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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


Ukrainian Identity in Paint: In Conversation with Oleg Tistol
Oleg Tistol is one of Ukraine’s leading contemporary artists, who works with stereotypes associated with Ukrainian everyday life and...

Constance Uzwyshyn
19 min read


Building the Jam Factory: In Conversation with Bozhena Pelenska
Three Stories of Art and War III коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into crisis, and desperate measures were undertaken to secure staff, collections, and artists. Dreams are deferred but stubborn resilience manifests as a desire to not only protect cultural heritage, but also somehow provide opportunities for continued creativity. Three institutions from all regions of Ukraine—Central, East, and West—reflect on thei

Constance Uzwyshyn
9 min read


‘The Eyes of the World Are Upon You’: The Role of International Organisations in the Suez Crisis
Introduction Gamal Abdel Nasser savoured the moment: it is 26 July 1956 and he has just announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal....

Asa Breuss-Burgess
40 min read


Djokovic, the Australian Open, idiots and Cov-idiots—what would Nietzsche say?
Had any of the players who competed for the inaugural tennis grand slam of 2022 in Melbourne been complete (i.e. sovereign, self-governing) individuals, they would have declared the ‘AO’ boycott before the tournament started.[1][2] Not only because of Djokovic, but also because of Renata Voráčová. Not only out of the camaraderie with the two fellow members of the traveling circus which professional tennis (along with all other professional ‘spectator’ sports) has become, cou

Dmitri Safronov
15 min read


‘Un noble décor’: Modernity and Depictions of the Countryside in Colette’s La Maison de Claudine and Sido
Introduction For the maverick French author Colette, writing about her childhood offered a chance to reflect on the past while keeping a firm grasp on the present. Though frequently avant-garde in their social philosophies, her memoir-adjacent novels also make evident a measured introspection. As she writes of her own attitudes towards novels and life in semi-autobiographical novel La Maison de Claudine : ‘Je ne sais quelle froideur littéraire, saine à tout prendre, me garda

Rosalind Moran
21 min read


Unfiltered, Candid, and Interdisciplinary: Reflections on the ‘Human values and global response in the Covid-19 pandemic’ 2022 Tanner Lectures
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are prestigious gatherings of globally renowned scholars across the humanities and the sciences. This year’s lectures addressed the questions of Providing for a nation’s health, in a global context , where philosophers, economists, a physician and a social psychologist offered their take on different aspects of the healthcare response to global pandemics. In this piece, students, research fellows, and visiting fellows currently at Clare Ha

Clare Hall Tanner Lecture Working Group
20 min read


Notre-Dame de Paris: Pyrolysis Hypothesis and Fire Safety in Historical Buildings
On Monday 15 April, a fire broke out in the Notre-Dame de Paris. Believers and tourists were invited to leave the cathedral immediately. A race against time was launched which would last more than fifteen hours, defying all human bravery to save the Notre-Dame. Thousands of people gathered around the cathedral this evening to reflect, pray, and witness this catastrophe which none had thought possible to an eight-century old lady that had accompanied people in their joys and s

Rémi Desalbres
6 min read


A Note on the Controversy concerning Eric Gill
On 12 January 2022, there was an attempt to destroy, or at least damage, the statue of Prospero and Ariel installed outside the BBC’s...

Peter Brooke
25 min read


The Task of the Curator in the Era of Reconciliation
Acknowledgements I would like to begin by acknowledging that the land within which I wrote this research paper is Mi’Kma’ki, the...

Caroline DeFrias
36 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


Democracy, Constitutionalism, and the Commonwealth: In Conversation with Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Currently Professor of Government at King’s College London, Professor Vernon Bogdanor is a leading expert in British constitutional...

Teresa Turkheimer
25 min read


No Place Like Home: An Emigrant’s Epic Tale
Lesia's poem No Place Like Home explores the shared human longing for a home, not only as a search for a refuge or place to settle, or a...

Lesia Daria
1 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


The Forgotten Question: Clarifying the Extent of the Protection Afforded by Actual Occupation under the Land Registration Act 2002
I. Introduction Issues of priority are at the centre of English land law. Where a plot of land in which a third party has an interest is transferred from one party to another, a conflict arises between this third party and the transferee: whose interest has priority? If push comes to shove, can the transferee prevent the third-party interest holder from exercising her right, or is the third-party interest-holder entitled to enjoy her interest in the face of the transferee’s o

Fred Halbhuber
31 min read
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