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Papers

(The median citation count of Legal Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
What's law got to do with it? Is consumer law the solution to problems faced by student tenants?	9
Intimate image abuse offences: stakeholder perspectives of the effectiveness of the new offences in Hong Kong	9
Constitutional equality and executive action – a comparative perspective to the comparator problem	7
Access to justice and the role of parliamentarians: what happens to those who fall through the justice gap?	6
What does Covid-19 teach us about English contract law?	6
The imperfect legitimacy of judicial umpires in European multilevel democracies	5
Causation or correlation: the chimera in section 11 of the Insurance Act 2015	5
The tort of malicious prosecution of civil proceedings: a critique and a proposal	4
Data, disclosure and duties: balancing privacy and safeguarding in the context of UK university student sexual misconduct complaints	4
LST volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Apologies as ‘shame management’: the politics of remorse in the aftermath of historical institutional abuse	4
Vicarious liability in the UK Supreme Court and High Court of Australia	3
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Medical negligence and disclosure of alternative treatments	3
Local, democratic community justice in the Mental Health Act 1983	3
Compulsory licensing: an effective tool for securing access to Covid-19 vaccines for developing states?	3
Justice for the blackest malefactors? Determinate prison sentences, early release, and the ECHR	3
A right to live without stigma? Examining negative stereotyping, negative messages, and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights	3
A limited case for the closed material procedure: natural justice, open justice and the clear advantage variation	3
Non-Competition Interests in EU Antitrust Law: An Empirical Study of Article 101 TFEU by Or Brook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 548 pp (£120 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-108-83760-6	3
Enforcing charitable trusts: a study on the English necessary interest rule	3
Virtual coercion and the vulnerable consumer: ‘loot boxes’ as aggressive commercial practices	2
Professional identity, legitimacy and managerialism at the Crown Prosecution Service	2
Between nation and empire: how the state matters in global health	2
Exclusive jurisdiction clauses in international trust deeds	2

Legal sex status: the attitudes of non-binary people towards reform in England and Wales	2
Bringing the idea of the environment to law: a comparative study of early environmental law textbooks	2
Justice in Private Law by Peter Jaffey. Hart Publishing, 2023, 178 pp (price and format) ISBN 978 0 192 88502 9.	2
Vaccination, conscientious objection and human rights	2
LST volume 44 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Education, Law and Diversity: Schooling for One and All? – ERRATUM	1
Security interests and knowing receipt	1
Conversations with friends: ‘friends of the Court’ interventions of the state parties to the European Convention on Human Rights	1
The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes	1
LST volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Statutory interpretation after Brexit: implications from a case study of VAT	1
Patents, healthcare and engaged shareholders: a pathway to encourage socially responsible patent use?	1
The incoherent role of the child's identity in the construction and allocation of legal parenthood	1
Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants by Maurice E Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi. USA: Harper Business, 2020, 402 pp ($32.50 paperback). ISBN:	1
Permitting dual class shares in the UK premium listing regime – a path to enhance rather than compromise investor protection	1
Disputing death: brain death in the courts	1
Legal Pluralism in European Contract Law by Vanessa Mak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 288 pp (£80.00 hardback). ISBN: 978-0-19-885448-7.	1
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Transforming the legal profession: an interview study of change managers in law	1
Revisiting property transfer theory: English law and Chinese law compared	1
Delegated legislation in the pandemic: further limits of a constitutional bargain revealed	1
LST volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
The relational impact of social rights judgments: a trust-based analysis	1
Love in the time of Covid-19: a case-study of the complex laws governing weddings	1
Exclusive jurisdiction clauses in international trust deeds – ERRATUM	1
Orchestrating finance with Material Adverse Changes?	1
The prospects for pluralism in contract theory	1
LST volume 43 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Developing VAT treaties: international tax cooperation in times of global recovery	1
Imprisonment for breach of injunctions: what is happening in the civil courts?	0
Self-employed surfers, universal credit and the minimally decent life	0
A theory of children's decisional privacy	0
Where the wild things are: the challenges and opportunities of the unregulated legal services landscape in family law	0
The ‘human element’ in the social space of the courtroom: framing and shaping the deliberative process in mental capacity law	0
Online tribunal judgments and the limits of open justice	0
Incapacitous patients, assisted reproductive technology, and the importance of informed consent	0
The UK Pay Transparency Regulations: apparent transparency without accountability?	0
The Humanity of Private Law – Part II: Evaluation by Nicholas J McBride. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 200pp (£70 hardback). ISBN: 978-1-50-991199-8.	0
