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Selected Recent Publications by Staff and Research Students in Legal Theory

2011

Sharon Cowan, Helen Baillot, Vanessa Munro 'Crossing Borders, Inhabiting Spaces: The (In)credibility of Sexual Violence in Asylum Appeals' in Sharron FitzGerald (ed), Regulating the International Movement of Women From Protection to Control (Routledge, 2011)

Sharon Cowan 'Review of 'Scots Criminal Law: A Critical Analysis' By Pamel Ferguson and Claire McDiarmid' (2011) SCOLAG Legal Journal 242

Paolo Sandro, 'An Axiomatic Theory of Law' (2011) 17(4) Res Publica

Burkhard Schafer, Christian Schwarzbauer 'fMRI in disorders of consciousness: Future diagnostic opportunities, methodological and legal challenges' (2011) Cortex 1243

Burkhard Schafer, Yianna Danidou '‘Trust me, I'm a computer’ – Trusted Computing and the law between liability and responsibility' (2011) Information and Communications Technology Law 185

Burkhard Schafer 'All changed, changed utterly? Privacy protection in post-Labour Britain' (2011) 35 Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 634

Findlay Stark, 'Rethinking Recklessness' (2011) Juridical Review 163

Findlay Stark 'Corporate Criminal Liability in Scotland: The Problems with a Piecemeal Approach' in M Pieth and R Ivory (eds), Corporate Criminal Liability (Springer, 2011) 113

Findlay Stark, with Fiona Leverick, 'Scotland: A Plea for Consistency' in S Thaman (ed), The Exclusionary Rule in Comparative Law (Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming)

Neil Walker 'The Cosmopolitan Local' in A Menendez and J E Fossum (eds) Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick's Legal and Political Theory (Springer, 2011) 3-15

2010

Sharon Cowan, 'The Elvis We Deserve: The Social Regulation of Sex/Gender and Sexuality through Cultural Representations of "The King"' 6(2) 2010 Law, Culture and Humanities 221 

Sharon Cowan 'The Pain of Pleasure: Consent and the Criminalisation of Sado-Masochistic "Assaults"'' in James Chalmers, Fiona Leverick, Lindsay Farmer (eds) Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) 126

Sharon Cowan 'Selling Vulnerability: Commercial BDSM Sex and the Power of Choice' in Helen Gavin and Jacquelyn Bent (eds) Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll: Psychological, Legal and Cultural Examination of Sex and Sexuality (The Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010)

Sharon Cowan 'All Change or Business as Usual? Reforming the Law of Rape in Scotland' in Clare McGlynn and Vanessa Munro (eds) Rethinking Rape Law: International and Comparative Perspectives (Routledge, 2010) p154-169

Claudio Michelon, 'MacCormick's Institutionalism between Theoretical and Practical Reason' (2010) 9 Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche 53

Haris Psarras, "A Critique of Robert Nozick's Critique of Patterned Principles of Justice" (2010) 96(2) Archiv fuer Rechts-und Sozialphilosphie 239-249

Burkhard Schafer, Bill Buchanan, Lu Fan, Alistair Lawson, Russel Scott, Cristopher Tuemmler, Omair Uthmani 'Interagency data exchange protocols as computational data protection law' (2010) 223 Legal Knowledge and Information Systems 243

Burkhard Schafer 'ZombAIs: Legal Expert Systems as Representatives “Beyond the Grave' (2010) SCRIPTed 384

Burkhard Schafer 'The UK Cleanfeed System - Lessons for the German Debate?' (2010) 8 Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 535

Burkhard Schafer, Tamsin Maxwell 'Natural language processing and query expansion in legal information retrieval: Challenges and a response' (2010) International Review of Law, Computers and Technology 63

Findlay Stark, 'Moral Legitimacy and Disclosure Appeals' (2010) 14(2)  Edinburgh Law Review 205

Neil Walker 'Surface and Depth: The EU's Resilient Sovereignty Question' in Jurgen Neyer and Antje Wiener (eds) Political Theory of the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2010) 91

Neil Walker 'Multilevel Constitutionalism: Looking Beyond the German Debate' in Kaarlo Tuori and Suvi Sankari (eds) The Many Constitutions of Europe (Ashgate, 2010) 143-168

Neil Walker 'Beyond the Holistic Constitution?' in Petra Dobner and Martin Loughlin (eds)The Twilight of Constitutionalism? (OUP, 2010) 291-308

Neil Walker 'Opening or Closure? The Constitutional Intimations of the ECJ' in Loic Azoulai (eds)The Past and Future of EU Law; The Classics of EU Law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty(Hart Publishing, 2010) 333-342

Neil Walker 'Constitutionalism and the Incompleteness of Democracy: An Iterative Relationship' (2010) 39(3) Rechtsfilosofie & rechtstheorie 206

