Modern Law Review

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AleydisNissen, European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 323 pp, hb £85.00	42
‘Lex Cryptographi(c)a,’ ‘Cloud Crypto Land’ or What? – Blockchain Technology on the Legal Hype Cycle	12
‘AI is not an Inventor’: Thaler v Comptroller of Patents, Designs and Trademarks and the Patentability of AI Inventions	9
The Beneficiary's Ownership Rights in the Trust Res in a Liberal Property Regime	9
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NaomiCreutzfeldt, ChrisGill, MarineCornelis and RachelMcPherson, Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy‐Poor Consumers: Just Energy?, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 336 pp, hb £85.00, pb £42.99	7
e‐Evidence Cooperation in Criminal Matters from an EU Perspective	7
The Sky's the Limit? SkyKick v Sky and Speculative Trade Mark Registration	6
EnricoBonadio and Chen WeiZhu (eds), Music Borrowing and Copyright Law: A Genre‐by‐Genre AnalysisOxford: Hart, 2023, 704pp, hb £126.00	6
From Prohibition to Digitalisation: 100 Years of Cameras in the Courtroom	6
ElizabethWicks, Suicide and the Law, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2023, 221 pp, hb £85.00	6
The Charities Act 2022 and its Dissuasive Effects on Donors	6
MarySynge, The University‐Charity: Challenging Perceptions in Higher Education, 2023, xix + 504 pp, hb £120.	6
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When is an Insured Vehicle an Uninsured Vehicle?	6
Ernest J.Weinrib, Reciprocal Freedom: Private Law and Public Right, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp, hb, £90.00	6
Trial by Cognitive Ordeal: Irrational Approaches to the Opinions of Investigators, Trial Integrity and Proof	5
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The Scope of the Medical Exception in Criminal Law	5
Authenticity and Identity in Adolescent Decision‐Making	4
Prioritising Proof over Speculation: Resolving the Prospective Inability Problem in Contract Damages	4
THE MODERN LAW REVIEW	4
Vicarious Liability and Conferred Authority: Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses v BXB	4
The Aarhus Convention 1998 and the Environment Act 2021: Eroding Public Participation	4

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The Shareholder's Standing to Challenge the Exercise of Directorial Power: Tianrui (International) Holding Company Ltd v China Sha	4
Beverley Clough, The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries, Routledge, 2021, hb, 208 pp, £130.00	4
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Judicial Biography in the National Security Constitution: Lord Diplock and a ‘Rather Silly Little Secret Racket’	4
Communicating Censure: The Relevance of Conditions of Imprisonment at Sentencing and During the Administration of the Sentence	4
Characterising and Changing Charitable Purposes: Theories of Organisational Purpose	3
Directly Discriminatory Algorithms	3
Judicial Review of the Improper Policy Implementation of Treaties	3
Natural Rights, Constituent Power, and the Stain of Constitutionalism	3
The Unfree Commons: Freedom of Marine Scientific Research and the Status of Genetic Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction	3
BeckyBatagol, KateSeear, HeliAskola and JamieWalvisch (eds), The Feminist Legislation Project: Rewriting Laws for Gender‐Based Justice, London, Routledge, 2024, 392 pp, hb, £145.00	3
The Change in Judicial Practice in Cases Concerning Civil Disobedience Protests and its Constitutional Significance	3
Assessing States’ Obligations under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Post‐Brexit	3
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Coercive Human Rights and the Forgotten History of the Council of Europe's Report on Decriminalisation	3
Employment Status and Human Rights: An Emerging Approach	2
Zalewski and the Future of Irish Public Law	2
TatianaDancy, Artificial Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 176 pp, hb £29.99	2
The Defence of Public Necessity	2
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Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment and the Supreme Court: Why the Legal Detail Matters in R (Finch) v Surrey County C	2
Distinguishing Between Direct and Indirect Discrimination	2
Cormac S.Mac Amhlaigh, New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xi + 256pp, hb £70.00	2
Jacqueline Kinghan, Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021, 209 pp, (hb), £65.00.	2
Regulatory Agencies and the Inclusion Trilemma	2
