Law
Welcome to the research outputs of the University of Exeter School of Law, part of the College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Recent Submissions
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Human Trafficking as a Migration Crisis – Gender, Precariousness and access to labour rights
(Oxford University Press, 2018)Human Trafficking is considered one of the key humanitarian crises of our time. Public opinion and policymakers alike call for meaningful responses to human trafficking and modern slavery. Counter-trafficking legislation ... -
UK‘s Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act 2017 – legislation 60 years in making
(Kazimierz Wielki University, 2018)On 12 September, 2017, the United Kingdom joined 128 other states in officially becoming party to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two Protocols. The ... -
Beyond victimhood and beyond employment? Exploring avenues for labour law to empower women trafficked into the sex industry.
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018)This article explores under which circumstances a labour law approach could make a meaningful contribution to combatting human trafficking into the sex industry. In this, I critique the existing criminal law approach to ... -
Privity of contract: statutory developments
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We become what we think: Machine laws in machine minds
(Routledge, 2018-09-01)Machinic technologies such as digital watermarking present a challenge to the traditional relationship of the State and the individual. This is because such technologies provide a means for State law to directly and precisely ... -
Biotech 3DP Digital Watermarking: An ‘uncanny valley’ in the Prosthetic State
(Routledge, 2018-01-01)Digital watermarking, a means by which to insert identifying marks, may allow the State to control the human biotech body. This is currently subject to the ‘uncanny valley.’ The ‘uncanny valley’ is the notion that a robot ... -
International Trade & Health Equity: Have Benefits of Medical Tourism ‘Trickled Down’ to India’s Poor?
(University of Warwick, 2015-10-31)In the late 20th century, international trade was projected as a tool for development with regard to global, social and political formations. Traditional political economic models claimed wealth generation through ... -
A proposal for a bridge of licensing over a sea of IP uncertainty: Digital Watermarking of 3D Printed Content
(Routledge, 2018)An AHRC empirical research project carried out by the author and other academics has shown that a technical licensing framework, based around digital watermarking, could address many of the intellectual property law issues ... -
Medical Tourism in India – In Whose Interest?
(Emerald, 2016-06-01)Purpose The present paper aims to analyse who actually benefits from the policies to promote international trade in healthcare services through medical tourism in India. It also assesses the implications of unfettered and ... -
State and Law
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Causal and temporal connections in financial remedy cases: the meaning of marriage
(Jordan Publishing, 2018-03)In Miller; McFarlane it was suggested that in financial remedy applications the guiding principle of fairness has three strands: needs, compensation and sharing. Each of these strands was said to be related to the parties' ... -
ICH and safeguarding: Uncovering the cultural heritage discourse of copyright
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018)This paper envisages the possibility of framing copyright as regulatory tool to safeguard intangible cultural heritage, alongside the 2003 Convention. Pavis turns to copyright as an alternative to the 2003 Convention which ... -
Dougal v BoatsRUs
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Brain activation covaries with reported criminal behaviors when making risky choices: A fuzzy-trace theory approach
(American Psychological Association, 2018)Criminal behavior has been associated with abnormal neural activity when people experience risks and rewards or exercise inhibition. However, neural substrates of mental representations that underlie criminal and noncriminal ... -
Expert Decision Making: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory Perspective
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Limitations on the ability to negotiate justice: Attorney perspectives on guilt, innocence, and legal advice in the current plea system
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-03-23)In the American criminal justice system the vast majority of criminal convictions occur as the result of guilty pleas, often made as a result of plea bargains, rather than jury trials. The incentives offered in exchange ... -
From Meaning to Money: Translating Injury Into Dollars
(American Psychological Association, 2018)Legal systems often require the translation of qualitative assessments into quantitative judgments, yet the qualitative-to-quantitative conversion is a challenging, understudied process. We conducted an experimental test ... -
Property, Planning and Environmental Law Compensation for Harm Caused by Nuclear Installations: What's the Damage?
(Emerald, 2018)Introduction It is hard to conceive of an environmental disaster with greater capacity for harm than a nuclear accident. The (still projected) costs related to the Fukushima nuclear disaster may run to 21.5 trillion yen ...