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Author: Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott

28 Apr

[Dr Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He is the author of State Responsibility for Non-State Actors: Past, Present and Prospects for the Future (2022).] Whatever the motivations for doing so, such as providing authority for further sanctions, there may come a point where the relationship between Russia and the Wagner Group will...

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20 May

[Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott is a postdoctoral fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.] With never-ending news cycles churning out depictions of horrid events, causes for hope may appear few and far between. Yet they lay resting, ready to be enacted. One is a passage of the provisional measures order of the International Court of Justice...

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08 Mar

Richard is Research Fellow in Public Health Emergencies and the Rule of Law at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law. As part of a new project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant no. AH/V015214/1), his current research concentrates on public health emergencies from a rule of law...

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11 Sep

[Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott is a consultant at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.] Reading further might disappoint those interested in investor-state dispute settlement. I will not be analysing the minimum standard of treatment with which the ISDS aficionados are familiar. Instead, I offer some thoughts relating to a minimum standard of treatment in the context of labour practices, specifically those of entities within the international law community....

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21 Aug

[Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott is a consultant at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.] There is an issue that has remained unscrutinised within the field of international law. This issue requires a spotlight being cast on subjects that some individuals and institutions may deem taboo. It also calls for open discussions and concrete action if it is to be effectively addressed. This issue is exploitation, specifically...

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