ElizabethAgnew, Cyberbullying and Sexting: Regulatory Challenges in the Digital Age, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 197 pp, hb £59.50	2
CatherineMitchell, Vanishing Contract Law: Common Law in the Age of Contracts, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 259 pp, hb, £85.00	2
Does Digital Status Unlawfully Penalise EU Citizens Accessing the UK's Private Rented Sector?	2
Knowing receipt: continuing trusts and conscionability Byers v Saudi National Bank	2
The Impact of a Pre‐Existing Defect on Liability for Property Damage: Taylor v Jones	2
Non‐Traditional Families and the Tenacity of Motherhood: Re C (Surrogacy: Consent) and Re Z (Surrogacy: Step‐Parent Adoption)	2
The Sins of the Fathers: Targeted Sanctions against Family Members of Primary Targets	2
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OrBrook, Non‐Competition Interests in EU Antitrust Law: An Empirical Study of Article 101 TFEU, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 400 pp, hb £120.00	2
Performative Environmental Law	2
A New Definition of ‘Treasure’ under the Treasure Act 1996: Watershed Reform or Missed Opportunity?	2
Xenophobic Discrimination	1
A Pyrrhic Victory for Unjust Enrichment in Singapore? Esben Finance Ltd v Wong Hou‐Lianq Neil	1
Intersex Interventions as Human Rights Violations: The European Court of Human Rights Sets Out Guiding Principles in M v France	1
MarijaJovanovic, State Responsibility for ‘Modern Slavery’ in Human Rights Law: A Right Not to Be Trafficked, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 240 pp, hb, £90.00	1
Eric R. Claeys, Natural Property Rights, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 350pp, hb, £100	1
Has the UK Supreme Court Become More Restrained in Public Law Cases?	1
What Judges Need to Know: The Anti‐Factual Challenge and Judicial Review	1
At Long Last: The Recognition of Intersectional Discrimination at the ECtHR in FM v Russia	1
Gambling Control in a Cost‐of‐Living Crisis: An Analysis of the White Paper High Stakes: Gambling Reform for the Digital Age (2023)	1
PoornaMysoor, Copyright and Personal Property, Oxford, OUP, 2025, 252 pp, hb £100.00	1
Criteria of Validity	1
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A Tale of Two Cases and a Story Yet Untold: Access to Justice and Legal Advice under the Civil Limb of Article 6 ECHR	1
Modern Slavery and the Commercial Activity Exception to Diplomatic Immunity From Civil Jurisdiction: The UK Supreme Court's Decision in Basfar v Wong	1
Rethinking Reasonableness in Rape Prosecution: Lessons Learned in the Search for ‘End to End’ Justice in England and Wales	1
Zainab BatulNaqvi, Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law; A Critical Feminist Analysis, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023, 239 pp, hb £85.00	1
The Travels of Treason	1
Gendered Capital and Litigants in EU Equality Case‐Law	1
Rafael N.Fasel and Sean C.Butler, Animal Rights Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 240 pp, pb £24.99	1
MatthewFlindersandChrisMonaghan(eds), Questions of Accountability: Prerogatives, Power and Politics, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 344 pp, hb, £81.00	1
Discrimination in Abortion Law and the Message the Law is Sending: R (Crowter) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care	1
Human Rights, Public Law, and Administrative Burden: In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review	1
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Folúkẹ́Adébísí, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023, 204 pp, hb £85.99, pb £26.99	1
Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK) Ltd v Attorney General: the Contemporary Scope of the Statutory Cy‐près Doctrine	1
AlysiaBlackham, Reforming Age Discrimination Law: Beyond Individual Enforcement, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, hb, 400 pp (also available as e‐book), £80.00	1
FedericoPicinali, Justice In‐Between: A Study of Intermediate Criminal Verdicts, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 278 pp, hb £80.00	1
A Privileged and Conventional Relationship: Legal Professional Privilege and the Law Officers’ Convention	1
RogerCotterrell, Jurisprudence and Socio‐Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields, London, Routledge, 2024, 252pp, pb £41.99	1
William A. Robson and the Making of English Administrative Law	1
The Authority of Constituent Power	1
StinePiilgaardPorner Nielsen and OleHammerslev (eds), Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights: Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, x + 226, pb	1
