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Revolution (2025)
Book Chapter
Sultany, N. (2025). Revolution. In R. Bellmay, & J. King (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (491-520). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108868143.032

This chapter argues that an adequate assessment of revolutions (and the role of law in revolutions) is often stymied by historical exclusions and theoretical myopia. Historical exclusions centralise certain experiences and present sanitized and one-s... Read More about Revolution.

Race, Law and Liminality: The Poetry of May Ayim (2024)
Journal Article
Bruce-Jones, E. (2024). Race, Law and Liminality: The Poetry of May Ayim. Amerikastudien (Heidelberg), 69(3), 301-312. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2024/3/11

This article examines the poetry of the late Afro-German poet, May Ayim (1960-1996), and the theory and politics of her work at the juncture of law, Blackness, and Germanness. The article demonstrates that Ayim, through the images, themes, and device... Read More about Race, Law and Liminality: The Poetry of May Ayim.

The new legalities of Islamic contractual interpretation: Institutional Frameworks and the Displacement of Intention (2024)
Journal Article
Ercanbrack, J., & Ali, A. (2024). The new legalities of Islamic contractual interpretation: Institutional Frameworks and the Displacement of Intention. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 17(6), 1196-1212. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMEFM-03-2024-0156

Purpose: This study aims to examine the extent to which traditional juristic approaches to determining intention in Islamic law are altered in the institutional framework and standard-setting project of the Malaysian state. Design/methodology/approac... Read More about The new legalities of Islamic contractual interpretation: Institutional Frameworks and the Displacement of Intention.

Centralized Law Enforcement in Contemporary China: The Campaign to "Sweep Away Black Societies and Eradicate Evil Forces" (2022)
Journal Article
Yin, B., & Mou, Y. (2023). Centralized Law Enforcement in Contemporary China: The Campaign to "Sweep Away Black Societies and Eradicate Evil Forces". The China Quarterly, 366-380. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741022001795

In 2018, China's general secretary, Xi Jinping, announced a three-year war on “black societies and evil forces” and promised to take down various forms of organized crime and evil forces within society. This article examines the operational features... Read More about Centralized Law Enforcement in Contemporary China: The Campaign to "Sweep Away Black Societies and Eradicate Evil Forces".

The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Deakin, S., & Meng, G. The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State. Cambridge, UK

We consider the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for the theory and practice of governance. We define ‘governance’ as the process through which, in the case of a given entity or polity, resources are allocated, decisions made and policies implemen... Read More about The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State.

Re-learn how to govern risk (2021)
Digital Artefact
Meng, G., & Deakin, S. (2021). Re-learn how to govern risk

Re-learning how to manage risk can be a template for the future governance of anthropogenic crises, of which COVID-19 is likely just the harbinger.

Mental health and death in custody: The Angiolini Review (2021)
Journal Article
Bruce-Jones, E. (2021). Mental health and death in custody: The Angiolini Review. Race & Class, 62(3), 7 -17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396820968033

The author discusses the findings and recommendations of the first official review of practices and processes relating to and following police-related deaths in the UK. Dame Elish Angiolini’s 2017 report paid particular notice to mental health implic... Read More about Mental health and death in custody: The Angiolini Review.

The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis. Volume 1 (2020)
Book
Bertotti, S., Heathcote, G., Jones, E., & Labenski, S. A. (2021). The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis. Volume 1. Zed Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755637836

The Law of War and Peace offers a cutting-edge analysis of the relationship between law, armed conflict, gender and peace. This book, which is the first of two volumes, focuses on the interplay between international law and gendered experiences of ar... Read More about The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis. Volume 1.

Interrogating the Role and Value of Cultural Expertise in Law (2020)
Journal Article
Campbell, J. (2020). Interrogating the Role and Value of Cultural Expertise in Law. Laws, 9(29), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws9040029

It is common for litigation to draw upon expert evidence to assist a judge to arrive at a balanced decision. This paper examines the role of one type of expert evidence submitted to courts, namely cultural expertise (CE), which provides information o... Read More about Interrogating the Role and Value of Cultural Expertise in Law.