Law and Social Sciences


TitleLaw and Social Sciences
AlternativeBAL - Law & SocSci
FacultyFaculty of Business and Law

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Professor Yosif Fadenhecht (1873-1953) and the Bulgarian-Polish intellectual exchanges during the interwar period
Vassileva, R. 2025. Professor Yosif Fadenhecht (1873-1953) and the Bulgarian-Polish intellectual exchanges during the interwar period. in: The Polish Law of Obligations and European Legal Traditions Mohr Siebeck .

Book chapter

Is it possible to fight corruption in a post-communist captured state? The case of Bulgaria
Vassileva, R. 2025. Is it possible to fight corruption in a post-communist captured state? The case of Bulgaria. in: Meiselles, M., Giosa, P. and Ryder, N. (ed.) Economic Crimes: Issues and Challenges Taylor & Francis (Routledge).

Book chapter

Environmental cooperation in the post-Brexit era: enhancing collaborative approaches for environmental protection and conservation
Olmos Giupponi, B. 2025. Environmental cooperation in the post-Brexit era: enhancing collaborative approaches for environmental protection and conservation. in: Guinchard, E. and Panara, C. (ed.) The New Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union Springer.

Book chapter

The right to freedom of thought in South Africa
Jones, M. 2025. The right to freedom of thought in South Africa. in: O’Callaghan, P. and Shiner, B. (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook on The Right to Freedom of Thought Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press.

Book chapter

Human smugglers or criminalised migrants? Securitarian bordering and the criminalisation of ‘captains’ in the Mediterranean
Papadouka, M.E., Montagna, N. and Serrantino, G. 2024. Human smugglers or criminalised migrants? Securitarian bordering and the criminalisation of ‘captains’ in the Mediterranean. Trends in Organized Crime. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-024-09553-1

Article

Developing, delivering, and evaluating an online course on socially assistive robots in culturally competent and compassionate healthcare: a sequential multiphase, mixed-method study
Papadopoulos, R. and Lazzarino, R. 2024. Developing, delivering, and evaluating an online course on socially assistive robots in culturally competent and compassionate healthcare: a sequential multiphase, mixed-method study. Digital Health. 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076241271792

Article

Views and uses of sepsis digital alerts in national health service trusts in England: qualitative study with health care professionals
Lazzarino, R., Borek, A.J., Honeyford, K., Welch, J., Brent, A.J., Kinderlerer, A., Cooke, G., Patil, S., Gordon, A., Glampson, B., Goodman, P., Ghazal, P., Daniels, R., Costelloe, C.E. and Tonkin-Crine, S. 2024. Views and uses of sepsis digital alerts in national health service trusts in England: qualitative study with health care professionals. JMIR Human Factors. 11. https://doi.org/10.2196/56949

Article

Translanguaging decoloniality in a divided island as post-colonial pedagogic praxis: Cyprus and cultural subversions
Christou, A. and Karayianni, C. 2024. Translanguaging decoloniality in a divided island as post-colonial pedagogic praxis: Cyprus and cultural subversions. The Geographical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12608

Article

Theorising pandemic necropolitics as evil: thinking inequalities, suffering, and vulnerabilities with Arendt
Christou, A. 2024. Theorising pandemic necropolitics as evil: thinking inequalities, suffering, and vulnerabilities with Arendt. Societies. 14 (9). https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14090171

Article

EDI and postgraduate research: report on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion review of postgraduate research at Middlesex University
Pizzolato, N., Saini, R., Stumbitz, B. and Sotiropoulou, P. 2024. EDI and postgraduate research: report on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion review of postgraduate research at Middlesex University. Middlesex University. https://doi.org/10.60528/1qw7q5

Project report

Unlocking equal pay [Panel discussion]
Hirschberg, S., Wochner, R., Boateng, B.A., Patrick, A., McLaughlin, C. and Ernst, M. 2024. Unlocking equal pay [Panel discussion]. Women in Law Conference. Vienna, Austria 12 - 14 Sep 2024

