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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 723-759, September 2026.
As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
wiley   +1 more source

The Actus Reus of Attempts

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 785-814, September 2026.
This paper gives an account of the actus reus for a criminal attempt. Conduct that is more than merely preparatory, we argue, intrudes on the same protected domain as the complete offence. This takes a normative approach to actus reus, focusing on the reasons that the defendant acted against.
Angelo Ryu, Trenton Sewell
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Exemplary Damages as Public Interest Damages: Implications for Rights of Action, Settlement and the Distribution of Awards

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 760-784, September 2026.
Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should require court ...
Kit Barker
wiley   +1 more source

Blurring Clinical and Best Interests Decisions: Townsend v Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 815-832, September 2026.
Healthcare decision‐making under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA 2005) has long been understood as comprising two distinct, sequential decisions. First, a clinical decision about what treatment options are available. Second, a best interests decision about which (if any) of these options to proceed with.
Jordan A. Parsons, Alex Cisneros
wiley   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 287-308, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 309-341, September 2026.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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