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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 Vernon Bogdanor
Currently Professor of Government at King’s College London, Professor Vernon Bogdanor is a leading expert in British constitutional politics and history and has received a CBE in recognition of his extensive contribution to the field. In his most recent book, titled Britain and Europe in a Troubled World , published in 2020, Professor Bogdanor traces Britain’s historical relationship with the European Union in order to understand how Brexit came to be. In this interview, Pro

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


Stand Up for Singapore: Music and National Identity in a Cosmopolitan City-state
Modern-day Singapore prides itself as a ‘global city’ with a commendable level of economic stability as a result of its sustained...

Nicholas Ong
29 min read


War from the Verkhovna Rada: In Conversation with Mariya Ionova (MP)
Mariya Ionova wears many hats. She is a Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Credit and a...

Constance Uzwyshyn
10 min read


The Thin End of the Wedge: How Trans Rights Have Emerged as a Keystone in the Feminist Politics on Bodily Autonomy
As of this writing, an Alabama law that would have made it a felony in the state to provide a teenager with gender-affirming healthcare,...

Katherine Cross
17 min read


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
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