In 2010, Connecticut implemented an offence prohibiting minors from engaging in sexting. This legislation was part of a range of reforms across the United States aiming to
better tailor the criminal law’s response to youth sexting by distinguishing sexting from child abuse material. [...]
Japan saw a sharp increase in the number of non-Japanese residents and migrants during the period of its high economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s. This impacted on how the
justice system provides language assistance to non-Japanese speaking background parties in investigative interviews and courtroom proceedings. [...]
AbstractDespite having considerable historical presence – traceable from 19th-century Germany – customs unions (CUs) have long been an understudied phenomenon in international
law. This article aims to remedy this gap by critically reviewing the concept of customs union and identifying key issues in CU designs. [...]
In search of alternative political economies – less exploitative, less ecologically destructive – scholars and activists have turned to the commons and to commoning in
recent years.11 For international lawyers, the term commons brings to mind the domains designated as ‘global commons’ and, among them, the oceans and outer space. [...]
AbstractThe growing impact of European institutions on the daily lives of citizens has stimulated greater attention to the public’s trust in these bodies. Existing research
on trust in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) tends to focus on the role of judges and their rulings. [...]
AbstractThe compulsory study of international law is a universal component of legal education in some states but extremely uncommon or non-existent in others. This article
uses global data and statistical methods to test a number of conceivable explanations for this puzzling feature of international society. [...]
AbstractIn this article, I argue for a critical recognition of the law of the sea, as it developed from the post-war period, as fostering a ‘grab’ of the ocean floor via
national jurisdiction and international administration. I discuss why we should view what might be discussed otherwise as an ‘enclosure’ or ‘incorporation’ [...]
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Menschen werden Brüder,Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.ChorSeid umschlungen, Millionen!Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!Brüder – überm SternenzeltMuß ein lieber Vater [...]
AbstractAssaults on hospitals have become part of a widespread warfare strategy, propelling numerous actors to claim that belligerents are not being held accountable for attacking
medical units. Acknowledging that international humanitarian law (IHL) offers medical units protections, belligerents often claim that the hospitals were being used [...]
