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The Transplanted Appropriate Adult Scheme in China (2020)
Journal Article
Mou, Y. (2021). The Transplanted Appropriate Adult Scheme in China. The Howard journal of crime and justice, 60(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12393

Borrowed from England and Wales, the Chinese Appropriate Adult Scheme involves a dynamic of selective adaptation. This article analyses two salient features of the appropriate adult scheme within the Chinese context, in comparison with its counterpar... Read More about The Transplanted Appropriate Adult Scheme in China.

Expropriations of private property for economic 'development’ in the United States: re-thinking the titling and Rule of Law solutions to land grabs in the Global South (2020)
Journal Article
Thomson, F. (2020). Expropriations of private property for economic 'development’ in the United States: re-thinking the titling and Rule of Law solutions to land grabs in the Global South. Estudios Socio-Juridicos, 22(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/sociojuridicos/a.7872

Mainstream discourses tend to treat land dispossession as a ‘developing’ country problem that arises due to weak/corrupt legal systems and inadequate property institutions. This article unsettles such discourses by examining expropriations for econom... Read More about Expropriations of private property for economic 'development’ in the United States: re-thinking the titling and Rule of Law solutions to land grabs in the Global South.

The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice (2020)
Book
Mou, Y. (2020). The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice. Hart. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509913053

Drawing on insights from the author's own empirical data obtained from systematic observation of the daily routines within Chinese criminal justice institutions, this ground-breaking book examines the functional deficiency of the criminal justice sys... Read More about The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice.

Supplementary protection certificates and their impact on access to medicines in Europe: case studies of sofosbuvir, trastuzumab and imatinib (2020)
Journal Article
Hu, Y. Q., Eynikel, D., Boulet, P., & Krikorian, G. (2020). Supplementary protection certificates and their impact on access to medicines in Europe: case studies of sofosbuvir, trastuzumab and imatinib. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 13(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40545-019-0198-6

In recent years, there has been increasing pressure on public health systems in high-income countries due to high medicines prices, one of the underlying causes of which are the market monopolies granted to pharmaceutical undertakings. These monopoli... Read More about Supplementary protection certificates and their impact on access to medicines in Europe: case studies of sofosbuvir, trastuzumab and imatinib.

Microcosm: Soviet Constitutional Internationality (2020)
Book Chapter
Newton, S. (2021). Microcosm: Soviet Constitutional Internationality. In K. Greenman, A. Orford, A. Saunders, & N. Tzouvala (Eds.), Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917 (134-155). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108860727.008

The adoption of the Internationale as the anthem of the newborn Russian Soviet Republic in 1917, and then for the Soviet Federation, the union of republics it would soon become, announced to the world that the revolution was only accidentally nationa... Read More about Microcosm: Soviet Constitutional Internationality.

Arab Constitutionalism and the Formalism of Authoritarian Constitutionalism (2019)
Book Chapter
Sultany, N. (2019). Arab Constitutionalism and the Formalism of Authoritarian Constitutionalism. In H. Alvar Garcia, & G. Frankenberg (Eds.), Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique (292-316). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117852.00018

This chapter challenges different manifestations of a ‘formalist’ approach to constitutional theory. The formalist approach deploys several labels and distinctions (constitutions without constitutionalism, authoritarian, ideological, instrumentalist... Read More about Arab Constitutionalism and the Formalism of Authoritarian Constitutionalism.

Empirical Approaches to Criminal Procedure (2019)
Book Chapter
Hodgson, J., & Mou, Y. (2019). Empirical Approaches to Criminal Procedure. In D. Brown, J. Turner, & B. Weisser (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process (43-66). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190659837.013.3

This chapter discusses empirical approaches to criminal procedure, focusing on three broad and recurring themes that reflect the complex nature of the criminal justice system as a social institution: legal culture, discretion, and policy. It first co... Read More about Empirical Approaches to Criminal Procedure.

Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence (2018)
Book Chapter
Bruce-Jones, E. (2018). Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence. In M. Bosworth, A. Parmar, & Y. Vázquez (Eds.), Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control: Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging (176-193). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0012

This chapter aims to critically interrogate foundational aspects of refugee law from a decolonial perspective. Considered within the context of contemporary debates on counterterrorism and border control in the United Kingdom, it argues that the way... Read More about Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence.

From a stark utopia to everyday utopias (2018)
Journal Article
Kelsall, M. S. (2018). From a stark utopia to everyday utopias. Jahrbuch für internationales Recht, 60, 576-607. https://doi.org/10.3790/gyil.60.1.575

This article considers the emergence of the Business and Human Rights agenda at the United Nations. It argues that the agenda can be seen as an example of the UN Human Rights Council attempting to institutionalise everyday utopias within an emerging... Read More about From a stark utopia to everyday utopias.

Modern Biofuels: The Road to Integrated Sustainability (2017)
Book Chapter
Lesniewska, F. (2017). Modern Biofuels: The Road to Integrated Sustainability. In S. Alam, J. H. Bhuiyan, & J. Razzaque (Eds.), International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability. Routledge

International Conceptions of the Family (2017)
Journal Article
Banda, F., & Eekelaar, J. (2017). International Conceptions of the Family. International & Comparative Law Quarterly, 66(4), 833-862. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589317000288

This article examines the evolving way the ‘family’ and ‘family life’ have been understood in international and regional human rights instruments, and in the case law of the relevant institutions. It shows how the various structural components which... Read More about International Conceptions of the Family.

Study on the law applicable to companies (2016)
Book
Mucciarelli, F., Gerner-Beuerle, C., Mathias, S., & Edmund-Philipp, S. Study on the law applicable to companies. European Commission

While the case law of the Court of Justice has been supportive of foreign incorporations and cross-border corporate mobility in Europe, many problems still persist in practice. This report analyses these practical problems and the relevant domestic r... Read More about Study on the law applicable to companies.

Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership (2016)
Journal Article
Meng, G. (2016). Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership. Journal of Economic Issues, 50(3), 667-694. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2016.1210377

This article analyses the property rights that Chinese peasants have under the present Household Responsibility System (HRS) using Antony M. Honoré’s work on ownership, especially his analysis of eleven standard incidents of the full liberal concept... Read More about Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership.

Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada (2016)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2016). Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada. Darkmatter (Uxbridge), 14,

In the mid to late nineteenth century, as English and French settlers were in the process of consolidating their colonial Dominion over vast First Nations’ territories in the form of a Canadian federal state, the government enacted legislation to cre... Read More about Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada.