Monthly Archives: June, 2026
Helen Rodway, ‘A human rights framing of cohabitation reform’
ABSTRACT Despite the exponential rise in the number of couples cohabiting, across Europe, cohabitants are unable to access comprehensive legal protections. To strengthen calls for reform, this paper advocates for the adoption of a human rights framing and traces its potential development. It begins with an analysis of the current discourse and offers an explanation […]
Fahad Shahbaz, ‘The Integration of Human Rights within Corporate Law’
ABSTRACT It has been observed over the past decade or so that there has been a heightened interest and development towards human rights and its violations within the corporate sector globally and domestically at the state level. At some level the impact of corporations on human rights is underestimated, it can affect the people associated […]
‘Can a Trust Be a “Person”? Lessons from the New Zealand Supreme Court for Offshore Trust Practitioners’
On 13 May 2026, the Supreme Court of New Zealand granted leave to appeal in RH & JY Trust v WorkSafe New Zealand, and considered whether a trust and/or the trustees of a trust acting collectively constitutes a ‘person’ for statutory purposes. Although the case arises under New Zealand’s Health and Safety at Work Act […]
Anthony Sangiuliano, ‘Justice Brown’s Private Law Egalitarianism’
ABSTRACT This article contributes to a counter-narrative about the jurisprudence of Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown by examining how some of his private law judgments advance egalitarian values and social justice. While Justice Brown’s constitutional equality decisions have attracted sustained criticism for allegedly undermining substantive equality under section 15 of the Canadian Charter […]
Lysiane Tendil, ‘Reshaping the European Patent Judicial Architecture since Brexit and the Entry into Force of the Unified Patent Court (2020-2026): Hybridisation of Common Law and Civil Law’
ABSTRACT Between 2020 and 2026, the European patent system experienced two concurrent structural disruptions: the United Kingdom’s effective withdrawal from the European Union (31 January 2020, end of the transition period on 31 December 2020) and the entry into force, on 1 June 2023, of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) together with the European patent […]
Jaafar Noor, ‘The Fourth Fictitious Commodity: Data Brokers, the Consumer Category, and the Commodification of Personhood in American Privacy Law’
ABSTRACT This paper argues that American privacy law’s reliance on the legal category ‘consumer’ is not a regulatory gap but the operative legal mechanism by which lived experience is constituted as a fictitious commodity. Drawing on Karl Polanyi’s analysis of fictitious commodities in The Great Transformation, the paper theorizes personhood as the fourth fictitious commodity […]
Marsden and Meale, ‘Round-up of UK trade mark disputes in 2025’
ABSTRACT This article reviews seven notable decisions of the English courts from 2025 (and an early entry from 2026). Rather than providing a traditional review of the facts, law and application of the law to the facts in each instance, the article seeks to draw out from each case a key point of law or […]
Olivia Grice, ‘From Clicks to Claims: Redefining Products Liability in the Amazon Era’
INTRODUCTION As Americans scroll through their TikTok and Instagram feeds looking for the next Amazon ‘dupe’, a pressing question awaits: If this product causes an injury, who is responsible? The most logical answer is the person who made the product or the party who is responsible for the defect that caused the injury. What if […]
Daniel Paisant Jr, ‘The Applicability of Comparative Fault in Contract-Based Actions: A Louisiana Circuit Split’
INTRODUCTION The law in Louisiana is based upon a strong civil law tradition, which is a deeply rooted, historical viewpoint about the law, the law’s interaction with society, and the proper organization and operation of a system of law. A supreme value in Louisiana’s civil law system is certainty. Certainty and constancy of the law […]
Alain Levasseur, ‘Consideration, Detrimental Reliance, Promissory Estoppel – or the 1984 Common Law Rodents in the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825’
INTRODUCTION The dates of March 1825 to March 2025 marked 200 years in the existence of the Louisiana Civil Code and its implementation in Louisiana, the only mixed jurisdiction in a nation otherwise under the control of the common law tradition. The celebration of the Bicentennial Anniversary of the Civil Code of 1825 took place […]