Conference item

Intersectional discrimination and EU law: Time to revisit Parris
Howard, E. 2024. Intersectional discrimination and EU law: Time to revisit Parris. International Journal of Discrimination and the Law. https://doi.org/10.1177/13582291241285336

Article

Process evaluation of the Newham Y2A Hub: evaluating the implementation of a specialist youth to adulthood transitions service in probation
Phillips, J., Ward, J., Albertson, K., Cracknell, M., Duke, K., Fowler, A. and Riley, L. 2024. Process evaluation of the Newham Y2A Hub: evaluating the implementation of a specialist youth to adulthood transitions service in probation. UK Ministry of Justice.

Project report

Closing the gender pay gap “once and for all”: Labour’s proposed reforms to GPG reporting in the UK
Patrick, A. 2024. Closing the gender pay gap “once and for all”: Labour’s proposed reforms to GPG reporting in the UK. Oxford Human Rights Hub.

Blog

Urban resilience from agriculture: a case study of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam
Thi, Q. and Juntti, M. 2024. Urban resilience from agriculture: a case study of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. in: Cripps, K. and Thondre, P. (ed.) Higher Education and SDG2: Zero Hunger Emerald.

Book chapter

Bulgaria’s constitutional drama and the EU Commission’s rose-colored glasses
Vassileva, R. 2024. Bulgaria’s constitutional drama and the EU Commission’s rose-colored glasses. Verfassungsblog. https://doi.org/10.59704/f8ab8d794882e79f

Blog

Affordances and borderscapes: language ideologies, nationalisms, generations and geographies of resistance in Cyprus
Karayianni, C. and Christou, A. 2024. Affordances and borderscapes: language ideologies, nationalisms, generations and geographies of resistance in Cyprus. Languages. 9 (9). https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060224

Article

The EPPO as a domesticated cat: a perspective from Bulgaria
Vassileva, R. 2024. The EPPO as a domesticated cat: a perspective from Bulgaria. Verfassungsblog. https://doi.org/10.59704/3e330d45f4524229

Blog

Explainer: Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights
Donald, A. and Grogan, J. 2024. Explainer: Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. UK in a Changing Europe.

Blog

The framing of contemporary violence policy in England and Wales: an examination of the contributing roles of alcohol and illegal drugs
Lightowlers, C. and Duke, K. 2024. The framing of contemporary violence policy in England and Wales: an examination of the contributing roles of alcohol and illegal drugs. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. https://doi.org/10.1177/14550725241256465

Article

Religious discrimination at the CJEU and the social inclusion approach
Howard, E. 2024. Religious discrimination at the CJEU and the social inclusion approach. European Labour Law Journal . https://doi.org/10.1177/20319525241261030

Article

Ecofeminism and the cultural affinity to genocidal capitalism: theorising necropolitical femicide in contemporary Greece
Christou, A. 2024. Ecofeminism and the cultural affinity to genocidal capitalism: theorising necropolitical femicide in contemporary Greece. Social Sciences. 13 (5). https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13050263

Article

Politics, belonging and identity across the British South Asian middle classes: between privilege and prejudice
Saini, R. 2024. Politics, belonging and identity across the British South Asian middle classes: between privilege and prejudice. Palgrave Macmillan.

Authored Book

The rise of the pro-Putin “Revival” party in Bulgaria
Vassileva, R. 2024. The rise of the pro-Putin “Revival” party in Bulgaria. Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe in Wrocław.

