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Ideology, Legal Transplants and Moral Foundation, A Scholarly Account of the Chinese Civil Code
The passage of the Chinese Civil Code in 2021 was a monumental event both for China and the international community. Yet, it is a daunting task to present a scientific account of the Code to a readership in both worlds. It is difficult for private law exp…
How institutions matter in Mozambique
Launched in 2015 and completed in 2022, the Institutional Diagnostic Project aimed at identifying institutional factors that affect development, reforms that may help address existing institutional constraints, and factors that can preclude or enable thes…
Human Prehistory
I wrote Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future, to provide students with a complete and easily understandable overview of the most important stages of human anatomical, behavioral and cultural evolution. Understanding the origin sto…
The Governance of Chinese Charitable Trusts
In 2001, Chinese legislators introduced public welfare trusts to encourage the public to participate in charitable endeavours, drawing on the experiences of Japan and South Korea. However, despite being in existence for twenty years, the success rate of p…
Structuralist and behavioral macroeconomics
The research program that has dominated macroeconomic theory since the 1980s achieved its hegemony mainly because of its methodological claims of having ‘solid microeconomic foundations’. The core models of new Keynesian macroeconomics are bas…
What harms get recognised and redressed by states, and what harms do not?
The Nordic welfare states have a modern history marked by involuntary sterilisation and castration. Such practices have targeted different kinds of marginalised groups and people, whose sexuality and reproduction were considered inappropriate: poor women,…
Pynchon’s Anthropocene Sunset
In May 2000, the Global Change Newsletter featured a brief note of just over a page which in retrospect has emerged as one of the most important texts of the new millennium. In the short article, the two authors, Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer, argue…
Law and Political Economy in China’s Market Development Puzzle
The conventional premise for embracing law in the context of economic reform calls for a modern legal system as a prerequisite for economic development. The premise suggests that economic exchange between unfamiliar parties requires reliable and uniformly…
Life and Language beyond Earth
This book addresses the question ‘Do beings exist on planets beyond our Solar System with whom we could engage in meaningful exchange?’ To approach this issue we can break it down as follows: Four basic questions about life and language beyond…
Political Peasants? Local authority in late medieval and early modern England
In the classic 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, one scene sees King Arthur debate with two self-proclaimed anarcho-syndicalist peasants, who outline a complex democratic system of decision making which contrasts with Arthur’s claim to…
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Keeping Animal Welfare on the Scientific Straight and Narrow
Challenging the popular but problematic 'Five Domains model' approach to categorising the experiences of animals in animal welfare science.
One Year of Cambridge Prisms
Uniting authors to address real world challenges – this was the aim of the Cambridge Prisms series when it first launched in 2023 and we have worked so hard with our Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Boards to deliver this promised focus.…
Introducing the new Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Property
I am honoured to be taking on the role of Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Cultural Property, following in the footsteps of Alexander Bauer.…
Why doesn’t my supervisor speak to me about my race or ethnicity in supervision?
The September BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Exploring the supervisory relationship in the context of culturally responsive supervision: a supervisee’s perspective” by Bianca …
Encouraging veggies over fries!
What we eat is influenced by a myriad of external factors: our mood, the occasion, friends and family, new food trends, the location, food presentation, to name only a few. We tend to choose our food differently at a wedding reception surrounded by people…
A pedestrian dynamics model accounting for the body size of agents
Introducing a mathematical model for pedestrian dynamics that is based on social forces between pedestrians in exemplary hallway or crossing situations.
Meet the Editors of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
On Saturday, September 2nd 2023, Christopher Towler and Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien hosted an online meet-the-editors session for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP) during this year’s American Political Science Association confe…
First, do no harm (primum non nocere): medication for people with intellectual disabilities and autism
The RCPsych Article of the Month for September is ‘Pharmacological management of psychopathology in people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorder' and the blog is written by author Professor Shoumitro Deb and the article is p…
A Witness to My Inner Struggle
Puzzle was created during a admission It's a self-portrait, but the question is of what? Throughout my life, painting and the canvas have given me the the opportunity to let go and thus art has helped in my recovery.
Crop-livestock integration in Northwest Vietnam: Various adaptation strategies
Why look at changes in crop and livestock practices in Vietnam? In mountainous Northwest Vietnam, the standard agricultural model since the decollectivization has been mixed crop–livestock family farms
