Monthly Archives: February, 2026
Hatim Rahman, ‘The Invisible Cage: Workers’ Reactivity to Opaque Algorithmic Evaluations’
ABSTRACT Existing research has shown that people experience third-party evaluations as a form of control because they try to align their behavior with evaluations’ criteria to secure more favorable resources, recognition, and opportunities from external audiences. Much of this research has focused on evaluations with transparent criteria, but increasingly, algorithmic evaluation systems are not transparent. […]
Noah Walker-Crawford, ‘Save the Climate but Don’t Blame Us: Corporate Arguments in Climate Litigation’
ABSTRACT Fossil fuel companies no longer deny anthropogenic climate change in litigation, but they challenge the validity of climate science in establishing legal responsibility. Research on climate litigation, social movements, and legal mobilization has focused primarily on plaintiffs’ perspectives, showing how they use the judicial process as a site of knowledge production. This article shifts […]
Purshouse and Cave, ‘Fifty years of the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976: A spent statute’
INTRODUCTION In July of this year, 50 years will have passed since the enactment of the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976, the statute governing tort liability for prenatal injuries in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Golden anniversaries are often worth commemorating and, given that the Act was a response to the thalidomide disaster, this […]
Mateusz Grochowski, ‘Algorithmic Price Fairness’
ABSTRACT Algorithmic pricing has quietly become a defining feature of online consumer contracting. Using automated models fed by large-scale personal data, firms now set individualized prices by predicting each consumer’s willingness to pay. These practices are widely condemned as ‘unfair’ – yet fairness is invoked more often as a slogan than as a legal standard, […]
Elizabeth Rosenblatt, ‘Fanmarks’
ABSTRACT This book chapter argues that companies should not, as a matter of trademark policy, be able to challenge ‘fanmarks’ – marks that identify goods or services as referring to copyrighted works, rather than as originating from the sources of that work. In the fan context, for example, companies should not be able to challenge […]
Elizabeth Rosenblatt, ‘IP Law in the Shadow of Norms’
ABSTRACT Although much research regarding intellectual property law and its relationship with the norms of creative communities paints a rosy picture of norms both as governance mechanisms and motivational frameworks for creators and innovators, it also helps identify where norms falter and may inhibit progress, or where law is necessary to resolve disputes over what […]
Senior Lecturer in Law (Private Law – Equity, Trusts and Property), University College Cork School of Law
UCC wishes to appoint an academic to the role of Senior Lecturer in Law in the field of Private Law (including, Equity, Trusts and Property) to contribute to the development of the School’s research, programmes and engagement ambitions. The School is currently ranked 94th in the world (QS 2025 Subject Rankings). The postholder will be […]
Call for Abstracts: The Modern Corporation Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, 13 May 2026
Theme – Preserving the 21st century corporation and protecting the economy: perspectives and challenges. Please submit a 250 word abstract with innovative research ideas or research methods about any aspect of the theme of the conference in (a), (b) or (c) below: (a) the capacity and limitations of directors in preventing corporate insolvencies, (b) the […]
Gyurko and Macleod, ‘The unheard “scandal”: Covid-19 vaccine-injured people’s perceptions of the national redress scheme and trust in the government in the United Kingdom’
ABSTRACT This article examines 218 Covid-19 vaccine-injured people’s experiences of the process of seeking redress from the UK Government’s Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS). Moreover, it engages with the wider topic of how we can understand the government(s)’ role in dealing with an ‘emergency’ (the Covid-19 pandemic) and the consequent (global) health crisis. Vaccine-injured individuals […]
Hen and Morriss, ‘Grafting Civil Law Private Foundations onto the Common Law’
ABSTRACT This Article examines the puzzle of why over twenty common law jurisdictions have adopted the civil law private foundation, a phenomenon that traditional legal transplant theory cannot fully explain. We introduce and develop the concept of ‘legal grafting’ to describe this process: a practitioner-driven, selective importation of foreign legal features that are then attached […]