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Private International Law Rules in the Insolvency Regulation Recast: A Reform or a Restatement of the Status Quo? (2016)
Journal Article
Mucciarelli, F. (2016). Private International Law Rules in the Insolvency Regulation Recast: A Reform or a Restatement of the Status Quo?. European Company and Financial Law Review, 13(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1515/ecfr-2016-0001

The European Parliament, after a lengthy debate, has eventually approved a reform of Regulation 1346/2000 on cross-border insolvency proceedings (hereinafter, the ‘Insolvency Regulation Recast’), which provides for significant innovations of the orig... Read More about Private International Law Rules in the Insolvency Regulation Recast: A Reform or a Restatement of the Status Quo?.

Possession, Occupation and Registration: Recombinant Ownership in the Settler Colony (2015)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2016). Possession, Occupation and Registration: Recombinant Ownership in the Settler Colony. Settler Colonial Studies, 6(2), 119-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2015.1024366

No other aspect of property so infuses our social, psycho-symbolic, cultural and political realms as the idea of possession. Whether considering modern theories of subjectivity, relationships between people (from labour relations to intimate ones of... Read More about Possession, Occupation and Registration: Recombinant Ownership in the Settler Colony.

Title By Registration: instituting modern property law and creating racial value in the settler colony (2015)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2015). Title By Registration: instituting modern property law and creating racial value in the settler colony. Journal of Law and Society, 42(2), 253-282. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2015.00707.x

The transformation in prevailing conceptualizations of property and the drive to render land as fungible as possible, the desire to commoditize land that had been pursued in earnest since the seventeenth century in England, was realized in the space... Read More about Title By Registration: instituting modern property law and creating racial value in the settler colony.

Joint reproductive autonomy: does Evans v Amicus Healthcare Ltd provide for a gender-neutral approach to assisted reproductive rights? (2015)
Journal Article
Allin, M. (2015). Joint reproductive autonomy: does Evans v Amicus Healthcare Ltd provide for a gender-neutral approach to assisted reproductive rights?. Medico-Legal Journal, 83(2), 98-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/0025817214554877

Assisted reproductive technology encompasses methods of achieving pregnancy by artificial or partially artificial means. Whilst these methods are more commonly used by couples suffering from problems of infertility, some forms of assist... Read More about Joint reproductive autonomy: does Evans v Amicus Healthcare Ltd provide for a gender-neutral approach to assisted reproductive rights?.

How A "Lawless" China Made Modern America: An Epic Told in Orientalism, a review of Teemu Ruskola, Legal Orientalism: China, The United States and Modern Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013) pp. 338 $39.95 (2015)
Journal Article
Tan, C. G. (2015). How A "Lawless" China Made Modern America: An Epic Told in Orientalism, a review of Teemu Ruskola, Legal Orientalism: China, The United States and Modern Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013) pp. 338 $39.95. Harvard law review, 128(6), 1677-1704

Law, Sovereignty and Recognition (2015)
Book Chapter
Bhandar, B., & Goldberg-Hiller, J. (2015). Law, Sovereignty and Recognition. In B. Bhandar, & J. Goldberg-Hiller (Eds.), Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (209-232). Duke University Press

Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (2015)
Book
Bhandar, B., & Goldberg-Hiller, J. (Eds.). (2015). Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11cw1jx

Catherine Malabou's concept of plasticity has influenced and inspired scholars from across disciplines. The contributors to Plastic Materialities-whose disciplines include political philosophy, critical legal studies, social theory, literature, and p... Read More about Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou.

Introduction: Staging Encounters (2015)
Book Chapter
Bhandar, B., & Goldberg-Hiller, J. (2015). Introduction: Staging Encounters. In B. Bhandar, & J. Goldberg-Hiller (Eds.), Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (1-34). Duke University Press

International Crimes in the Courts of England and Wales (2014)
Journal Article
Grady, K. (2014). International Crimes in the Courts of England and Wales. Criminal Law Review, 10, 693-722

This article considers the international criminal offences which have been incorporated into the law of England and Wales, and the challenges to bringing, and defending against, proceedings for these offences.

Review of Corrine Lennox and Matthew Waites (eds), Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 2013) (2014)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2014). Review of Corrine Lennox and Matthew Waites (eds), Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 2013). Human Rights Law Review, 14(2), 386-390. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngu002

One important conclusion that the two co-editors make in a fairly straightforward manner is that they are ultimately sceptical of whether the Commonwealth, as an intergovernmental organisation, could play a positive role in the future (p. 538). ‘Here... Read More about Review of Corrine Lennox and Matthew Waites (eds), Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 2013).

The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, August). The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought. Paper presented at The New Marxist Writing in International Law, City University London

This project reassesses various Marxist approaches to human rights, arguing for a return to the 'negative hypothesis' – one in which the liberal panacea of rights is eschewed in favour of various forms of syndicated action. It begins with Marx and En... Read More about The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought.

Neoliberalism, Law and Dissent: On Mimicry and Fetishism in the Time of Crisis (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, June). Neoliberalism, Law and Dissent: On Mimicry and Fetishism in the Time of Crisis. Paper presented at Neoliberal Legality Workshop, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

This paper briefly elaborates three specific movements in the author's general research of neoliberal legality: (1) that of the transformative potential in analysing the new types of fetishism of neoliberal legal form; (2) the insurrectionary politic... Read More about Neoliberalism, Law and Dissent: On Mimicry and Fetishism in the Time of Crisis.

Property as Governance: Time, Space and Belonging in Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention (2013)
Journal Article
Keenan, S. (2013). Property as Governance: Time, Space and Belonging in Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention. Modern Law Review, 76(3), 464-493. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12021

This article analyses two cases brought by aboriginal Australians against the Australian government acquisition of long leases of their land under the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007. These leases are conspicuous, particularly... Read More about Property as Governance: Time, Space and Belonging in Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention.

Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, April). Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan. Paper presented at 18th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University

This paper presents a critical ethnographic account of Pakistani khwajasara, based on the author’s most recent fieldwork in Lahore in 2011. Khwajasara, known elsewhere in the Indian Subcontinent as hijra, are Pakistani gender-variant subject position... Read More about Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan.

Riflettendo su Antonio Pigliaru: tra ordinamenti e paradigmi – dono e/o vendetta? (2013)
Journal Article
Zene, C. (2013). Riflettendo su Antonio Pigliaru: tra ordinamenti e paradigmi – dono e/o vendetta?. Lares (Firenze. Testo stampato), LXXIX(1), 35-44

This reflection on ‘juridical rules and paradigms’ in Pigliaru, prompted by Pietro Clemente and inspired by the reading of Gaetano Riccardo’s article, allows me to return to arguments I have discussed elsewhere. In my view, one of the recurrent probl... Read More about Riflettendo su Antonio Pigliaru: tra ordinamenti e paradigmi – dono e/o vendetta?.

Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities (2013)
Journal Article
Keenan, S. (2013). Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 64(3), 299-316. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v64i3.352

This article explores some of the ways in which law appropriates subversive identities. Drawing on work from geographical, feminist and critical race approaches to property, I put forward an understanding of property as a relation of belonging ‘held... Read More about Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities.