Altering international law: Nasser, Bandung, and the Suez crisis

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Liberal internationalism, radical transformation and the making of world orders. Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, 'The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World'. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017. Pp. 608. US $30. ISBN: 9781501109867

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A deathless story: the ANZAC memorial, memory and international law

In this contribution, I stage the birth, death and resurrection of the ANZAC Memorial dedicated to fallen Australian and New Zealand mounted men in Egypt, Syria and Palestine 1916-18. I begin by re-performing acts in the Memorial’s life and then consider what is at stake in remembering and forgetting the Great War through a material object. I argue that encountering this artefact presents an opportunity to impose, resist and rethink the international legal order's foundational violence and warlikeness

Dialogical arts practice in place-making. Re:connections: a case study of Lee Bank, Birmingham

Dialogical aesthetics is a term used by art historian and critic Grant Kester (2004) to describe a form of arts practice defined by the artist’s ability to listen and catalyse understanding. My research explores how this arts practice can be applied to the understanding of people’s emotional connections to their lived place, addressing the need to consider complex nuances of people’s place attachment within existing built environment assessment processes. This paper focuses on Re:connections, a creative place-making project that took place in summer 2017 where artists, through a dialogical approach, engaged residents in Lee Bank, Birmingham, an area that has been undergoing regeneration since 2000 and previously regarded as an area of poor quality housing and social deprivation. Re:connections provides an insight into the impact physical change has had on residents place attachment, and new knowledge regarding the value of dialogical arts practice as a tool for design professionals

Media spectacles of legal accountability in the reporting of an official history

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Usability design of Short Message Service (SMS) mobile phone banking

The financial services sector is investing considerable sums of money into mobile banking services, but the uptake by customers has been low. The cost to benefit ratio of mobile banking is highly unsatisfactory when the costs of developing and managing the channel are considered. Many of the advantages of Internet banking are shared by mobile banking e.g. control and time saving. Mobile banking also offers higher convenience with the ability to carry out banking whenever and wherever you are. It is hoped that mobile banking can be as successful as Internet banking. A major factor in the low adoption of mobile banking is usability, and there is a need for research on the issues surrounding mobile banking as so far little has been conducted. This thesis seeks to investigate the usability issues surrounding Short Message Service (SMS) banking. It identifies three general functions of SMS in electronic banking: transactions, communication/CRM and security. Three empirical usability evaluations are presented that explored customers’ perceptions and attitudes of using these functions of SMS banking. The research presented here provides empirical evidence for the thesis that usability is a significant factor in the low customer adoption of SMS banking. It also shows that related to usability issues are customer concerns over the security of SMS as a banking channel. Older users will find SMS banking less usable than younger users and are more ambivalent regarding SMS in general. It recommends the most usable message input format to use in SMS banking and contributes insights on how best to realise the practical application of SMS banking and services. The findings from these studies will help improve usability in mobile banking services

Women in Law Project - 100 Voices

The Women in Law Project is concerned with the past, present and future of women in law in Scotland.   The team researches the past by uncovering stories of historical women in law; documents the present through network events and pedagogical innovation; and advocates for a fairer and more diverse future.  Our project has involved archival work research and outreach work with women of law today, particularly through our 100 Voices for 100 Years Exhibition.  To celebrate the centenary of the first woman being admitted as a profession lawyer in the UK, this Exhibition (which can be accessed here https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/100years/100voices/) curated one hundred essays by women about their experiences as lawyers, an outreach engagement collaborating with the alumni office of UofG

The Politics of Justifying Force: The Suez Crisis, The Iraq War, and International Law

What are the politics involved in a government justifying its use of military force abroad? What is the role of international law in that discourse? How and why is international law crucial to this process? And what role does the media have in mediating the interaction of international law and politics? This book provides a fresh and engaging answer to these questions. It introduces different actors to the study of international law in this context, in particular highlighting the importance of institutional actors and the role of the media. It takes a theoretical approach, informed by detailed empirical analysis of key case studies, which challenges the traditional distinction between the spheres of 'the international' and 'the domestic' in global affairs, and the role of international law in the making of public policy. The book specifically critiques the idea of the 'politics of justification', which argues that deploying international legal norms to justify governmental decisions resulting in the use of force necessarily constrains government actions, and leads to fewer instances of military intervention. The politics of justification, on this account, can be seen as a progressive practice, through which international law can become embedded in domestic societies. The book investigates the actors engaged in this justification, and the institutional contexts within which legal justification is articulated, interpreted, and contested. It provides a rich, detailed account of domestic British discourse in the crucial case studies of the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the Iraq War of 2003, making extensive use of archival material, newspaper and television reporting, Parliamentary debates, polling data, personal memoirs, and the declassified material provided to several Public Inquiries, including the Chilcot Inquiry. In light of these sources, it considers the concept of international law as a language and form of communication rather than a set of abstract norms. It argues that a detailed understanding of how that language is deployed, both in private and in public, is essential to gaining a deeper understanding of the role of international law in domestic politics. This book will be illuminating reading for scholars and students the use of force in international law, historians, and media theorists