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Art in the Time of NFTs: Navigating the Challenges and Role of NFTs in Artists’ Reclamation of Control over their Publicity Rights
I see NFTs as a way to innovate, empower others and push the boundaries of how artists interact with their fans. I see NFTs…as the future...

Bo Hyun Kim
20 min read


Notes on Counter-Archives: ‘Recovering’ Queer Memory in Contemporary Art
Introduction In Zoe Leonard’s photograph of Fae Richards and June Walker, two women wrap their arms around each other and gaze lovingly...
Sophia Dime
36 min read


Animal Law and Ireland: More Questions Than Answers
Introduction The human–animal relationship, as a concept of study, spans multiple disciplines and indeed has been an area of interest across both time and geography. At its core are historic and cultural norms which often go unchecked and unquestioned. The set of legal rules governing human–animal relationships is known as animal law.[1] This area of law is a complex web of rules that govern many relationship types and situations related to animals. At an academic level this

Etain Quigley
19 min read


Political Messianism, Redemption of the Past, and Historical Time
It would be pointless to list all the issues driving so much of society to take on a pessimistic view of our near future and view us as...

Max Klein
35 min read


A Fictional War (Which the West Can’t Win)
In Lesia’s three-in-one poem A Fictional War , two voices speak in separated monologues but are also integrated and juxtaposed. The poem...

Lesia Daria
1 min read


‘What’s in a Name?’: The Role of Motive in the Definition of a ‘Terrorist Act’ under the Australian Commonwealth Criminal Code
Motive is traditionally considered to be an unwelcome guest in criminal trials, a bête noire that should only appear at a sentencing....

Deborah White
22 min read


All Form but No Substance? A Critical Examination of the ENP’s Success in Promoting Democracy and Good Governance in the EU’s Neighbourhood
As a key European Union (EU) foreign relations instrument, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) governs the relations between the...

Dilys Tam So Yin
18 min read


The Cis-normativity of Consent in Deceptive Sexual Relations
1. Introduction The criminal law continues to grapple with the concept of ‘deceptive sex’ and struggles to draw the appropriate parameters around the provisions on consent contained within the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (henceforth, ‘the SOA’). Particularly notable in this regard have been cases involving ‘gender fraud’, wherein the defendant (D) is alleged to have deceived the complainant (V) as to their gender in order to procure sexual relations. This was found to be the cas

Juana de Leon
42 min read
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Re Toner [2017] NIQB 49
In Northern Ireland, one of the most significant human rights instruments resulting from the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement in 1998 is Section 75 (s. 75) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998. It legally binds public authorities to not only have due regard to the promotion of equality of opportunity amongst nine protected categories of persons (those of differing religious belief, political opinion, racial group, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, those with dependent

Lillian Pollack
24 min read


The Art Industry in Ukraine During the War
The article examines the current state of the Ukrainian contemporary art market in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the...

Gallery Portal 11
38 min read


Why would an Atheist Write a Commentary on the Bible?
I became an atheist at the age of eight. After one of my Hebrew-school teachers devoted a 90-minute class to recounting her experiences...

Matthew H Kramer
9 min read


Economic Recovery Post-COVID: In Conversation with Jean Tirole
Jean Tirole is a French economist who specialises in regulation, behavioural economics, industrial organisation, finance, banking, and...

Gabrielle Desalbres
19 min read


Five Decades of Egyptian Politics: In Conversation with Dr Mostafa El Feki
Dr Mostafa El Feki is Director of the New Library of Alexandria. He has been a Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo, and has held numerous posts in the Egyptian government, including Ambassador to Austria. Dr Mostafa El Feki has witnessed five Egyptian presidencies and been prominent in the political sphere for the last four and a half decades. He is well placed to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of each Egyptian President to have serve
Asseel Darwish
7 min read


Nagorno-Karabakh: War Fails to Resolve the Conflict
Imagine Boris Johnson ordering the bombing of Edinburgh because the Scots voted for independence in a referendum, or the British Government declaring war against Northern Ireland because it wished to join the Republic of Ireland. Unlike the political dialogue and the search for legal remedies that dissatisfied nations of the United Kingdom utilise to resolve their conflicts, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, who have been natives of the territory for centuries, have been the

Hratch Tchilingirian
9 min read


Mary Wollstonecraft’s Political Philosophy: In Conversation with Sylvana Tomaselli
Sylvana Tomaselli is a historian and lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where she is a fellow of St John’s...

Maria Stella Sendas Mendes
10 min read


All the Law’s a Stage! Shakespearean Insights and their Resonance Today
Shakespeare understood much about the role of law in society, possibly thanks to his direct links with London’s Inns of Court. The Inns...

The Rt Hon Lady Arden
26 min read


A Symphony of Defiance: How Music Spearheads Sikh and Punjabi Articulations of Political Resistance
Bury [music] so deep under the earth that no sound or echo of it may rise again. —Attributed to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb[1] Over...

Jeevan Singh Riyait
8 min read


Capturing the Truth
On 11 September 2001, as I walked to the Rome bureau of The New York Times , I stopped in a café on the Campo di Fiori to see why a...

James Hill
11 min read
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