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Constitutionalizing the Autonomy and Academic Freedom of the Universities in Bangladesh (2021)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, M. J. A., & Sejan, S. S. (2021). Constitutionalizing the Autonomy and Academic Freedom of the Universities in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Law, 19(1), 33-58

Autonomous universities and their academic freedom did not get expression recognition in the Constitution of Bangladesh. While the Constitution broadly recognizes the citizens’ freedom of thought, conscience, and speech and, also that of the Press, o... Read More about Constitutionalizing the Autonomy and Academic Freedom of the Universities in Bangladesh.

Exploring the impact of body-worn video on the everyday behaviours of police officers (2021)
Journal Article
Harrison, K., L’Hoiry, X., & Santorso, S. (2022). Exploring the impact of body-worn video on the everyday behaviours of police officers. Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 95(2), 363-377. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X211000834

The use of body-worn video in Police Forces in England and Wales is not new. On the whole, evaluations have been positive, although, there is little evidence regarding how beneficial the cameras can be in terms of how they impact on the everyday beha... Read More about Exploring the impact of body-worn video on the everyday behaviours of police officers.

Covid-19: Implications for Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Africa (2021)
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Lateef, M. A., & Akinsulore, A. (2021). Covid-19: Implications for Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Africa. Beijing law review, 12(12), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.4236/blr.2021.121008

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has undoubtedly brought a lot of disruptions into the world order-lives, livelihoods, national, and international economies and imposed what is now permeating as the "new normal" in all aspects of human activi... Read More about Covid-19: Implications for Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Africa.

Company Group Liability and Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction: The Considerable Post-Brexit Obstacles to the UK as a Major Forum for Competition Law Damages Actions (2021)
Journal Article
Stirling, G. (2021). Company Group Liability and Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction: The Considerable Post-Brexit Obstacles to the UK as a Major Forum for Competition Law Damages Actions. Global Competition Litigation Review, 14(1), 27-35

Whereas the UK – and England in particular – has proved a popular forum for bringing damages actions in respect of breaches of EU competition law, this article considers how this situation is likely to be effected by the UK’s imminent departure from... Read More about Company Group Liability and Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction: The Considerable Post-Brexit Obstacles to the UK as a Major Forum for Competition Law Damages Actions.

From the polling booths to the courtrooms : challenges of strict application of time frame in judicial contestation of election disputes in Nigeria (2021)
Journal Article
Etti, M. A., & Lateef, M. A. (2021). From the polling booths to the courtrooms : challenges of strict application of time frame in judicial contestation of election disputes in Nigeria. Comparative Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Quarterly, V(I), 73-98

After her longest military interregnum spanning almost two decades since 1984, Nigeria returned to a democratic system of government in May 1999. By May 2019, five presidential and other national and sub-national elections were held in the country. V... Read More about From the polling booths to the courtrooms : challenges of strict application of time frame in judicial contestation of election disputes in Nigeria.

Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Onyoin, M., & Bovis, C. (2021). Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective. The International journal of public sector management, 34(1), 51-70. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPSM-01-2020-0026

Purpose: This paper explains the evident disproportionality in the levels of adoption of the modality of public–private partnerships (PPPs) in Uganda by tracing the peculiar preconditions and enablers of the model's relative high adoption in the elec... Read More about Policy and institutional enablers of public–private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda: a multi-level and path dependence perspective.

The elusive test for unfair excessive pricing under EU law: revisiting United Brands in the light of Competition and Markets Authority v Flynn Pharma Ltd (2020)
Journal Article
Stirling, G. (2020). The elusive test for unfair excessive pricing under EU law: revisiting United Brands in the light of Competition and Markets Authority v Flynn Pharma Ltd. European Competition Journal, 16(2-3), 368-386. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2020.1771007

The European Commission has historically proved relatively reluctant to intervene in the areaof excessive pricing. This is probably partly because the test outlined in United Brands v Commission remainsunclearin variousrespects.In a recent d... Read More about The elusive test for unfair excessive pricing under EU law: revisiting United Brands in the light of Competition and Markets Authority v Flynn Pharma Ltd.

Research-based clinical legal education: a contradiction in terms or a win-win? Lessons from a UK pilot study. (2019)
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Whitehouse, L. (in press). Research-based clinical legal education: a contradiction in terms or a win-win? Lessons from a UK pilot study. International journal of clinical legal education, 27(1), 137-170. https://doi.org/10.19164/ijcle.v27i1.853

This article provides an account of a project (funded by the Ferens Education Trust) which is designed to enhance clinical legal education (CLE) provision within my own institution, develop networks with local stakeholders, promote civic engagement,... Read More about Research-based clinical legal education: a contradiction in terms or a win-win? Lessons from a UK pilot study..

The uneasy case for parsimony in (law and) economics: conceptual, empirical and normative arguments (2019)
Journal Article
Cserne, P. (2019). The uneasy case for parsimony in (law and) economics: conceptual, empirical and normative arguments. Global jurist, 19(3), https://doi.org/10.1515/gj-2019-0001

Taking Guido Calabresi’s discussion of preferences and value judgements in The Future of Law and Economics as a starting point, this paper analyses some conceptual difficulties, epistemic benefits and normative uses of parsimonious economic analyses... Read More about The uneasy case for parsimony in (law and) economics: conceptual, empirical and normative arguments.

