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Legislative sovereignty: Moving from jurisprudence towards metaphysics (2022)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. R. (2022). Legislative sovereignty: Moving from jurisprudence towards metaphysics. Jurisprudence, 11(3), 360-386. https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2020.1744990

Legislative sovereignty is often discussed with one eye on the past and one eye on the procedural functions of law-making in the present. This limits the scope for a conceptual understanding of legislative sovereignty and hinders its theoretical prog... Read More about Legislative sovereignty: Moving from jurisprudence towards metaphysics.

Bermuda's domestic partnership act 2018: From "living tree" to broken branches? (2018)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. (2018). Bermuda's domestic partnership act 2018: From "living tree" to broken branches?. European Human Rights Law Review, 23(4), 367-382

It is often thought that affording rights is a progressive movement; rights are given to natural legal persons; the rights are normalised in societal expectations and they form part of a body of enforceable rights against the state. On 7 February 201... Read More about Bermuda's domestic partnership act 2018: From "living tree" to broken branches?.