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Projects in Law School
Human rights and boundaries
01/03/2013 →
Steven Wheatley, Karolina Follis, Clemens Rieder, James Summers, Saskia Vermeylen
The project will consider how human rights addresses the question of boundaries: the way in which human rights are applicable to bounded communities; how human rights constructs bounded identities of ... Read more»New technology and tort
05/12/2012 →
Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Dr Chatterjee is currently working on a project exploring the impacts of new technology on tort. She hopes to present a paper on this at the 2013 SLSA Conference, York University UK. See below for Abs ... Read more»Overview of the worldwide best practices for rape prevention & assisting women victims of rape
01/11/2012 →
Sylvia Walby, Brian Francis, Corinne May-Chahal, David Sugarman
... Read more»Monograph - 'International Child Relocation Law: Competing Interests; Competing Human Rights'
30/07/2012 → 31/12/2013
Sarah Beresford
International Child Relocation Law will provide a clear, interdisciplinary and socio-legal analysis of the law in an international context with a focus on selected jurisdictions. Whilst there is some ... Read more»Cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare and international law
05/07/2012 →
Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Dr Chatterjee is currently exploring the contours of international law as they relate to cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare. A paper on the topic has been presented to the International Law Group, Lancas ... Read more»Exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship
01/11/2011 → 31/07/2015
Suzanne Ost
I am working on a project with Prof Hazel Biggs (School of Law, University of Southampton) exploring the concept of exploitation in the particular context of the doctor-patient relationship. Thus far, ... Read more»Misadminstration of Justice
28/09/2011 →
Agata Fijalkowski
An important dimension of post-transtitional justice concerns the judiciary and the misadministration of justice. This research examines key cases heard by military and common courts in two periods in ... Read more»Law and Systems Theory Network
02/05/2011 →
Tom Webb
LaSTNet is a mailing list with accompanying website set up to bring those with an interest in the application of systems theory thinking to law. The mailing list is primarily used to advertise confer ... Read more»Book - Gender, Law, Violence (work in progress)
01/10/2010 → 01/11/2011
Sarah Beresford
A sole authored monograph examining some of the ways in which legal discourse creates gendered identitites. The proposal is currently under consideration by Routledge. It has been peer reviewed. Rou ... Read more»Criminalisation of Cartels
02/02/2009 →
Angus MacCulloch
Following on from my previous work, 'The Cartel Offence and the Criminalisation of UK Competition Law' (2003) and 'Honesty, Morality and the Cartel Offence' (2007), I am continuing my work in cartel r ... Read more»The Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice
01/01/2008 → 31/07/2011
Suzanne Ost
The research project (funded by the AHRC) will offer a comprehensive analysis of the role of the criminal justice system in regulating health care practice and ethics in the UK. Whilst the courts have ... Read more»Universal Human Rights in Practice
01/10/2007 → 31/12/2010
Sigrun Skogly
The project is aimed at exploring states' obligations in relation to economic, social and cultural rights when acting outside their own borders. The project, carried out by a network of academics and ... Read more»Children and Healthcare Research
03/09/2007 →
This symposium on the involvement of children in healthcare research is sponsored by the Modern Law Review Seminar Series and supported by the Lancaster Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law. The s ... Read more»The experience of complainants in rape trials
01/09/2007 →
Georgina Firth
I am looking at the new definitions of consent in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and assessing their impact on the experience of the rape trial for complainants. I also intend to draw upon research look ... Read more»Healthcare Research Ethics and Law: Regulation, Review and Responsibility
01/08/2007 → 31/03/2008
This book will focus on the process of the ethical review of biomedical research. It includes an overview of the history of research ethics, the philosophical and ethical theories that underpin the et ... Read more»Consumer Construction Law
24/07/2007 →
Richard Austen-Baker
Acting as UK Reporter for a project to compare the law on consumer construction contracts in Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland. This work is part of a project being undertaken at Rupre ... Read more»Comprehensive Contract Theory
01/06/2007 →
Richard Austen-Baker
This project is an attempt to produce a "streamlined" version of Ian Macneil's essential contract theory, and proposes a four norm model of contract relations to replace the 14 or so norms proposed by ... Read more»Impact of Companies Act 2006
31/05/2007 → 31/05/2008
David Milman
This project will examine the broad impact of the new Companies Act, the longest statute in English Law. Professor Milman is part of a team working with OUP to produce a major looseleaf on this legis ... Read more»Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding the Involvement of Children in Health Care Research
11/05/2007 →
Sara Fovargue
Professor Hazel Biggs and I have been awarded significant funding for a one day seminar from the prestigious Modern Law Review's Seminar Series, to be held in September 2007. It will bring together i ... Read more»One day conference on NGOs in National and International Governance
01/05/2007 → 21/09/2007
Israel Butler
This conference is intended to gather three sets of actors to explore the role of non-governmental organisations in policy making at the national, EU and UN levels: NGOs and policy-makers (as active p ... Read more»Constraints in Law and Literature: An exploration of regulation, justice and ethics
10/01/2007 → 31/07/2008
Suzanne Ost
The School of Law at the University of Manchester held a one-day colloquium at the University's Conference Centre in conjunction with the Law School, Lancaster University. The main focus of this mini- ... Read more»Ethics and Ethnographic Research
01/11/2006 →
Christine Milligan, David Archard
Co-awarded, 'ESRC Research Training Programme: Ethics and Ethical Practice in Social Science, 2006-2009' INTERNET ARTICLES 2003. 'Ethical Issues Concerning Representation of Narratives of Sexual ... Read more»Extraterritorial Obligations in International Human Rights Law
01/09/2006 → 01/09/2008
Sigrun Skogly
This project will result in an edited book (with Prof. Mark Gibney, University of North Carolina - Asheville) entitled Extraterritorial Obligations and International Human Rights. The book addresses h ... Read more»Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses
01/05/2006 →
Suzanne Ost
The main publication arising from this project is a book with Cambridge University Press, 2009: Child pornography and sexual grooming provide case study exemplars of problems that society and law hav ... Read more»Implied Terms
01/08/2005 →
Richard Austen-Baker
Research into the law concerning implied terms in contracts. This project began with an investigation into the history of The Moorcock as a precedent, examining the varying fortunes of dicta in The M ... Read more»National Corporate Law and the Challenge of Globalisation
15/05/2005 → 31/07/2007
David Milman
National Corporate Law and the Challenge of Globalisation. This is a new monograph which was written for Edward Elgar Publishing. It examines how UK law in particular, and corporate law jurisdiction ... Read more»
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