To many law may be perceived as nothing more than a restrictive device. To the legal scholar, however, law may be perceived as an enabling device, even where it restricts.

Nonetheless, it would not be appropriate to maintain that every restrictive norm enables. [...]

This paper will explore the implications in relation to the possibility of making law students comprehend foreign legal terminology. The starting point of ouR analysis, our

hypothesis, will be that the law student is not necessarily equipped with foreign language skills. [...]

Since the late 1960s, the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process has gone through several distinct phases. In many Western jurisdictions, ADR has increasingly gained

public recognition as an ‘alternative’ to litigation. In contrast, non-court adjudication has historically been the primary method of settling disputes/conflicts [...]

This paper scrutinises whether it is possible to have Court-Connected Alternative Dispute Resolution, hereinafter ADR, to cover election petitions in Nigeria. An election petition

is a peculiar breed of adversarial matters litigated over in courts, which is exclusively created for the sole purpose of reaching a speedy resolution within the [...]

International commercial disputes require a significant and expeditious determination as enormous sums are approximately involved. Customarily, such disputes are settled through

litigation, which was the only door. However, in modern times, with the growth of other dispute resolution methods, parties to an international commercial agreement [...]

As a response to the divide in International Law between civil and political rights and social and economic rights, the United Nations in June 2008 adopted the Optional Protocol

to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights which for the first time allows for an international forum to determine breaches of social and [...]

Recent geographical interventions have begun to question the power relations among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, challenging assumptions that LGBT communities have

homogeneous needs or are not characterised by hierarchies of power. Such interventions have included examinations of LGBT scenes as sites of exclusion for trans people. [...]

We use a case study of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil and the Via Campesina network of which they are part to develop the concept of ‘vernacular rights cultures’.

Vernacular rights cultures calls attention to the way in which demands for the right to have rights call on particular cultures, histories and political contexts [...]

Drawing on research conducted over a 2-year period, which ran prior to, during, and directly after the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2019-2021, this paper considers the impact of

legal aid cuts for litigants in person (“LiPs”) in the family courts, and the extent to which the pandemic affected and exacerbated this impact. [...]

This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understanding and treatment of individuals with mental health concerns and mental

disabilities. Focusing on the binary nature of the Capacity paradigm under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, it seeks to argue in favour of a more nuanced understanding [...]