Animals and Nature as Rights Holders in the European Union	1
Is the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 Sufficient to Promote the Uptake of Paperless Trading Systems?	1
KateLeader, Litigants in Person in the Civil Justice System, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2024, 179 pp, hb £85.00JessicaMant, Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System, Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishi	1
Reasons, Mistakes, and Excuses	0
Anomalies in Tort Law: A Cause for Concern?	0
The Rule of Law and Full‐Bodied Promulgation	0
A New Self‐Defence Framework for Domestic Abuse Survivors Who Use Violent Resistance in Response	0
Ordoliberalism: What We Know and What We Think We Know	0
Making Law Possible	0
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Accidents, Crises, and Events in the Supreme Court: Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust	0
The Second‐class Citizen in Legal Theory	0
Institutional Choice in the Internal Market	0
ColinKing and JenniferHendry, Civil Recovery of Criminal Property, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 240 pp, hb £90.00	0
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: Mackie Motors v RCI and Baird Textiles v Marks and Spencer	0
HeatherDouglas, KateFitz‐Gibbon, LeighGoodmark and SandraWalklate (eds), The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives, Oxford: OUP, 2023, 344 pp, hb £59.00	0
Allan C. Hutchinson , Rethinking Legitimacy: Courts, Constitutions and Politics, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2025, 192 pp, hb, £90.00	0
CharlotteWoodhead, Caring for Cultural Heritage: An Integrated Approach to Legal and Ethical Initiatives in the United Kingdom, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pb, £34.99	0
Promises in Equity and at Law: Proprietary Estoppel after Guest v Guest	0
Public (Trust) Rights in Open Space: Day v Shropshire Council	0
Between rigid respect for international law and judicial deference: Front Polisario I and Front Polisario II	0
Extending the Reach of the ‘ Etridge  Protocol’ to So‐called ‘Hybrid’ Scenarios:  Waller‐Edwards  v	0
Cart before the Horse? BSH Hausgeräte v Electrolux and Exclusive Jurisdiction over Patent Validity	0
AbdiAidid and BenjaminAlarie, The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2023, 218 pp, hb £31.00	0
Human Trafficking: Iconic Victims, Folk Devils and the Nationality and Borders Act 2022	0
R (on the application of W80) v Director General of the Independent Office of Police Conduct: Landmark Ruling or Business as Usual?	0
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Recognising Capabilities: The Importance of Recognition for Human Flourishing	0
Cautious scrutiny: The Federal Climate Change Act case in the German Constitutional Court	0
Unpicking Torts: Elements, Conditions of Actionability and Standing Rules	0
Reconciling Contract Law's Objective and Subjective Standards	0
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New Reproductive Technologies and Genetic Relatedness	0
Managing Allegations Concerning Black and Asian Police Officers, Cultural Competence and Reflective Practice under the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020	0
Legal Parenthood, Novel Reproductive Practices, and the Disruption of Reproductive Biosex	0
LeahTrueblood, Referendums as Representative Democracy, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024, 168 pp, hb £76.50	0
Matthew C.Canfield, Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance, Stanford University Press, 2022, 280 pp, hb US/CAN $105.00, pb US/CAN $26.00	0
DeFi Common Sense: Crypto‐backed Lending in Janesh s/o Rajkumar v Unknown Person (‘CHEFPIERRE’)	0
Corrigendum to ‘Constitutional Directives: Morally‐Committed Political Constitutionalism’	0
Economic Imaginaries and Environmental Regulation	0
Equity before ‘Equity’	0
Universal Jurisdiction: Law out of Context	0
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The Aims and Functions of Criminal Law	0
The Challenge of ‘Factual Hard Cases’ for Guilty Plea Regimes	0
Will Listing Rule Reform Deliver Strong Public Markets for the UK?	0
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LindaMulcahy and AnnaTsalapatanis, Digital Justice: Engineering Disadvantage?, Palgrave Macmillan Socio‐Legal Series, 2025, 95 pp, hb, £34.99	0
Chilling and Warming Effects on the Production of Legal Scholarship	0
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Plainly Wrong	0
