{"title":"Correction to: Comparative Lessons in Sectional Title Laws: Mitigating Urban Inequality in South Africa.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ojls/gqag028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqag028","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/ojls/gqac013.].</p>","PeriodicalId":47225,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"46 3","pages":"798"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13553200/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jurisdiction in Employment Matters Post-Brexit.","authors":"Uglješa Grušić","doi":"10.1093/ojls/gqag017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqag017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article deals with the jurisdiction of the civil courts and employment tribunals in employment matters post-Brexit. It focuses on the somewhat defective transposition of the rules of jurisdiction in employment matters of the Brussels Ia Regulation in sections 15A and 15C-15E of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and the unclear relationship between these rules and other rules that regulate jurisdiction in employment matters, most importantly employment tribunal procedure rules. By deconstructing the current law, this article discloses its considerable complexity and discusses possibilities for improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":47225,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"46 3","pages":"736-767"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13553202/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Unpaid Internships Breach Equality Law?","authors":"Joanna Helme","doi":"10.1093/ojls/gqag018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqag018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the pervasive legal questions surrounding unpaid internships is whether they are compliant with equality law. This speculation, however, has not yet faced judicial determination. This article analyses the merits of such a claim, focusing specifically on whether the EU recommendation that permits unpaid internships can be regarded as 'invalid' for discriminating based on social origin, age and sex. Whilst the arc of the article suggests that a successful claim is plausible, the analysis goes further by providing new light on quintessential debates within equality law. This includes the scope of the largely untouched issue of class discrimination; whether treatment can be both unfavourable and favourable simultaneously; the use of 'common-sense' deductions over statistics in indirect discrimination; and the concept of 'broad discretion' within the proportionality test. With millions of young people completing unpaid internships, tackling the question of their compatibility with equality law is of paramount importance.</p>","PeriodicalId":47225,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"46 3","pages":"768-797"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13553204/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of Dark Arts and Dictators-Why the Russian Constitution Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts by William Partlett.","authors":"Alasdair McCallum","doi":"10.1093/ojls/gqag015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqag015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analysis of authoritarian constitutions is a growing but still relatively underdeveloped body of literature. The traditional explanation is that these constitutions are no more than 'shams' or 'fig leaves'. William Partlett's book <i>Why the Russian Constitution Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts</i> challenges this, placing the Russian Constitution at the centre of a phenomenon Partlett terms the 'constitutional dark arts', a practice combining a hyper-centralisation of power in the elected president with the claim to be upholding rights and democracy. In doing so, it offers both a new constitutional history of Russia and a new generalist paradigm of the 'constitutional dark arts' which can be applied in both authoritarian states and democratic states undergoing backsliding and creeping autocratisation. Partlett's book answers the question of whether the Russian Constitution matters in the affirmative, and will be of interest to scholars of comparative constitutionalism, democratic decline, and Russian and post-Soviet studies more broadly.</p>","PeriodicalId":47225,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"46 3","pages":"685-705"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13553199/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Devolution after Empire.","authors":"Ewan Smith","doi":"10.1093/ojls/gqag010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqag010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article questions the claim that the UK is a unitary state. It argues that the UK was, and perhaps is, an empire. Empires are states in which questions of subsidiarity are inescapable and ongoing. Like unitary states, they have a supreme central government. But unlike unitary states, empires conceal multiple constitutional orders, overlaid with the veneer of sovereignty. The nature of the UK territory was ambiguous under empire. It still is. The UK is not a state where all parts bear the same relationship to the centre; rather, the constituent parts of the UK bear separate relationships to the centre. The article explores how imperial structures continue to influence that territorial settlement. The UK constitution ultimately resolved large-scale problems of subsidiarity in a global empire. It remains to be seen whether that same structure can solve smaller problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":47225,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"46 3","pages":"536-564"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13553206/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Missing Link: How New Institutions Could Improve What We Read Online.","authors":"Martin Husovec","doi":"10.1093/ojls/gqag013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqag013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the EU's Digital Services Act and the UK's Online Safety Act represent a major shift in Internet regulation, they suffer from a critical structural gap. These frameworks focus primarily on 'defensive empowerment'-enabling users to block or report unwanted content while neglecting constructive empowerment-the ability of users to decide what information they wish to see. The article argues that without collective institutions to signal content quality, users cannot assess quality beforehand, creating a market failure that pushes out expensive, high-quality content in favour of cheap, sensationalist, algorithm-driven content. To bridge this gap, the article proposes the creation of trusted content creators: voluntary, self-governing groups of like-minded content creators that certify content quality through cross-platform labels. By mandating that platforms allow users to filter their feeds through these external quality signals, the law can decentre the role of algorithmic curation and create new markets.