All articles by James E Hurford
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OpinionGiving political cover to legal decisions
James E Hurford reviews 'Rethinking Legitimacy: Courts, Constitutions and Politics'.
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Opinion'Brexit' US-style
James E Hurford reviews 'American Law in a Global Context: The Basics (2nd edition)'.
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OpinionOn the fence: autonomy versus the highest good
James E Hurford reviews 'Embodiment and the Law: A New Approach to Analysis, Discourse and Reasoning'.
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OpinionPopulism and the plebiscite
James E Hurford reviews 'Understanding Referendums: The Comparative Politics of Direct Democracy'.
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OpinionA lower tier of rights?
James E Hurford reviews 'Rethinking the Law of Private Property' by Jan G Laitos.
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OpinionWhen Coke took on the King
James E Hurford reviews 'The Reformation of the Constitution: Law, Culture and Conflict in Jacobean England'.
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OpinionWhen diseases cross borders
James E Hurford reviews 'Global Pandemics and International Law: An Analysis in the Age of Covid-19'.
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OpinionMore ius commune than common law
James E Hurford reviews 'Foundations of American Criminal Due Process at Trial'.
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OpinionHow treason fell out of fashion
James E Hurford reviews 'The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History'.
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OpinionA system separated from the Daniel Blakes it is supposed to serve
James E Hurford reviews Nick O’Brien's 'Politics and Administrative Justice: Postliberalism, Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Reawakening of Democratic Citizenship'.
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OpinionA curious corner of criminal law
James E Hurford reviews '100 Years of the Infanticide Act: Legacy, Impact and Future Directions'.
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OpinionThe 'monkey selfie' and redefining personhood
'Wanted, More than Human Intellectual Property: Animal Authors and Human Machines'.
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OpinionDiscrimination, Equality and Health Care Rationing
James E Hurford reviews Rachel Horton's book.
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OpinionHow to interpret the Shawcross Principle
James E Hurford reviews Cale Davis's 'Prosecutorial Discretion in International Criminal Justice'.
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OpinionHow the Reformation created a patchwork
James E Hurford reviews 'The Legal Legacy of the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law'.
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OpinionGeneric consistency
James E Hurford reviews 'Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine: Creating, Enhancing and Extending Human Life'.
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OpinionJudicial Individuality on the UK Supreme Court
Judicial Individuality on the UK Supreme Court Lewis Graham £85, Bloomsbury Supreme court justice gown Socrates is supposed to have said that a judge’s duties are ‘to hear courteously; to answer wisely; to consider soberly; and to decide impartially’. I have come across many judges ...
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OpinionMagna Carta, did she die in vain?
James E Hurford reviews 'Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens'.
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OpinionJudging the morality of death
James E Hurford reviews 'Act and Omission in Criminal Law' by Roni Rosenberg.