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UCL Legal Studies Research Paper Series
UCL Laws is an agenda-setting community of legal scholars. Informed by a rich heritage of philosophical, contextual and empirical enquiry, our research has real-world impact, shaping legal and judicial policy in the UK and across the globe. The Faculty launched its own UCL Legal Studies Research Paper Series (RPS) in October 2018 which contains works in progress and published papers from our faculty.
Editors
Dr Bernard Keenan, Lecturer in Law, University College London
2024
RPS 28/2024 Structural Injustice and Human Rights: The Case of Begging by Virginia Mantouvalou
RPS 27/2024 Calibrating Agnosticism: Theories of Bureaucratic Motivation in Administrative Law by Kenta Tsuda
RPS 26/2024 Managing the Risk of Conflict between Private International Law Treaties by Alex Mills
RPS 25/2024 Inferring a 'Dispute' from State Silence by Danae Azaria
RPS 24/2024 Google AdTech: Break Up or Break Out? by Todd Davies & Zlatina Georgieva
RPS 23/2024 Conclusion to “State Silence Across International Law: Meaning, Context, and Developments” by Danae Azaria
RPS 22/2024 State Silence and the Law on the Use of Force by Danae Azaria
RPS 21/2024 Introduction to "State Silence Across International Law: Meaning, Context, and Developments" by Danae Azaria
RPS 20/2024 Religious Expression and Exemptions in the Private Sector Workplace: Spotting Bias by Myriam Hunter-Henin
RPS 19/2024 Minding Competition in Complex Adaptive Social Systems: The Sociological Approach to Competition Law by Ioannis Lianos
RPS 18/2024 Non-Custodial Sentences and Human Rights by Virginia Mantouvalou & Hadassa Noorda
RPS 17/2024 A Framework for Implementing the Right of the Child to Play: Space, Time, Acceptance, Rights-Informed by Naomi Lott
RPS 16/2024 Towards a Legal Theory of Digital Ecosystems by Ioannis Lianos, Klaas Hendrik Eller & Tobias Kleinschmitt
RPS 15/2024 Proportionality without Balancing by George Letsas
RPS 14/2024 Commercial Common Sense in Contract Interpretation: A Legal Realist Analysis by Marc Moore
RPS 13/2024 Tacit Agreements by Danae Azaria
RPS 12/2024 Ventriloquism in Geneva: The League of Nations as International Organisation by Megan Donaldson
RPS 11/2024 Peace, War, Law: Teaching International Law in Contexts by Megan Donaldson
RPS 10/2024 Structural Injustice and the Law - Introduction by Jonathan Wolff & Virginia Mantouvalou
RPS 09/2024 Private Equity's Neglected Pre-History: A Trans-Atlantic Perspective by Marc Moore
RPS 08/2024 The Agency Costs of Multi-Product Private Equity Suites: Towards a Post-Jensenian Paradigm by Marc Moore & Chris Hale
RPS 07/2024 Reflections on War in Ukraine and International Law by Martins Paparinskis
RPS 06/2024 Myths and Misconceptions in Extraterritorial Torts by Haim Abraham
RPS 05/2024 Moderating Model Marketplaces: Platform Governance Puzzles for AI Intermediaries by Robert Gorwa and Michael Veale
RPS 04/2024 Dual or Single Gauge? Govert Den Hartogh's ‘Dual-Track’ Assisted Death by Isra Black
RPS 03/2024 Frameworks for Accountability: How Domestic Tort Law Can Inform the Development of International Law of State Responsibility in Armed Conflicts by Haim Abraham
RPS 02/2024 Legislative Reform in the EU – The Role of Drafting in Legislative Quality by Helen Xanthaki
RPS 01/2024 Landmark Cases in Private International Law: Godard V Gray and Schibsby V Westenholz (1870) by Joshua Folkard and Ian Bergson
- 2023
RPS 23/2023 What Does it Mean for Lawyers to Uphold the Rule of Law? by Richard Moorhead, Kenta Tsuda and Steven Vaughan
RPS 22/2023 Politics and Expertise: New Environmental Targets in English Environmental Law by Maria Lee
RPS 21/2023 The Indirect Legal Effects of Non-Binding Agreements by Danae Azaria
RPS 20/2023 When a House is not the (Matrimonial) Home by Leon Vincent Chan
RPS 19/2023 Salomon vs Salomon by Marc T. Moore
RPS 18/2023 Fraud, Trusts and Trusting: Enforcing Crown Forfeitures in Equity, c.1570–1620 by David Foster
RPS 17/2023 Judicial Review and Presidential Elections in Africa by Berihun Adugna Gebeye
RPS 16/2023 Rationalising the Penalties Rule by Prince Saprai
RPS 15/2023 State Silence as Acceptance: A Presumption and an Exception by Danae Azaria
RPS 14/2023 The Conditions for Inferring a 'Dispute' from State Silence by Danae Azaria
