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Evaluation of Moral Rights Protection in Egypt (2019)
Journal Article
Makeen, M. (2019). Evaluation of Moral Rights Protection in Egypt. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 14(4), 278-284. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpz005

This article discusses the nature of moral rights under Egyptian law and provides analysis of the scope of the various rights. It criticises the lack of consistency and proposes a number of amendments to the law in this area.

Islamic Financial Law and the Law of the United Arab Emirates: Disjuncture and the Necessity for Reform (2019)
Journal Article
Ercanbrack, J. (2019). Islamic Financial Law and the Law of the United Arab Emirates: Disjuncture and the Necessity for Reform. Arab Law Quarterly, 33(2), 152-178. https://doi.org/10.1163/15730255-12332011

Islamic financial law (IFL), an emerging global legal order, is a highly fragmented law comprised of both state and non-state generated laws, standards, commercial practices, institutions, fatwās and legal ideas. A recent event involving ṣukūk issuan... Read More about Islamic Financial Law and the Law of the United Arab Emirates: Disjuncture and the Necessity for Reform.

Water Law and Development: Comparative Perspectives (2019)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2019). Water Law and Development: Comparative Perspectives. In P. Kameri-Mbote, & C. Odote (Eds.), Blazing the Trail: Professor Charles Okidi’s Enduring Legacy in the Development of Environmental Law (378-392). University of Nairobi

Cordella et al. v. Italy: Industrial Emissions and Italian Omissions Under Scrutiny (2019)
Journal Article
Longo, A. (2019). Cordella et al. v. Italy: Industrial Emissions and Italian Omissions Under Scrutiny. European papers (Online. periodico), 4(1), 337-343. https://doi.org/10.15166/2499-8249/290

This Insight focuses on the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights of 24 January 2019, Cordella et al. v. Italy (joint applications n. 54414/13 and n. 54264/15), marking an important step in the judicial saga of the Ilva steel plant in Tarant... Read More about Cordella et al. v. Italy: Industrial Emissions and Italian Omissions Under Scrutiny.

Fighting for “Justice”, Engaging the Other : Shi’a Muslim Activism on the British University Campus (2019)
Journal Article
Scott-Baumann, A., & Esposti, E. D. (2019). Fighting for “Justice”, Engaging the Other : Shi’a Muslim Activism on the British University Campus. Religions, 10(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10030189

While Shi’a Muslims remain in the minority in Europe, including within universities, the past decade has witnessed the growing profile of Shi’ism on university campuses, especially in Britain. In particular, there has been an emphasis on campaigns th... Read More about Fighting for “Justice”, Engaging the Other : Shi’a Muslim Activism on the British University Campus.

The Usefulness of the ‘Parity Governance Model’ in Muslim Family Law Debates (2019)
Book Chapter
Bano, S. (2019). The Usefulness of the ‘Parity Governance Model’ in Muslim Family Law Debates. In K. O’Sullivan (Ed.), Minority Religions Under Irish Law (217-249). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004398252_011

In debates over the recognition of Muslim family law in the UK and Canada claims for religious autonomy and religious freedom seeking to operate faith-based dispute resolution have been seen as conflicting with women’s right to autonomy and equality.... Read More about The Usefulness of the ‘Parity Governance Model’ in Muslim Family Law Debates.

The struggle over narratives: Palestine as metaphor for imagined spatialities (2019)
Book Chapter
Matar, D. The struggle over narratives: Palestine as metaphor for imagined spatialities. In M. Iqani, & F. Resende (Eds.), Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents (170-185). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429030109-11

This chapter interrogates how mediated dominant narratives of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in mainstream media and public discourses in the global north and elsewhere have taken hold and persisted for almost 70 years. Specifically... Read More about The struggle over narratives: Palestine as metaphor for imagined spatialities.

Towards Intricate Interruptabilities: On Knowledge Weaving in Gina Heathcote’s Feminist Dialogues on International Law (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, March). Towards Intricate Interruptabilities: On Knowledge Weaving in Gina Heathcote’s Feminist Dialogues on International Law. Paper presented at Feminist Methodologies in International Law, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS University of London

Not only must we enlarge the existing international feminist epistemologies on gender law reform, we should also actively seek ways to weave into these patterns the yarns of knowledge, of critical praxis, that both do and can and do not and cannot ha... Read More about Towards Intricate Interruptabilities: On Knowledge Weaving in Gina Heathcote’s Feminist Dialogues on International Law.

The Protection of Human Rights in Transitional Tunisia Capacity, Willingness and Capacity-Building (2019)
Journal Article
Saral, M. (2019). The Protection of Human Rights in Transitional Tunisia Capacity, Willingness and Capacity-Building. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 16(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1515/mwjhr-2019-0005

This article looks at the human rights protection in transitional post-uprising Tunisia, from 2011 to 2017, offering insights into the willingness to both protect human rights and build capacity in Tunisia. It focuses on the establishment of an adequ... Read More about The Protection of Human Rights in Transitional Tunisia Capacity, Willingness and Capacity-Building.

Revolutionaries (2019)
Book Chapter
Kumar, V. (2019). Revolutionaries. In J. D'Aspremont, & S. Singh (Eds.), Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought (773-795). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474684.00056

Where do concepts belong? Who decides? How is it decided? And, if one recognizes the inherent temporality of concepts and their pasts, when is it decided? Focusing on the concept of revolutionaries, this chapter has two aims. First, recognizing that... Read More about Revolutionaries.

International crime (2019)
Book Chapter
Heller, K. (2019). International crime. In J. D'Aspremont, & S. Sing (Eds.), Concepts for international law : contributions to disciplinary thought. Edward Elgar

Feminism and the Law of the Sea: a preliminary inquiry (2019)
Book Chapter
Heathcote, G. (2019). Feminism and the Law of the Sea: a preliminary inquiry. In I. Papanicolopulu (Ed.), Gender and the Law of the Sea (83-105). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375178_004

Feminist approaches to international law commence with a series of structural bias accounts of the international order but have increasingly narrowed to focus on women’s issues and/or specific sub-disciplines of international law, such as collective... Read More about Feminism and the Law of the Sea: a preliminary inquiry.