Practical obstacles and structural legal constraints in the adoption of ‘defensive’ policies: comparing the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and the US Proposal for a Border Carbon Adjustment	0
Analysing legal responses to coerced debt	0
The place of deemed fulfilment of condition	0
Scholars of Contract Law edited by James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, xix + 416 pp (£85 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-50-993846-9	0
The prohibition of forced or compulsory labour and conditional welfare under the United Kingdom's Universal Credit Scheme	0
Into reverse: redesigning veil piercing	0
Law and scale: lessons from Northern Ireland and Brexit	0
Ireland's abstract review and the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill case	0
A macro-level investigation of transatlantic controlling shareholder's fiduciary duty	0
Legal dispositionism and artificially-intelligent attributions	0
Regulating high-cost short-term credit in the UK: is there scope for ‘libertarian paternalism’ based provisions?	0
LST volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0

Legal research and the public good: the current landscape	0
Exploring the emotional burdens and impact of medical negligence litigation on the plaintiff and medical practitioner: insights from Ireland	0
European human rights law and the legality of sex offence prosecutions based on deception as to gender history	0
LST volume 43 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Fixing the misalignment of the concession of corporate legal personality	0
Statutory interpretation and the administrative state: refocusing the purposivist/intentionalist debate	0
Comparing family property disputes in English and Singapore law: ‘context is everything’	0
Securing therapeutic justice through mediation: the challenge of medical treatment disputes	0
Parliamentary sovereignty and the protocol pincer	0
Re-examining judicial review of delegated legislation	0
(Legal) assistance in employment matters to low-paid EU migrant workers in the East of England	0
Investigating the English public's awareness of the Bern Convention and their education on environmental issues and laws	0
Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature by Peter Goodrich. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, 119 pp (£15.95) ISBN: 978-1-78990-601-1.	0
Automated facial recognition and policing: a Bridge too far?	0
Planning, discretion and the legacy of onshore wind	0
The Collaborative Constitution by Aileen Kavanagh. Cambridge University Press, 2024, xvi + 492pp (£120.00 hardback) ISBN: 978 1 108 49326 0	0
Les vulnérables : evaluating the vulnerability criterion in Article 14 cases by the European Court of Human Rights	0
Contesting the property paradigm amid ‘radical’ constitutional change: Living Rent and the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016	0
Constitutional functions and institutional responsibility: a functional analysis of the UK constitution	0
‘Climate Change isn't Optional’: Climate Change in the Core Law Curriculum – CORRIGENDUM	0
The law of fixtures and chattels: recalibration, rationalisation and reform	0
Opening Pandora's box? Capturing the edifice of ‘hopefulness’ in the private rented sector	0
Law, politics, and pragmatism in the European Union and the United Kingdom - Alarums and Excursions: Improvising Politics on the European Stage by Luuk van Middelaar. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agend	0
Schmitt, Dicey, and the power and limits of referendums in the United Kingdom	0
Executive compensation: investor preferences during say-on-pay votes and the role of proxy voting advisers	0
LST volume 43 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Solicitors’ rights of audience, competence and regulation: a responsibility rights approach	0
100 years of actual occupation as an overriding interest in English & Welsh land law: challenging the rationale and making the radical case for abolition	0
LST volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
LST volume 41 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Does the dual-class share structure help stock markets attract issuers? Empirical lessons from global financial centres	0
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The Attorney-General, politics and logistics – a fork in the road?	0
Abandoning individual enforcement? Interrogating the enforcement of age discrimination law	0
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Mental health and wellbeing at work in the UK: current legal approaches	0
The importance of ‘acting yourself into new ways of thinking’: preliminary findings on the impact of embedding workplace experiences in law degrees to positively impact student skills growth, degree r	0
LST volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
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Involuntariness in negligence actions	0
Economic abuse, the bank, and the devil in the detail: One Savings Bank plc v Catherine Waller-Edwards [2024] EWCA Civ 302	0
Pharmaceutical patent law and policy in Africa: a survey of selected SADC member states	0
‘Mediators mediating themselves’: tensions within the family mediator profession	0
Contesting the property paradigm amid ‘radical’ constitutional change: Living Rent and the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 – CORRIGENDUM	0
Revisiting the punitiveness of deportation	0
‘Robinson Crusoe on a desert island’? Judicial education in Ireland, 1995–2019	0
Delegated Legislation in the Pandemic: Further Limits of a Constitutional Bargain Revealed – CORRIGENDUM	0
Falling behind the PACE: lie detectors, policing and lack of foreseeability – an FOI-based study	0
‘State threats’, security, and democracy: the National Security Act 2023	0
