Jurisprudence in UK Law
- Multicultural Jurisprudence
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Justice and the deconstruction of psychological jurisprudence
Critical psychological jurisprudence draws attention to the forces of ideology, power and violence embedded in the narratives of law and psychiatry, criminal justice and mental health. Application ...
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Reasonably Unreasonable: American Use of Force Jurisprudence and Police Impunity
This paper tracks Use of Force jurisprudence from the seminal cases of Graham v. Connor and Tennessee v. Garner to our contemporary moment. I am interested here in assessing the evolving meaning of...
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Reasonably Unreasonable: American Use of Force Jurisprudence and Police Impunity
This paper tracks Use of Force jurisprudence from the seminal cases of Graham v. Connor and Tennessee v. Garner to our contemporary moment. I am interested here in assessing the evolving meaning of...
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The future of European legal scholarship: Empirical Jurisprudence
To avert the twin threats of isolation and marginalization, we argue that European legal research should embrace the methodology of the social sciences to a much greater extent than is currently th...
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Two Concepts of Freedom in Criminal Jurisprudence
The goal of this essay is to identify and discuss two aspects of liberty by examining the distinction between act and omission in criminal jurisprudence. Criminal law makes a significant distinctio...
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Developing Regional Abortion Jurisprudence: Comparative Lessons for African Charter Organs
This article is constructed around an appraisal of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in A, B and C v. Ireland. It seeks to extrapolate comparative lessons for African Charter organ...
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Clothing the Emperor: Towards a Jurisprudence of Sentencing
This paper initially set out to analyse sentencing decisions for drug offences in order to distil a set of principles or jurisprudential values in a core area of criminality. Instead, it found that...
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Hidden Law‐Making in the Province of Medical Jurisprudence
Judges articulate their role in controversial cases of medical ethics in terms of deference to Parliament, lest their personal morality be improperly brought to bear. This hides a wide range of law...
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Deservingness on Trial: Neutralisation Techniques in Public Housing Jurisprudence
How do judges formulate their written decisions when rejecting plaintiffs’ requests in a welfare context? In this paper, based on our thematic analysis, we show how judges construct a nuanced conce...
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