Monthly Archives: April, 2026
Alexander Hatzikalimnios, ‘Privacy in the age of data breaches – the “social media ban” in Australia’
ABSTRACT Privacy, in the age of rampant availability of online data, forms a crucial component of contemporary societal values. It is undeniable that there is more information available than ever for bad actors to acquire. With the introduction of the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 (‘Minimum Age Amendment’) in December 2025 […]
Amy Gajda, ‘Becoming private after public allegations: a right to be forgotten for #MeToo accusers in the United States’
ABSTRACT In 2018, an otherwise unknown woman alleged that a United States Supreme Court nominee had assaulted her while they were in high school; the claim propelled the woman into headlines and made her a public figure, both culturally and legally. This article argues that such a ‘public figure’ distinction can be undone, that headline-making […]
Hilary So, ‘Bad faith for the good – legitimate purposes underlying a trade mark application: SkyKick UK Ltd v Sky Ltd [2024] UKSC 36′
INTRODUCTION The UK Supreme Court has recently clarified the principle of bad faith in UK trade mark law in the case of SkyKick UK Ltd v Sky Ltd. This commentary examines the UK Supreme Court’s approach and provides a brief analysis of its implications on UK trade mark applications made for defensive purposes … Hilary […]
Susan Chesler, ‘Leveraging AI-Assisted Contract Drafting for Social Good’
ABSTRACT This article focuses on how contract drafters can – and should – use AI tools to assist them in drafting contracts that not only achieve the parties’ goals but can also be used for social good. While contracts are generally entered into by two discrete parties and private law has not traditionally been viewed […]
Satish Kumar Allani, ‘Medical Device Defence – Closing the Vulnerability Gap in Hospital Environments’
ABSTRACT Medical device cybersecurity has no shortage of frameworks, standards, or regulatory guidance. What it lacks is something far simpler: working accountability for what happens to a vulnerable device after it is deployed in a clinical environment. This paper is written from four years of direct experience as an Infrastructure Lead in hospital systems. The […]
‘Corporate Governance through a Queer Perspective’
Darren Rosenblum, ‘Queers, Closets, and Corporate Governance’, 80 Business Lawyer 413 (2025). Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the board level and beyond have been a major topic in corporate governance for the last decade or two. Those efforts have mainly focused on gender and racial diversity, but initiatives (now struck down) in California […]
‘Consumer class action regime would be a major shift in the litigation landscape’
The government is exploring a new opt-out class action regime for consumer law claims in England and Wales. This would be a major shift in the litigation landscape, as the first ‘true’ class action for claims of this type. It has kicked off a Law Commission review to assess whether enforcement of consumer law could […]
Emily Remus, ‘Credit and Coverture in the Age of American Mass Consumption’
ABSTRACT This article considers how married women’s legal status under coverture shaped retail credit practices in the twentieth-century United States, as a mass consumer economy began to take shape. It focuses particularly on the law of necessaries, which made husbands liable for the ‘necessary’ purchases of their wives. Rooted in English common law, this doctrine […]
Russell Opland, ‘Consumer Protection Law in New Zealand: A Means of Redress for Privacy Harms?’
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the growing dissonance between New Zealand’s digital economy and its frameworks for consumer redress. It identifies a significant regulatory ‘void’ within the Privacy Act 2020, arguing that the Act’s conciliatory enforcement pathway and high remedial ‘harm threshold’ – requiring ‘significant humiliation’ or ‘loss of dignity’ – create an insurmountable barrier for […]
Pawlowski and Brown, ‘A review of the factors determining discretionary relief from forfeiture under the Forfeiture Act 1982’
ABSTRACT The article considers the common law rule of forfeiture as it applies to cases of unlawful killing, including manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility, causing death by careless driving, suicide pacts and assisted suicide. Examines relevant factors from the emerging case law on the exercise of the court’s discretionary relief, under s 2(2) of the […]