Monthly Archives: December, 2024
Eden Sarid, ‘Queer Theory and Intellectual Property’
ABSTRACT Queer theory functions as a continuous catalyst for critical disruption, challenging established norms and institutions. When employed as a critical lens to analyse intellectual property law, it prompts a fundamental inquiry: What are the norms that shape IP? Why have they become the norm? How can we reveal them and their broader social, political, […]
Bix and Parisi, ‘Fairness in Contract Law: An Impossibility Theorem’
ABSTRACT Scholars have long debated whether contract law should prioritize maximizing efficiency and social welfare or, instead, prioritize justice, fairness and other deontological values. The debate is partly prescriptive (what should we try to do with contract law rules) and partly conceptual (how should we understand contract law). This chapter surveys central positions in this […]
Mant, Newman and Cooke, ‘Lived realities of legal aid: austerity, the pandemic and beyond’
ABSTRACT This paper examines the intersecting impacts of austerity policies and the Covid-19 pandemic on the legal aid sector in England and Wales, emphasising their combined implications for professional practices and identities. Legal aid lawyers play a crucial role in upholding social justice and supporting marginalised communities, yet decades of cost-saving measures, epitomised by the […]
‘Defamation Act 2013: A summary and overview 10 years on’
On 1 January 2014 the Defamation Act 2013 (‘the Act’) came into force. At the time, we published an article considering the individual provisions of the Act, and speculating about how the law of defamation had been changed. We first reviewed the practical impact of the Act in 2020, and now do so again, a […]
Laura Flannigan, ‘Narrating Disputes: litigation and its retellings in fifteenth-century England’
ABSTRACT Litigation was on the rise across late-medieval Europe, and historians have long argued that the result was widespread law-mindedness. Seeking a more individual perspective on these trends, this article looks outside of the formal legal records that have been the cornerstone of social and legal histories. It assesses two first-person narratives which describe life-long […]
Sydney Rose, ‘Individualized Ideological Enclosures: The Generative AI Crisis And How Consumers Can Reclaim Their Feeds’
… This paper explores how data collection and behavioral prediction impact consumers’ ecosystems and potential existing solutions for situations where the goals of the consumer diverge from those of the platform. In addition, this paper is intended to spur further scholarship into possible solutions to this narrow concern. After laying the foundation, this paper lays […]
Steele and Swaffer, ‘“The Compensation is Changing the Future”: A Reparative Approach to Redressing Human Rights Violations Experienced by People Living with Dementia in Long Term Care’
ABSTRACT This article presents findings of an empirical study of community perspectives on redressing human rights violations experienced by people with dementia in long term care institutions (LTC institutions). Research participants – including people with dementia – expressed strong preference for a redress approach providing recognition and validation of individuals’ experiences of harm, affirming humanity […]
Rockett, Fenwick and Jurcys, ‘Fashion 4.0 and emerging designers: leveraging data and AI to drive creativity, innovation and compliance in global supply chain regulation’
ABSTRACT This paper presents three interrelated arguments concerning the fashion industry and regulation. First, we propose that Bertola’s and Teunissen’s concept of Fashion 4.0 offers a powerful framework for understanding the organization of global fashion today. This model emphasizes the dynamic, decentralized and technology-driven character of the ‘smart factories’, ‘smart networks’ and ‘smart products’ that […]
Maya Steinitz, ‘Zombie Litigation: Claim Aggregation, Litigant Autonomy and Funders’ Intermeddling’
ABSTRACT The main debate surrounding litigation funding in recent years has focused on the question of disclosure of funding agreements. While the issue is important, predominantly because of its effects on the course and outcome of individual cases, far more important are bigger, interrelated questions which have systemic effects on the civil justice system, the […]
Call for Papers: Business and Tax Roundtable for Upcoming Professors, UCLA, 13-15 June 2025
This in-person Roundtable will feature commentary by invited senior scholars as well as an opportunity to meet fellow aspiring scholars while enjoying Los Angeles. We warmly invite scholars preparing for the academic job market to participate … (more)