Articles + Chapters

This page contains details of (and in nearly all cases open access links to the full text of) journal articles and chapters in edited collections. Most are in the field of media and information law, with a smaller number of pieces on legal research and education and on constitutional and administrative law.

Media and information law

  • ‘From global village to smart city: reputation, recognition, personalisation, and ubiquity’ in U Kohl & J Eisler (eds), Data-driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Full text available
  • ‘The road to responsibilities: new attitudes towards Internet intermediaries’ (2020) 29 Information & Communications Technology Law 1. Full text available
  • ‘The Chinese social credit system: a model for other countries?’ (with Mathias Siems) (2019) 82 Modern Law Review 1034. Full text available
  • ‘Where Do We Go from Here? Reflections on the LCO’s Consultation and Conference’ (2019) 56 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 1. Full text available
  • ‘Television with frontiers: UK-established broadcasters after Brexit’ (2018) 23 Communications Law 203. Full text available
  • ‘Convergence: The impact of broadcasting regulation on telecommunications’ in I Walden (ed), Telecommunications law and regulation (5th edn, Oxford University Press 2018).
  • ‘“TV-like”: aesthetics, quality and genre in the regulation of video-on-demand services’ (2017) 14 Journal of British Cinema and Television 464. Full text available
  • Contempt of court and new media’ in Gillies & Mangan (eds), The legal challenges of social media (Edward Elgar 2017) pp 83-103. Full text available
  • ‘The game’s the thing: property, priorities and perceptions in the video games industries’ in Richardson and Ricketson (eds), Research Handbook on Intellectual Property in Media and Entertainment (Edward Elgar 2017) pp 344-366.
  • ‘Computers and the Coalition: legislation on law and information technology, 2010-2015’ (2015) 12 SCRIPTed 141. Full text available
  • ‘Because the computer speaks English? Language rights and digital media’ (2015) 7 Journal of Media Law 65. Full text available
  • ‘Multiplayer games: tax, copyright, consumers and the video game industries’ (2014) 5(3) European Journal of Law and Technology. Full text available
  • ‘When the dealin’s done? Recent developments in online gambling law and policy’ (2014) 11 SCRIPTed 171. Full text available
  • ‘Beyond breach of confidence: an Irish eye on English and Scottish privacy law’ [2014] Juridical Review 27.  Full text available
  • ‘Principles for a second century of film legislation’ (2014) 34 Legal Studies 609. Full text available
  • ‘The Data Retention Directive Never Existed’ (with Judith Rauhofer) (2014) 11 SCRIPTed 118. Full text available
  • ‘Death of a Convention: competition between the Council of Europe and European Union in the regulation of broadcasting’ (2013) 5 Journal of Media Law 133. Full text available
  • ‘The fragmentation of intermediary liability in the UK’ (2013) 8 Journal of IP Law and Practice 521. Full text available
  • ‘App law within: rights and regulation in the smartphone age’ (2013) 21 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 154. Full text available
  • ‘(Mis)appropriation Art? Copyright and Data Protection implications of “CCTV Sniffing” as Art’ in E Schweighofer and others (eds), Abstraktion und Applikation (OCG, 2013) 489-498 (with Smita Kheria, Judith Rauhofer, Burkhard Schafer). Full text available
  •  ‘From freedom of speech to the right to communicate’ in Monroe Price, Stefan Verhulst and Libby Morgan (eds), Routledge Handbook of Media Law (Routledge 2013), pp 175-192. Full text available
  • ‘Virtual walls: the law of pseudo-public spaces’ (2012) 8 International Journal of Law in Context 394. Full text available
  • ‘Co-regulation, video-on-demand, and the legal status of audio-visual media’ (2011) 2 International Journal of Digital Television 49. Full text available
  • ‘Regulating the medium: reactions to network neutrality in the European Union and Canada’ (2011) 14(8) Journal of Internet Law 3. Full text available
  • ‘“I’d tell you everything if you’d pick up that telephone”: political expression and data protection’ [2011] European Human Rights Law Review 166. Full text available
  • ‘Legal games: the regulation of content and the challenge of casual gaming’ (2011) 3 Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds 3. Full text available
  • ‘The regulation of video games: past, present and future’ (2010) 21 Entertainment Law Review 298. Full text available
  • ‘More than words: the introduction of internationalised domain names and the reform of generic top-level domains at ICANN’ (2010) 28 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 274. Full text available
  • ‘Republic of Ireland’ in Cameron Doley and Alastair Mullis (eds), Carter-Ruck on Libel and Privacy (6th edn, LexisNexis 2010) pp 1301-7.
  • ‘Law in the Last Mile: Sharing Internet Access Through WiFi’ (2009) 6 SCRIPT-ed 355. Full text available
  • ‘The mass age of Internet law’ (2008) 17 Information & Communications Technology Law 79. Full text available

Legal research and education

  • ‘Evaluation of academic legal publications in the United Kingdom’ in R van Gestel & A Lienhard (eds), Evaluating academic legal research in Europe: the advantage of lagging behind (Elgar 2019) pp 20-55.
  • ‘Northern Irish Legal Education after Brexit’ (with Mark Flear) (2019) 53 Law Teacher 148. Full text available
  • ‘Why do we do what we do? Comparing legal methods in five law schools through survey evidence’ (with Mathias Siems) in Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz and others (eds), Methodology in the New Legal World (Cambridge University Press 2017) pp 31-83. Full text available
  • ‘Mapping legal research’ (2012) 71 Cambridge Law Journal 651 (with Mathias Siems). Full text available
  • ‘Irish education policy for a globalised world: a policy for chasing black and white swans’ (FBD Trust, 2009) (with Charles Larkin, Ailbhe Kenny, Jacco Thijssen). Full text available

Constitutional and administrative law

  • ‘The real argument about judicial review’ (with TT Arvind, R Kirkham & L Stirton) in Arvind, Kirkham, Mac Síthigh & Stirton (eds), Executive Decision-Making and the Courts: Revisiting the Origins of Modern Judicial Review (Hart, 2021)
  • ‘Constitutionalism in the periphery: Revisiting the roots of self-rule movements in Ireland and India’ (2020) 71 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 211 (with T T Arvind). Full text available
  • ‘Official status of languages in the UK and Ireland’ (2018) 47 Common Law World Review 77. Full text available
  • ‘Pensioners over prisoners: Amending the Scotland Act in Response to Somerville and Napier’ [2010] Juridical Review 1. Full text available