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A cosmopolitan ethos for our future lawyers (2015)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2015). A cosmopolitan ethos for our future lawyers. Law Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 1, 150-168

This article advocates the strengthening of the spirit of cosmopolitanism in modern legal education. In contrast to the epistemic environment of predominantly domestic and nation-oriented discourses across law schools and faculties around the world,... Read More about A cosmopolitan ethos for our future lawyers.

Law in the spirit of our age: Between modernism and post-modernism? (2015)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2015). Law in the spirit of our age: Between modernism and post-modernism?. Juridiskā Zinātne, 8, 198-213

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)
Journal Article
Ochieng, E. G., Price, A. D. F., Zuofa, T., Egbu, C., & Ruan, X. (2016). Revitalising energy capital project development and execution strategies: Lessons from the energy sector. Production Planning and Control, 27(4), 237-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2015.1094583

© 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)
Journal Article
Jooste, C. (2015). A diamond in the rough. Without Prejudice, 15(9),

Accessing the world’s most exclusive club – influencing decision-making on the UN Security Council (2015)
Journal Article
Hassler, S. (2015). Accessing the world’s most exclusive club – influencing decision-making on the UN Security Council. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 16(2), 19-27

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)
Journal Article
Young, M. A. (2015). The dark figure of money laundering: Editorial for the Journal of Financial Crime. Journal of Financial Crime, 22(4), 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFC-07-2015-0035

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
Whewell, E., Heenan, S., Chudry, F., Owen, R., & Percy-Smith, B. (2015). Children's social care: An evaluation of two pre-proceedings protocols. Family Law -Bristol-, 45(7), 751-760

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)
Journal Article
Young, M. A. (2015). Editorial: Setting the scene: The HSBC banking scandal. Company Lawyer, 36(8), 229-230

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
Green, J. A. (2015). The ratione temporis elements of self-defence. Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, 2(1), 97-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2015.1043097

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)
Journal Article
Turksen, U., & Holder, R. (2015). Contemporary problems with the GATS and internet gambling. Journal of World Trade, 49(3), 457-493

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
Gillen, M. C. (2015). Exhaustion-harmonization by case law or the clarification of a long standing principle. Journal of Internet Law, 18(11), 1-29

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
Green, J. A., & Waters, C. P. (2015). Military targeting in the context of self-defence actions. Nordic Journal of International Law, 84(1), 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-08401002

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
Cape, E. (2015). Transposing the EU directive on the right to information: A firecracker or a damp squib?. Criminal Law Review -London-, 2015(1), 48-67

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?.