While the use of suspensions as a sanction for violation of a rule of professional conduct is commonplace and well understood, suspensions are used far more extensively in the lawyer regulatory process. Depending on the jurisdiction, they are imposed to:• Secure adherence to law-licensing...

The contributions of Foster (2005) and Halgreen (2004) are the latest in a series of debates, discussions, conferences, and academic scholarship on the subject of United States (US) and (or versus) European Union (EU) sport policy. In the context of international relations and foreign policy,...

Regulation is often casually conceived of as functioning like a binary on/off switch: as if an area, issue, or industry is either regulated or not. While this binary model of regulation can be useful, it also decontextualizes regulatory decisions from their position in time, and thus obscures...

This note considers the decision of the Irish High Court in Re Prendiville (1992) which dealt with the enforcement of half-secret trusts. It confirms, in a case where the point arose for decision, that Irish law rejects “the prior acceptance rule” favoured in the English cases. The judgment...

Technology now dominates our forms of social interaction and this has implications for social cohesion. Researchers debate the definition and content of social cohesion but our contention is that technological innovation renders this debate redundant because the social and technological...

In the late 1820s, when British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel introduced legislation into the British parliament to create the very first police department, the phrase that the ‘police are the public, and the public are the police' was developed to allay public fears that the new institution...

Criminal behaviour always takes place within a context. The project MAVUS, which stands for Method for Assessment of Vulnerability of Sectors, deploys a method to measure the vulnerability of economic sectors to organised crime. MAVUS observes contexts, scanning for vulnerabilities...

A fundamental tenet of our criminal legal system is “proportionality”, the principle that more severe crimes are punished to a greater degree than less severe crimes. Despite this commitment to proportionality, determining how criminal penalties relate to one another is often difficult or...