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Brexit - Chronicle Of A Crisis Foretold - Blog (2019)
Other

The European regional integration seemed to be unstoppable and unbreakable despite the many political and economic crises it sailed through since the 70s and more recently in the past decade in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
Yet, for th... Read More about Brexit - Chronicle Of A Crisis Foretold - Blog.

Child Soldiers and the Defence of Duress under International Criminal Law (2019)
Book

This book investigates the use of duress as a defence in international criminal law, specifically in cases of child soldiers. The prosecution of children for international crimes often only focuses on whether children can and should be prosecuted und... Read More about Child Soldiers and the Defence of Duress under International Criminal Law.

Book review: Protecting the Rights of Refugees Beyond European Borders, by Lisa Heschl. (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2018) (2019)
Journal Article

Mbube in the age of social media (2019)
Journal Article

Walt Disney’s 2019 remastering of The Lion King as an entirely computer generated, or so-called live-action, film, broke several records to beat the previous box office figures held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and Disney’s own Froz... Read More about Mbube in the age of social media.

Old players, new rules: A critique of the China-Ethiopia and China-Tanzania bilateral investment treaties (2019)
Book Chapter

The rapprochement between China and African States is garnering much academic attention. The objective of this paper is to scrutinise one aspect of this relationship in the context of international investment law (IIL). When approaching the study of... Read More about Old players, new rules: A critique of the China-Ethiopia and China-Tanzania bilateral investment treaties.

Firms should reach out to universities (2019)
Journal Article

A call to arms targeting law firms, explaining the many benefits and methods of collaborations between private legal practise and universities. Covering knowledge exchange and research funding opportunities, but also work based student learning and s... Read More about Firms should reach out to universities.

Re-visiting rules and norms (2019)
Journal Article

Rules (i.e. formal rules) are injunctions, constituted by social phenomena. They are learned, mutually understood, located in artefacts and govern agents’ actions. When rules are broken, formal sanctions occur. They are cognised and followed consciou... Read More about Re-visiting rules and norms.

A competition law first (2019)
Journal Article

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the full text of its first competition law decision in May 2019. The decision related to three asset management firms whose employees operated a cartel sharing price sensitive information during an init... Read More about A competition law first.

Obstacles to fairness in criminal proceedings: Individual rights and institutional forms [Book review] (2019)
Journal Article

This is a book review for Obstacles to Fairness in Criminal Proceedings: Individual Rights and Institutional Forms.

Environmental human rights in the global South (2019)
Book Chapter

Balancing Employer and Employee Rights in Occupational Pension Schemes: Acknowledging the Current Role of Occupational Pensions in Society (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Initial Coin Offerings: Financial Innovation or Scam (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In light of the development of cryptocurrencies and their growth in popularity with investors, a new funding model has emerged in the form of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Taking the place of an Initial Product Offering (IPO) an ICO allows investo... Read More about Initial Coin Offerings: Financial Innovation or Scam.

How transnationally effective are the UK migration policies in relation to missing migrants? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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?.

The roles of laughter in qualitative research interviews (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘‘Get it done’ is one of the most used sentences by my Dad (laughs)
‘Get it done, get it done babes, just got to get it done’. (both laugh)’

This session explores the roles that laughter can play in qualitative interviewing. The theme arises fro... Read More about The roles of laughter in qualitative research interviews.

Environmental Rights: The Development of Standards (2019)
Book

Environmental rights, also known as the human rights or constitutional rights that are used for the protection of the environment, have proliferated over the last 45 years. However, the precise levels of protection that they represent has since been... Read More about Environmental Rights: The Development of Standards.

Global assessment Chapter 6: Options for decision makers (2019)
Report

In recent decades, the extent and scope of societal responses to environmental problems, including biodiversity decline, have been extensive and diverse. The outcomes, however, have been mixed across sectors and levels of governance, with limited suc... Read More about Global assessment Chapter 6: Options for decision makers.

Too Much Information? Evaluating the Financial Intelligence Gathering Provisions of the Fourth European Union Anti-Money Laundering Directive and the Common Reporting Standard in Combatting Tax Evasion (2019)
Book Chapter

IPBES global assessment report: Summary for policymakers (2019)
Report

This Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has been carried out by about 150 selected experts from all regions of the world, including 16 early career fellows, assisted by 350 contributing authors. More than 15,000 scientific publi... Read More about IPBES global assessment report: Summary for policymakers.

A stock-taking of FPIC standards in international environmental law (2019)
Book Chapter

With its roots in the international human rights law, free prior and informed consent (FPIC) is now integrated within the environmental law regime. The cross-fertilisation of FPIC standards from human rights laws to environmental laws is evident in t... Read More about A stock-taking of FPIC standards in international environmental law.

The American convention on human rights and environmental rights standards (2019)
Book Chapter

Until recently, environmental standards have received attention within the Inter-American regional human rights system, primarily in the context of the rights of indigenous peoples. In developing environmental standards, the Inter-American Commission... Read More about The American convention on human rights and environmental rights standards.