Marie Tidball, Disabling Criminal Justice: The Governance of Autistic Adult Defendants in the English Criminal Justice System, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2024, 296 pp, hb, £85.00	0
Rationalising Mid‐Century Choice of Law: Legal Technique and its Limits in the ‘Dark Science’ of Conflicts	0
Hauptpersonalrat der Lehrerinnen: Article 88 GDPR and the Interplay between EU and Member State Employee Data Protection Rules	0
The International Extension of Denial of Justice	0
Legal Protection Against Destitution in the UK: the Case for a Right to a Subsistence Minimum	0
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Same‐Sex Unions in Hong Kong and the Misuse of Comparative Law: Sham Tsz Kit v Secretary for Justice	0
The Costs of Contractual Certainty: RTI v MUR Shipping	0
The Global Minimum Tax and the Future of International Taxation	0

KieranMcEvoy, LouiseMallinder and AnnaBryson, Lawyers in Conflict and Transition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 300 pp, hb, £85.00.	0
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Debtholder Stewardship	0
VeraPavlou, Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Law and the Construction of Vulnerability, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021, 166pp, hb £76.50	0
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Administrative Law as a Source of Rights	0
C v D: A Missed Opportunity to Clarify the Distinction Between Jurisdiction and Admissibility	0
The Connection‐Friction Axis in Devolved Health Policy and Law‐Making in the UK: A Case Study of Organ Donation	0
Ideological Constitutionalism	0
THE MODERN LAW REVIEW	0
Prisoner Voting in the United Kingdom: An Empirical Study of a Contested Prisoner Right	0
THE MODERN LAW REVIEW	0
A Legal Framework for Using Smart Contracts in Consumer Contracts: Machines as Servants, Not Masters	0
Priority Setting as the Blind Spot of Administrative Law Enforcement: A Theoretical, Conceptual, and Empirical Study of Competition Authorities in Europe	0
The Evolution of Birth Registration in England and Wales and its Place in Contemporary Law and Society	0
Ways of Explaining Law	0
RobertStevens, The Laws of Restitution, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 496pp, hb £90.00	0
The View from the Top: Visual Intrusion as Nuisance in Fearn v Tate Gallery	0
Conor Gearty	0
Challenging Parole Decisions in England and Wales: Reconsideration and Set Aside	0
What's Choice Got to Do With It? Addressing the Pitfalls of Using Choice‐Architecture Discourse Within Poverty Law	0
JamesThornton, Criminal Justice in Austerity: Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 192 pp, hb £85.00	0
SuzanneLenonandDanielMonk(eds), Inheritance Matters: Kinship, Property, Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 326 pp, hb, £90.00	0
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CristyClarke and JohnPage, The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice, Edinburgh: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities, 2022, 225 pp, hb	0
The Enduring Allure of Neoliberalism: Individualising Responsibility for Housing Costs in the English Private Rental Sector	0
JuliaDuffy, Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, xxi+286 pp, hb £95.00	0
HannaSchebesta and KaiPurnhagen, EU Food Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 432 pp, hb, £110.00	0
PaolaZichi, Feminist Governance and International Law: A Critical Legal History from Mandate Palestine, Abingdon: Routledge, 2025, 253 pp, hb, £108.75	0
Historiography and Constitutional Adjudication	0
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and Non‐Traditional Families	0
KathrynMcNeilly and BenWarwick (eds), The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2022, 240 pp, hb, £85.00	0
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LouiseArimatsu and ChristineChinkin, Gendered Peace Through International Law, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2024, 312 pp, hb £65.00	0
Imprisoned at Work: The Impact of Employee Monitoring on Physical Privacy and Individual Liberty	0
Melvin A.Eisenberg, Legal Reasoning, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 117 pp, pb, £22.99	0
Squaring the Circle? Regional Airport Expansion, Climate Change and the Planning Regime	0
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AI‐Involved Inventions and Patentability: Emotional Perception AI v Comptroller‐General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks	0
A Not Too Collaborative Constitution? Collaboration as Constitutional Value Versus Model	0
Institutionalising Interpersonal Ideas in Law	0
