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Authored Books

Banda, Fareda (2020) African Migration, Human Rights and Literature. Oxford, UK: Hart.

Heathcote, Gina (2019) Feminist Dialogues on International Law: successes, tensions, futures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Wiebusch, Micha, Aniekwe, Chika Charles, Oette, Lutz and Vandeginste, Stef, eds. (2019) The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance at 10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Journal of African Law)

Flügel, Peter, ed. (2019) Jaina Law and Society. London: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies 9) (Forthcoming)

Book Chapters

Banda, Fareda (2019) 'The Limits of Law: A Response to Martha C Nussbaum.' In: Fassbender, Bardo and Traisbach, Knut, (eds.), The Limits of Human Rights. Oxford: OUP, pp. 267-279.

Bhandar, Brenna (2018) '“Fault-lines in the Settler Colony: On the Margins of Settled Law”.' In: Muller, G, Brits, R, Slade, B V, Van Wyk, J and Pienaar, G J, (eds.), Transformative Property Law: Festschrift in honour of AJ van der Walt. Cape Town, South Africa: Juta and Company, pp. 402-418.

Bhandar, Brenna (2017) 'Registering Interests: Modern Methods of Valuing Labour, Land and Life.' In: Desautels-Stein, Justin and Tomlins, Christopher, (eds.), Searching For Contemporary Legal Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 290-311.

Ercanbrack, Jonathan (2021) 'Islamic Trade Law and the Smart Contract Revolution.' In: Neo, Dora and Hare, Christopher, (eds.), Trade Finance: Technology, Innovation and Documentary Credits. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 308-334.

Hodgson, Jacqueline and Mou, Yu (2019) 'Empirical Approaches to Criminal Procedure.' In: Brown, Darryl, Turner, Jania and Weisser, Bettina, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 43-66.

Kelsall, Michelle Staggs (2019) 'In Search of the Individual in the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration.' In: Toniatti, Roberto, (ed.), Constitutional Protection of Minorities: Comparing Concepts, Models and Experiences in Asia and Europe. Brill. (Forthcoming)

Makhlouf, Amel (2019) 'The transformation of islamic law: from classical fiqh to financial fiqh.' In: Decock, Wim and Sagaert, Vincent, (eds.), Islamic finance: between religious norms and legal pratice. Cambridge / Leuven: Intersentia.

Oette, Lutz (2020) 'Responses of Regional Human Rights Courts and Commissions to Mass Violations.' In: Ferstman, Carla and Goetz, Mariana, (eds.), Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: Systems in Place and Systems in the Making, 2nd revised edition. Leiden: Brill, pp. 298-322.

Oette, Lutz (2020) 'Universal and extraterritorial jurisdiction for torture.' In: Evans, Malcolm D. and Modvig, Jens, (eds.), Research Handbook on Torture: Legal and Medical Perspectives on Prohibition and Prevention. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 357-377. (Research Handbooks in Human Rights Series)

Oette, Lutz (2022) 'Victim Participation: Human Rights Bodies.' In: Peters, Anne, (ed.), Max Planck Encylopedia of International Procedural Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sharma, Kanika (2022) 'The rule of law and racial difference in the British Empire.' In: O’Loughlin, Elizabeth and Wheatle, Se-shauna, (eds.), Diverse Voices in Public Law. Bristol University Press. (Forthcoming)

Sultany, Nimer (2019) 'Arab Constitutionalism and the Formalism of Authoritarian Constitutionalism.' In: Alvar Garcia, Helena and Frankenberg, Günter, (eds.), Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 292-316.

Sultany, Nimer (2021) 'Marx and Critical Constitutional Theory.' In: O'Connell, Paul and Özsu, Umut, (eds.), Research Handbook on Law and Marxism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 209-241. (Research Handbooks in Legal Theory series)

Journal Article

Deakin, Simon and Meng, Gaofeng (2020) 'The Governance of Covid-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State.' Industrial Law Journal, 49 (4). pp. 539-594.

Deakin, Simon and Meng, Gaofeng (2022) 'Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system.' Journal of Institutional Economics, 18 (4). pp. 521-535.

Ercanbrack, Jonathan (2019) 'Islamic Financial Law and the Law of the United Arab Emirates: Disjuncture and the Necessity for Reform.' Arab Law Quarterly, 33 (2). pp. 152-178.

Ercanbrack, Jonathan (2019) 'The Standardization of Islamic Financial Law: Lawmaking in Modern Financial Markets.' American Journal of Comparative Law, 67 (4). pp. 825-860.

Heathcote, Gina (2022) 'Filters and Fragments: Making Feminist Sense of Security.' AJIL Unbound, 116. pp. 254-258.

Ireland, Paddy and Meng, Gaofeng (2017) 'Post-capitalist property.' Economy and Society, 46 (3/4). pp. 369-397.

Kelsall, Michelle Staggs (2022) 'Between false messiah and symbolic politics: The International Criminal Court and the ‘Situation in the State of Palestine’.' Palestinian Yearbook of International Law, 2022. (Forthcoming)

Labianco, Riccardo (2017) 'The Parliamentary Practice of Italy on Arms Export: The Cases of Libya, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Ukraine and Egypt.' The Italian Yearbook of International Law, 26 (1). pp. 604-613.

Lai, Yan-ho (2019) 'Lady Justice or the golden calf? The “China factor” in Hong Kong’s legal system.' Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 15 (2). pp. 178-196.