Neil Walker 'Constitutionalism and the Incompleteness of Democracy: A Reply to Four Critics' (2010) 39(3) Rechtsfilosofie & rechtstheorie 276

Neil Walker 'Out of Place and Out of Time: Law's Fading Co-ordinates' (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 13

Neil Walker 'The Anti-Political Polity' (2010) 73 Modern Law Review 141

2009

Zenon Bankowski and Maksymilian Del Mar (eds)  Law as Institutional Normative Order (Ashgate, 2009)

Sharon Cowan, '"We Walk Among You": Trans Identity Politics Goes to the Movies' (2009) 21 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 91

Sharon Cowan, Ralph Sandland and Andrew Sharpe, 'Debate and Dialogue: The Gender Recognition Act' (2009) 18(2) Social & Legal Studies 18(2) 241

Sharon Cowan, Helen Baillot and Vanessa Munro, 'Seen but Not Heard? Parallels and Dissonances in the Treatment of Rape Narratives across the Asylum and Criminal Justice Contexts' (2009) 36(2) Journal of Law and Society 195

Cormac Mac Amhlaigh,  'Revolt by Referendum? In Search of a European Constitutional Narrative' (2009) European Law Journal 552

Francisco Saffie, "Review Essay: Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin, Demystifying Legal Reasoning"  (2009) 68(2) Cambridge Law Journal 477

Burkhard Schafer and Wiebke Abel, 'The German Constitutional Court on the Right in Confidentiality and Integrity of Information Technology Systems' (2009) 6 SCRIPT-ed 106

Findlay Stark, "Breaking Down Brennan" (2009) Juridical Review 155

Neil Walker and Gianluigi Palombella (eds),  Relocating the Rule of Law (Hart, 2009)

2008

Zenon Bankowski and Maksymilian Del Mar, "Na Progu [On the Doorstep]" (2008) 5 No Foundations: Journal of Extreme Legal Positivism 142

Sharon Cowan and AC Hunt, Mason's Forensic Medicine for Lawyers (Tottel Publishing, 2008)

Sharon Cowan, Gillian Calder '“Re-imagining Equality: Meaning and Movement”' (2008) 29 Australian Feminist Law Journal 109

Sharon Cowan 'The Headscarf Controversy: A Response to Jill Marshall' (2008) 14(3) Res Publica 193

Sharon Cowan 'The Trouble with Drink: Intoxication, (In)Capacity and the Evaporation of Consent to Sex' (2008) 41(4) Akron Law Review 899

Sharon Cowan 'Review of Sexual Assault and the Justice Gap: A Question of Attitude by Jennifer Temkin & Barbara Krahé' (2008) 372 SCOLAG Legal Journal 266

Maksymilian Del Mar, "System Values and Understanding Legal Language" (2008) 21(1) Leiden Journal of International Law 29

Claudio Michelon, 'Review of "Law, Rights and Discourse: The Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy' 12(3) (2008) Edinburgh Law Review 498

Burkhard Schafer, Wiebke Abel 'Big browser manning the thin blue line: Computational legal theory meets law enforcement' (2008) Problema pp.51-84

Neil Walker 'Europe at 50. A Midlife Crisis. Democratic Deficit and Sovereignty surplus' (2008) 15(3&4) Irish Journal of European Law 23

Neil Walker 'Beyond boundary disputes and basic grids: Mapping the global disorder of normative orders' (2008)International Journal of Constitutional Law Vol. 6 pp.373-96

Neil Walker 'Taking Constitutionalism Beyond the State' (2008) Political Studies vol. 56 pp.519-543

Neil Walker 'Not the European Constitution' (2008) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law Vol 15 no 1

2007

Zenon Bankowski "Bringing the Outside in: The Ethical Life of legal Institutions" in T Gizbert-Studnicki and Jerzy Stelmach (eds) Law and Legal Cultures in the 21st Century: Unity and Diversity (Wolters Kluwer Polska, 2007) 193-217

Sharon Cowan 'Choosing Freely: theoretically reframing the concept of consent' in Rosemary Hunter (eds)Choice and Consent: Feminist engagements with law and subjectivity (Routledge Cavendish, 2007) 91

Sharon Cowan, Jackie Hodgson 'Violence in a Family Context: The Criminal Law’s Response' in Rebecca Probert (eds) Family Life and the Law: Under One Roof (Ashgate, 2007) 43

Sharon Cowan 'Freedom and Capacity to make a choice: A feminist analysis of consent in the criminal law of rape' in Vanessa Munro and Carl Stychin (eds) Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements (Glasshouse Press (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007) 51

Maksymilian Del Mar, "Book Review: Roger Cotterrell, Law, Culture and Society" (2007) 41(4)Law & Society Review 983-985

