Department of Law
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Creating Conversations about Consent through an on-Campus, Curriculum Embedded Week of Action
(Article)Sexual violence is a widespread issue on university campuses. Although not a new concern, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) within the United Kingdom (UK) have only recently begun to implement specific on-campus prevention ... -
International Economic Law in the Global South and COVID-19
(Other)The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all facets of human relations on a magnitude not witnessed in the post-World War II era. Due to the interdependence of countries in the international system, it is not surprising that ... -
Non-Legally Binding Muslim Marriages in England and Qatar: Circumventing the State
(Article)Marriage and relationship norms are changing globally. The state’s role in administrating marriages and relationship breakdown is coming under mounting stress due to the increasing manifestation of differing relationship ... -
Contemporary Issues in Marriage Law and Practice in Qatar
(Article)This paper discusses changing marriage practices in modern day Qatar, drawing on empirical data gathered in a socio-legal study involving interviews with individual citizens and residents about their marriage and family ... -
"Nature", "Quality" and Mens Rea - Some Observations on "Defect of Reason" and the First Limb of the M'Naghten Rules
(Article)This article discusses both “defect of reason” and the first limb of the M’Naghten Rules in order to explore the relationship of both to that of general mens rea. In doing so it explores some cases from one of my empirical ... -
Africa’s Participation in International Economic Law in the 21st Century: An Introduction (Special Issue)
(Article)This is the introduction to the Manchester Journal of International Economic Law Symposium Issue based on selected papers presented at the Fourth Biennial Conference of the African International Economic Law Network at ... -
Sub-national involvement in Nigeria's Foreign Relations Law: An appraisal of the heterodoxy between theory and practice
(Article)Nations, in their interaction with the international system, usually have in place a legal regime governing the external exercise of the powers of the State. This regime Curtis Bradley describes as the foreign relations ... -
'Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are': Brexit, a chance to acknowledge animal sentience in law.
(Article)The ‘Great Repeal Bill’ was designed to bring all existing European Union (EU) law into UK law at the point of the country’s departure from the EU on 29th March 2019. At this time a so called ‘Hard Brexit’, with no agreement ... -
Management Perceptions of Sexual Violence on Campus: Implications for the Implementation of Institutional Policy and Legal Requirements
(Conference)Sexual violence and harassment on university campuses are not a new concern, but a widespread issue. Universities are significant sites for action for tackling sexual violence, not only because they have a duty to provide ... -
Management Perceptions of Sexual Violence on Campus
(Conference)This paper uses a Critical Race Theory lens with which to consider the approach taken by university management in a case study institution to the problem of sexual violence. Sexual violence and harassment on university ... -
Addressing differential degree awarding through critical-race methodologies
(Conference)In UK Universities, white students are 13.6% more likely to be awarded a good honours degree than students of colour . Historically, a deficit perspective has been used across the sector to counter this reality, rooted in ... -
Addressing differential degree awarding through critical-race methodologies
(Conference)In UK Universities, white students are 13.6% more likely to be awarded a good honours degree than students of colour . Historically, a deficit perspective has been used across the sector to counter this reality, rooted in ... -
Young Terrorists or Child Soldiers? ISIS Children, International Law and Victimhood
(Article)Since the Syrian conflict broke out, a significant number of Western citizens travelled to the warzone to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). By common definitions, some of the persons travelled as ‘children’. ... -
Childhood in the digital age: a socio-cultural and legal analysis of the UK’s proposed virtual legal duty of care
(Article)In 2019, the UK government issued an ambitious White Paper as a precursor to the regulation of ‘online harms’. This article adopts a socio-cultural and legal approach to analysing the proposed law in the context of children. ... -
A contextualised historical account of changing judicial attitudes to polygamous marriage in the English courts
(Article)Whilst much of the literature focuses on debating polygamy as a harmful practice, the purpose of this paper is to consider a different form of harm by exploring judicial responses to this relationship and the women who ... -
Interpreter-Assisted Interviews: Examining Investigators’ and Interpreters’ Views on Their Practice
(Article)The investigative interviewing of victims, witnesses and suspects is one of the most frequent and important tasks undertaken by those conducting law enforcement investigations. Over the past 20 years or so, there has been ... -
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 ...
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