RPS 13/2023 Reflections on the Law Governing Confidentiality in Arbitration by Lawrence Collins
RPS 12/2023 The Use and Abuse of 28 U.S.C. Section 1782 Litigation in England by Lawrence Collins
RPS 11/2023 The Histories, Practices, and Policies of Community Data Governance in the ‘Global South’ by Divij Joshi & Aditya Singh
RPS 10/2023 Public Trusts, 1750-1850 by Charles Mitchell
RPS 09/2023 The Rule of Law by Jeff King
RPS 08/2023 Environmental Democracy and Law on Public Participation by Maria Lee
RPS 07/2023 Constitution-Making as a Technique of International Law: Reconsidering the Post-War Inheritance by Anna Saunders
RPS 06/2023 Law after Dominium: Thinking with Martti Koskenniemi on Property, Sovereignty and Transformation by Anna Saunders
RPS 05/2023 Historical Conceptions of the Express Trust, c 1600-1900 by David Foster
RPS 04/2023 The Four Faces of Ethiopian Federalism by Berihun Adugna Gebeye
RPS 03/2023 The EU’s Evolving Approach to Environmental Sustainability in Free Trade Agreements by Gracia Marin Duran
RPS 02/2023 The Identity of the Constitutional Subject and the Construction of Constitutional Identity: Lessons from Africa by Berihun Adugna Gebeye
RPS 01/2023 Balancing as a Legal Method: What It Is and How (Not) to Do It by George Letsas
- 2022
RPS 21/2022 Religious Neutrality at Europe's Highest Courts: Shifting Strategies by Myriam Hunter-Henin
RPS 20/2022 Netting Off Gains and Losses in the Law of Unjust Enrichment by Charles Mitchell
RPS 19/2022 International Law Since the Cold War: Jurisdiction by Alex Mills
RPS 18/2022 The Unethical Environmental Lawyer by Steven Vaughan
RPS 17/2022 The Figure of the Lawyer in Orford's International Law and the Politics of History by Megan Donaldson
RPS 16/2022 Carbon Border Adjustments: Ensuring Compatibility With the International Climate and Trade Regimes by Gracia Marin Duran
RPS 15/2022 The Law and Political Economy of AI Governance in India by Divij Joshi
RPS 14/2022 Justificanda by Charles Mitchell & Jessica Hudson
RPS 13/2022 Queering the Reasonable Person by Haim Abraham
RPS 12/2022 The Disappointment of Climate Change Legislation: Investigating Tensions with the Rule of Law by Eloise Scotford
RPS 11/2022 Climate Change and the Rule of Law(Yers): What Thinner and Thicker Accounts Might Require of Those in Practice by Steven Vaughan
RPS 10/2022 From ‘Corporate Governance’ to Ecological Regulation: Flipping the Regulatory Story on Climate Change by Christine Parker
RPS 09/2022 Environmental Rule of Law as Key to Strengthening the Response to the Climate Crisis: A Comment by Maria Socorro Manguiat
RPS 08/2022 A Changing Climate for In-House Lawyers? What Should They Really Say to Clients? by Peter Kellett
RPS 07/2022 Do England & Wales Qualified Solicitors Have a Legal Duty to Advise Their Clients on Climate-Related Risks? by Sarah de Gay
RPS 06/2022 Never Let Me Go: Private Law and the Conservative Impulse by Prince Saprai
RPS 05/2022 Justifying and Challenging Territoriality in Private International Law by Alex Mills
RPS 04/2022 Thinking, Talking and Acting about Public Health Ethics in the COVID-19 Pandemic by Jonathan Montgomery, Kenneth Kaufman & Richard Williams
RPS 03/2022 Crippling Compensation in the International Law Commission and Investor–State Arbitration by Martins Paparinskis
RPS 02/2022 Structures of Injustice, the Law, and Exploitative Work by Virginia Mantouvalou
RPS 01/2022 Tort Liability, Combatant Activities, and the Question of Over-Deterrence by Haim Abraham
- 2021
RPS 06/2021 Long Live Monetary Gold *Terms and Conditions Apply by Martins Paparinskis
RPS 05/2021 The Boundaries of Peace-Making: British Imperial Encounters, c. 1700–1900 by Megan Donaldson
RPS 04/2021 The Power to Consent and the Criminal Law by Mark Dsouza
RPS 03/2021 Probing the Hidden Depths of Climate Law: Analysing National Climate Change Legislation by Eloise Scotford
RPS 02/2021 Legislation and the Stress of Environmental Problems by Eloise Scotford
RPS 01/2021 Rethinking Clean Air: Air Quality Law and COVID-19 by Eloise Scotford
Further past papers can be found on SSRN
Submission
We welcome submissions from members of UCL Laws, doctoral students and visiting scholars. To submit papers to the UCL Legal Studies Research Papers Series, please write to the Editor, including the paper, an abstract and key words.