In the legal profession horizontal segregation (women's division between areas or not) reproduce situations of vertical stratification, helping to explain the role of women

lawyers typically employed in group practices. This leads to a polarization between areas of net operating primarily female, underpaid and oriented to the solution [...]

This article considers compliance with competition law among a particular sub-set of UK companies. The research was principally motivated by the reform of UK competition law

in the late 1990's and the introduction of new investigatory and fining powers for the UK competition authorities, with potentially very serious consequences for [...]

There is a significant gap between what the evidence shows about the impact of control-based domestic abuse (coercive control) on children and how this harm is recognized in

law. Drawing on ongoing reform conversations in Scotland, this article demonstrates how law and policymakers can begin to address this disconnect. [...]

In December 2023, on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Katie Boyle delivered her inaugural lecture on Scotland’s social justice journey to

mark her appointment as Professor of International Human Rights Law and Social Justice at the University of Strathclyde. [...]

It’s well known that courts must decide disputes based on the law, which is presented by lawyers to the court as part of a client’s case. It’s therefore highly concerning

that fake law, invented by AI, is being used in legal disputes. Not only does this pose issues of legality and ethics, it also threatens to undermine faith and trust [...]

This article examines alternative approaches to conflict resolution by developing a theoretical framework that relates dispute resolution practice to philosophical assumptions

about authority and knowledge. By investigating the assumptions underpinning interest-based bargaining and mediation their link to direct democracy and challenge [...]

Der Klimawandel gehört zu den zentralen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart. Bei seiner Bekämpfung rückt zunehmend auch das Privatrecht in den Blick. Die Arbeit untersucht,

inwiefern das Privatrecht zum Klimaschutz beiträgt und beitragen kann. Ziel ist, die verstreuten klimaschützenden Regelungen des Privatrechts als eigenständiges [...]

There are many torts textbooks on the market, and each one serves its authors' particular pedagogical objectives as well as their sense of the needs of the students who will

use it. This textbook was designed with three principal objectives in mind: First, this book is intended to cover a complete first-year course in a way that is appropriately [...]

This open textbook is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations

and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights. [...]