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Exploring the bottom-up reform of sex offender registration in China : Carceral feminism and populist authoritarianism
(2020-04-29)
In 2017, the Minhang District of Shanghai introduced sex offender registration. This reform attracted positive reactions on social media. Local governments in Jiangsu, Guangdong and Chongqing quickly followed the precedent. ...
National Sovereignty over Natural Resources, Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Development
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016-11-25)
Environmental interdependencies place undeniable pressures and challenges on the cardinal principle of state sovereignty and in particular on the principle of national sovereignty over natural resources. This chapter ...
The Digital Economy Act 2010: subscriber monitoring and the right to privacy under Article 8 of the ECHR
(2016-04-26)
This paper critically assesses the compatibility of s3 Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEA) with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (1950) (ECHR). The analysis draws on Ofcom’s Initial Obligations and two UK ...
When ‘neutral’ evidence still has probative value: implications from the Barry George Case
(2014-07-01)
The likelihood ratio (LR) is a probabilistic method that has been championed as a ‘simple rule’ for evaluating the probative value of forensic evidence in court. Intuitively, if the LR is greater than one then the evidence ...
Incompatibility of the Digital Economy Act 2010 subscriber appeal process provisions with Article 6 of the ECHR
(2014-01-10)
Through case-law research, this paper critically assesses the compatibility of the Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEA) subscriber appeal process provisions (Section 13 of the DEA) with Article 6 of the European Convention on ...
The 1960 Treaties and the search for security in Cyprus
(2009)
At the beginning of The Birds, the play written by Aristophanes, two frustrated and grizzled Athenians, Euelpides and Pithetaerus, find themselves lost in a ‘wild and desolate region’ with just a bird in each hand for ...
In vitro study on influence of nano particles of CuO on CA1 pyramidal neurons of rat hippocampus potassium currents
(2008)
The effects of nano particles of CuO on voltage-dependent potassium currents were studied in acutely isolated CA1 pyramidal neurons of rat hippocampus using the whole-cell patch-clamp techniques. Nano particles of CuO had ...