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Blaze of Glory
Applause in the executive boardroom. Hands pound backs, mouths twist into smiles. A round man with a stain of indecipherable grease on...

Jack Graveney
8 min read


Arborescence
Marcus did not know what to expect. The man with whom he had spoken on the phone made little sense. A number of names had been mentioned,...

Jack Graveney
6 min read


Where the Thames Meets the Sea
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to...

Julian Kirwan-Taylor
11 min read


Is Peace Merely About the Attainment of Justice? Transitional Justice in South Africa and the Former Yugoslavia
As a field of scholarship and practice, Transitional Justice (TJ) has become the dominant framework through which to consider ‘justice’...

Alejandro Posada Téllez
18 min read


Politics in a Multiplex World: In Conversation with Amitav Acharya
Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International...

Richa Kapoor
17 min read


Belief in a Myth and Myth as Fact: Towards a More Compassionate Sociology and Society
There exists a fine line that sociologists—and all social scientists—must tread as they try to knit together empirical, objective[1]...

Niamh Hodges
20 min read


Art under Siege: In Conversation with Mykhailo Glubokyi
Three Stories of Art and War II коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into...

Constance Uzwyshyn
10 min read


CJLPA 2: A word from the Editor-in-Chief
The role of The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art in current public discourse I am often asked what I am trying to do with...

Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
8 min read


Making Consent Meaningful Again: A Review of the Online ‘Consent’ Model and Alternative Approaches
I. Introduction From atoms to bits, digital convergence has made science fictions come true.[1] Web, mobile applications, smart homes,...

Jialiang Zhang
10 min read


A Flawed Democracy
Each year, The Economist publishes a Democracy Index. The 2022 edition listed 167 countries ranked on metrics of five dimensions:...

John Rennie Short
21 min read


The Dawn of the Digital Age is Upon Us: Is Artificial Intelligence a Substantial Threat to the Law in the Twenty-First Century?
Introduction There has been an epochal shift from the traditional industries established by the Industrial Revolution, including hand...

Jamie Donnelly
32 min read


Putin’s Propaganda: A Path to Genocide
Russia’s assault on Ukraine continues to intensify as bombs increasingly hit city centres, destroying apartment buildings, theatres, and...

Marta Baziuk
4 min read


Art at the Arsenal: In Conversation with Olesya Ostrovska-Liuta
Three Stories of Art and War I коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into...

Constance Uzwyshyn
16 min read


HORTENSIUS, or: On the Cultivation of Subjects in Noman’s Garden
Then from out the cave the mighty Polyphemus answered them: ‘My friends, it is Noman that is slaying me by guile and not by force’. And...

Jojo Amoah
36 min read


The Ministerial Code: a scarecrow of the law?
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their...

Shulamit Aberbach, Mishcon de Reya
11 min read


Karl Heinz Bohrer’s ‘A Little Pleasure in Decline. Essays on Britain’
Karl Heinz Bohrer’s A Little Pleasure in Decline. Essays on Britain. [1] My friend Karl Heinz Bohrer died on 4 August 2021. He was seen...

Giles MacDonogh
14 min read


Can Modern Appropriation Art be Reconciled with Copyright Law? A Closer Look at Cariou v. Prince
Artists have drawn ideas, thoughts, and concepts from the works of others for centuries. However, copyright infringement issues...

Marysia Opadczuk
15 min read


The Next Civil War: In Conversation with Stephen Marche
Stephen Marche is a novelist, essayist and cultural commentator. He is the author of half a dozen books and has written opinion pieces...

Charlotte Friesen
6 min read


Should Terrorism be Regarded as an International Crime? An Examination of the Theoretical Benefits and the Practical Reality
Introduction An international crime is ‘an act universally recognised as criminal, which is considered a grave matter of international...

Eoin Campbell
13 min read


Iconoplastic: An Institutional Reform Agenda
The last few months, in particular the furore over Partygate,[1] have scarred the reputation of many of Britain’s most vital...

Polly Mackenzie
14 min read


Power and Performativity: In Conversation with Professor Judith Butler
A front-runner in the fight for equality and justice, Professor Judith Butler is one of the most influential philosophers of the past...

Teresa Turkheimer
26 min read


‘We’re All Mad As Hell Now’—How ‘Network’ (1976) Captures the Anti-Politics of Social Media
‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ is a phrase that has been raptured up into the popular English lexicon, cited,...

Katherine Cross
21 min read


Foreword to CJLPA 2 by The Rt Hon Lady Arden, Former Justice of the UK Supreme Court
I am honoured to be asked to write a short Foreword to this Issue of The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art . I was an...

The Rt Hon Lady Arden
3 min read


Dublin and Urban Development: In Conversation with Dr. Alison Gilliland
Dr. Alison Gilliland was Dublin’s 353rd Lord Mayor in 2021/2022. She is currently a Dublin City Councillor for the Labour Party,...

Kylie Quinn
14 min read
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