We are delighted to announce the first issue of the LSE Law School’s Legal Studies Working Paper Series for 2024.
In this issue, Nicola Lacey (WPS 1/2024) develops her and Hanna Pickard’s argument for reconceiving criminal responsibility as being grounded in forgiveness rather than blame, by considering how such an idea could be institutionalised within the criminal justice system without implying a legal moralist position; Jeremy Horder (WPS 2/2024) analyses the provisions of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 which allow companies to be identified with non-director ‘senior managers’ for the purposes of fault-based crimes and the creation of a new corporate offence of failing to prevent economic crime, and argues that deficiencies in the former’s conceptualisation could have been rectified by expanding the latter’s scope beyond ‘large organisations’; Christos Hadjiemmanuil (WPS 3/2024) examines the theory, doctrine, and practice of economic sanctions in international law, emphasising their distinctiveness from sanctions as found in domestic law, and suggests that greater attention should be placed on distinguishing between sanctions imposed by the United Nations, regional organisations, and individual states; and Ayse Gizem Yasar with her co-authors (WPS 4/2024) explore the implications of the rapid advance of generative AI for the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), arguing that for the DMA to continue protecting contestability and fairness in digital markets, generative AI systems should be explicitly integrated into the DMA.