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  • 27 Feb 2023
    Kaitlin Sidorsky, Wendy J. Schiller

    Guns and Domestic Violence: Why Federal Laws Fail to Keep Women Safe

    Tausha Haight, her five children and her mother were all shot to death in January 2023 by her husband, whom she had filed for divorce from just weeks earlier, and who had been investigated for child abuse two years before that. Less than a month later, Linda Robinson and her son Sebastian were murdered by […]

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  • 23 Feb 2023
    Graeme Laurie

    “More easily recognised than described…”
    Struggles with the meanings and value of privacy in a moral community

    This blog is the third in a series of five posts that reflect on contributions made to the festschrift Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie, published by Cambridge University Press. In the previous blogs, I have looked back on the crucially important role of teaching in our field, and […]

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  • 21 Feb 2023
    Graeme Laurie

    The act of becoming – Law, liminality and legacy in an academic career

    What do we hope to become in a career or over multiple careers in a lifetime? What do we want to be known for? What mark do we aspire to make, however large or small? Who, if anyone, do we seek to inspire? In this blog, the second in a series of five posts responding […]

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  • 20 Feb 2023
    Wilfrid R. Prest

    A LONG DELAYED NEW EDITION

    I was 31 years old — or as it now seems, young —when my first book appeared in May 1972. Half a century later a second edition of The Inns of Court Under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590-1640, revised, corrected, and adorned with a striking new cover image, has just become the latest […]

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  • 16 Feb 2023
    Paul B. Stephan

    The World Crisis and International Law – The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future

          Russia’s invasion of Ukraine captivates our attention, while we fear that worse is coming. China threatens Taiwan, Iran almost certainly will become a nuclear power before long. The last omnibus funding bill passed by the U.S. Congress – maybe the last for some time, as the House since has flipped against the Biden Administration – left […]

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  • 9 Feb 2023
    Graeme Laurie

    The debate is endless, but it is far from pointless – Lessons in legacy from teaching medical jurisprudence

    This blog is the first in a series of five posts responding to the festschrift published in 2021 by my dear colleagues and friends Edward Dove and Niamh Nic Shuibhne and entitled Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie (CUP, 2021). I am incredibly humbled by this act of scholarly […]

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  • 8 Feb 2023
    Sungjoon Cho, Jürgen Kurtz

    The Economic Tao of ASEAN

    ASEAN in the Limelight The contemporary global vortex of geopolitics and geoeconomy throws one region into sharp relief: ASEAN.  Despite a double tribulation of the United States – China trade war and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economies of the ASEAN member states have demonstrated remarkable levels of resiliency. While Asia’s trade volume […]

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  • 7 Feb 2023
    Liana Georgieva Minkova

    Guilty or Not Guilty? Defining the Boundaries of Liability in International Criminal Law

    Ever since the establishment of the Nuremberg tribunal following the end of the Second World War, the trials against alleged perpetrators of mass atrocities have captured the imagination of the global public. This is not surprising – international trials concern ‘unimaginable’ crimes that ‘deeply shock the conscience of humanity’, including genocide, crimes against humanity and […]

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