{"title":"The Second‐class Citizen in Legal Theory","authors":"Jack Samuel","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12839","url":null,"abstract":"The Modern Law ReviewEarly View REVIEW ARTICLE The Second-class Citizen in Legal Theory Jack Samuel, Jack Samuel orcid.org/0000-0003-0639-0778 NYU School of Law. The author would like to thank Colin Bradley, David Dyzenhaus, Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Aaron Jaslove, Felipe Jiménez, Mattias Kumm, and two anonymous reviewers for this journal for helpful discussions and feedback.Search for more papers by this author Jack Samuel, Jack Samuel orcid.org/0000-0003-0639-0778 NYU School of Law. The author would like to thank Colin Bradley, David Dyzenhaus, Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Aaron Jaslove, Felipe Jiménez, Mattias Kumm, and two anonymous reviewers for this journal for helpful discussions and feedback.Search for more papers by this author First published: 27 September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12839 Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":47530,"journal":{"name":"Modern Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135580764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Evolution of Birth Registration in England and Wales and its Place in Contemporary Law and Society","authors":"Liam Davis","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12836","url":null,"abstract":"Birth registration, especially the birth certificate, is consistently framed as something which has always operated to document a person's parents and their (biogenetic) ‘origins’. This framing has become more prominent in recent years with the rise in (often queer) families challenging how law should register their families, often being unsuccessful. Analysing the history of birth registration, though, suggests this framing of birth registration is inaccurate. It is only in recent years that birth registration has supposedly taken on a new (or additional) policy aim of facilitating parent‐child relationships. This policy also arguably facilitates a particular type of relationship and trans‐parent families are focused upon as an example of where such facilitation does not occur. Through documenting the recent resurgence of interest in birth registration, this article aims to clarify the history and purpose(s) of birth registration showing how many assumptions surrounding the function of birth registration are misguided, and to open up discussion as to what its legal purpose(s) should be.","PeriodicalId":47530,"journal":{"name":"Modern Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beverley Clough, The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries, Routledge, 2021, hb, 208 pp, £130.00","authors":"Magdalena Furgalska","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12838","url":null,"abstract":"The Modern Law ReviewEarly View BOOK REVIEW Beverley Clough, The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries, Routledge, 2021, hb, 208 pp, £130.00 Magdalena Furgalska, Corresponding Author Magdalena Furgalska [email protected] York Law School. Correspondence Magdalena Furgalska, York Law School [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Magdalena Furgalska, Corresponding Author Magdalena Furgalska [email protected] York Law School. Correspondence Magdalena Furgalska, York Law School [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 25 September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12838 Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":47530,"journal":{"name":"Modern Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rafael N.Fasel and Sean C.Butler, Animal Rights Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 240 pp, pb £24.99","authors":"Katy Sowery","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12840","url":null,"abstract":"The Modern Law ReviewEarly View BOOK REVIEW Rafael N. Fasel and Sean C. Butler, Animal Rights Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 240 pp, pb £24.99 Katy Sowery, Corresponding Author Katy Sowery [email protected] University of Liverpool Law School. Correspondence Katy Sowery, University of Liverpool Law School. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Katy Sowery, Corresponding Author Katy Sowery [email protected] University of Liverpool Law School. Correspondence Katy Sowery, University of Liverpool Law School. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 25 September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12840 Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":47530,"journal":{"name":"Modern Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RobertStevens, The Laws of Restitution, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 496pp, hb £90.00","authors":"Sagi Peari","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12822","url":null,"abstract":"The Modern Law ReviewVolume 86, Issue 5 p. 1302-1306 REVIEWS Robert Stevens, The Laws of Restitution, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 496pp, hb £90.00 Sagi Peari, Corresponding Author Sagi Peari [email protected] University of Western Australia Law School. email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Sagi Peari, Corresponding Author Sagi Peari [email protected] University of Western Australia Law School. email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 07 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12822 Section editor: Vanessa Munro [email protected] Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume86, Issue5September 2023Pages 1302-1306 RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":47530,"journal":{"name":"Modern Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135449586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and Non‐Traditional Families","authors":"Kirsty Horsey, Emily Jackson","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12818","url":null,"abstract":"There is now a broad consensus that reform of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, as amended, has become necessary. Our focus in this legislation article is not on whether the Act needs to be reformed, but on the narrower question of whether the regulation of fertility treatment in the UK does enough to protect the