The 'nanny state' has expanded in recent years. Politicians and bureaucrats have increasingly sought to restrict what individuals are permitted to do with their own bodies on their own property. Prohibitions is a corrective to the prevailing support for such authoritarianism. This collection...

Therapeutic Jurisprudence (“TJ”) is an approach to law which highlights wellbeing as an important component of the legal system. The aim of this Work is to prove that applying law in a TJ manner is better than the current standard procedures we are usually taught as lawyers, and we observe...

In this review, the author considers the collection by U.S.-based juvenile justice scholars on legal and policy frameworks across various international juvenile justice systems. The author analyses the conceptual discussion of the themes of each chapter. These include juvenile justice in Western...

Emphasizing the knowledge gaps and the continuing need for more regulatory research both in the food industries and other domains, we would like to conclude our introductory editorial by quoting some words of Braithwaite et al. (2007:4) that have already inspired our endeavours as editors:...

On 14 December 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor (“OTP” or “Office”) of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) published the Report on Preliminary Examination Activities (“Report”). In this short reflection, I will discuss the situation in The Philippines which is very...

The goal of the Global Impunity Index (GII) is to make visible, in quantitative terms, the impunity worldwide and its relationship with other complex phenomena such as inequality, corruption, and violence. • The GII is the most important international academic effort to measure—in...

Clinicians, ethicists and lawyers have long debated the parameters of triage in response to the inevitable disasters that sporadically overwhelm the health care system. Almost universally, they have advocated for open, transparent and consultative triage protocols, guidelines and legislation to...

The article presents a novel dynamic setting to compare old – usury – and new – cryptocurrency – money laundering techniques and uses it for calibration to shed light on their relative role as an effective device for the criminal organizations to clean their illegal revenues. The...

At a Bio-Terrorism Conference at Case Western Reserve University School of Law on March 31, 2006, the government participants were asked what they would do if a superior instructed them not to disclose information to the public about the likely grave health affects of an ongoing bio-terrorist...