Skip to Content

Laws, Volume 15, Issue 1

2026 February - 13 articles

Cover Story: As American higher education experiences a renaissance in civic education, this article argues that liberal learning alone is no longer sufficient for democratic self-government. In a republic increasingly shaped by polls, policy analysis, and data-driven governance, citizens must also possess the empirical and legal skills required to exercise sound judgment. The article proposes a “renewed civic pragmatism” that integrates policy research, statistical literacy, and legal reasoning with the moral and historical formation of the liberal arts. By uniting principle with evidence and interpretation with practice, it presents civic education as a bridge between civic virtue, empirical judgment, and the rule of law in a modern constitutional democracy. View this paper
  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,979 Views
30 Pages

13 February 2026

In this essay, I explore the historical challenge that Abraham Lincoln posed to Stephen Douglas at the fifth debate in Galesburg. During an argument regarding the morality of slavery and the meaning and significance of the American regime, Douglas co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vol. II of Civic Engagement, Justice, and the Law in a National and International Context)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,846 Views
13 Pages

13 February 2026

The Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritages (ICH) Law was passed in 2011, followed by the Regulation on Copyright Protection of Folk Literature and Art Works (Draft calling for comments) released in 2014, which finally called for opinions from experts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,872 Views
39 Pages

10 February 2026

Existing law provides no settled account of how deepfake sextortion should be characterised and regulated in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, creating uncertainty for charging, adjudication and platform compliance at the point when the Online Saf...

(This article belongs to the Section Criminal Justice Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,799 Views
28 Pages

9 February 2026

This article examines in detail Advisory Opinion No. 32, issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in July 2025. The analysis examines how the decision of the International Court of Justice establishes the principle of intergenerational equi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,194 Views
20 Pages

22 January 2026

This article examines the subject of SME failures due to financial distress in emerging economies by focusing on Uganda as a case study. It adopts a convergent doctrinal and empirical approach, drawing on existing black letter law and literature alon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Developments in International Insolvency Law: Trends and Challenges)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,284 Views
18 Pages

21 January 2026

This study represents a bibliometric analysis of the global scholarship on institutional rights in education, based on 192 reviewed publications from the Web of Science database, which includes the 2000–2025 period. Research has developed in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,502 Views
11 Pages

21 January 2026

Since 2017, more than a dozen civics institutes have been founded at America’s public universities, marking a renaissance in civic education. Grounded in the liberal arts, these institutes rightly restore the pursuit of knowledge for its own sa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vol. II of Civic Engagement, Justice, and the Law in a National and International Context)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,050 Views
43 Pages

15 January 2026

The capacity of the United Kingdom (UK) to prosecute technology-enabled financial and economic crime (FEC) is increasingly shaped by the Collingridge dilemma. Even though the dilemma was broadly conceptualized in technology governance, its applicatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,046 Views
30 Pages

Electoral Justice in Jordan: Judicial Oversight of Appeals Between Legitimacy and Participation

  • Abeer Hassan Al-Qaisi,
  • Rehan Naji Abu Elzeet,
  • Mutasem Khaled Heif,
  • Shadi Meeush D’yab Altarawneh,
  • Loiy Yousef Aldaoud and
  • Mostafa Hussam Altarawneh

29 December 2025

This study evaluates the effectiveness of Jordan’s judiciary in overseeing electoral appeals within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, it combines doctrinal legal analysis of key constitutional provis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,878 Views
35 Pages

29 December 2025

This article provides a detailed comparative analysis of the transposition and implementation of the Renewable Energy Directives II and III (RED II and RED III), REPowerEU Plan, and the ‘Fit for 55’ package in France, Italy, and Germany....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,963 Views
17 Pages

25 December 2025

The existence of a legal framework for Artificial Intelligence systems is of great importance for the growth and development of this advanced technology, especially given the growing sense of legal insecurity that may arise from potential irreparable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,561 Views
16 Pages

UK Consumer Protection and the Debate for Reform in Medical Device Liability

  • Nicholas T. H. Farr,
  • Elliot J. Owen and
  • Rohan M. Bhalekar

20 December 2025

The long-stop rule, under the UK Consumer Protection Act (CPA) 1987, imposes a 10-year limitation period for product liability claims, providing legal certainty for manufacturers and consumers. However, this timeframe is increasingly problematic in t...

XFacebookLinkedIn
Laws - ISSN 2075-471X