Monthly Archives: July, 2025
Whitney Taylor, ‘The unintended consequences of increased access to justice’
ABSTRACT This article engages in a theoretical exercise, tackling an intentionally provocative question: is there such a thing as too much access to justice? Conventional wisdom suggests that barriers to access to justice ought to be low. Countless reform efforts put in place throughout the world have sought to expand access to justice and strengthen […]
‘Death by Omnibus? The European Commission’s Proposal and the Fate of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive’
The European Union’s (EU) Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) was intended as a paradigm shift in mandating, harmonizing, and reinforcing corporate respect for human rights and the environment across the continent. Adopted in mid-2024 following fraught negotiations, the Directive – in its original form – was poised to enforce a standardized, mandatory framework for […]
Jordan English, ‘Rectification, Employment Contracts, and Collective Agreements’
INTRODUCTION One of the oddities of British labour law, especially when compared with its continental and common law cousins, is that collective agreements concluded as a result of the collective bargaining process between an employer and a trade union have no necessary legal effect whether vis-à-vis the employer and the union or vis-à-vis the employer […]
LHub’s Law and the Humanities Infrastructure Map – now live
This interactive map allows users to explore various collaborative research infrastructures related to Law and the Humanities across the UK. Use the filters on the left to refine your search and uncover new intersections across disciplines. The map is meant to be a tool that comprehensively shows the scope, spread, and interconnections of infrastructures shaping […]
‘Reforming the GDPR – Dilution or Progress?’
After a surge of new digital legislation over the past two years, the European Commission appears to have no intention of easing its pace in reshaping Europe’s regulatory landscape – whether for better or worse. Its current agenda includes not only the potential reopening of the AI Act, but also a reform of the GDPR […]
Serban and Tataru, ‘The Influence of General Data Protection Regulation on Patient Engagement’
ABSTRACT The new European General Data Protection Regulation – also known as GDPR – has raised the awareness among the private business entities regarding the protection of data subjects and the usage of personal data in their trade operations. In the present study, we aim at identifying and assessing the impact the new Regulation mainly […]
Eliza Mik, ‘Artificial Intention, Unintended Contracts’
ABSTRACT Every couple of years, in parallel with sensationalistic headlines about the imminent emergence of artificial general intelligence, legal scholarship recycles the theory that as computer programs cannot have mental states, contracts formed by means of such programs cannot be valid or enforceable. Such contracts are, in other words, ‘unintended’ due to the absence of […]
Steven Douglas Smith, ‘The Collapse of Consent’
ABSTRACT Perhaps no concept is as important in modern political-moral thinking as ‘consent’. The ‘consent of the governed’ is thought to be the necessary and prima facie sufficient condition of political authority. Consent is also deemed to be an or even the most important desideratum in a host of other fields and contexts – contracts, […]
Rebecca Stone, ‘A Democratic Conception of Consumer Contracts’
ABSTRACT I sketch and briefly evaluate two standard ways of conceptualizing the problem that is posed by consumer contracts and defend a third view, which is based on my democratic conception of contract. According to the first, the power asymmetry between sellers and consumers means that we should not view consumer contracts as genuine contracts […]
‘Not just Politics: Traditional Knowledge Disputes through a Comparative Lens’
Stephen R. Munzer, ‘A Framework for Managing Disputes over Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional Knowledge’, 29 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 31 (2024). The first thing I read by Stephen R Munzer was an article that he had done with Kal Raustiala, ‘The Uneasy Case for Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional Knowledge’, 27 Cardozo […]