UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Volume 9

Publication details

Osorio Umaña, Felipe and Papadogiannis Varouchakis, Thomas (2020) UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Volume 9, available online: http://ojs.lib.ucl.ac.uk/index.php/LaJ

Publication summary

The UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence is a law journal edited and published by LLM and PhD students at UCL Laws. The Journal publishes scholarly contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, as well as showcasing outstanding research of post-graduate students at UCL.

Volume 9 of the UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence features a Preface (by editors Thomas Papadogiannis Varouchakis and Felipe Osorio Umaña), four articles and one case note:

Articles:

• The Measure of Finality: A Dialectical Analysis of Legitimacy Concerns in International Investment Arbitration, by Dr. Stefan Mandelbaum
• The ‘Great Game’ of Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Solving the Holdout Problem. A Critical Analysis of the Pari Passu and Collective Action Clauses in International Sovereign Bond Contracts, by Akshay S. Gohil
• The Issue of Imminence: Can the Threat of a Cyber-Attack Invoke the Right to Anticipatory Self-Defence under International Law?, by Samantha Ria Shahriar
• ‘Not as Bad as…’ The Concept of Disadvantage in the Justification of Positive Action under UK Anti-Discrimination Law, by Victoria Martínez Placencia

Case notes:

• Exit Consent Solicitations Post-Assenagon: A Relic of the Past?, by Tsano Kanchev