Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice research and Impact projects

Many of our LTAP colleagues engage heavily in individual, collaborative and/or impact project work.

Below are some examples of research and impact activities:

• Eric Baskind gave both written and oral evidence to The Lord Carlile of Berriew QC Independent Inquiry into the Use of Physical Restraint in Prisons, Secure Training Centres, and Local Authority Secure Children’s Homes, held in the House of Lords, 2006 and 2011. He was also a Commissioner serving on the National Independent Commission on Enforced Removals with specific responsibility for advising on the management of violence and aggression and the safe use of restraint. The Commission was chaired by Lord Ramsbotham, GCB, CBE, formerly Chief Inspector of Her Majesty’s Prisons, and was established in March 2012 following the death of Mr Jimmy Mubenga who died whilst being restrained during his deportation from the UK.
  
  
• Dr Chengeta's latest work includes two important book chapters on conventional weapons and mooting, respectively, as part of a major edited volume in honour of the late Professor Christof Heyns published by Pretoria University Law Press (2022). Dr Chengeta is also  the author of the hypothetical cases of the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition.
  
  
• Dr Chijioke Chijioke-Oforji published two important pieces in 2021 on the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and Director Accountability for Breach of Competition Law for International Trade Law and Regulation and European Competition Law Review, respectively.
  
  
• Dr Lui is the author of two monographs, the first of which (Financial stability and prudential regulation: A comparative approach to the UK, US, Canada, Australia and Germany, Routledge 2016) has been listed as one of the best Banking Law books and one of the best-selling Banking Law books of all time. The second book with Nic Ryder appeared in 2021 with Routledge (FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Regulation and Crime Prevention). Dr Lui has also provided written evidence to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee Digital Currency Inquiry and the Automation and Work Inquiry. In December 2021, Dr Lui secured £10,000 of Research England Policy Support Fund to work on a project focusing on access to digital financial payment services for women and minority groups in urban-rural areas of Nigeria.
  
  
• Dr Blanca Mamutse has a number of articles the very latest of which include pieces on modern slavery and corporate liability for environmental damage, with Industrial Law Journal (2021) and Environmental Liability - Law, Policy and Practice (2019).
  
  
• Dr Mariniello recently briefed EU bodies on his ca-authored report on ‘The role of the ICC since its foundation and possible scenarios for the future: case selection and prioritisation’. He has also received funding for a collaborative project on Palestinian Bedouins with Queen’s University of Belfast (PI), Trinity College of Dublin and Al Quds University, and has an Op-ed with Al Jazeera on the current investigation into the Afghanistan situation before the International Criminal Court (ICC).
  
  
• Dr Francis Okanigbuan published a book in 2020 on Corporate Takeover Law and Management Discipline (Routledge) and has further published materials with Journal of Law and Society (2020) and Journal of Corporate Law Studies (2020). 
  
  
• Prof Pentassuglia published articles in 2021 for the Nordic Journal of International Law and the OSCE Network; he has been elected an expert member of the OSCE Network's Steering Group and will serve in that capacity until December 2023. Prof Pentassuglia recently received ESRC and Research of England/LJMU funding to support a collaborative project on minority political participation and integration with the University of Glasgow as well as senior practitioners/advisers from the OSCE and Council of Europe. Part of this work draws and seeks to expand on his recent policy analysis for the OSCE Network. He is also working on matters of internal self-determination, participation and autonomy and their entanglement with issues of nationalism and group belonging. 
  
  
• Richard Ridyard has an article on Bank governance in Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance (2019). 
  
  
• Dr Snow recently secured £30,000 to provide research consultancy for Gloucester Police on the topic of Automatic Number Plate Recognition through a series of pilot studies which will inform both national and international responses to the problem. 
  
  
• Rachel Stalker has a chapter (with Sarah Buhler) on Clinical Legal Education and Ethics in a collection edited by Madhloom and Hugh McFaul on Thinking About Clinical Legal Education: Philosophical and Theoretical, published by Routledge (2021). 
  
  
• Dr Stanford has edited two books on Global Pandemic, Security and Human Rights: Comparative Explorations of COVID-19 and the Law (2021) and Global Pandemic, Technology and Business: Comparative Explorations of COVID-19 and the Law (2021), with four chapters across the two 2021 collections.  
  
  
• Dr Yinan Yin has a monograph (with M Salter) on Towards a Schmittian Theory of Regionalism Within International Law and Relations: Testing Grossraum Analysis with Two Case Studies of Regional Institutions (2016) and a number of articles, including a piece on UK tax regime in Maritime Law in Motion (2020). 
  
  
• Dr Gary Wilson has been invited to contribute to The Conversation Africa as a recognised expert on African states at the United Nations. He was also awarded for having contributed the best article published in International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses (2020). 

• Dr Matilde Ventrella - recent publications: an article with Professor Sonia Morano Foadi, titled 'Out of sight, out of mind. Reassessing positive obligations towards victims of human trafficking’ which has been published by The Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law (2022) Vol 36, No 3 and her written evidence House of Lords, International Agreements Committee UK-Rwanda MoU, Written Evidence. 2022.