Outputs (107)

Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness (2024)
Journal Article

Crises such as water quality, pollution, climate change, overfishing, biodiversity, energy, waste, and carbon sequestration mean that legislation protecting the marine environment is under intense pressure to be effective and to demonstrate positive... Read More about Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness.

How engineering and technology sectors are derailed by legislations: A case study of Pakistan (2024)
Journal Article

The engineering profession play a vital role in the socio-economic development of societies and contribute to the GDP of countries. This role, however, can be derailed by legislations that regulate such profession. This paper investigates the impacts... Read More about How engineering and technology sectors are derailed by legislations: A case study of Pakistan.

Regulating armed swarms under international law (2024)
Book Chapter

Of the known military systems under development today perhaps none are more controversial than autonomous weapons systems (AWS). Indeed, for several years, opponents have been urging the United Nations (UN) to prohibit this emerging weapons technolog... Read More about Regulating armed swarms under international law.

To exchange or not to exchange – that is the question. A critical analysis of the use of financial intelligence and the exchange of information in the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article

This article examines the international standards relating to information exchange, identifying its importance in relation to combatting financial crime. The paper critiques the results of the Financial Action Task Force’s Fourth United Kingdom Mutu... Read More about To exchange or not to exchange – that is the question. A critical analysis of the use of financial intelligence and the exchange of information in the United Kingdom.

Economic crime in war (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation focuses on a largely unexplored area – economic crime in war. By highlighting key examples of how economic crime links to war, we aim to open the discussion on how to disrupt economic crime in war effectively. We invite scholars wit... Read More about Economic crime in war.

Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union (2024)
Journal Article

Over the past decades, a logic of border control and securitization, a combination of legal, political and social elements and factors, has developed in European States. The 2015 migration crisis has only exacerbated this negative approach towards mi... Read More about Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union.

Unlawful transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This guest lecture starts by exploring the various violations committed against children by the parties to the conflict in Ukraine. It then moves on to focus on the removal of Ukrainian children from Ukraine to occupied territories and Russia. Using... Read More about Unlawful transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children.

The concept of legal convergence (2024)
Book Chapter

The concept of convergence of legal systems stands for a leading idea in the modern discipline of law. Whereas one could neo-romantically still perceive law as a Landesjurisprudenz, a sort of provincial and domestic study, it would be fair to maintai... Read More about The concept of legal convergence.

Constructing for the future: Can the duty of good faith improve payment in the UK construction industry? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Adversarialism within the UK construction industry fosters poor payment practices. Thus, stakeholders down the supply chain consistently suffer cashflow issues which can cause insolvencies. This study consisted of a critical review of literature and... Read More about Constructing for the future: Can the duty of good faith improve payment in the UK construction industry?.

Autistic and accused: A critical discussion of contemporary challenges to fair and effective criminal proceedings for autistic suspects and defendants (2023)
Journal Article

Examines the challenges facing autistic people suspected, accused or convicted of crime from a socio-legal perspective. Discusses problematic legal procedures from initial contact with the police, pre-trial custodial interaction to trials and sentenc... Read More about Autistic and accused: A critical discussion of contemporary challenges to fair and effective criminal proceedings for autistic suspects and defendants.

International humanitarian law and healthcare (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

After a brief overview of the key principles of international humanitarian law (IHL), this presentation focuses on the protection offered by IHL to medical personnel and medical units. The concepts of 'medical personnel' and 'medical units' are defin... Read More about International humanitarian law and healthcare.

Regulating armed drone swarms under international law (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

One of the most controversial military systems currently under development today are autonomous weapons systems (AWS). Indeed, many states are urging the United Nations to prohibit AWS by way of a specific treaty. The term AWS is, nevertheless, somew... Read More about Regulating armed drone swarms under international law.

The AU free movement protocol: Challenges in its implementation (2023)
Journal Article

One of the major pillars of the African Union is the integration of peoples and the ability for them to move freely from one member country to another, with the right to reside and practise their trade or profession. This aspect of integration found... Read More about The AU free movement protocol: Challenges in its implementation.

R2P - Whose responsibility - Whose protection? A gender perspective (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The keynote speech starts by questioning who is protected by humanitarian interventions. It argues that there is a disparity between the rhetoric of protecting vulnerable groups (especially women), the law that is contained in UN reports and UN Secur... Read More about R2P - Whose responsibility - Whose protection? A gender perspective.

Territorial conflicts on the territory of the former Soviet Union - Stabilised de facto regimes between territorial integrity, the right of self-determination, and the interests of third parties (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the criteria of statehood according to the Montevideo Convention and applies them to four entities (Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh) that were part of the Soviet Union with a view to evaluating their sta... Read More about Territorial conflicts on the territory of the former Soviet Union - Stabilised de facto regimes between territorial integrity, the right of self-determination, and the interests of third parties.

The spirit of modern academic legal education: Towards governing principles (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The contribution promotes the idea of principles in academic legal education. Principles are taken to be abstract notions that can offer a certain direction of things in academic legal education. The paper posits that such principles should be taken... Read More about The spirit of modern academic legal education: Towards governing principles.

The criminalization of solidarity in today’s European Union - Reflections and solutions (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Of all the concepts that are often evoked to tackle issues of political inclusion and exclusion, solidarity is perhaps the most frequently discussed. Although there is no unanimous agreement on a definition of this concept, which is variously referre... Read More about The criminalization of solidarity in today’s European Union - Reflections and solutions.

Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment (2023)
Journal Article

Dominic Ongwen was convicted and sentenced for numerous atrocities by the International Criminal Court (icc) in 2021. The Defence focused on the coercive environment that Ongwen was subjected to from his abduction as a boy until his surrender as an a... Read More about Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment.

Enforcing the legal principle of duty of care in corporate human rights violations and environmental damage cases in developing countries (2023)
Journal Article

Corporate accountability for human rights violations in international legal systems has proven to be a watershed. This is because there are inadequacies in the existing accountability mechanisms as well as several other legal problems and factual obs... Read More about Enforcing the legal principle of duty of care in corporate human rights violations and environmental damage cases in developing countries.

The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union (2023)
Book Chapter

European solidarity is a contested concept. Social groups and political parties with different ideological orientations across the European Union often try to impose their own conception of solidarity to the detriment of alternative interpretations.... Read More about The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union.