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Good faith in Canadian Contract Law - the question of uncertainty and evasion in comparative context
No full textJustice for Atrocities: Dialogues and Encounters between Latin America and Europe
No full textThis book examines how national and international regional courts in Europe and Latin America address justice for serious human rights violations, comparing approaches across these distinct regions. It analyzes judicial responses to gross violations of international human rights law and humanitarian law—including genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes—through the lens of regional institutional frameworks.
The comparative analysis explores decades of significant case law addressing atrocities such as murder, torture, sexual offenses, and enforced disappearances in both conflict and peacetime settings. The book contrasts Europe’s experience with mass atrocities during the World Wars, Balkan conflicts of the 1990s, and recent violations in the Caucasus and Ukraine, against Latin America’s widespread abuses under dictatorial regimes and internal armed conflicts in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru during the latter decades of the 20th century.
This volume is essential reading for legal scholars, human rights practitioners, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and policymakers working in international criminal justice. It also serves as a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in law, political science, international relations, and peace and conflict studies who focus on accountability mechanisms for serious human rights violations across different regional contexts.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights
From Necessity to Luxury: Menswear and the Evolution of Face Coverings during COVID-19
No full textThe paper examines the transformation of face coverings from essential personal protective equipment (PPE) to luxury fashion accessories during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on menswear. The research centres on the Westminster Menswear Archive's (WMA) exhibition, Undercover: From Necessity to Luxury – The Evolution of Face Coverings During COVID-19, which documents over 100 face coverings collected between March 2020 and March 2021. This study highlights the rapid adaptation of fashion brands in response to the pandemic and their efforts to reposition face masks as desirable fashion items. The exhibition, which launched on May 11, 2021, showcased face coverings from prominent brands such as Burberry, Balenciaga, and Louis Vuitton, illustrating their shift from functional PPE to high-status accessories. Additionally, it featured 365 images of discarded masks, minted as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), to challenge traditional conventional notions of value and authenticity in fashion archives.
The paper details the curatorial process involved in developing the exhibition, including the challenges of rapid response collecting and the influence of digital contexts on exhibition design. It discusses how the exhibition's thematic sections—Before COVID-19, Undercover, Protection, Digital, Charity, and Discarded—addressed various aspects of face coverings' evolution, from pre-pandemic fashion trends to their role in digital and charitable contexts. The study also critiques how the pandemic has reinforced traditional fashion hierarchies of gender and exclusivity. By capturing the rapid evolution of face coverings and their presentation in digital spaces, the exhibition critically engages with themes of value, memory, and digital archiving. This innovative approach not only preserves a significant moment in fashion history but also contributes to the broader understanding of how crises influence fashion practices and archival methodologies
Arms and the Free Churchman: Arms Control and Regulation in Britain 1909-1939
No full textThe Dreadnought naval race, and the accompanying Mulliner scandal, raised the issue of whether arms manufacturers exerted undue influence on policymakers and defence procurement procedures. To this was added controversy about profiteering during the Great War, resulting in the concerns about the effects of private armament manufacturers enshrined in Art.8(4 & 5) of the Covenant of the League of Nations. This resulted in a shift of attitudes, not least amongst Free Churchmen. Whilst Nonconformist MPs were lambasted in 1914 for owning shares in naval shipyards, twenty years later the Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon (himself a son of the manse) sued a Methodist minister for alleging that he owned shares in these 'Merchants of Death'. The chapter concludes by explaining the origins in the mid-1930s of the Senate Munitions Inquiry in the US and the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of and Trading in Arms in the UK and examining the consequences on the UK armaments industry during the Second World War
The Complexity of Exile: Searching for Edward Said
No full textA review of Edward W. Said’s autobiography "Out of Place
Republishing Postwar Experimental Novels by Women: The Case of Ann Quin
No full textInnovative novels by women published in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s have returned with a vengeance in the last decade. They have reappeared in bookshops, they have been the subject of academic work, of newspaper articles and radio programmes. Feminist critical work is likely to see this return through the trope of recovery; those interested in publishing are likely to use Pierre Bourdieu’s model of ‘restricted production’. This Element argues that both of these temporal models are problematic. That these novelists have not been fully present in literary culture till now is the fault neither of ‘forgetting’ nor the time lag inherent in restricted production, but of the specific and complex structures, dynamics and assumptions of publishing. By focusing the publishing and republishing of the work of Ann Quin (1936-1973), this Element remakes the feminist critical landscape for work on novelists from the past and on publishing.
