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Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm. (2017)
Journal Article
Brammer. (2017). Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 67-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2016.1275124

The focus of this paper is the issue of continuing birth family involvement in the child’s life once the child is living in care. Drawing on a psychosocial study and free association narrative interviews with care leavers it focuses on the harm to a... Read More about Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm..

The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality (2017)
Journal Article
Nehushtan, Y. (2017). The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality. Israel Law Review, 69-86. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223716000261

Ever since the Wednesbury decision in 1947 UK courts and UK public law scholars have been struggling to comprehend the meaning of ‘reasonableness’ and its relation to ‘proportionality’. The main purpose of this article is to promote conceptual clarit... Read More about The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality.

The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality. Israel Law Review, 1 - 18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223716000261

Ever since the Wednesbury decision in 1947 UK courts and UK public law scholars have been struggling to comprehend the meaning of ‘reasonableness’ and its relation to ‘proportionality’. The main purpose of this article is to promote conceptual clarit... Read More about The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality.

Protests, Terrorism, and Development: On Ethiopia’s State of Emergency (2017)
Journal Article
Allo, A. (2017). Protests, Terrorism, and Development: On Ethiopia’s State of Emergency. Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal,

On October 8, 2016, the Ethiopian government officially declared a nationwide state of emergency in response to a year-long protest by members of Ethiopia's two largest ethnic groups, the Oromo and the Amhara. The Directive issued to implement the st... Read More about Protests, Terrorism, and Development: On Ethiopia’s State of Emergency.

Prioritising Diversity: Reflections from the Family Law Classroom (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Prioritising Diversity: Reflections from the Family Law Classroom. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/KEELE-0000004

Recent research has found that LGBTQ university students have lesser rates of satisfaction, because their experiences at university are not always inclusive (Grimwood, 2016). This has led to calls for university lecturers to actively identify and cha... Read More about Prioritising Diversity: Reflections from the Family Law Classroom.

Genetic Risks, Disclosure and Foreseeable Harm: An unanswered question after ABC v St George's Healthcare (2017)
Journal Article
Fay. (2017). Genetic Risks, Disclosure and Foreseeable Harm: An unanswered question after ABC v St George's Healthcare. Tort Law Review,

ABC v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust was a missed opportunity. The case was a first opportunity for the UK courts to engage with a duty to disclose genetic risks to patients’ relatives, but Nicol J’s judgment focused on whether a duty was fair, jus... Read More about Genetic Risks, Disclosure and Foreseeable Harm: An unanswered question after ABC v St George's Healthcare.

Binding Committee Interpretations in the EU’s New Free Trade and Investment Agreements (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Binding Committee Interpretations in the EU’s New Free Trade and Investment Agreements. https://doi.org/10.1163/24689017-00201004

The EU’s new Free Trade and Investment Agreements (FTIAs) are meant to tackle many of the issues that led to the contestation of international investment law, by increasing the control of the contracting parties over the agreements. One such mechanis... Read More about Binding Committee Interpretations in the EU’s New Free Trade and Investment Agreements.

Transparency, Investment Protection and the Role of the European Parliament (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Transparency, Investment Protection and the Role of the European Parliament. https://doi.org/10.1163/24689017-00201018

This article looks at the role that the European Parliament, as the only democratically elected EU institution, plays in ensuring transparency in the EU's newly concluded free trade and investment agreements (FTIAs). Using the empirically tested find... Read More about Transparency, Investment Protection and the Role of the European Parliament.

Compensating injury to autonomy: A conceptual and normative analysis (2017)
Book Chapter
(2017). Compensating injury to autonomy: A conceptual and normative analysis. In Private Law in the Twenty-First Century

In this chapter, I evaluate an increasing tendency of courts across different jurisdictions to remedy (albeit inconsistently) injury to autonomy (‘ITA’) mainly in the tort of negligence, but also through consumer protection and contract law, thus rec... Read More about Compensating injury to autonomy: A conceptual and normative analysis.