Magazine

Privacy and the city: how data shapes city identities
Petkova, B. 2024. Privacy and the city: how data shapes city identities. ICL Journal. https://doi.org/10.1515/icl-2023-0027

Article

The global biodiversity challenge
Juntti, M., Castellino, J. and Forero, O. 2024. The global biodiversity challenge. Planning Theory & Practice. 25 (1), pp. 103-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2024.2322879

Article

Feminist conversations with Buber: dialogic encounters with ‘The Girls’ (stories of Jewish women in Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940–1995)
Christou, A. 2024. Feminist conversations with Buber: dialogic encounters with ‘The Girls’ (stories of Jewish women in Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940–1995). European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe. 57 (1), pp. 28-38. https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2024.570103

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Insurgent feminisms – women writing wars: mapping gendered trauma, un/learning generative utopias and the intersectional imperative
Christou, A. 2024. Insurgent feminisms – women writing wars: mapping gendered trauma, un/learning generative utopias and the intersectional imperative. Feminist Review. 137 (1), pp. 132-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789241252740

Article

The return of drugs courts: some important considerations
Ward, J. and Kawalek, A. 2024. The return of drugs courts: some important considerations . International Journal of Drug Policy. 127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104418

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Curatorial dissonance and conflictual aesthetics: Holocaust memory and public humanities in Greek historiography
Christou, A. 2024. Curatorial dissonance and conflictual aesthetics: Holocaust memory and public humanities in Greek historiography. Histories . 4 (2), pp. 204-219. https://doi.org/10.3390/histories4020010

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The right to know: equal pay, privacy and the impact on professional relationships
Patrick, A. 2024. The right to know: equal pay, privacy and the impact on professional relationships. SLSA 2024: Annual Conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association. University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK 26 - 28 Mar 2024

Conference item

Explainer: The UK’s ECHR record: how common are Rule 39 orders and how often is the UK found to have violated rights?
Donald, A. and Grogan, J. 2024. Explainer: The UK’s ECHR record: how common are Rule 39 orders and how often is the UK found to have violated rights? UK in a Changing Europe.

Blog

Navigating ESG arbitrability challenges in energy and climate: an in-depth analysis and future perspectives
Olmos Giupponi, B. and Figueroa, R. 2024. Navigating ESG arbitrability challenges in energy and climate: an in-depth analysis and future perspectives. European Energy & Climate Journal. 12 (1), pp. 13-27. https://doi.org/10.4337/eecj.2024.01.02

Article

The invocation of the precautionary principle within the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism: not seizing the occasion
Masumy, N. and Hourani, S. 2024. The invocation of the precautionary principle within the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism: not seizing the occasion. Laws. 13 (2). https://doi.org/10.3390/laws13020022

Article

An introduction to blockchain-based dispute resolution: the emergence of new procedural designs
Hourani, S. 2024. An introduction to blockchain-based dispute resolution: the emergence of new procedural designs. BCDR International Arbitration Review .

Article

Gendered dynamics of international labour migration: migrant women working in Pakistan
Lazzarino, R., Kofman, E. and Kapadia, S. 2024. Gendered dynamics of international labour migration: migrant women working in Pakistan. London The Gender, Justice and Security Hub. https://doi.org/10.60528/112z87

Technical report

Bulgaria’s Faustian bargain and the betrayal of the 2020 anti-corruption protests
Vassileva, R. 2024. Bulgaria’s Faustian bargain and the betrayal of the 2020 anti-corruption protests. Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe in Wrocław.

Magazine

Regulation of online speech in the UK
Jones, M. 2024. Regulation of online speech in the UK. University of the Pacific Law Review. 55 (2), pp. 261-276.

Article

Gendered dynamics of international labour migration in the Kurdistan region - Iraq
Irwani, M., Aghapouri, J. and Kofman, E. 2024. Gendered dynamics of international labour migration in the Kurdistan region - Iraq. London, UK The Gender, Justice and Security Hub. https://doi.org/10.60528/10y627

Technical report

Existing understanding of geographic profiling principles within UK policing
Knabe-Nicol, S. and Alison, L. 2024. Existing understanding of geographic profiling principles within UK policing. Cogent Social Sciences . 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2313275

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