exception to copyright protectio... Read More about A right to read object code – software copyright law and the development of a decompilation exception in South Africa.

What are the merits of taking a hybrid regulatory approach towards the enforcement of corporate financial crime in the United Kingdom and United States of America? (2021)
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Johnson, D. (2022). What are the merits of taking a hybrid regulatory approach towards the enforcement of corporate financial crime in the United Kingdom and United States of America?. Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 3(1), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/2631309X211050013

This article focusses on the hybrid regulatory approaches used in both the USA and the UK for the enforcement of corporate financial crime. In particular, the article analyses the use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements, which typically impose a finan... Read More about What are the merits of taking a hybrid regulatory approach towards the enforcement of corporate financial crime in the United Kingdom and United States of America?.

What COVID-19 has taught us about social inequities and the urgent need for systemic change (2021)
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Wright, T., Sah, R. K., Keys, C., Nanayakkara, G., & Onyejekwe, C. (2022). What COVID-19 has taught us about social inequities and the urgent need for systemic change. Public Health Nursing, 39(1), 344-349. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13001

This paper critically comments on the state of affairs in the UK relating to the pandemic and explores how a focus on inequities experienced by marginalized and vulnerable groups is necessary for exposing the material realties of everyday life, but a... Read More about What COVID-19 has taught us about social inequities and the urgent need for systemic change.

Was quashing the Maji-Maji uprising genocide? An evaluation of Germany's conduct through the lens of international criminal law (2021)
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Bachmann, K., & Kemp, G. (2021). Was quashing the Maji-Maji uprising genocide? An evaluation of Germany's conduct through the lens of international criminal law. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 35(2), 235-249. https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcab032

Recently, political actors in Tanzania have demanded compensation from Germany for colonial atrocities against various ethnic and religious groups during the Maji-Maji uprising (1905-1907). By analyzing first-hand archival records from Germany and Ta... Read More about Was quashing the Maji-Maji uprising genocide? An evaluation of Germany's conduct through the lens of international criminal law.

A definition of habit for socio-economics (2021)
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Fleetwood, S. (2021). A definition of habit for socio-economics. Review of Social Economy, 79(2), 131-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2019.1630668

The paper argues that it is a mistake to define habit as behaviour or action; as a regular conjunction of actions; as a stock; as a form of automaticity (although habit is acquired and activated automatically); as a tendency, propensity or dispositio... Read More about A definition of habit for socio-economics.

How transnationally effective are the UK migration policies in relation to missing migrants? A transnational law perspective (2021)
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Eda, L. (2021). How transnationally effective are the UK migration policies in relation to missing migrants? A transnational law perspective. Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 54(2), 343-412

All over the world, several thousands of migrants go missing when they attempt to flee from war, violence, persecution, repressive regimes, systematic human rights violations etc. Thousands die each year in deadly shipwrecks in a desperate attempt to... Read More about How transnationally effective are the UK migration policies in relation to missing migrants? A transnational law perspective.

A lesser bigotry? The UK conservative evangelical response to Stephen Sizer's antisemitism (2021)
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Mendelsohn, J., & Howard, B. N. (2021). A lesser bigotry? The UK conservative evangelical response to Stephen Sizer's antisemitism. Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, 4(1), 37-72. https://doi.org/10.26613/jca.4.1.72

Jewish commentators frequently lament that antisemitism is seen as a "lesser bigotry" by those claiming to oppose racism. This article argues that the response of British conservative evangelical Christians to the antisemitic activity of Rev. Dr. Ste... Read More about A lesser bigotry? The UK conservative evangelical response to Stephen Sizer's antisemitism.

Transformative governance of biodiversity: Insights for sustainable development (2021)
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Visseren-Hamakers, I. J., Razzaque, J., McElwee, P., Turnhout, E., Kelemen, E., Rusch, G. M., …Zaleski, D. (2021). Transformative governance of biodiversity: Insights for sustainable development. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 53, 20-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.06.002

While there is much debate on transformative change among academics and policymakers, the discussion on how to govern such change is still in its infancy. This article argues that transformative governance is needed to enable the transformative chang... Read More about Transformative governance of biodiversity: Insights for sustainable development.

The first successful claim against the French State for failure to honour its obligation to combat global warming – Paris administrative court’s judgment of 3 February 2021 on climate change: The case of the century, or is it? (2021)
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Dadomo, C. (2021). The first successful claim against the French State for failure to honour its obligation to combat global warming – Paris administrative court’s judgment of 3 February 2021 on climate change: The case of the century, or is it?. Environmental Liability, 26(3), 106-111

On 3 February 2021, the administrative court of Paris delivered its first judgment in a very publicised climate litigation case nicknamed the case of the century by the applicant associations. While this judgment is novel in so far as the court recog... Read More about The first successful claim against the French State for failure to honour its obligation to combat global warming – Paris administrative court’s judgment of 3 February 2021 on climate change: The case of the century, or is it?.

The French citizens’ convention on climate change (2021)
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Dadomo, C. (2021). The French citizens’ convention on climate change. IUCN AEL Journal of Environmental Law, 76-84

Following the French President’s speech of 25 April 2019 in which Emmanuel Macron announced a change in the decision-making process regarding the ecological transition agenda, a Citizens’ Convention for climate change was set up in October 2019. Un... Read More about The French citizens’ convention on climate change.

The duty to take precautions in hostilities, and the disobeying of orders: Should robots refuse? (2021)
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Pollard, M., & Grimal, F. (2021). The duty to take precautions in hostilities, and the disobeying of orders: Should robots refuse?. Fordham International Law Journal, 44(3), 671-734

This Article not only questions whether an embodied artificial intelligence (“EAI”) could give an order to a human combatant, but controversially, examines whether it should also refuse one. A future EAI may be capable of refusing to follow an order,... Read More about The duty to take precautions in hostilities, and the disobeying of orders: Should robots refuse?.

Health inequalities and ethnic vulnerabilities during COVID-19 in the UK: A reflection on the PHE reports (2021)
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Keys, C., Nanayakkara, G., Onyejekwe, C., Sah, R. K., & Wright, T. (2021). Health inequalities and ethnic vulnerabilities during COVID-19 in the UK: A reflection on the PHE reports. Feminist Legal Studies, 29(1), 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-020-09446-y

COVID-19 has uncovered the vulnerabilities, inequalities and fragility present within our social community which has exposed and exacerbated the pre-existing racial and socioeconomic inequalities that disproportionately affect health outcomes for Bla... Read More about Health inequalities and ethnic vulnerabilities during COVID-19 in the UK: A reflection on the PHE reports.