Monthly Archives: June, 2025
Franzki and Sánchez-Alfonso, ‘From Business and Human Rights to entangled accumulation: Making sense of violence along global value chains’
ABSTRACT ‘Business and Human Rights’ (BHR) has congealed as the predominant framework to conceive and address violence in the context of transnational production networks. This article presents an analysis of the assumptions regarding the nature of violence, its underlying economic causes and potential remedies that underpin contemporary BHR regulations. Drawing from literature on primitive accumulation […]
Nicholas Sinanis, ‘The Principle of Punishment in Classical English Law’
ABSTRACT Much of the nineteenth century is well-known to have been a period in which fundamental principles of English private law first came to be subjected to scientific treatment. Such was the significance of this period that it was assigned the epithet ‘classical’. Among the principles to have first been subjected to such treatment were […]
Joshua Fairfield, ‘Property as the Law of Virtual Things’
ABSTRACT Property law in the twentieth century moved from the law of things to the law of rights in things. This was a process of fragmentation: Under Hohfeldian property, we conceive of property as a bundle of sticks, and those sticks can be moved to different holders; the right to possess can be separated from […]
Joshua Fairfield, ‘Making Virtual Things’
ABSTRACT People value virtual things – such as NFTs – because such assets trigger and satisfy deep-seated narratives of property and ownership. The cause of the recent series of failures to regulate virtual assets, and the resulting crashes, has been a failure to take seriously the ways people perceive and use the assets. Current legal […]
Agu, Onyeabor, Nnaji and Eddie, ‘Changing the Narratives in Claims for Water Pollution Damage in Nigeria: From Use of Common Law Tort to Legislative Provisions’
ABSTRACT Water is essential for every facet of human life, but it is scarce, unevenly distributed and once used it is returned to the aquatic environment as an effluent. A wide range of human activities have impacted the water body causing deleterious health problems, personal injury, death, creating economic losses, and damage to the environment. […]
Shoemaker and Tierney, ‘Trading Acres’
ABSTRACT Farms are places where people live their lives, sustain their families, and produce food and fiber for the wider community. And now, farms are assets swept up into global financial channels-converting before our eyes from repositories of the best of our agrarian ideals into paper playthings for the very rich. This asset-class-ification of farmland […]
Andreas Peters, ‘Tokenizing Academic IP: A Reflexive Governance Framework for Universities under Institutional Risk and Market Complexity’
ABSTRACT We develop a reflexive governance framework for university intellectual property tokenization based on optimal control theory. Our model determines optimal tokenization levels under dynamic risk and regulatory constraints. The duallayer architecture integrates strategic oversight with operational execution. Drawing from real-world cases and analogous sectors, we demonstrate the framework’s robustness and policy relevance. The model […]
Mateusz Grochowski, ‘The Knowledge Gap in Contract Law’
ABSTRACT The paper addresses a largely overlooked issue in contract law: its epistemic dimension – namely, how knowledge about the market is produced and utilized as a basis for creating contractual rules. Any regulatory activity requires such an epistemic foundation. To establish an effective regulatory framework, one must possess a deep understanding of the regulated […]
Margaret Hall, ‘Relational Autonomy, Vulnerability Theory, Older Adults and the Law: Making It Real’
ABSTRACT The ‘making it real’ theme of this collection concerns the ways in which theories or conceptualisations of vulnerability and autonomy are and/or can be ‘made real’ through legal structures and practice. This introductory essay discusses autonomy and vulnerability as words/ideas with multiple meanings within legal doctrines and legal discourse. These meanings include the traditional […]
Margaret Hall, ‘The Categories of Nuisance Are Not Closed: Developing a Canadian Law of Nuisance’
ABSTRACT A nuisance is an unreasonable interference with a plaintiff’s use and enjoyment of land in a way that is consistent with the nature of their interest in it. In Thomas and Saik’uz First Nation v Rio Tinto Alcan Inc the British Columbia Court of Appeal determined that Aboriginal title and certain site-specific Aboriginal rights […]