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Despite the current trade war, this year the regional economy of Asia and Oceania is likely to contribute for over half of the global economic grow. With China leading the way, as one of the largest economies in the world, there are indications that legal systems in the regions are preparing for a new wave of legal reforms. Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania report on these legal reforms in two distinctive ways.
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Though religious affiliation is declining in Western Europe, religion is a powerful and dangerous force in the modern world. In 1997 Samuel Huntington, in ‘The Clash of Civilisations’, argued that religious conflict was inevitable. In my book I oppose this thesis. I trace the growth of movements stemming from the European Enlightenment that present challenges […]
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The concepts of ecology and political economy did not exist in the seventeenth century. Political economy would not formally develop until the eighteenth century when writers like Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo came to theorize the set of ideas that we now recognize as belonging to “the economy.” Likewise, ecology wasn’t identified as […]
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The Beatles tell us that: ‘All You Need Is Love.’ Is that right? The inquiry into love has very deep roots in the Judeo–Christian tradition. Indeed, the divergent answers to this inquiry mark the transition from Judeo to Christian. My book on Law, Love and Freedom returns to those roots to trace the twists and […]
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Do me a favour: stop reading. Turn away from the screen, lean over, stretch across or get up and take a book (any book) in your hands. Don’t open it. In fact, close your eyes for a moment and feel it: what do you read? Because you are reading: the shape, the size, its feel, […]
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People fight about all sorts of things online. Most of you probably don’t spend a lot of time reading comments on YouTube, but you probably know they’re not particularly intellectually stimulating places. I’ve been interested in why this is the case, why there’s so much drama online, for the past ten years. My most recent book ‘Religious Talk Online’ looks at how Christians, […]
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We all remember the fragile, lifeless little body of Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian boy, washed up on a Turkish beach in September 2015. I had just given birth to my first child, Stefan, and I only could imagine how inconsolable Alan’s family must have been at that time. Whilst many Syrian refugees were trying […]
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Mental illness has a huge impact on individuals, families and communities. Since the brain’s ability to be changed in positive ways is greatest early in life, ill-health of the mother during pregnancy can have a lasting impact on her offspring’s brain development and mental illness risk. The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis […]
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