Departures This book, at its core, is a renouncement of a belief system: doctrinal legal approaches to ‘law and torture’ research and practice. At the same time, it is
articulation of new belief in disbelief: critique and the disciples of that disparate tradition. [...]
Over the past several decades, capital markets have become increasingly globalised, with major international financial centres such as the US, the UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore
engaging in fierce competition to attract listings from foreign companies. There has been a longstanding debate about the benefits and risks of cross-border listings [...]
Alongside, and fuelled by, rapid advances in artificial intelligence, recent years have witnessed the rise of technologies that appear to cross what was once considered the
final frontier: the datafication of the human mind. Emotion technology and neurotechnology, collectively referred to as Mind Datafying Technologies (MDTs) in my book [...]
It is a sure bet that almost every study ever written on EU law has, at some point, referenced Eric Stein’s aphorism that the Court of Justice of the EU has been able to
fashion a constitutional, federal-type framework of EU law “tucked away in the fairyland Duchy of Luxembourg…blessed…with benign neglect.” This view that [...]
Jon-Adrian (JJ) Velazquez has recently sued New York City and its police for $100 million stemming from his wrongful murder conviction. Velazquez is best known for his role
in the Oscar nominated film Sing Sing depicting how he and other prisoners had formed a theatre group in the maximum security prison where he was imprisoned for 23 [...]
For much of the past decade, corporations occupied a very visible place in public life. They spoke after Charlottesville and January 6, opposed the withdrawal from the Paris
Agreement, intervened in immigration and voting debates, and redesigned internal policies—from reproductive healthcare to gun sales—in response to political change. [...]
When people imagine a courtroom, they tend to picture a judge in robes, wooden benches, towering shelves of paper files and a sense of solemn formality. But that world is already
dissolving. Across the globe, justice systems are quietly undergoing one of the most profound transformations in their history — a shift from paper, people and [...]
In the summer of 2020, corporate America found its voice on race. Across every sector, from finance to retail to tech, corporations and their executives issued public statements
proclaiming solidarity with Black communities and pledging to confront racial inequality. [...]
How has Europe’s century-spanning history of colonialism shaped the development of the European Union (EU) legal order? The book Colonialism and the EU Legal Order edited
by Hanna Eklund explore this question across 16 chapters and analyses how colonialism has had an impact on the drafting and application of EU law, on the methods [...]
Music forms the soundtrack that accompanies and brightens our daily lives. It is one of the very few endeavours that unite us all. Its intrinsic value is undeniable. However,
this often does not translate into economic value. In the streaming era, instantaneous music accessibility is the norm. [...]