Lai, Yan-ho (2023) 'Securitisation or Autocratisation? Hong Kong’s Rule of Law under the Shadow of China’ Authoritarian Governance.' Journal of Asian and African Studies, 58 (1). pp. 8-25.

Lai, Yan-ho and Kellogg, Thomas E. (2022) 'Departure from International Human Rights Law and Comparative Best Practice: HKSAR v Tong Ying Kit.' Hong Kong Law Journal, 52 (2). pp. 466-486.

Lai, Yan-ho and Sing, Ming (2020) 'Solidarity and Implications of a Leaderless Movement in Hong Kong: Its Strengths and Limtitations.' Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 53 (4). pp. 41-67.

Lammasniemi, Laura and Sharma, Kanika (2021) 'Governing Conjugality: Social Hygiene and The Doctrine of Restitution of Conjugal Rights in England and India in the Nineteenth Century.' Australian Feminist Law Journal, 47 (1). pp. 67-84.

Lokhandwala, Zainab (2022) 'Peasants’ Rights as New Human Rights: Promises and Concerns for Agrobiodiversity Conservation.' Asian Journal of International Law, 12 (1). pp. 105-120.

Makhlouf, Amel (2009) 'Assessing the markets in financial instruments directive and its legal impact on the French capital markets.' Revue Droit and Affaires (7). pp. 1-13.

Makhlouf, Amel (2011) 'Conventional vs Islamic Insurance.' Revue Droit and Affaires, 9.

Makhlouf, Amel (2014) 'Le Takaful : l'assurance shari'ah-compatible.' Lamy Assurances (215).

Makhlouf, Amel (2019) 'Roundtable on the Law and Practice of International Arbitration, 20 September 2019, Sorbonne Law School (Paris, France).' ArbitralWomen Newsletter (36). pp. 9-10.

Meng, Gaofeng (2016) 'Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership.' Journal of Economic Issues, 50 (3). pp. 667-694.

Meng, Gaofeng (2019) 'The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership.' Science and Society, 83 (3). pp. 300-326.

Nelson, Matthew J., Bâli, Aslı Ü., Mednicoff, David and Lerner, Hanna (2020) 'From Foreign Text to Local Meaning: The Politics of Religious Exclusion in Transnational Constitutional Borrowing.' Law and Social Inquiry, 45 (4). pp. 935-964.

Rivas, Althea-Maria and Lopez Medina, Claudia (2020) 'No lockdown on violence against women and girls during COVID-19: a view from Peru.' Feminist Review Blog.

Sharma, Kanika (2020) 'Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India: Rukhmabai's Fight.' Law and History Review, 38 (1). pp. 151-175.

Sultany, Nimer (2019) 'What Good is Abstraction: From Liberal Legitimacy to Social Justice.' Buffalo Law Review, 67 (3). pp. 823-887.

Yin, Bo and Mou, Yu (2022) 'Centralized Law Enforcement in Contemporary China: The Campaign to "Sweep Away Black Societies and Eradicate Evil Forces".' The China Quarterly. (Forthcoming)

Conference or Workshop Items

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet and Hamzić, Vanja (2019) Distemporalities: Collisions, Insurrections and Reorientations in the Worlding of Time. In: On Time: Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 29–30 Aug 2019, University of Helsinki. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) Towards Intricate Interruptabilities: On Knowledge Weaving in Gina Heathcote’s Feminist Dialogues on International Law. In: Feminist Methodologies in International Law, March 2019, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Monographs and Working Papers

Deakin, Simon and Meng, Gaofeng (2021) The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State. Cambridge, UK: Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge Working Paper no. 524.

Ercanbrack, Jonathan (2022) Islamic Social Finance and the Sustainable Development Goals. London: Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL) SOAS University of London ; Qatar Financial Centre.

Kendall, Sara and Staggs, Michelle (2005) Silencing Sexual Violence: Recent Developments in the CDF Case at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Berkeley: U.C. Berkeley.

Staggs, Michelle (2006) Second Interim Report On The Special Court For Sierra Leone “Bringing Justice And Ensuring Lasting Peace”: Some Reflections On The Trial Phase At The Special Court For Sierra Leone. Berkeley: U.C. Berkeley.

Thompson, Alison and Staggs, Michelle (2007) The Defence Office at the Special Court for Sierra Leone: A Critical Perspective. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley.

Book Reviews

Naik, Gayathri D (2019) 'Book Review of Gabriel Eckstein, The International Law of Transboundary Groundwater Resources (Earthscan/Routledge, 2017) 187 pp.' Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, 22 (1). pp. 176-182.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Lokhandwala, Zainab (2021) Neoliberalisation of Indian Agriculture: Undermining of the Right to Food of Farmers. Socio Legal Review [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Meng, Gaofeng and Deakin, Simon (2021) Re-learn how to govern risk. Beyond the Pandemic [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Mou, Yu (2021) How to Prevent Miscarriages of Justice. US-Asia Law Institute Perspectives [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Mou, Yu (2021) Miscarriages of Justice and the Construction of Criminality in the People’s Republic of China. Amicus Curiae [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Sharma, Kanika and Chaudhari, Zuleikha (2022) Re: Staging the Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar (1858). Take on Art [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Jaspars, Susanne and Oette, Lutz (2022) 'Forced dependency and systemic harm: The intolerable life of asylum seekers in the UK and the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment.' (Forthcoming)