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You are the weakest link and we will help you! The comprehensive strategy of the United Nations to fight terrorism (2006)
Journal Article
Quenivet, N. (2006). You are the weakest link and we will help you! The comprehensive strategy of the United Nations to fight terrorism. Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 11(3), 371-397. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcsl/krl020

In 2004, the United Nations Secretary-General published the report of the high-level panel of experts on threats, challenges and change that projected a comprehensive strategy to fight various types of scourges that afflict humankind and notably terr... Read More about You are the weakest link and we will help you! The comprehensive strategy of the United Nations to fight terrorism.

The report of The International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur: The question of genocide (2006)
Journal Article
Quenivet, N. (2006). The report of The International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur: The question of genocide. Human Rights Review, 7(4), 38-68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-006-1002-y

The crisis in Darfur (Sudan), which sparked in February 2003, only caught the United Nations' attention in Spring 2004. Questions emerged as to whether the conflict between the rebels and the government was simply insurgency warfare or, in fact, conc... Read More about The report of The International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur: The question of genocide.

Rebalancing the criminal justice process: Ethical challenges for criminal defence lawyers (2006)
Journal Article
Cape, E. (2006). Rebalancing the criminal justice process: Ethical challenges for criminal defence lawyers. Legal Ethics, 9(1), 56-79

This article considers the ethical obligations of criminal defence lawyers in the context of significant change to the criminal process in England and Wales. It argues that since coming to power in 1997 the government has been engaged in a programme... Read More about Rebalancing the criminal justice process: Ethical challenges for criminal defence lawyers.

Prisoners' families: Still forgotten victims? (2006)
Journal Article
Light, R., & Campbell, B. (2006). Prisoners' families: Still forgotten victims?. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 28(3-4), 297-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649060601119524

Forty years ago, when the first systematic study of prisoners' families was published (Morris 1965), the average daily prison population stood at 30,421. The figure now exceeds 80,000. Despite the dramatic increase in their numbers, prisoners' famili... Read More about Prisoners' families: Still forgotten victims?.

Silent spring in Britain today (2006)
Journal Article
Pontin, B. (2006). Silent spring in Britain today. Environmental Law and Management, 18(3), 99-102

A retrospective on attitudes to the environment, tracing modern attitudes back to the time of Britain's 'silent spring' which pre-dated, yet was overshadowed, by that in the US.

Human rights - Human bodies? some reflections on corporate human rights distortion, the legal subject, embodiment and human rights theory (2006)
Journal Article
Grear, A. (2006). Human rights - Human bodies? some reflections on corporate human rights distortion, the legal subject, embodiment and human rights theory. Law and Critique, 17(2), 171-199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-006-0006-8

This paper responds to the subversion of international human rights discourse by corporations. It begins by placing such subversion in three contexts: the ascendance of human rights as the dominant discourse of contemporary moral and political life;... Read More about Human rights - Human bodies? some reflections on corporate human rights distortion, the legal subject, embodiment and human rights theory.

Displacing remedies from environmental to planning law: The enforcement of Part IIA Environmental Protection Act 1990 (2006)
Journal Article
Pontin, B., & Willmore, C. (2006). Displacing remedies from environmental to planning law: The enforcement of Part IIA Environmental Protection Act 1990

A analysis of the findings of fieldwork into the local authority enforcement of statutory inspection powers, highlighting the emphasis placed on solutions to contamination through planning legislation, rather than specialised environmental legislatio... Read More about Displacing remedies from environmental to planning law: The enforcement of Part IIA Environmental Protection Act 1990.

The witchfinder-general and the will-o'-the-wisp: The myth and reality of internet control (2006)
Journal Article
O'brien, M. (2006). The witchfinder-general and the will-o'-the-wisp: The myth and reality of internet control. Information and Communications Technology Law, 15(3), 259-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600830600961129

Internet pornography, especially child pornography, has been a significant concern in British society for several years. This article seeks to examine the prevalence and impact of such material, the way public concern has developed, and media and leg... Read More about The witchfinder-general and the will-o'-the-wisp: The myth and reality of internet control.