Recent years have seen the enactment of new legislation governing corporate liability for death caused by gross negligence through business activities. The Corporate Manslaughter
and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 has been heralded as an important development in corporate criminal liability. [...]
The paper will use the 2023 issue of Viscose journal “Trans + Fashion” as a case study for how the field of fashion can provide a space for examining historical and contemporary
accounts of queer and trans solidarity. Using Marika Cifor's and Heather Love’s framing of queer and trans archives as relational, interactive entities, the paper [...]
This chapter examines arguments about the transition from slavery in the period c.1790 and 1833 in relation to three main themes. First, the discourses of political economy
combined an economic critique of mercantilism and a moral argument. It was the conjunction of these elements which energised much of the early abolitionist movement. [...]
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex (LGBTI) people commonly experience a range of health and social inequalities. Such inequalities are unfair, preventable and fundamentally
incompatible with public health and human rights principles. This article draws on the European Commission’s Health4LGBTI pilot to highlight some of the inequalities [...]
Electronic monitoring (EM) of individuals has been used by the criminal justice system for the past thirty years, and in the UK, use is on the increase. Its use has been justified
as an alternative to prison to reduce recidivism and allowing early release of prisoners, however, the evidence base for this remains mixed. [...]
The paper concerns the moral status of persons for the purposes of rights-holding and duty-bearing. Developing from Gewirth’s argument to the Principle of Generic Consistency
(PGC) and Beyleveld et al.’s Principle of Precautionary Reasoning, I argue in favour of a capacity-based assessment of the task competencies required for choice-rights [...]
The judicial interpretation of the Associated Gas Re-injection Act (Nigeria) with regard to the legality of tax deductions, which are based on the payment of gas flaring fees
or penalties, illustrates some of the inconsistencies between the legality of tax action under the literal terms of the statute and the purpose of the statute to [...]
This paper sets out to reconsider the Hohfeldian framework of rights in celebration of the centenary anniversary of their original publication. It begins by conceptualizing
each of the Hohfeldian incidents or rights before outlining the molecular or complex structure of rights to “things”. [...]
This article examines the response of Roma activists to the Italian Roma crisis in 2007 and 2008. The Roma community has become targets of discriminatory policies in Italy,
such as forced evictions and ethnic profiling by the authorities, which construct Roma as distinct from the Italian nation. [...]