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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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Integration Through Rights: Towards an Associational Paradigm
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Integration policies in the EU and the UK have over the past two decades increasingly emphasised duties and constraints for migrants. This article challenges the duty‐based model and proposes an alternative legal conception: ‘integration through rights’, with associational rights taking a central role.
Sarah Ganty, Clíodhna Murphy
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X v The Lord Advocate: Challenges and Concerns for Vicarious Liability
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.In X v The Lord Advocate, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that the Crown cannot be vicariously liable for torts committed by judges. This case note critically examines what could be viewed as two significant doctrinal shifts that were introduced by this ruling.
Haim Abraham
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Patents and Public Health: Principle, Politics and Paradox
SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, 2004 Edwin Cameron
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Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
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Rylands v Fletcher Redux: Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.The decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell is the most significant development in the law of Rylands v Fletcher for decades. Rejecting the view that the rule is merely a sub‐species of private nuisance, the Committee reconstructed it as an independent rule of strict liability governing harm caused by ...
Marco Cappelletti
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The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.The Supreme Court in Re X and Y (Adoption Order: Setting Aside) confirms that there is no power under the High Court's inherent jurisdiction to set aside a properly made adoption order, even if the child's welfare would be better served by un‐doing the adoption.
Rob George
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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