Policing, citizenship and the civil courts: how increased settlement of civil claims has impacted police accountability	0
Maternal infliction of harm via prenatal alcohol exposure – a public wrong?	0
‘Fat-cats’ versus ‘church mice’: unveiling legal aid practice from behind the shadows of private legal practice in England and Wales	0
Is ‘conversion therapy’ tortious?	0
Food, dignity, and the European Court of Human Rights	0
Damages and the ‘essence’ of false imprisonment	0
The wrong vaccine: custody time limits and loss of liberty during Covid-19	0
Making Commercial Law Through Practice 1830–1970 by Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 483pp (£85 hardback) ISBN: 978-1-107-19889-0	0
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When is an administrator an ‘officer’ of the company?	0
Sexual diversity and the Nationality and Borders Act 2022	0
‘Climate Change isn't Optional’: Climate Change in the Core Law Curriculum	0
Intention and Quistclose trusts in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal: a disguised departure from the orthodoxy?	0
Exclusive jurisdiction clauses in international trust deeds – ERRATUM	0
Reparation for non-recent institutional child sexual abuse in England and Wales and Australia: a matter for private law or the state?	0
The Extrajudicial Voice	0
Discrimination in digital immigration status	0
The legacy of Airey v Ireland: family law distortion of civil legal aid	0
LST volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Extra-territoriality and the UK Insolvency Act 1986	0
Embedding alternative dispute resolution in the civil justice system: a taxonomy for ADR referrals and a digital pathway to increase the uptake of ADR	0
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Force majeure in the Supreme Court: MUR Shipping BV v RTI Ltd [2024] UKSC 18	0
Deportation and human rights: the right to respect for private life in MK (Albania) v Minister for Justice and Equality	0
The modern rule of releases	0
Recognising foreign solvent proceedings under the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency: the Singaporean approach in Ascentra Holdings, Inc v SPGK Pte Ltd [2023] 2 SLR 421	0
The vicarious liability of sports governing bodies and competition organisers	0
Editorial	0
Insurer's liability under concurrent causation: English law and Chinese law compared	0

Education, Law and Diversity: Schooling for One and All? by Neville Harris. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 616 pp (£90, hardback) ISBN: 978-1-50-990670-3	0
Vaccine damage schemes in the US and UK reappraised: making them fit for purpose in the light of Covid-19	0
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Injunctions, land and the cynical breach	0
The goals of EU competition law: a comprehensive empirical investigation	0
Low Paid EU Migrant Workers: the House, the Street, the Town by Catherine Barnard, Fiona Costello, and Sarah Fraser Butlin. Bristol University Press, 2024, 240pp (£27.99 paperback) ISBN 978 1 5292 295	0
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Conspiracy! Or, when bad things happen to good litigants in person	0
A call for clarity in contractual accessions to shareholder and partnership agreements	0
The interpretation of policies in administrative law: the significance of audience	0
The ‘code adjudicator’ model: the Pubs Code, statutory arbitration and the tied lease	0
The nature of property in cryptoassets	0
More paternalism in the regulation of consumer financial investments? Private sector duties and public goods analysis	0
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Missing in action? Mortgage enforcement under section 126 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974	0
Charities and politics: where did we go wrong?	0
The evolution and consequences of digital rights management in relation to online music streaming	0
Bridging the accountability gap of artificial intelligence – what can be learned from Roman law?	0
LST volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
‘Well, the burden never shifts, but it does’: celebrity, property offences and judicial innovation in Woolmington v DPP	0
A terrorist mindset: findings from an empirical enquiry into prosecutions, evidence, and mindset material	0
Regulatory discretion: structuring power in the era of regulatory capitalism	0
Trans (legal) parenthood and the gender of legal parenthood	0
LST volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Structuring prosecutorial power	0
R (AAA) v SSHD and the implications of customary international law for the UK	0
Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups	0
Discretion to exclude improperly obtained evidence in civil proceedings in England and Wales	0
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Comparative law outside the ivory tower: an interdisciplinary perspective	0
Taking market crime seriously	0
Reasonable accommodation for disabled university students: University of Bristol v Dr Robert Abrahart [2024] EWHC 299 (KB)	0
Civilising loss of control? The role of criminal justice gatekeepers	0
Corporate criminal liability under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023	0
Review of Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors: Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia by Sinead Ring, Kate Gleeson and Kim Stevenson. Routledge, 2022, 350pp (£104 hardb	0
Law, Judges and Visual Culture by Leslie J Moran. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, 260 pp (£120 hardback; £33.29 e book) ISBN: 978-1-13-861861-9	0
Informing a sociological jurisprudence of mutual trust and confidence	0
When is illegality a defence to a tort?	0
The Attorney General and contempt of court – some political and constitutional concerns	0
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Time for Parliament to act? The PACCAR decision of the UK Supreme Court	0