Skeleton Keys to Hospital Doors: Adolescent Adults who Refuse Life‐Sustaining Medical Treatment	0
HenriettaZeffert, Home and International Law: Dispossession, Displacement and Resistance in Everyday Life, Oxford, Routledge, 2024, 234 pp, hb £135, pb £42.99, eb £34.39	0
Consent in Contracts of Employment	0
A Post‐Neoliberal European Order? Public Purpose and Private Accumulation in Green Industrial Policy	0
Reasonableness in Capacity Law	0
The World Bank's Business Ready Project: The Labor Topic, ILO Standards and the Role and Impact of Labour Regulation	0
The Omissions Doctrine after Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police	0
The Law at an Intersection: A Meeting of Attribution, Criminal Law, and the Constructive Trust	0
Mirosław MichałSadowski, Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past, Abingdon, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2024, 304 pp, hb, £135.00	0
The Citizen as Other: The Case from Within for Cosmopolitan State Duties and Freedom to Migrate	0
Back to School: Matthew Kramer's Freedom of Expression as Self‐Restraint	0
The UK GDPR, the Immigration Exception and Brexit: Interrogating Open Rights Group v Secretary of State for the Home Department and its Aftermath	0
Joseph Raz as a Political Philosopher	0
The New Responsive Constitutionalism	0
Hidden Delegations: The Assignment of Contractual Rights and Consumer Debt	0
Mobilising the Market: An Empirical Analysis of Crowdfunding for Judicial Review Litigation	0
Judicial Review: Substance and Procedure	0
Deceptive Sex: Rethinking Consent from the Gender Margins	0
Reframing the English Foreign Act of State Doctrine	0
RíánDerrig, The New Haven School: American International Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025, 240 pp, pb, £100.00	0
Food Waste as a Property Problem	0
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Undermining loyalty to legality? An empirical analysis of perceptions of ‘lockdown’ law and guidance during COVID‐19	0
Knowing Receipt, Equitable Proprietary Rights, and Duties of Due Administration	0
Anxieties about International Law: Law Debenture v Ukraine	0
Countering Terrorism in the Family Courts: A Dangerous Development	0
Rights, Common Good, and the Separation of Powers	0
Shazam v Only Fools and Horses: A Critique of the Classification of Literary or Dramatic Characters as Independent Copyright Works	0
ImmiTallgren(ed), Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces?Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 560pp, hb £140.00	0
SamiaBano (ed), The Sharia Inquiry, Religious Practice and Muslim Family Law in Britain, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, 142 pp, hb, £45.99	0
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THE MODERN LAW REVIEW	0
‘Palm Tree Justice’: The Inherent Jurisdiction in Adult Welfare Cases	0
Redefining Compensation under International Law: the Methodology of the International Court of Justice in DRC v Uganda	0
Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland	0
MihneaTănăsescu, Understanding the Rights of Nature: A Critical Introduction, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022, 165 pp, pb, €40.00.	0
Children, Families and Social Security: Eleanor Rathbone's Welfare Legacy	0
Machine Learning and the Re‐Enchantment of the Administrative State	0
NickPiška and HayleyGibson (eds) , Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell, Coventry, Counterpress, 2024, 242 pp, pb £18.00	0
Police Use of Retrospective Facial Recognition Technology: A Step Change in Surveillance Capability Necessitating an Evolution of the Human Rights Law Framework	0
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E Christodoulidis, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 350 pp, pb £34.99	0
JohnMurphy, The Province and Politics of the Economic Torts, Hart Studies in Private Law, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, 320 pp, hb £76.50	0
Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic	0
Closing the Floodgates on Privacy Class Actions: Lloyd v Google LLC	0
Expertise, Public Health and the European Convention on Human Rights: Vavřička v Czech Republic	0
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‘If I Would Stay Alive, I Would Be Their Voice’: On the Legitimacy of International People's Tribunals	0
Increasing the Powers of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to Strip Individuals of their British Citizenship: R (on the application of Begum) v SSHD	0
Criminalising ‘Conversion Therapy’	0
Selective Corporate Restructuring Strategy	0
The Continuity of a Legal System	0