Department of Law
Recent Submissions
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Religious-Only Marriages and Cohabitation; Deciphering Differences
(Book chapter)Unregistered religious-only marriages are being problematized in mainstream political discourse, and treated as a separate and special issue to be resolved by targeted legal reforms deterring such ceremonies. The underlying ... -
Lefebvre and Law: social justice, new technologies and the spatial imaginary
(Book chapter)As the fluidity of contemporary social life has accelerated due to an ongoing process of social and technological transformation, there has been increasing interest in the work of Henri Lefebvre on the production of space ... -
Evaluation of the Rule of Law as a Pre-requisite to the Right to Development in Africa
(Article)Africa faces myriads of challenges one of which is the need for development; as a result, development is a critical issue in Africa. The apparent disparity and inequity of the global economic system in the aspect of ... -
Of Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing
(Article)Like law, comics use a hierarchical vocabulary of signs, symbols and icons which is synonymous with the symbolic order of intersubjective relations, and ‘produced in the dialogue and discourse all about us: in the things ... -
Perceptions of consent in male rape: evidence and inclusive policymaking
(Book chapter)Interest in evidence-based policy making in the UK and elsewhere has been documented over many years. There has also been much attention given to the issue of sexual violence from policy makers – virtually all of this ... -
Rape, inequality and the criminal justice response in England: The importance of age and gender
(Article)This article draws upon quantitative and content analysis of 585 reports of rape recorded within two police force areas in England in 2010 and in 2014 tracking individual incidents to eventual outcome to examine the impact, ... -
Fears and fallacies: Doctors’ perceptions of the barriers to medical innovation
(Article)In 2014, Lord Saatchi launched his ultimately unsuccessful Medical Innovation Bill in the UK. Its laudable aim was to free doctors from the shackles that prevented them from providing responsible innovative treatment. Lord ... -
Law and the Passions: Why Emotion Matters for Justice
(Book)Engaging with the underlying social context in which emotions are a motivational force, Law and the Passions provides a uniquely inclusive commentary on the significance and influence of emotions in the history and continuing ... -
Advance decisions, welfare attorneys and statements of wishes: The belt, braces and corset approach to advance care planning
(Article)Advance care planning is used by adults to express value-based preferences for informing future care and treatment decisions following their loss of decision-making capacity. It is a means for ascertaining previous ... -
THE CASE FOR PUBLIC ENFORCEMENT OF DIRECTORS’ DUTIES: AN AUSTRALIAN CASE STUDY AND APPLICATION TO NIGERIA
(Article)Like many other common law countries, Nigeria imposes statutory duties on its companies’ directors. Breach of these duties are expected to be enforced ‘privately’ by the company, its shareholders or any other proper person. ... -
The Inefficacy of Private Enforcement of Directors' Duties
(Article)Company directors play an important role in society. Their activities have significant effects on the interests of their companies, shareholders and other stakeholders. Consequently, the law regards them as fiduciaries and ... -
The Vexed Question of Best Interests in Decisions Relating to Infants and Medical Futility
(Book chapter)Seemingly intractable disagreements between parents and doctors about the treatment of gravely ill infants are neither new, nor particularly unusual. In the clinical context, proposed courses of treatment are usually ... -
The M'Naghten Rules - a brief historical note
(Article)This paper reveals the number and identities of the signatories to the M'Naghten Rules. However, the paper also confirms that some doubts about this issue remain. -
A Comparative Evaluation of Offences: Criminalising Abusive Behaviour in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Tasmania
(Book chapter)This chapter analyses the new offences introduced in England and Wales in 2015, Scotland in 2018, Ireland in 2018 and the less recent offences in Tasmania in 2004 addressing the use of coercive control in domestic ... -
Voice parade procedures: Optimising witness performance
(Article)Unfamiliar voice identification is error-prone. Whilst the investigation of system variables may indicate ways of boosting earwitness performance, this is an under-researched area. Two experiments were conducted to investigate ... -
Transnational Law and State Transformation: The Case of Extractive Development in Mongolia
(Book)This book contributes new theoretical insight and in-depth empirical analysis about the relationship between transnational legality, state change and the globalisation of markets. The role of transnational economic law ... -
De-Criminalising Adolescent to Parent Violence Under s 76 Serious Crime Act 2015
(Article)This article questions the appropriateness of including adolescent to parent violence (APV) within the elements of a criminal offence designed to criminalise domestic violence and abuse (DVA). The offence, s. 76 Serious ... -
Are defaults supportive of autonomy? An examination of nudges under the lens of Self-Determination Theory
(Article)Nudges, one of the rapidly growing law-making and public policy tools, are considered by their proponents to have a generally neutral effect on autonomy. Our study is the first to test nudges under the prism of Self-Determination ... -
Technological Innovations Tackling Biodiversity Loss: Solutions or Misdirection?
(Article)Using original data derived from the thematic analysis of three international agreements and the 2016 Conference of the Parties (COP) and Meeting of the Parties (MOP) Decisions, this article examines the incorporation of ...
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