In recent years, few issues have been as socially and politically fraught and divisive as the question of whether transgender girls should be permitted to participate in girls’
sports. In the United States, the political left and right have staked out opposite though equally absolutist positions. [...]
The United Nations Climate Conference (COP 31) will convene in Antalya, Turkey. Muslim-majority countries have hosted two recent COPs in Sharm el-Sheikh and Dubai and are now
set to host in Antalya. That continuity reflects that the communities bearing the heaviest burden of climate change are disproportionately Muslim, disproportionately [...]
We live in an age of grand challenges, from climate change and the digitalisation of markets to rising inequality. Yet legal systems struggle to respond effectively, constrained
by entrenched disciplinary boundaries. Law and regulation, public and private law, and European Union (EU) law and national law often operate in separate silos, limiting [...]
When people hear about artificial intelligence in justice, they often imagine a dystopian future in which a “robot judge” decides cases, replaces lawyers, and turns justice
into a cold, automated process. That image is dramatic, but it is also misleading. [...]
A Non-International Armed Conflict (NIAC) is a limited manifestation of the broader concept of armed violence. The factual and legal criteria for determining when a situation
of armed violence reaches the of NIAC threshold remain complex and contested. The absence of a definition of NIAC in international law, coupled with the lack of any [...]
At the turn of the century, Charles Kingson, a respected academic, tax practitioner, and government official, observed that in the old days people sold you clothes face to
face in downtown department stores; you bought heavy records for your phonograph and watched shows at their appointed time on network television. [...]
As liberal democracies around the world are increasingly under pressure, facing the converging challenges of populism, technocracy, and widespread disaffection, the writings
of Hans Kelsen offer compelling resources for our exceptionally unsettling times. [...]
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 [...]
