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The Modern Law Review was formed in 1937 and is now widely recognised as the UK's leading Law Journal.
London and Oxford, UK
Joined October 2014
With @JoePTomlinson @jed_meers @CR_Obrien @AJO_Welsh @ECRomanis @dralanbrownlaw @SamBookman @rita_matu and many more.
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Case notes cover climate and tort law and AI inventions in patents, with book reviews on new titles on European welfare law, fiduciary law and the criminalisation of violence against women.
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an empirical evaluation of law research evaluations in the UK, performative environmental law and novel reproductive technologies.
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Jan 2025 MLR is now up! Featuring Nicola Lacey’s Chorley Lecture on interpersonal ideas in law, articles on digital status for EU citizens in the UK, ideology in contemporary constitutional theory,
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With @CharityLawProf @Rebeccakhelm @or_brook.@Law_Leeds @CBLP_Leeds @csereskati @ACELG.@AdamLawSchool and many others!.
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Book reviews cover new titles on legal aid, polygamy and English marriage laws, EU values at the CJEU, intellectual property and childhood play, and the rights of nature.
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Notes deal with a 2023 White Paper on digital gambling, and new cases on trust purposes and the cy-pres doctrine, knowing receipt from breach of trust, and statutory trusts and open spaces.
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The September Issue of the MLR is now available! Articles on UKSC public law restraint, charitable purpose trusts, mid-twentieth century choice of law, guilty plea regimes, European administrative law enforcement and economic imaginaries in environmental regulation.
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A review essay examines Julia Dickson's Elucidating law, and book reviews cover new titles on the legal history of forests, animal rights and time in international human rights law.
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Notes cover new legislation on the meaning of 'treasure', new cases on copyright and literary characters, Irish judicial power, and employee data processing under the GDPR.
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the law and morality of reproductive technologies and genetic relatedness, a history of the birth registry, the English foreign act of state doctrine, machine learning in administrative law, and an analysis of the aims and functions of criminal law.
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We also realised we forgot to spruik our March issue on the 'x platform'. Apologies to our authors and readers. March 2024 is available here and includes articles on adolescent decisions to refuse medical treatment,
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The 2024 Chorley Lecture 'Institutionalising Interpersonal Ideas in Law' delivered by Professor Nicola Lacey is now available online here:
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Case notes cover new UK decisions on vicarious liability, relational contracts and police self-defence. A review essay examines three new titles on making EU law, and book reviews cover workers rights, music copyright law, AI and the law and suicide.
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The July Issue of the Modern Law Review is now available, with articles on ‘responsive’ constitutionalism, police face recognition, natural rights theories of constituent power, judging in authoritarian legal systems, family sanctions and judicial review of airport expansion.
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New on the MLR Forum, @ruawall and Daniel Matthews have posted a brief rejoinder to Loughlin:
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New on the MLR Forum, Martin Loughlin's 'Some Thoughts on Academic Writing' responding to @ruawall and Daniel Matthews 'Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic':
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