Parametric Evaluation of a Façade-Integrated Natural Ventilation System for Multi-Storey Buildings
No full textSingle-sided ventilation (SSV) in multi-storey buildings often suffers from limited flow penetration, strong directional dependence, and floor-to-floor imbalance. This study investigates a façade-integrated Wall Windcatcher (WWC) system designed to overcome these limitations by combining a low-level supply inlet and a high-level exhaust outlet on the same façade, connected by an external vertical duct. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) framework was first validated against atmospheric boundary layer wind-tunnel measurements using a baseline WWC geometry, which then served as the reference model for a systematic parametric analysis of geometric modifications and contextual factors based on a steady-state RANS (k–ε RNG) approach. Design variants were tested across wind angles from 0° to 180° to capture windward, oblique, perpendicular, and leeward exposures. For the k–ε RNG model, agreement in pressure coefficients (Cp) for WWC cases yielded MAPE = 5.6% (0° wind angle), 4.6% (45°), and 6.8% (90°), respectively, confirming the accuracy of the CFD framework for subsequent analysis. Three design parameters were tested individually and in combination: (i) transitions before each outlet, (ii) enlarged outlet size, and (iii) a thin inlet plane. Transitions reduced junction losses and improved vertical continuity, enlarged outlets strengthened upper-storey extraction but could suppress ground-floor intake at high obliquity, and the inlet plane provided the largest single improvement under oblique winds. The fully integrated design (COC2: inlet plane + transitions + enlarged outlet) achieved the highest and most uniform velocities, with up to 2–3× higher performance than the baseline and measurable improvements even under leeward winds. Increasing building height (to four and five storeys) enhanced mid- and upper-floor ventilation without significantly penalising lower levels. Urban-canyon simulations showed that wider street-to-building ratios improved windward and side-zone performance, while leeward zones remained limited by wake shielding. The results demonstrate that a retrofit-focused WWC can outperform SSV when inlet capture (inlet plane), duct continuity (transitions), and outlet discharge are optimised together. The findings provide practical guidance for passive ventilation design, and the development of modular façade retrofit systems for multi-storey buildings
Introduction. The Creative and Cultural Industries’ transition towards responsible practice: from policy to action.
No full textDue to the success of our initial call for chapters in October 2023 and the interest leveraged around matters related to sustainability and the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs), we were able to produce a two volume collection on this important topic.
The first volume, titled “Responsible Consumption and Production in the Creative and Cultural Industries. Actions, policies, and strategies for a sustainable future”, will be published in June 2025, followed by this second volume a few months later.
The present volume can therefore be considered complementary to the first volume, with another selection of interesting and useful contributions that, we hope, will highlight even more the strong relationship between the CCIs and sustainability and contribute to advance the academic literature around these key matters.
Although we designed each volume as stand-alone, we do recommend reading both volumes for a more comprehensive overview of the key issues, advances and challenges.
Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs) are not escaping from the challenge of addressing sustainability matters; indeed, these industries could provide original solutions, thanks to their unique creativity, skills and talent (Amabile, 1988; Benghozi et al., 2021), which could become “best practices”, thus adopted by other industrial sectors.
Nonetheless, to date the matter of sustainability in the CCIs’ context has not received the deserved attention in the academic literature. In particular, we identified a gap in ‘Responsible Consumption and Production in the CCIs’ that, all along the content of the first volume (Salvador, Pappalepore, 2025), also this sequel-book aims to bridge
