The laws regulating the conduct and organisation of ballots for industrial action, developed by consecutive Conservative regimes in the Trade Union Act 1984, the Employment

Act 1988 and the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 – provisions now contained in the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULR(C)A [...]

Student Law Review Autumn 2012 highlighted the joint Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission consultation on proposals for enhanced consumer protection. This year the government’s

plan to publish a draft Bill establishing a ‘simple set of consumer rights’ was included in the Queen’s Speech1 along with a range of measures designed to promote [...]

Much has been said in the academic literature of the advantages of game-based learning (GBL) in higher education, with some limited work addressing GBL in the context of law

schools. This paper addresses specifically the “gamification” of the first year undergraduate module of contract law and argues, following an empirical study [...]

The law regulating the availability of abortion is problematic both legally and morally. It is dogmatic in its requirements of women and doctors and ignorant of would-be fathers.

Practically, its usage is liberal - with s1(1)(a) Abortion Act 1967 treated as a ‘catch all’ ground - it allows abortion on demand. [...]

Drawing from scholarship on play, ritual, and performance, I propose that Czech bluegrass thrives – as does my fieldwork – in a state of in-betweenness, in a territory

that is between work, play, here and there, self and other. Being comfortable with this kind of in-between state is important for fieldwork, and for music-making [...]

Armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia (FY) took place between 1990-1995 and partially as late as 1999. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY,

Tribunal) has been established by the United Nations Security Council’s (UN) resolution in May of 1993. [...]

Tato studie argumentuje, že První československá republika vyvinula soudržný režim „militantní demokracie“ avant la lettre, který zahrnoval právní, správní

a soudní pojistky na ochranu demokraticko-republikánského zřízení před extremistickými hrozbami. [...]

Where autocratization through classical coups belongs to the twentieth century, democracies are today primarily demolished through “autocratic legalism”, a governing technique

destroying democracies deliberately and incrementally within the law itself. As a result, it often goes unnoticed by hiding in judicial robes. [...]