Maksymilian Del Mar, "Legal Norms and Normativity" (2007) 27(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 355-372

Maksymilian Del Mar, “Review Essay: Brian Tamanaha, Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law” (2007) 66(2) Cambridge Law Journal 468

Sharon Cowan, with Rosemary Hunter, Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity (Routledge Cavendish, 2007)

Neil MacCormick, Institutions of Law (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Conrado Hubner Mendes, 'Review Essay: Will Waluchow, A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree' 66(2) (2007)  Cambridge Law Journal 471

Claudio Michelon, 'Politics, Practical Reason and the Authority of Legislation' 1(1) (2007) Legisprudence 263

Burkhard SchaferZenon Bankowski, "Double-click Justice: Legalism in the Computer Age" (2007) 1 Legisprudence 31

Burkhard Schafer, Jeroen Keppens 'Legal LEGO: Model Based Computer Assisted Teaching in Evidence Courses' (2007) Journal of Information, Law and Technology Vol 1

Neil Walker, 'Making a World of Difference? Habermas, Cosmopolitanism and the Constitutionalization of International Law' in O Payrow Shabani (eds), Multiculturalism and Law: A Critical Debate (University of Wales Press, 2007) 219

Neil Walker, with Ian Loader, Civilizing Security (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Neil Walker, with Martin Loughlin, The Paradox of Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Neil Walker, "Juridical Transformation as a Process: A Comment on Stone Sweet" (2007) 10 German Law Journal 

Neil Walker, "EU Constitutionalism in the State Constitutional Tradition" (2007) Current Legal Problems

Stephen Tierney, "Giving with one hand: Scottish devolution within a unitary state" (2007) International Journal of Constitutional Law 572

Stephen Tierney 'We the Peoples: Balancing Constituent Power and Constitutionalism in Plurinational States' in Martin Loughlin and Neil Walker (eds) The Paradox of Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2007) 229-246

Stephen Tierney 'Cultural Diversity: normative theory and constitutional practice' in Stephen Tierney, Accommodating Cultural Diversity: Contemporary Issues in Theory and Practice (Ashgate, 2007) 1-14

2006

Zenon Bankowski and James MacLean (eds), The Universal and the Particular in Legal Reasoning (Ashgate, 2006)

Sharon Cowan, 'Beyond the War on Crime: Personhood, Punishment and the State (Review Essay)' (2006) 9(2) Buffalo Criminal Law Review

Maksymilian Del Mar, 'Form and Function in a Legal System—a General Study, Robert Summers' (2006) 65(3) Cambridge Law Journal 723

Claudio Michelon, Being Apart from Reasons: The Role of Reasons in Public and Private Moral Decision-Making (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006)

Burkhard Schafer and others, 'A scenario-driven decision support system for serious crime investigation' (2006) 5 Law, Probability and Risk 87

Burkhard Schafer and Doug Walton 'Arthur, George and the Mystery of the Missing Motive: Towards a Theory of Evidentiary Reasoning about Motives' (2006) 4(2) International Commentary on Evidence 

Burkhard Schafer, 'Democratic Revival or E-Sell Out? A Sceptic's Report on the State of E-Governance in the UK' (2006) 10(3) Electronic Journal of Comparative Law 

Burkhard Schafer 'The taming of the Sleuth—problems and potential of autonomous agents in crime investigation and prosecution' (2006) 20 International Review of Law, Computers and Technology 63

Burkhard Schafer, Kingston, John; Vandenberghe, Wim 'Towards a Financial Fraud Ontology: A Legal Modelling Approach' (2006) 12 Artificial Intelligence and Law 419

Burkhard Schafer and Jeroen Keppens, 'Knowledge Based Crime Scenario Modelling' (2006) 30(2) Expert Systems with Applications 203

2005

Sharon Cowan 'Gender is no substitute for sex: A comparative human rights analysis of the legal regulation of sexual identity' (2005) 13(1) Feminist Legal Studies 67

Neil MacCormick, Rhetoric and the Rule of Law (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Neil MacCormick, 'Does Law Really Matter?' in M Leskiewicz (ed), Australian Legal Philosophy Students Association, 2005 Annual Publication (Brisbane, ALPSA, 2006) 5

Burkhard Schafer, 'Ontological commitment and the concept of "legal system" in comparative law and legal theory' (2005) 102 ARSP Beihefte 141

Burkhard Schafer and Jeroen Keppens,  'And then there was none: Indirect proof and hypothetical reasoning in law' (2005) 97 ARSP Beihefte 177

Sundram Soosay, ‘Is the Law an Affair of Rules?’ in Leskiewicz, M (ed) Australian Legal Philosophy Students Association, 2005 Annual Publication (Brisbane, ALPSA, 2006) 24

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