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Volume 5, issue 4, 2016

Precedents, Patterns and Puzzles: Feminist Reflections on the First Women Lawyers pp. 1-17

Mary Jane Mossman

What Has Limited the Impact of UK Disability Equality Law on Social Justice? pp. 1-23

Rupert Harwood

Assessing the UN High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines Report in Light of the Right to Health pp. 1-11

Lisa Forman, Ifrah Abdillahi and Jeannie Samuel

Copyright, Culture, and Community in Virtual Worlds pp. 1-12

Dan Burk

Liberal or Conservative? Genetic Rhetoric, Disability, and Human Species Modification pp. 1-12

Christopher F. Goodey

Harmonisation and Cross-Fertilisation of Socio-Economic Rights in the Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Disability and the Reasonableness Review Case Study pp. 1-18

Andrea Broderick

Volume 5, issue 3, 2016

Governance of the Internet of Things—From Infancy to First Attempts of Implementation? pp. 1-12

Rolf H. Weber

Protection Orders for Battered Women in Israel pp. 1-12

Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz

Precision Medicine and Advancing Genetic Technologies—Disability and Human Rights Perspectives pp. 1-23

Aisling De Paor and Peter Blanck

The Discussions around Precision Genetic Engineering: Role of and Impact on Disabled People pp. 1-23

Gregor Wolbring and Lucy Diep

Disability in a Human Rights Context pp. 1-24

Theresia Degener

Strengthening the Voice of Persons with Mental Health Problems in Legal Capacity Proceedings pp. 1-14

Marie Fallon-Kund and Jerome Bickenbach

The Cosmopolitan Future: A Feminist Approach pp. 1-14

Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui

Using Risk to Assess the Legal Violence of Mandatory Detention pp. 1-20

Robert Koulish

Subverting Justice: Socio-Legal Determinants of Impunity for Violence against Women in Guatemala pp. 1-20

Cecilia Menjívar and Shannon Drysdale Walsh

Lux In Arcana: Decoding the Right to Be Forgotten in Digital Archives pp. 1-9

Patricia Sanchez Abril and Eugenio Pizarro Moreno

Volume 5, issue 2, 2016

The Death Penalty and Human Dignity: An Existential Fallacy pp. 1-5

Susan Nagelsen and Charles Huckelbury

A Word of Caution: Human Rights, Disability, and Implementation of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals pp. 1-18

Claire E. Brolan

Legal Instruments for Marine Sanctuary in the High Arctic pp. 1-15

Kathleen Morris and Kamrul Hossain

Are Cutbacks to Personal Assistance Violating Sweden’s Obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities? pp. 1-15

Ciara Brennan, Rannveig Traustadóttir, Peter Anderberg and James Rice

Uneasy Bedfellows: Social Justice and Neo-Liberal Practice in the Housing Market pp. 1-6

Andrew Martel

Can International Human Rights Law Help Restore Access to Justice for Disabled Workers? pp. 1-23

Rupert Harwood

The Proportionality and Solidarity Principles and Their Impact on Privacy Laws in German Jurisprudence pp. 1-11

Klaus Schmidt and Alejandro Laje

Sustainable Indigenous Reindeer Herding as a Human Right pp. 1-8

Stefan Kirchner and Vanessa M. Frese

Kids Sell: Celebrity Kids’ Right to Privacy pp. 1-13

Seong Choul Hong

Institutional Perceptions of Internal Security on the Relationship between “Sensitive Urban Zones” and Immigrant Criminality pp. 1-14

Maria João Guia and João Pedroso

The Structure of Local Groundwater Law for Sustainable Groundwater Policy in Japan pp. 1-14

Sayaka K. Hori

NGO-Ization and Human Rights Law: The CRPD’s Civil Society Mandate pp. 1-14

Stephen Meyers

Volume 5, issue 1, 2016

Access to Preventive Health Care for Undocumented Migrants: A Comparative Study of Germany, The Netherlands and Spain from a Human Rights Perspective pp. 1-22

Veronika Flegar, María Dalli and Brigit Toebes

Services in the Field of Law within the Internal Market: Promoting e-Justice through Interoperability pp. 1-18

Gherardo Carullo

Feminist Jurisprudence, the Australian Legal System and Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: Fiction over Fact pp. 1-18

Jessica White and Patricia Easteal

Australia’s National Anti-Bullying Jurisdiction: Paper Tiger or Velvet Glove pp. 1-18

Allison Ballard and Patricia Easteal

CRISPR, a Crossroads in Genetic Intervention: Pitting the Right to Health against the Right to Disability pp. 1-15

Shawna Benston

Germany without Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry—A 15 Month Real World Experience pp. 1-6

Martin Zinkler

Dissecting Marriage Fraud as a True Immigration Crime pp. 1-10

George S. Asllani

Can a Patriarchal World Be Corrected by a Criminal Law? Feminist Struggles, Penal Justice and Legal Reform in France (1970–1980) pp. 1-14

Jean Bérard

Assumptions of Decision-Making Capacity: The Role Supporter Attitudes Play in the Realisation of Article 12 for People with Severe or Profound Intellectual Disability pp. 1-9

Joanne Watson

Future Persons and Legal Persons: The Problematic Representation of the Future Child in the Regulation of Reproduction pp. 1-16

Lisette Ten Haaf

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Laws in 2015 pp. 1-2

Laws Editorial Office

Legal Capacity and Access to Justice: The Right to Participation in the CRPD pp. 1-13

Penelope Weller

In the Best Interests of the Abuser: Coercive Control, Child Custody Proceedings and the “Expert” Assessments That Guide Judicial Determinations pp. 1-17

