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Plymouth Law Review

Welcome to the Plymouth Law Review.

The Review is an annual online journal produced and edited by academic law staff at the School of Society and Culture. It aims to encourage and promote legal scholarship and writing on a wide range of legal issues. It also provides a forum for disseminating information about current projects and initiatives being undertaken within the School. As such, it includes articles and reports by staff and students.

Current Volume: Volume 16 (2023)

Editorial

Editorial
Hugo de Rijke

Mayflower Lecture

Adapting adoption to the modern world
Sir Andrew McFarlane

Staff Report

Implementing unitisation in developing petroleum reservoirs: unique complications
Goodtime Chimnecherem Okara

Graduate Articles

Whose morals, exactly? A critical evaluation of the UK law of obscenity through a human rights lens
Jake Aston

Does current UK law protect members of the public when attending amusement parks, or is a review and reform of current legislation needed?
Poppy Jarvis

An analysis as to whether the current law on negligently caused psychiatric harm strikes a fair balance between compensating claimants, taking into account relevant policy considerations
Freya Manning-Crisp

A critical analysis of the law on assisted suicide in the UK
Shalini Nandilath

Student Reports

Law, literature and a dream: how media influenced my journey to law
Sonia Gardi

The chicken that sat me down:a reflection of my journey into law
Chloe Giacalone

A farmer's transition to law
Florence Hawker

How do you balance university and part-time work, and how can you transfer skills into the legal world?
Isabelle Stephens

The grasshopper: a world turned upside down
Christian Boonyoung Wachs