</p>","PeriodicalId":47225,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"46 3","pages":"624-655"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13553205/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patriarchal Forestalling-the Anticipatory Structure of Legal Failure on Violence against Women.","authors":"Shazia Choudhry","doi":"10.1093/ojls/gqag014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqag014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article introduces the concept of patriarchal forestalling to explain why formally rights-protective systems frequently deliver recognition without remedy in cases of domestic abuse. Forestalling denotes an anticipatory repertoire through which legal and paralegal institutions diffuse and neutralise claims via five recurrent dynamics: normative socialisation, relational surveillance, pre-emptive discrediting, institutional redirection and procedural dereliction. Drawing on British Academy-funded qualitative research conducted across Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, the article demonstrates how these mechanisms sustain the appearance of responsiveness whilst withholding meaningful protection. Addressed to a general legal readership, the article makes two principal contributions. Conceptually, it shifts the analysis from doctrinal design to the broader institutional ecology within which rights are operationalised. Methodologically, it provides a vocabulary for identifying when practice reconstitutes rights as matters of discretion. Although grounded in the Indian context, the framework travels beyond it, offering insight into how liberal legal orders may affirm rights at the level of principle while remaining structurally configured to forestall gender-equalising change.</p>","PeriodicalId":47225,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"46 3","pages":"656-684"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13553207/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpreting the Interpretive Obligation: Empirical Insights into the Use of Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998.","authors":"Lewis Graham","doi":"10.1093/ojls/gqaf031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaf031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>-Section 3 of the Human Rights Act provides courts with a distinctive, and controversial, power to (re)interpret legislative provisions, where 'possible', in a manner which is compatible with the rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. However, much of the commentary on this provision relies disproportionately on a small handful of early landmark cases, which, whilst important, risks obscuring how section 3 is routinely applied by courts, including lower courts, in reality. This article provides an empirical account of how section 3 has been interpreted and applied in practice, drawing on qualitative and quantitative measures and a bespoke dataset compiling all successful uses of section 3 in the case law. It brings insights into how judges conceptualise their duty under section 3; which factors influence and control its use; and the relationship between section 3 and other methods of interpretation. Ultimately, it will be argued that section 3, however radical it may be in theory, is subject to significant judicial constraints in practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47225,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"46 2","pages":"247-279"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13312960/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148353713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminist Constellations in Legal History.","authors":"Erika Rackley, Sharon Thompson","doi":"10.1093/ojls/gqag009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqag009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Astronomers use constellations-groups of named patterns or sets of stars-to map the galaxies around us. More than simply maps of the sky, for centuries constellations and stars within them have enabled us to look into the past, as well as to navigate pathways into the future. So much for space, but what about law? What if legal historians were to look to the constellations? What if legal historians were to apply the tools and techniques of astronomers to feminists' relationship with law and law reform? What might feminist legal constellations look like? And how might they inform our understandings of law and feminist activism? In this article we outline a new methodology: a feminist constellations approach to legal history. We argue that if feminist legal history is to be truly transformative, it needs to be bolder, and to go further than it does at present. And to do this, it needs to locate feminists and feminist endeavour within feminist constellations in law.</p>","PeriodicalId":47225,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"46 3","pages":"509-535"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13553203/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing Imperial Authority: The Intersection of British Imperial Constitutional Law and Private International Law.","authors":"Roxana Banu","doi":"10.1093/ojls/gqag012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqag012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Historians and constitutional law scholars are starting to uncover the imperial dimensions of the British constitution. But our accounts of the nature of authority in the British imperial context remain incomplete without an engagement with private international law, which played a significant role in conceptualising imperial authority. This article focuses on the forgotten interplay between imperial constitutional law and private international law. It shows how key doctrinal principles of private international law were referenced either as alternatives to or counterparts of key imperial constitutional law principles. Imperial actors would appeal to one or another image of imperial authority constructed by either imperial constitutional law or private international law to gain more autonomy or to tighten control. Far from being a relic of the past, the significance of this history can be traced in contemporary cases and debates about the nature of authority in the UK and its overseas territories.</p>","PeriodicalId":47225,"journal":{"name":"Oxford Journal of Legal Studies","volume":"46 3","pages":"597-623"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13553198/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}