Changing prevalence and treatment of depression among older people over two decades (2019)
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Arthur, A., Savva, G. M., Barnes, L. E., Borjian-Boroojeny, A., Dening, T., Jagger, C., Matthews, F. E., Robinson, L., Brayne, C., The Cognitive Function, Green, E., Gao, L., Barnes, R., Baldwin, C., Comas-Herrera, A., Forster, G., Harrison, S., Ince, P. G., McKeith, I. G., Parry, B., …Woods, B. (2020). Changing prevalence and treatment of depression among older people over two decades. British Journal of Psychiatry, 216(1), 49-54. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2019.193

Background Depression is a leading cause of disability, with older people particularly susceptible to poor outcomes.Aims To investigate whether the prevalence of depression and antidepressant use have changed across two decades in older people.Method... Read More about Changing prevalence and treatment of depression among older people over two decades.

Amendment Power in Bangladesh: Arguments for the Revival of Constitutional Referendum (2019)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, M. J. A., & Saha, N. K. (2019). Amendment Power in Bangladesh: Arguments for the Revival of Constitutional Referendum. Indian Journal of Constitutional Law, 9, 38-61

The recent constitutional trend in divided societies and relatively
unstable democracies has seen an increased use of perpetuity
clauses as a tool to foster constitutional stability. Propriety and
effectiveness of making certain part or parts of c... Read More about Amendment Power in Bangladesh: Arguments for the Revival of Constitutional Referendum.

Mortgage possession at a crossroads: which way should we turn? (2019)
Journal Article
Whitehouse, L. (2019). Mortgage possession at a crossroads: which way should we turn?. Conveyancer and property lawyer, 83(3), 227-249

The unification of the regulation of first and second mortgages in 2016 has raised the question as to the appropriate route for possession claims: is it the Administration of Justice Act 1970 or the Consumer Credit Act 1974? In making the case for th... Read More about Mortgage possession at a crossroads: which way should we turn?.

Conceptualising ‘style’ in legal scholarship: the curious case of Zweigert’s 'style doctrine' (2019)
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Cserne, P. (2019). Conceptualising ‘style’ in legal scholarship: the curious case of Zweigert’s 'style doctrine'. International journal of law in context, 15(3), 297-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744552319000296

This paper focuses on the German legal scholar Konrad Zweigert’s (1911–96) deceptively simple and notoriously vague use of the term “style” in comparative legal scholarship.

Improving procedural fairness in housing possession cases (2019)
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Whitehouse, L., Bright, S., & Dhami, M. (2019). Improving procedural fairness in housing possession cases. Civil justice quarterly, 38(3), 351-375

This article offers an insight into the context and practice of housing possession hearings in which a social landlord seeks a possession order against a tenant who is in rent arrears. Drawing on the findings of the authors’ empirical research supple... Read More about Improving procedural fairness in housing possession cases.

Tacticians, stewards and professionals: The politics of publishing select committee legal advice (2019)
Journal Article
Yong, B., Davies, G., & Leston-Bandeira, C. (in press). Tacticians, stewards and professionals: The politics of publishing select committee legal advice. Journal of Law and Society, Forthcoming, https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12153

At Westminster, there are increasing pressures on select committees to publish in-house legal advice. We suggest that examining the process of deciding to publish gives us useful insights into the provision, reception and use of legal advice, and the... Read More about Tacticians, stewards and professionals: The politics of publishing select committee legal advice.

German Constitutional Law in the UK Supreme Court (2019)
Journal Article
Künnecke, M. (2019). German Constitutional Law in the UK Supreme Court. Liverpool Law Review, 40(1), 31–47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-019-09221-3

The outgoing tide of EU law will be Britain’s most significant constitutional change in recent times. In an era of uncertainties, the UK Supreme Court proved to be a guardian of the constitutional role of Parliament. The case of Miller, decided in th... Read More about German Constitutional Law in the UK Supreme Court.

The Evidential Value of National Regulatory Infringement Decisions for the Purposes of Private Damages Actions: Trying to Establish what Really Does “Follow-on” (2019)
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Stirling, G. (2019). The Evidential Value of National Regulatory Infringement Decisions for the Purposes of Private Damages Actions: Trying to Establish what Really Does “Follow-on”. Global Competition Litigation Review, 12(4), 168-178

This article considers issues around the evidential value of final infringement decisions of national regulators and review courts for the purposes of follow-on damages actions, particularly in the context of Article 9(1) of the EU’s Antitrust Damage... Read More about The Evidential Value of National Regulatory Infringement Decisions for the Purposes of Private Damages Actions: Trying to Establish what Really Does “Follow-on”.

“I am talking about it because I want to stop it”: child sexual abuse and sexual violence against women in British South Asian communities (2018)
Journal Article
Gill, A. K., & Harrison, K. (2019). “I am talking about it because I want to stop it”: child sexual abuse and sexual violence against women in British South Asian communities. The British journal of criminology, 59(3), 511–529. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azy059

This paper explores the role of socio-cultural factors in violence against women and girls, focusing on child sexual abuse (CSA) and sexual violence (SV) in British South Asian communities. Using examples from thirteen in-depth interviews with surviv... Read More about “I am talking about it because I want to stop it”: child sexual abuse and sexual violence against women in British South Asian communities.