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ESG in Germany: From the European Green Deal to the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act
Full text linkThis article discusses the trend towards environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related laws in Germany in the context of Germany’s membership of the European Union (EU). As an EU member state, Germany is subject to a wave of recent directives and regulations that the EU passed as part of its so-called “European Green Deal”. However, Germany also has its own tradition of promoting the goal of sustainability in the law, including company law. The article first distinguishes relevant terminology as some regulations refer to ESG, whereas others to “sustainability”. It then traces the historic development of such laws in German law, including the traditional debate about the interest of the company in German law. This discussion is followed by a case study that critically examines the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act of 2021 that continues to be subject to heated political discussions. The article demonstrates how ESG has, in recent years, become a compliance issue in Germany that is now a matter of consideration for boards.
Keywords: sustainability; supply chain; LkSG; company law; implementation; Germany; corporate governance; compliance; human rights; ESG
Establishing innocence when computer data indicates guilt
Full text linkThe Post Office scandal has been widely described as the UK’s biggest ever miscarriage of justice. During the period between 1999 and 2015 over 900 people were convicted of theft and false accounting offences. These convictions were based on data from the faulty Horizon IT system. Whilst the statutory Post Office inquiry continues to examine the wide-ranging failings that led to these convictions, one area that deserves consideration is how the repeal of section 69 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Evidence from Computer Records) enabled these convictions to be possible and whether the section should be reinstated.
This paper argues that a reinstatement of the dictum that ‘the computer is always wrong,’ unless proved otherwise, is not without its problems and will not resolve the issues that have come to the fore following the Post Office cases. 
Muted Queerscapes: Intersectional Resistance Queering of Workplace Law Using Poetry
Full text linkThis article interrogates the dissonance between India’s post-377 legal promises and the lived realities of queer-trans communities navigating casteist, ableist workplaces. Through 27 participatory poetry workshops (2020–2022) in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Visakhapatnam, West Bengal, and Wayanad, disabled, and able-bodied, Dalit-Bahujan, Adivasi trans participants redrafted the Transgender Persons Act 2019 and Industrial Disputes Act 1947 via erasure poetry, body-mapping, and crowdsourced protest verse. Framed by Akhil Kang’s critique of Savarna queer movements (2021), Gee Semmalar’s trans labour praxis (2020) and Sudipta Das’s Cripping the Margins (2022), this work positions poetry as “jurisdictional counterpractice”—a neurodiverse, caste-conscious challenge to legal and corporate “inclusion”. Case studies from Sayantan Datta’s workplace audits, the Centre for Law and Policy Research’s intersectionality report (Kothari & Ors 2022), and the Queer Tech Workers’ Demand Charter (2022) reveal how poetic subversion queers judgments like Navtej Johar (2018) and Dr Malabika Bhattacharjee (2020), centring disabled, Dalit-Bahujan futurities beyond pink capitalism.
Keywords: poetic resistance; caste; disability; neurodiversity; POSH Act; Navtej Johar
Equali-T
Full text linkEquali-T is a song written in response to For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers (2025). In this accompanying text, I provide a background to the case and a reflection on the events, texts, pictures and thoughts that inspired them. You can listen to the song: Equali-T by SJ Cooper-Knock.
Keywords: trans rights; queer legal judgment; equality; justice; solidarity
Introduction
Full text linkThis Special Section presents a conceptual walking tour of law’s places and spaces in Central London, created by members of the Law and the Humanities Hub (LHub) at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. By mapping diverse sites—from bookshops and cab shelters to courthouses and administrative offices—this map explores how law and place are mutually constitutive, shaping and reshaping one another. Combining legal geography with historical and cultural analysis, it invites readers to see law beyond formal institutions, tracing its often-hidden spatial inscriptions across the city. The result is both a guide and a provocation to rethink law’s spatial—and temporal—dimensions.
Keywords: law; space; place; legal geography; Central London; lawscapes
Which Children Have Rights? The Child’s Right to Bodily Integrity and Protection Gaps for Children with Intersex Traits under International and National Laws
Full text linkThis article examines protection gaps for children with intersex traits under international and national laws governing non-voluntary medicalized interventions into sexual anatomy. Various United Nations (UN) bodies, including the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, human rights treaty-monitoring bodies and the Human Rights Council, have called for full acknowledgment and substantive protection of the rights of children with intersex variations—as with all children—to bodily integrity and (future) bodily autonomy in relation to their own sexed embodiment. However, these global norms generally have not been codified under international law, and most countries have not passed adequate, or any, legislation to secure these rights. We review relevant global norms, international human rights treaties and legislative developments in a range of countries to illustrate potential pathways for closing legal gaps in the protection of all children’s rights to bodily integrity and (future) bodily and sexual autonomy.
Keywords: bodily integrity; children’s rights; gender binary; non-voluntary medical interventions; human rights; intersex
The Advocate Lecture: “Justice, and Access to It”
Full text linkGiven on 14 March 2024 at Lincoln’s In