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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
2025
RPS 06/2025 Using Insurance for Natural Hazard Loss Prevention by Franziska Arnold-Dwyer
RPS 05/2025 The Emergence of an Epithet in EU Competition Law: "Naked Restrictions" and Article 102 TFEU by Ioannis Lianos
RPS 04/2025 Artificial Intelligence, Education and Assessment at UCL Laws: Current Thinking and Next Steps for the UK Legal Education Sector by Veale, Black, Dsouza et al
RPS 03/2025 Regulating Sustainable Insurance Products for Consumers by Franziska Arnold-Dwyer
RPS 02/2025 Error Costs, Platform Regulation, and Democracy by Todd Davies & Spencer Cohen
RPS 01/2025 Reconciling Shareholder Primacy and the Interests of People and Planet by Eilís Ferran & Pedro Schilling de Carvalho
- 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
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.