Monthly Archives: September, 2024
‘Call For Papers: Trusts & Estates Collaborative Research Network (CRN) of Law and Society Association’
Trusts & Estates Collaborative Research Network – Law and Society Association Annual Meeting – Chicago, Illinois May 22-25, 2025. Call for Participation – Deadline September 29, 2024. The Trusts & Estates Collaborative Research Network invites proposals for (i) individual papers to be organized into panels; (ii) fully-formed panel proposals; and (iii) proposals for other sessions […]
Solaiman and Malik, ‘Regulating algorithmic care in the European Union: evolving doctor–patient models through the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI-Act) and the liability directives’
ABSTRACT This article argues that the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare, particularly under the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI-Act), poses significant implications for the doctor–patient relationship. While historically paternalistic, Western medicine now emphasises patient autonomy within a consumeristic paradigm, aided by technological advancements. However, hospitals worldwide are adopting AI more rapidly than […]
Bacharis and Osmola, ‘Bridging the gap(s): The importance of private law theory in the EU context’
ABSTRACT This article advocates for applying private law theories originating in the common law to EU private law. It argues that those theories can enhance the coherence and workability of EU private law, which currently lacks a comprehensive doctrinal structure. They can also help EU private law overcome the prevailing but flawed functionalist approach that […]
Tristin Green, ‘Collective Complaint’
ABSTRACT This Essay puts the popular idea of collective action together with the law of complaint to tell a cautionary tale. Calls for collective action in modern progressive circles tend to promote a vision of collective as group-based activity, of people physically, intellectually, and emotionally working together. As captivating as this vision is, it misses […]
Jeremy Sheff, ‘Dividing Trademark Use’
ABSTRACT The trademark law of the United States places special emphasis on whether and how a trademark is used in commerce. But over the long history of the Lanham Act – including some less-than-careful drafting by Congress and some aggressive acts of interpretation by the federal courts – the concept of ‘use’ has become complicated […]
‘19th Regional PIL Conference on 20 September 2024 at the University of East Sarajevo, B&H’
The 19th Regional Private International Law Conference will take place on 20 September 2024 at the Faculty of Law, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the support of the Deutche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ). The theme of the Conference is Application of General Legal Principles in Contemporary Private International Law. The […]
Haley Todd Newsome, ‘Advancing Tort Law for Climate Displacement Compensation’
ABSTRACT Climate change has already displaced people from their homes and is predicted to displace millions more in the coming decades. Involuntary climate-induced migration causes loss and damage before, during, and after the displacement. In this Note, I argue that the climate displaced should seek tort compensation from fossil fuel companies for this loss and […]
Lorraine Williams and others, ‘Why did England change its law on deceased organ donation in 2019? The dynamic interplay between evidence and values’
ABSTRACT In the three years since the law on adult deceased organ donation consent in England changed to include an opt-out system, there has been no discernible change to donation rates. The lack of a positive impact on donation rates was predicted by many of those who took part in debates before and during the […]
Alexander Waghorn, ‘Remoteness in the Supreme Court’
Armstead v Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Co Ltd [2024] UKSC 6; [2024] 2 W.L.R. 632 concerned facts that might have been lifted from an undergraduate examination. It has important lessons for anyone interested in the fundamentals of negligence. Ms Armstead suffered the misfortune of being involved in two traffic collisions, neither of which was […]
Jordan English, ‘Employment contracts, conditions, and the relationship of employment’
INTRODUCTION This article has two purposes. The first is to answer a simple question: where an employee refuses to accept a wrongful dismissal by their employer and decides to keep the contract open, why are they unable to sue in debt for their salary or wages, instead being limited to a claim for damages? This […]