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Authored Books

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

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2016) Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe. Abingdon: Routledge.

Enonchong, Laura-Stella (2021) The Constitution and Governance in Cameroon. London: Routledge. (Routledge Series on Law in Africa)

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. Vol. 63, Supplement S1)

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

Bruce-Jones, Eddie and Bhatia, Monish, eds. (2021) Special Issue on Race, Mental Health and State Violence. London: Sage. (Race and Class. Vol. 62, no.3)

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: Oxford University Press, 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.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2017) 'Archiving Racial Violence: Some Reflections from the UK’s Institute of Race Relations.' In: Karakayali, Juliane, Kahveci, Çagri, Liebscher, Doris and Melchers, Carl, (eds.), Den NSU-Komplex analysieren: Aktuelle Perspektiven aus der Wissenschaft. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 163-178. (Edition Politik)

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2019) 'Burden Sharing in Refugee Law.' In: Juss, Satvinder, (ed.), Research Handbook on International Refugee Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 71-81.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2020) 'Death Zones and Comfort Zones: Queering the Refugee Question.' In: Senthorun, Raj and Dunne, Peter, (eds.), The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49-78. (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies)

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2021) 'Deutsche Polizei an der Kreuzung: Intersektionalität von Rasse, Geschlecht, Migrationsstatus und psychischer Gesundheit.' In: Thompson, Vanessa E. and Laufenberg, Mike, (eds.), Sicherheit: Rassismuskritische und feministische Debatten. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 56-74. (Forum Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Band 49)

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2018) 'Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence.' In: Bosworth, Mary, Parmar, Alpa and Vázquez, Yolanda, (eds.), Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control: Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 176-193.

Busuttil, Nicolette (2023) 'The EU Legislator, Frontex and Fundamental Rights.' In: Guild, Elspeth, (ed.), Monitoring Border Violence in the EU. London: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security)

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)

Kumar, Vidya (2019) 'Revolutionaries.' In: D'Aspremont, Jean and Singh, Sahib, (eds.), Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 773-795.

Lau, Martin (2024) 'Preface.' In: Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law. Leiden: Brill, ix-xi. (Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law)

Lau, Martin (2022) 'The Public Policy Exception and International Commercial Arbitration in the MENA Region: A Contextual Analysis.' In: Arbitration in the MENA. New York: JurisNet, pp. 1-64. (Arbitration in the MENA)

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.

Mou, Yu (2024) 'Leniency for pleading guilty and acceptance of punishment: an overriding principle of Chinese criminal justice.' In: Langer, Máximo, McConville, Mike and Marsh, Luke, (eds.), Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 186-199.

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 (2023) 'The rule of law and racial difference in the British Empire.' In: Wheatle, Se-shauna and O’Loughlin, Elizabeth, (eds.), Diverse Voices in Public Law. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 15-34.

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

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2009) 'Anthropology as Critical Legal Intervention? Instrumentalization, Co-Construction and Critical Reformulation in the Relationship between Anthropology and International Law.' UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, 14 (2). pp. 331-366.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2015) 'Death Zones, Comfort Zones: Queering the Refugee Question.' International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 22 (1). pp. 101-127.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2014) 'German Policing at the Intersection: Race, Gender, Migrant Status and Mental Health.' Race and Class, 56 (3). pp. 36-49.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2012) 'Germany's Stephen Lawrence.' Race and Class, 54 (2). pp. 82-87.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2021) 'Mental health and death in custody: The Angiolini Review.' Race and Class, 62 (3). 7 -17.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2024) 'Race, Law and Liminality: The Poetry of May Ayim.' Amerikastudien / American Studies, 69 (3). pp. 301-312.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2008) 'Race, Space, and the Nation State: Racial Recognition and the Prospects of Substantive Equality under Anti-Discrimination Law in France and Germany.' Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 39 (2). pp. 423-470.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2017) 'A body does not just combust: Racism and the law in Germany.' World Policy Journal, 34 (2). pp. 31-35.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie, Chia, Joy and Skrodzka, Marta (2008) 'The Next Step Forward - The Development of Clinical Legal Education in Poland through a Clinical Pilot Program in Bialystok.' Columbia Journal of East European Law, 2 (1). pp. 56-93.

