Monthly Archives: January, 2026
Frances Hamilton, ‘The Formation, Progress and Legacy of the Committee on the Employment of Married Women in the 1920s’
ABSTRACT Marriage bars were re-established by many employers following the end of the First World War. The 1919 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act proved to be of no assistance as a restrictive interpretation meant that it did not prevent gender discrimination. Contemporaneous materials suggested that the re-imposition of marriage bars was meekly accepted by women. Other […]
Call for Papers: Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, 2-4 September 2026, University of East Anglia
The 2026 Society of Legal Scholars’ annual conference will be held at the University of East Anglia (UEA), from 2-4 September and will be an in-person event. There will be an opportunity to join the plenary talks and ECR session in a hybrid format … (more)
Nadia Napieraj, ‘Ensuring compliance with the UN guiding principles through contract: can AI help?’
ABSTRACT Every business has a social responsibility to respect human rights, upheld by the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the associated ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework. In response to this, human rights compliance clauses (‘HRCCs’) in international supply contracts are on the rise. In particular, they have been adopted by […]
Mukarrum Ahmed, ‘The Evolution of Business and Human Rights Litigation against Multinational Companies’
ABSTRACT This article will examine the evolution of business and human rights litigation against UK based multinational companies (MNCs) commenced by the victims of their alleged wrongdoing abroad in wake of the UK Supreme Court’s decisions in Vedanta v Lungowe and Okpabi v Shell. It will be argued that a methodologically pluralist private international law’s […]
Jie Ouyang, ‘Turning EU Consumer Law Against Itself? Taking Stock of the EU’s Sustainable Consumption Strategy’
ABSTRACT The escalating ecological impact of private consumption has generated growing momentum among policymakers to promote sustainable consumption. This article critically assesses the EU’s strategy for sustainable consumption within the broader political economy of the Union. Grounded in the information paradigm, the EU’s primary approach has been to empower ethical individual choice to drive market […]
Stefania Fusco, ‘The Enduring Value Of Copyright Harmonization’
ABSTRACT Since the beginning of the Berne Convention negotiations, numerous countries have sought to ensure copyright harmonization in addition to the protection of foreign authors. The objective of these efforts has been to guarantee that authors, independently of their national origin, receive protection from unauthorized copying in foreign jurisdictions, which was a common practice at […]
Bao, Dukes and Xiao, ‘Puffery as Occlusion: A Story of Rational Inattention’
ABSTRACT We ask whether non-persuasive puffery can affect purchase decisions. This question is motivated by legal strategies that are used by marketers accused of false advertising and rely on a presumption that consumers dismiss puffery as sales bluster. But if consumers dismiss puffery, then why is it such a staple of marketing communication? In contrast […]
Cheng-chi (Kirin) Chang, ‘Superintelligent AI and the Right to Be Forgotten’
ABSTRACT Legal scholars and policymakers assume the ‘right to be forgotten’ requires data controllers to erase personal information. This chapter demonstrates that assumption collapses for superintelligent AI. Neural networks store information as distributed parameters rather than discrete records, making selective deletion mathematically impossible. Machine unlearning fails because superintelligent systems reconstruct deleted data through inference. Post-Singularity […]
Vuletić and Dumancic, ‘Liability For Damages Caused By Autonomous Driving Vehicles From The EU Law Perspective’
ABSTRACT The rise of autonomous driving vehicles and artificial intelligence systems presents significant legal challenges in various regulatory fields. Among them is main subject of this paper: liability for damages caused by autonomous driving vehicles. Common regulatory approach of liability caused by vehicles is based on fault or negligence. The legal subjects responsible for causing […]
Moshood Abdussalam, ‘Rationalising “Full Compensation” As the Remedial Strategy for the Tort of Deceit’
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the theorisation of the tort of deceit through a remedial lens. It does so by analysing and justifying the peculiar (and rather pro-plaintiff) rules that shape the two causative criteria that form the backdrop for the award of compensatory damages for the tort of deceit. These are the benchmarks for […]