The present paper addresses the role of the UK's Electoral Commission as regards party funding monitoring and enforcement during the historical phenomenon of New Labour. If plotted against the two axes of non-unitary/unitary and independent/affiliated, the UK's Electoral Commission would be...

This paper is the written evidence of NS Ghaleigh (University of Edinburgh, School of Law). It was submitted to the UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee, in response to it call for evidence for the inquiry, "UK Export Finance: Scale and impact of UKEF's financing of fossil fuels in low...

The introduction of “nationally determined contributions” into the Paris Agreement was a risky if necessary strategy. NDCs are risky in that they are a novel device which could well underdeliver the key climate goods of mitigation, adaptation, and finance; but they are necessary given that...

This chapter makes the case that ambitious climate action should central to the “new normal” in Asia, and that law has an important role in delivering it. From the perspective of climate change policy and law, the Covid-19 catastrophe offers the slim possibility that we will “build back...

Carbon border adjustments raise fears amongst both the community of climate/international environmental lawyers and trade lawyers. To the latter they risk taking the form of unjustifiable barriers to trade and may sit uneasily with the body of WTO law concerning trade and the environment. To the...

The litigation faced by the EU ETS is of significance not only for that mechanism - the world's largest carbon market - but also for emerging carbon markets around the world and thus the enterprise of tackling global climate change by way of market mechanisms. This working paper analyses the...