interests of non‐traditional families. The 2008 reforms to the original 1990 Act took some important steps towards inclusivity, for example by deleting the requirement that clinics consider the child's ‘need for a father’ before providing treatment, and enabling two women to be a child's legal parents from birth. Our contention here is that any new legislation should go further in order to recognise and accommodate diverse family forms.","PeriodicalId":47530,"journal":{"name":"Modern Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135692593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Beneficiary's Ownership Rights in the Trust Res in a Liberal Property Regime","authors":"Hanoch Dagan, Irit Samet","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12788","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that a liberal theory of property rights can help us resolve a century old debate about a foundational aspect of the trust, namely, the nature of the beneficiary's interest. According to orthodoxy, the beneficiary has a (weak form) of proprietary right to the trust res . But proponents of this view found it hard to defend it from attacks by Maitland and his successors who argue that central aspects of the beneficiary's right imply that the beneficiary's rights should be classified as a personal right against the trustee. The reason for their failure, we argue, is the misguided picture of property rights, as essentially the right to exclude, which they share with proponents of the obligation theory. Liberal property theory, by contrast, gives pride of place to divided ownership, of the kind exemplified by the trust, and accounts for all aspects of the beneficiary's right.","PeriodicalId":47530,"journal":{"name":"Modern Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135201069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The UK GDPR, the Immigration Exception and Brexit: Interrogating <i>Open Rights Group</i> v <i>Secretary of State for the Home Department</i> and its Aftermath","authors":"David Erdos","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12784","url":null,"abstract":"This note explores the holding, context and aftermath of the judgments which declared the so‐called ʻimmigration exceptionʼ set out in the UK Data Protection Act 2018 incompatible with, and assumed it subject to, the (UK) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) restrictions clause (article 23). The subsequent limitation of this exemption's use to the government is impactful in itself. However, this case has much wider significance. Firstly, the finding that the restrictions clause mandates granular specificity places in jeopardy many exemptions not only in the UK but also in EU States. Secondly, the assumption that this article was engaged is questionable since, as reworded post‐Brexit, it is restricted to limitations laid down in delegated legislation. Nevertheless, this rewording depended on powers limited to addressing post‐Brexit technical ʻdeficienciesʼ and so is ultra vires . The Court of Appeal should have addressed this in order to vindicate the rule of law and separation of powers.","PeriodicalId":47530,"journal":{"name":"Modern Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135996017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directly Discriminatory Algorithms.","authors":"Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Reuben Binns, Aislinn Kelly-Lyth","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12759","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Discriminatory bias in algorithmic systems is widely documented. How should the law respond? A broad consensus suggests approaching the issue principally through the lens of indirect discrimination, focusing on algorithmic systems' impact. In this article, we set out to challenge this analysis, arguing that while indirect discrimination law has an important role to play, a narrow focus on this regime in the context of machine learning algorithms is both normatively undesirable and legally flawed. We illustrate how certain forms of algorithmic bias in frequently deployed algorithms might constitute direct discrimination, and explore the ramifications-both in practical terms, and the broader challenges automated decision-making systems pose to the conceptual apparatus of anti-discrimination law.</p>","PeriodicalId":47530,"journal":{"name":"Modern Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/10/12/MLR-86-144.PMC10087838.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9364769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pablo Grez Hidalgo, Fiona de Londras, Daniella Lock
{"title":"Parliament, the Pandemic, and Constitutional Principle in the United Kingdom: A Study of the Coronavirus Act 2020.","authors":"Pablo Grez Hidalgo, Fiona de Londras, Daniella Lock","doi":"10.1111/1468-2230.12753","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-2230.12753","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Constitutions come under pressure during emergencies and, as is increasingly clear, during pandemics. Taking the legislative and post-legislative debates in Westminster and the Devolved Legislatures on the Coronavirus Act 2020 (CVA) as its focus, this paper explores the robustness of parliamentary accountability during the pandemic, and finds it lacking. It suggests that this is attributable not to the situation of emergency per se, but to (a) executive decisions that have limited Parliament's capacity to scrutinise; (b) MPs' failure to maximise the opportunities for scrutiny that did exist; and (c) the limited nature of Legislative Consent Motions (LCMs) as a mode of holding the central government to account. While at first glance the CVA appears to confirm the view that in emergencies law empowers the executive and reduces its accountability, rendering legal constraints near-futile, our analysis suggests that this ought to be understood as a product, to a significant extent, of constitutional actors' mindset vis-à-vis accountability.</p>","PeriodicalId":47530,"journal":{"name":"Modern Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9349534/pdf/MLR-9999-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40594253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}