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.

Ercanbrack, Jonathan G (2024) 'Hawala in Criminal Court: the Role of Law and Commercial Culture in Informal Financial Exchange.' Crime, Law and Social Change, 82 (3). pp. 659-683.

Goldblatt, Beth and Rai, Shirin M. (2018) 'Recognising the full costs of care? The Gendered Politics of Compensation for families in South Africa’s silicosis class action.' Social and Legal Studies, 27 (6). pp. 671-694.

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 (2023) 'Between false messiah and symbolic politics: The International Criminal Court and the ‘Situation in the State of Palestine’.' Palestinian Yearbook of International Law, 23 (2022). pp. 156-177.

Kumar, Vidya (2020) 'On Scripts and Sensibility: Cold War International Law and Revolutionary Caribbean Subjects.' German Law Journal, 21 (8). pp. 1541-1569.

Kumar, Vidya (2025) ''Race and UK Public Law' (Introduction to Special Series) and 'Race and the UK Constitution: On the Disappearance Irrelevance and Permanence of Race and Racism in the UK' (Submission to Special Series).' Public Law, April. pp. 201-214.

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.

Menon, Parvathi (2020) 'Edmund Burke and the Ambivalence of Protection for Slaves: Between Humanity and Control.' Journal of the History of International Law, 22 (2-3). pp. 246-268.

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 (2023) 'Centralized Law Enforcement in Contemporary China: The Campaign to "Sweep Away Black Societies and Eradicate Evil Forces".' The China Quarterly (254). pp. 366-380.

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.

Onyema, Emilia (2024) Perceptions on Africa-connected Arbitration: Seats, Female Arbitrators and Tribunal Secretaries. London: SOAS University of London.

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

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2007) 'Review: Alex Buchwald, Der Fall Tadic vor dem Internationalen Jugoslawientribunal im Lichte der Entscheidung der Berufungskammer vom 2. Oktober 1995 (Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag).' Austrian Review of International and European Law, 10 .

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2024) 'Review: Cengiz Barskanmaz, Recht und Rassismus: Das menschenrechtliche Verbot der Diskriminierung aufgrund der Rasse [Law and Racism: The Human Rights Prohibition of Racial Discrimination] (Springer).' International Journal of Constitutional Law, 22 (2). pp. 637-641.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2019) 'Review: Karla Holloway, Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature (Duke University Press).' Law and Literature, 31 (1). pp. 155-157.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2006) 'Review: Klaus Dieter Beiter, The Right to Education Under International Law (Brill).' MenschenRechtsMagazin, 11 (3). pp. 325-327.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2016) 'Review: Nissa Finney and Gemma Catney (Eds.), Minority Internal Migration in Europe (Ashgate).' Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, 30 (2). pp. 185-187.

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

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2020) Black Lives and German Exceptionalism. Verfassungsblog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2020) Our Favourite CRT: Kimberlé Crenshaw and Patricia J Williams. Critical Legal Thinking [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2021) The UK and Race: A Warning for Europe. Verfassungsblog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Jaspars, Susanne and Oette, Lutz (2023) Sudan's catastrophe: A long history of failed responses to structural and direct violence. African Arguments [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]

Mou, Yu (2023) Zhang Jun: the new President of China’s Supreme People’s Court. The China Collection [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Sharma, Kanika (2024) What's in the rule of law? Aeon [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

Borelli, Silvia and Oette, Lutz (2012) 'Extraordinary Measures, Predictable Consequences: Security Legislation and the Prohibition of Torture.' London: REDRESS Trust. pp. 1-86.

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.' London: SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)