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The Gendered Apparatus of the Military: A Study of the Army Officer’s Wife in India (2025)
Thesis
Singh, T. (2025). The Gendered Apparatus of the Military: A Study of the Army Officer’s Wife in India [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00551266

Military wives have recently become the subject of research with an increasing focus on the role of their labour in upholding and reproducing processes of militarisation. This thesis examines the centrality of Indian Army officers’ wives and explores... Read More about The Gendered Apparatus of the Military: A Study of the Army Officer’s Wife in India.

Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions (2025)
Thesis
Al-Saai, N. (2025). Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506022

Gulf state laws benefit from religion and custom as sources of legitimacy, particularly when state law’s provisions are based on or similar to them. For example, Arab states sometimes justify their nationality laws, which allow males only to transmit... Read More about Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions.

Queer Women’s Intimacies and the Making of the Homespace in Northern Nigeria (2025)
Thesis
Banu, S. Z. (2025). Queer Women’s Intimacies and the Making of the Homespace in Northern Nigeria [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506755

This thesis addresses the contradictions in dominant discourses on northern Nigeria, which set up the northern Nigerian home as a heteronormative space and cast queer northern Nigerian women as abnormal and queer intimacy as marginal or foreign. The... Read More about Queer Women’s Intimacies and the Making of the Homespace in Northern Nigeria.

Unearthing the Fiqh of Reorganization: A comparative and historical analysis of insolvency theories with an emphasis on the experience of the Kingdom of Bahrain (2025)
Thesis
Thomas, A. (2025). Unearthing the Fiqh of Reorganization: A comparative and historical analysis of insolvency theories with an emphasis on the experience of the Kingdom of Bahrain [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00725346

Although reorganization theory has become widely accepted, Islamic jurisprudence (“fiqh”) fails to address it. Despite a rich history of addressing the insolvency of natural persons, fiqh has no meaningful discussion of the reorganization of a legal... Read More about Unearthing the Fiqh of Reorganization: A comparative and historical analysis of insolvency theories with an emphasis on the experience of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The Responsibility to Protect: Promising Protection, Sustaining Crisis: The Case of Darfur (2025)
Thesis
Idriss, M. (2025). The Responsibility to Protect: Promising Protection, Sustaining Crisis: The Case of Darfur [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00627482

This thesis critically revisits the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) to examine whether it offers a suitable framework for responding to situations of mass atrocity – namely genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against hum... Read More about The Responsibility to Protect: Promising Protection, Sustaining Crisis: The Case of Darfur.

Hawala in the UK-Nigeria remittance corridor: Institutional dynamics and illicit value flows (2025)
Journal Article
Ercanbrack, J. G. (2025). Hawala in the UK-Nigeria remittance corridor: Institutional dynamics and illicit value flows. Journal of Economic Criminology, 10, 100192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconc.2025.100192

Based on a transnational case study of an informal value transfer system that UK law enforcement authorities were able to detect, this doctrinal and qualitative study explores the regulation, supervision and enforcement of unlicensed/unregistered haw... Read More about Hawala in the UK-Nigeria remittance corridor: Institutional dynamics and illicit value flows.

Consumer Law and Policy on Faulty Goods: A Comparative Analysis of the Law in Ghana and the UK (2025)
Book
Yidana, N. (2025). Consumer Law and Policy on Faulty Goods: A Comparative Analysis of the Law in Ghana and the UK. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08700-3

This book evaluates the adequacy of the existing law to protect consumers in Ghana when they are supplied with faulty goods. In turn, the law in Ghana is compared with the law in England and Wales. Specifically, the analysis offers a comparative asse... Read More about Consumer Law and Policy on Faulty Goods: A Comparative Analysis of the Law in Ghana and the UK.

Legal Protection of Indigenous Peoples Rights in Forest Management in South Kalimantan (2025)
Journal Article
Rahmawati, D., Budiman, A., Topan, M., & Hendri Yanova, M. (in press). Legal Protection of Indigenous Peoples Rights in Forest Management in South Kalimantan. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21(2), 195-209. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00773551

Indigenous People have a very strong and historical relationship with their land and nature. They continue to struggle to strengthen their position and to obtain their rights. Often the rights of customary communities are ignored by the state, couple... Read More about Legal Protection of Indigenous Peoples Rights in Forest Management in South Kalimantan.

Cameroon’s 2025 Presidential Election: Confronting an Electoral System Designed to Defeat Democracy (2025)
Digital Artefact
Enonchong, L.-S. (2025, October 24). Cameroon’s 2025 Presidential Election: Confronting an Electoral System Designed to Defeat Democracy. RevDem (The Review of Democracy). https://revdem.ceu.edu/2025/10/24/cameroon-election-democracy/

Cameroon’s Constitutional Council has announced that it will declare the winner of the recent presidential election on October 27. As Cameroonians await the official results, some hope that President Paul Biya’s rule may come to an end. In her op-ed,... Read More about Cameroon’s 2025 Presidential Election: Confronting an Electoral System Designed to Defeat Democracy.

The Corporation (2025)
Book Chapter
Baars, G. (., & Haznedaroglu, S. (2025). The Corporation. In A. Anghie, B. S. Chimni, M. Fakhri, K. Mickelson, & V. Nesiah (Eds.), Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) (pp. 435-450). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789901528.00045

A TWAIL-inspired introduction to the corporation, a legal construct operating in the global political economy, at times an object and subject of international law. We describe how (metropolitan) corporations shaped early modern law, through their rol... Read More about The Corporation.

Queer Theory (2025)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2025). Queer Theory. In A. Anghie, B. Chimni, M. Fakhri, K. Mickelson, & V. Nesiah (Eds.), Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) (pp. 195-205). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789901528.00024

Determined in their search for the otherwise-to-‘normal life’ produced by late capitalist extractions of knowledge and resources alike, both TWAIL and queer theory coalesced in the early 1990s through academic alliances of scholars who saw themselves... Read More about Queer Theory.

Between Rule and Prerogative: Petitions by terror-accused individuals and the imaginings of Indian law (2025)
Journal Article
Suresh, M. (2025). Between Rule and Prerogative: Petitions by terror-accused individuals and the imaginings of Indian law. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 1-27. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/als.2025.10025

This article argues that contemporary Indian law is animated by two intertwined imaginings of law: as a rational, rule-bound process and as a power that makes decisions as a normless act of prerogative. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Delhi's terro... Read More about Between Rule and Prerogative: Petitions by terror-accused individuals and the imaginings of Indian law.