The LSE Law: Policy Briefing Papers series was first published in 2014. The aim of the series is to provide short, policy-relevant papers on issues of contemporary public interest in all subject areas, from members of the LSE's Law Department, doctoral students and visiting scholars. The target audience of the series includes not only academics but also policy-makers, the press, and the broader public. The papers are published electronically and are available online and through email distribution.
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17/2016
Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments: Judges' Troubles and the Gendered Politics of
Identity in Northern/Irish Courts
Dr Julie McCandless,
London School of Economics
- LSE Law
16/2016
The Human Rights Act Should not be Repealed
Conor Gearty, London School of Economics - LSE Law
Vol.2 No.2 2015
SPECIAL ISSUE:
THE INVESTIGATORY POWERS BILL
12/2015
Ensuring the Rule of Law
Andrew Murray, London School of Economics - LSE Law
Bernard Keenan, London School of Economics - LSE Law
13/2015
Bulk data in the draft Investigatory Powers Bill: the challenge of effective
oversight
Bernard Keenan, London School of Economics - LSE Law
14/2015
Comparing Surveillance Powers: UK, US, and France
Andrew Murray, London School of Economics - LSE Law
15/2015
Beyond Privacy: The Data Protection Implications of the IP Bill
Orla Lynskey, London School of Economics - LSE Law
Vol.2 No.1 2015
Contents
6/2015
From Karlsruhe, with Love? Questioning the Constitutionality of
Unconventional Monetary Policy
Michael Wilkinson, London School of Economics
- LSE Law
7/2015
Nudge: Three Degrees of Concern
Robert Baldwin, London School of Economics
- LSE Law
8/2015
Insolvency Law, Restructuring Law and Modern Financial Markets
Sarah Paterson, London School of
Economics - LSE Law
9/2015
Going 'Below the Waterline': The Paradoxical Regulation of Secret
Surveillance in the UK
Bernard Keenan, London School of
Economics - LSE Law
Vol.1 No.1 2014
Contents
1/2014
Countering the Debt Crisis: National Parliaments and EU
Economic Governance
Davor Jancic, London School of Economics
- LSE Law
2/2014.
The New Constitutional Role of the Judiciary
Jo Eric Khushal Murkens,
London School of Economics - LSE Law
Roger Masterman, Durham University - Department of
Law
3/2014
The Consequences of Brexit: Some Complications From
International Law
Andrew T. F. Lang, London School of Economics
- LSE Law
4/2014.
Who is Afraid of Investor-State Arbitration? Or
Comparative Law?
Jan Kleinheisterkamp, London School
of Economics - LSE Law
5/2014.
Towards More Competition in Pay TV Services?
Pablo Ibáñez Colomo, London School
of Economics - LSE Law
6/2014.
From Karlsruhe, with Love? Questioning the
Constitutionality of Unconventional Monetary Policy
Michael Wilkinson,
London School of Economics - LSE Law
Dr Julie McCandless, London School of Economics - LSE Law, Máiréad Enright & Dr Aoife O’Donoghue
• What different legal outcomes might
have been produced through feminist legal reasoning in leading Northern/Irish case law?
• What can feminist judging reveal about the techniques of identity politics as they appear in Northern/Irish case law?
• How can feminist legal theory contribute to a re-thinking of gendered judicial techniques and legal concepts in Northern/Ireland?
• How have Northern/Irish women used litigation to challenge the boundaries of membership in gendered religious, national and other groupings? What are the obstacles
and limitations to such litigation?
• How have Northern/Irish feminist movements conceived of the role of the judge in approving or dissenting from judicial pronouncements?
16. The Human Rights Act Should not be Repealed
Conor Gearty, London School of Economics - LSE Law
There is no reason to repeal the Human Rights Act and the government’s manifesto commitment to do so should be dropped. The objections to it are misconceived, the arguments against it being based either on inaccurate understandings of what it says or error-strewn assertions about the nature of its impact. The political motive for attacking the Act – to undermine the UK’s association with Europe – has been overtaken by the much greater European disengagement of BREXIT.
10. Austerity, Grexit and the Battle for the Euro
Michael Wilkinson, London School of Economics - LSE Law
Does the European Central Bank (‘ECB’) have the mandate to do ‘whatever it takes’ to save the Euro? While the German Constitutional Court answered the question with a clear ‘no’, the European Court of Justice suggested that the ECB did in fact have that mandate. This judicial battle for the Euro, however, is only part of a story that involves political power struggles between Merkel and Tsipras; that saw the emergence of ideological schisms in the EU; and created the real risk that for the first time a Member State would be forced to leave the EU.
11. Cameron's EU reforms: political feasibility and legal implications
Floris de Witte, London School of Economics - LSE Law
David Cameron, the UK Prime Minister, has set out the priorities for the reform of the relationship between the UK and the EU in the run-up to an in/out referendum in 2016 or 2017. He highlights four priorities, which range from strengthening the Union’s competitiveness to protecting the UK’s interests in areas of market integration, migration and welfare. The extent to which these reforms will be successful depends on the legal structure of these policy areas, and the institutional veto players in the reform process.