Law Review


 

Getting Published

In 2005 ELSA London decided we wanted to showcase the work of London law students. We thought of an online Law Review where students would be invited to submit their first class essays, articles and dissertations for review by their peers. It was our hope that by encouraging contributions from students from ALL colleges, law schools and universities we might hopefully be able to provide a much wider variety of legal topics and themes as we are well aware that different colleges have different specialities.

 

Below you will find the first instalment of EIGHT dissertations. We would not have been able to publish these dissertations without the help of editor, Latoya Austin (BPP) who spent many, many hours proof reading.

 

Unfortunately, due to the size of the dissertations, we have been unable to upload them straight to this website and so it has proved necessary to compromise somewhat by importing them from a temporary site created for this purpose by ELSA London supporter, Yonis Smith (much appreciated, by the way!)

 

We will be seeking sponsorship to create a separate site specifically for the ELSA London Law Review. The majority of the eight dissertations you will find below are LLM papers - hence the title "Master Pieces". The second instalment will follow shortly so those of you who submitted work to Patricia Edwards don't worry. There has been a problem with finding enough quality editors, hence the delay.

 

We wish to emphasise that "Master Pieces" is just going to be one section of the proposed online ELSA London Law Review. We want to encourage submissions from ALL students and young lawyers who feel they have something worth reading. To this end, contributions from freshers and other undergraduates are very welcome too. If you have written anything that received a first class mark or distinction and you would like this work to be read and perhaps commented upon by others (students/lecturers/legal professionals), we would love to hear from you.

 

The format we have decided upon will be traditional i.e. an abstract then the full version of the essay/article but we would like to offer an extra dimension by providing a discussion board where readers have the opportunity to make comments, discuss the work they have just read. We are not sure how much use will be made of these fora but we hope, with time, readers of the ELSA London Law Review will become accustomed to being slightly more proactive than readers of other Law Reviews.

 

HELP WANTED!

If anyone reading this would like to get involved in the ELSA London Law Review and has editorial experience, we would be very, very glad to hear from you. We need people with an excellent academic record and, equally as important, we need people with an excellent standard of written English.

Please email law review with your CV if you would like to help us get this off the ground or if you have any advice or suggestions on how we might develop our online Law Review.

 

Sponsors

We are looking for sponsors for the Law Review and for the new website. If this sounds like the kind of project your organisation would like to support, please contact Carol Thompson or Patricia Edwards

 

Welcome to ELSA London Publications

Volume 1: 2004-5

 

The tax regime of the international business centre of Madeira: Understanding the past, facing the present and rethinking the future

 

written by Rui Dinis Nascimento
King's College London

edited by Latoya Austin
BPP Law School, London
[abstract]         [ dissertation ]


 

A Critical Evaluation of Lex Mercatoria: in the Pursuit of a New Regulatory Order for Transnational Contracts

written by Maria Rita Drummond
London School of Economics

edited by Latoya Austin
BPP Law School, London
[ abstract ]         [ dissertation ]


 

Unprotected Creditors Dealing with Corporate Groups

written by Carlos Santa Cecilia Roma
University College London

edited by Latoya Austin
BPP Law School, London
[ abstract ]         [ dissertation ]


 

The Abolition of the Presumption of Doli Incapax

written by Daniel Ahmed
University College London

edited by Latoya Austin
BPP Law School, London
[ abstract ]         [ dissertation ]
 

 

An Obligation to Disobey? Military Service in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Considered Through the Prism of International Criminal Law

written by Samuel Eitan Diamond
London School of Economics

edited by Latoya Austin
BPP Law School, London
[ abstract ]         [ dissertation ]


 

Foreign Direct Investment in China. Chinese Law & Practice

written by Yue Liu
Queen Mary College, University of London

edited by Latoya Austin
BPP Law School, London
[ abstract ][ dissertation ]
 

 

Droit de Suite: A Creation of the French at the Expense of Modern and Contemporary Art

written by Tanya Woods
London School of Economics

edited by Patricia Edwards
BPP Law School, London

[ abstract ][ dissertation]