Monthly Archives: July, 2025
Ashton and Wilson, ‘Reinventing problem questions through authentic design: exploring the introduction of Legal Document Pack Exercises in contract law’
ABSTRACT The 2023 QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for Law provides that law degrees ‘should prepare graduates for a range of careers’ and that ‘providers should be committed to widening access and inclusive participation’. Against this backdrop, this paper explores the introduction of an authentic ‘Legal Document Pack Exercise’ (LDPE) in a first-year Contract Law module. […]
‘Placing Limits on Trust Asset Protection’
Adam Hofri-Winogradow and Mark Bennett, ‘Looking through Trusts’, Osgoode Hall Law Journal (forthcoming), available at SSRN (9 October 2024). The issue of whether trust beneficiaries should be treated differently from individuals who own their assets directly has been a central one in the trusts and estates world for centuries, and it shows no signs of […]
‘Did it make any legal difference if easements were wrongly described as restrictive covenants?’
Did it make any legal difference if easements were wrongly described as restrictive covenants? Easements and restrictive covenants are conceptually similar to each other. In each case a property owner gives a limited right affecting their property to a nearby landowner for the benefit of the latter’s property … (more) [Michael Lower, Hong Kong Land […]
Ludovic Phalippou, ‘Private Markets for the People? Or Just More People for Private Markets?’
ABSTRACT I examine the push to expand private equity access to retail investors, often described as ‘democratization’. I argue that this shift exposes individuals to high fees, opaque structures, and misleading performance metrics. Without strong governance and transparency, this is not democratization but exploitation. I highlight the risks embedded in current product design and call […]
Kate Fernandez, ‘Utilising game-based learning in first year undergraduate contract law’
ABSTRACT Much has been said in the academic literature of the advantages of game-based learning (GBL) in higher education, with some limited work addressing GBL in the context of law schools. This paper addresses specifically the ‘gamification’ of the first year undergraduate module of contract law and argues, following an empirical study of first year […]
Barnes, Chay, Dickinson, Mordi and Wheeler, ‘Contextualising the teaching of English contract law’
ABSTRACT Much has been said about decolonising the curriculum, although little change has been made. One of the stumbling blocks is not the desire or will to change – but the practicalities of redesigning teaching. This article provides a series of examples of how English contract law can be taught using a contextual approach in […]
Renata Grossi, ‘When emotion came to contract law class’
ABSTRACT The view that dominates in law is that emotions destroy objectivity and neutrality, are the enemy of truth and a threat to the rule of law. While law and emotion scholars, and the critical law movement more generally, have now been battering against this view for some time, students are regularly met at the […]
Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, ‘Climate Protection Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: The KlimaSeniorinnen Judgment’
INTRODCUTION On 9 April 2024, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) delivered its much-anticipated judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland. The case, brought by a Swiss association of elderly women and four individual applicants, alleged that Switzerland’s inadequate action on climate change violated their rights under […]
Goffe and Martos, ‘Drafting Trusts for Beneficiaries with Addiction Issues’
ABSTRACT Estate planners need to be aware of the prevalence and myriad manifestations of addiction to be able to address the issues it creates in a family’s estate planning documents. A well-drafted trust can go a long way toward helping a family and an addicted beneficiary through the stages of recovery, relapse, or the choice […]
Andrew Bell, ‘Protecting Negligence Claimants’ Decisions: An Argument of Doctrinal Coherence in Non-pecuniary Loss’
ABSTRACT Various heads of non-pecuniary loss recovery in negligence cast doubt on the explanatory capacity of the traditional twin categories of pain and suffering and loss of amenity. This includes, in particular, loss of congenial employment and loss of reproductive autonomy. The central arguments of this piece are that we can construct from these, based […]