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International Criminal Law and the Russia-Ukraine War: In Conversation with Andrew Clapham
Andrew Clapham is Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, which he joined in 1997. He was the first Director of...

Shahad Alkamas
23 min read


A Racial Justice Approach to Mitigation within Sentencing in the UK
A case for the enhanced pre-sentence report in England and Wales, exploring how the Canadian approach to racially disproportionate...

Ife Thompson
15 min read


How US Judges Failed the Rule of Law and Justice: In Conversation with Thomas B Wilner
Thomas B Wilner is the managing partner of Shearman & Sterling's International Trade and Global Relations Practice. In addition to this,...

Nadia Jahnecke
26 min read


The Mauritanian Speaks: In Conversation with Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Mohamedou Ould Slahi was detained at the inhumane Guantanamo Bay 'Detention Camp' for 14 years without charge. For 14 years, Mohamedou...

Nadia Jahnecke
21 min read


The UK’s Rwanda Asylum Plan: Bad for Refugees, Bad for Rwanda
Like many other Rwandans, I heard for the first time of the United Kingdom (UK)’s plan to send its unsolicited asylum seekers to Rwanda...

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
36 min read


The War on Terror’s Obstruction of Justice: In Conversation with Nancy Hollander
Nancy Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer from the Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm of Freedman Boyd...

Nadia Jahnecke
26 min read


Life of Peaceful Resistance in Palestine: In Conversation with Issa Amro
Issa Amro is a Palestinian human rights defender who has lived in Hebron (West Bank) since his birth. For over two decades, he has been...

Shahad Alkamas
22 min read


Grasping ‘the Devil’ in the Details of the Syrian Government’s Response to Anti-Torture Prohibitions
Introduction ‘Drown them in the details’, a long-standing strategic tradition of the Syrian government, was cited by Syria’s foreign...

Mansour al-Omari
27 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’ in periods of political transition ever since the end of the Cold War.[1] Understood here as ‘the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a society’s attempts to come to terms with a legacy of large-scale past abuses, in order to ensure accountability, serve justice and achieve reconciliation’,[2] TJ systems are founded on the

Alejandro Posada Téllez
18 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


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 production methods in machines[1], to a post-Industrial Revolution economy based upon information technology, widely known as the Digital Age.[2] Lord Sales has referred to computational machines as ‘transformational due to their mechanical ability to complete tasks…faster than any human could’.[3] The twenty-first century has seen an enhancem

Jamie Donnelly
32 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


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 frequently arise in the contemporary world. The case discussed in this piece concerns contemporary artworks from the ‘Canal Zone’ series by Richard Prince. Most of the works had photographs by Patrick Cariou incorporated in them, which were previously published in Cariou’s Yes Rasta book. Following an analysis of appropriation art history, postmode

Marysia Opadczuk
15 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 concern and for some valid reason cannot be left within the exclusive jurisdiction of the State that would have control over it under ordinary circumstances’.[1] This essay will firstly examine whether proposed definitions of terrorism as a crime under customary international law should be accepted, and then discuss whether terrorism should fa

Eoin Campbell
13 min read


Warfare’s Silent Victim: International Humanitarian Law and the Protection of the Natural Environment during Armed Conflict
I: Introduction Armed conflict changes everything.[1] It is the ultimate human-induced crisis that has devastating consequences for the...

Lydia Millar
34 min read


The Problem of Sieving Related Party Transactions in India and the UK
I. Introduction The rise of family-owned businesses has resulted in the clustering of several companies and their subsidiaries under the...

Varda Saxena
20 min read


Foreword to CJLPA 2 by Martin Wilson, Honorary Editor and Chief General Counsel at Phillips
As I read the insightful, entertaining, scholarly, and diverse articles in this issue of The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art...

Martin Wilson
4 min read


The Fight for Survival Fifty Years On—A Brief Synopsis on Law Centres in the UK
Introduction Law centres are providers of legal aid and have been in existence since the early 1970s. Their main role has been to assist those that reside within their local communities. They specialise predominantly in social welfare or ‘poverty’ law as their legal representatives possess detailed knowledge about the problems their local residents face. This article is divided into timeframes and will consider the development of law centres in the UK from 1945 to 2021. Betwe

Ayesha Riaz
33 min read


Holding War Criminals to Account: The Challenges Presented by Information Warfare
The physical battlefield of the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia is being closely scrutinised by the global community: each day,...

Alexandra Agnew, Mishcon de Reya
11 min read


Copyright in the Digital Age: Analysing the Achievements and Flaws in the EU Copyright Exceptions Domain
Copyright exceptions are an important part of international and European copyright frameworks, designed to ensure the balancing of...

Daniel Mooney
23 min read


Given the Court at Strasbourg’s Jurisprudence, Are Fair Trials Achievable Under the ECHR?
The Court of Strasbourg is a lighthouse, a lookout. Jean-Paul Costa[1] Introduction The Convention for the Protection...

Damian P Clancy
34 min read


Amir Tataloo, Beyond Resistance and Propaganda: The Appropriation of Iranian Rap Music and the Negotiation of its Legality
Introduction No one knows about Amir Tataloo. Bahman Ghobadi’s film No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009) could be seen as a dynamic...

Casper Alexander Sanderson
35 min read


Bonnie and Clyde, Schopenhauer, and the Paradox and Problem of Innocence
In the 1967 gangster road movie Bonnie and Clyde , the often-horrific events of the real-life story are cut with ingenuous humour and...

Paul Pickering
5 min read


The Claim of Judicial Finality in the United States: A Popular Theory that Lacks Evidence
In law schools as well as political science and history classes, students are generally taught that when the Supreme Court decides a constitutional issue it delivers the final word unless the Court changes its position. That is the prominent theory. In 1953, Justice Robert Jackson promoted the doctrine of judicial finality by making a statement that is often cited: ‘We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final’.[1] Perhaps a clev

Louis Fisher
34 min read
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