Samantha Jeffries

Explaining Patterns of Urban Violence in Medellin, Colombia pp. 1-17

Caroline Doyle

Marine World Heritage and the Quest for Sustainability pp. 1-20

Antonia Zervaki

Volume 4, issue 4, 2015

Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing at the Cross-Roads of the Human Right to Science and International Biodiversity Law pp. 1-29

Elisa Morgera

Embryonic Human Life and Dignity: The French Connection pp. 1-16

Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis

Bioethics and Human Rights in the Constitutional Formation of Global Health pp. 1-32

Atina Krajewska

Using Increases in Criminal Deportees from the US to Estimate the Effect of Crime on Economic Growth and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 1-18

Garfield O. Blake

State Fragility and Structural Gender Inequality in Family Law: An Empirical Investigation pp. 1-19

Donna Lee Bowen, Valerie M. Hudson and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen

Immigration Federalism as Ideology: Lessons from the States pp. 1-26

Lina Newton

Double Blind Peer-Review in Laws pp. 1-1

Frank Pasquale and Martyn Rittman

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Article 12: Prospective Feminist Lessons against the “Will and Preferences” Paradigm pp. 1-20

Camillia Kong

Climate-Related Standards and Multilateral Finance for Development pp. 1-17

Charles E. Di Leva

Volume 4, issue 3, 2015

What Role for Law, Human Rights, and Bioethics in an Age of Big Data, Consortia Science, and Consortia Ethics? The Importance of Trustworthiness pp. 1-26

Edward S. Dove and Vural Özdemir

Is There Room for Coherence in Climate Financial Assistance? pp. 1-18

Laurence Boisson De Chazournes

Psychosocial Predictors of Compliance with Speed Limits and Alcohol Limits by Spanish Drivers: Modeling Compliance of Traffic Rules pp. 1-15

Rebeca Bautista, Esther Sitges and Sonia Tirado

The Absence of the Right to Culture of Minorities within Minorities in Israel: A Tale of a Cultural Dissent Case pp. 1-23

Meital Pinto

Polluter-Pays-Principle: The Cardinal Instrument for Addressing Climate Change pp. 1-16

Mizan R. Khan

Renewables, Preferential Trade Agreements and EU Energy Security pp. 1-43

Rafael Leal-Arcas, Valentina Caruso and Raphaela Leupuscek

Privacy, Personhood, and Property in the Age of Genomics pp. 1-36

Wendy Bonython and Bruce Baer Arnold

Regulating Gamete Donation in the U.S.: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications pp. 1-25

Maya Sabatello

Enforcement Issues in the Governance of Ships’ Carbon Emissions pp. 1-17

Michael Bloor, Susan Baker, Helen Sampson and Katrin Dahlgren

The Political Contingency of Sex Discrimination Legislation: The Case of Australia pp. 1-21

Margaret Thornton

Access to Minerals: WTO Export Restrictions and Climate Change Considerations pp. 1-21

Stephanie Switzer, Leonardus Gerber and Francesco Sindico

The Human Right to Water in Law and Implementation pp. 1-59

Norbert Brunner, Vijay Mishra, Ponnusamy Sakthivel, Markus Starkl and Christof Tschohl

Doing “Life”: A Glimpse into the Long-Term Incarceration Experience pp. 1-20

Anthony K. Willis and Barbara H. Zaitzow

Volume 4, issue 2, 2015

The Exercise of Legal Capacity, Supported Decision-Making and Scotland’s Mental Health and Incapacity Legislation: Working with CRPD Challenges pp. 1-18

Jill Stavert

Querying the Call to Introduce Mental Capacity Testing to Mental Health Law: Does the Doctrine of Necessity Provide an Alternative? pp. 1-27

Piers Gooding and Eilionóir Flynn

Physician Charity Care in America: Almost Always an Illusion, Ever More Commercial pp. 1-15

Bruce D. White and Marleen Eijkholt

Decision-Making, Legal Capacity and Neuroscience: Implications for Mental Health Laws pp. 1-14

Bernadette McSherry

Evaluating Decision Making Capacity in Older Individuals: Does the Law Give a Clue? pp. 1-9

Marshall B. Kapp

Should Supported Decision-Making Replace Substituted Decision-Making? The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Coercive Treatment under Queensland’s Mental Health Act 2000 pp. 1-28

Katrine Del Villar

Conceptual and Ethical Problems in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: An Interrogation of the Assessment Process pp. 1-16

David Gibson

Solidarity and the Encapsulated and Divided Histories of Health and Human Rights pp. 1-24

Su-Ming Khoo

House Demolitions pp. 1-13

Mordechai Kremnitzer and Lina Saba-Habesch

Why Workers’ Rights Are Not Women’s Rights pp. 1-25

Heidi Gottfried

Volume 4, issue 1, 2015

Supported Decision-Making for People with Cognitive Impairments: An Australian Perspective? pp. 1-23

Terry Carney

The Study of Torture: Why It Persists, Why Perceptions of It are Malleable, and Why It is Difficult to Eradicate pp. 1-15

Erin M. Kearns

The Uneasy Marriage between Law and Equality pp. 1-9

Pauline C. Westerman

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Laws in 2014 pp. 1-2

Laws Editorial Office

The Electronic Monitoring Paradigm: A Proposal for Transforming Criminal Justice in the USA pp. 1-22

Stuart S. Yeh

USP Marion: A Few Prisoners Summon the Courage to Speak pp. 1-16

Stephen C. Richards

Reframing Risqué/Risky: Queer Temporalities, Teenage Sexting, and Freedom of Expression pp. 1-19

Lara Karaian and Katherine Van Meyl

Examining the Conservative Shift from Harsh Justice pp. 1-18

Joycelyn Pollock, Steven Glassner and Andrea Krajewski