Monthly Archives: April, 2026
Giles and Ang, ‘Are we all electives now? Not quite: analysing the core curriculum within undergraduate law degrees’
ABSTRACT Undergraduate legal education in England and Wales has recently seen a shift away from prescription, by the professional bodies, of the content of an undergraduate law degree. The lack of such regulatory requirements calls into question the shape, scale and scope of the core curriculum within law schools, which sits alongside an increasingly diverse […]
Paulo Baptista Caruso MacDonald, ‘Contextualising Hohfeld’s Analysis of Rights: Legal Relations and the Rule of Law’
ABSTRACT More than a century ago, WN Hohfeld offered the most influential analysis of rights to date. However, his classification has rarely been received without criticism. Many of the objections to his framework stem from the longstanding debate between interest and will theories of rights. In this paper, I present an interpretation of Hohfeld’s analysis […]
Christophe Gösken, ‘Intellectual Property and the Diffusion of Culture: Evidence from the Luxury Watch Industry’
ABSTRACT In 1996, Patek Philippe launched its now-iconic campaign declaring that ‘You never actually own a Patek Philippe. You merely look after it for the next generation’. Positioned against imagery of intergenerational transmission and the word ‘GENEVA’, the campaign framed the watch not merely as a luxury object, but as a vessel of tradition, quality, […]
Su and Teo, ‘Can AI Agents have Rights?’
ABSTRACT AI agents are rapidly moving from theoretical constructs to real-world deployments. This raises urgent questions about governance and, more specifically, rights. While rights for artificial agents have received some scholarly attention, the question of rights for AI agents understood through the paradigmatic shift introduced by generative AI remains underexamined. This article addresses that gap. […]
Harris Burton, ‘Salvation from the Purgatory Between Personhood and Property: Disinterring Evidence for Property Rights in Human Remains’
ABSTRACT This Note argues that next of kin have property rights in the remains of decedents, as opposed to a quasi-property right in their burial. Changing this distinction will allow courts to address wrongs committed against human remains through remedies traditionally available for harms to property, thereby incentivizing institutions, such as prisons, to exercise care […]
Laura Filliung, ‘Algorithmic challenges in online content moderation: exploring human rights and copyright issues and proposing data trusts as a policy solution’
ABSTRACT Copyright enforcement has become one of the most contested and consequential aspects of algorithmic content moderation. While online platforms increasingly deploy automated systems to identify and manage infringing material, these mechanisms often lack contextual nuance, over-prioritise corporate rightsholders and suppress lawful content such as transformative works and fair use. YouTube’s Content ID exemplifies how […]
Cato and Yahagi, ‘Discounting Offenders’ Private Benefits’
ABSTRACT There is an ongoing debate on whether offenders’ private benefits must be counted as part of social welfare. It has been argued on utilitarian grounds that their utility must be included, but it has also been argued on explicit or implicit deontological grounds that their utility should not be counted at all. In this […]
Mateusz Grochowski, ‘The Phantom Consumer in Louisiana Civil Law’
ABSTRACT The paper examines the conceptual structure and historical roots of consumer protection in Louisiana civil law, treating it as a particular instance of a mixed system emerging at the crossroads of European civil law traditions and US market-oriented policy. Although Louisiana lacks a comprehensive consumer protection system, its elements have emerged through what the […]
‘Trusts in Latin America and the circulation of legal ideas: Part One’
Latin American and most European jurisdictions are commonly regarded as civil law jurisdictions. Yet one notable difference between the two is that trust instruments were introduced in Latin America much earlier than in Europe. Panama (1925), Mexico (1926), El Salvador (1926), and Puerto Rico (1928) were pioneers of this development, followed by Venezuela (1956) and […]
Okoli and Emeasoba, ‘The role of English public policy in promoting the circulation of electronic trade documents’
ABSTRACT The Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (2017) enabled the use and transfer of electronic and digital trade documents across borders. This Model Law influenced the enactment of the 2023 Electronic Trade Documents Act (ETDA) in the United Kingdom, which is a pioneer in this regard. In implementing the Model Law, however, the UK […]