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Lacuna publishes a thought-provoking selection of migrant experiences across Europe, with exclusive features from Greece, Germany and the UK.

• The European Commission published yet another version of its, detailing ‘fair and efficient’ procedure to ensure the rights of asylum seekers are protected in every EU country they set foot in.
• In an Dario Sabaghi shares stories from the borders of northern Greece where tens of thousands refugees waited for Macedonia to open its borders, so they could travel to northern Europe.
• What happens once refugees finally reach their desired destination? , the only European country to say ‘refugees welcome’, where she finds shadows of the country’s past influencing policy towards the new arrivals.
• Here in the UK, and how it affects foreign national women fleeing domestic violence.

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On 1 July 2016 the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law () adopted a Model Law on Secured Transactions elaborated by its . The Model Law is a soft-law instrument designed to assist national law-makers of any legal system to modernise and harmonise domestic secured transactions laws, with the aim of fostering access to credit at a lower cost and stimulate international investments. The Model Law is the latest project of the UNCITRAL Working Group VI, which is composed of national delegations representing all States members of the Commission as well as observers from international and non-governmental organisations. The Model Law will be translated into all the official languages of the UN. After adopting the Model Law, the Working Group VI is expected to draft a 'Guide of Enactment' to further assist implementing States. More information on the Model Law may be found .

Giuliano Castellano has been part of the UNCITRAL Working Group VI as a Legal Expert and Delegate for Italy since 2011.

Giuliano Castellano published in the Oxford 糖心TV Law Blog. The blogpost has been written as part of his and assesses a new norm introduced in Italy through the prism of international legal standards. To read the post click .

Alison Struthers has been awarded £9,217.76 by 糖心TV ESRC IAA to aid her in developing educational resources that will show how the requirement to teach fundamental British values in primary schools can be linked to broader human rights frameworks. Well done Alison.

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Ming-Sung Kuo has secured EUR40,000 from the Chaing Ching-kuo Foundation towards research on

'Unmoored from International Legality: Rights Internationalism and Taiwan's Embrace of International Human Rights Law'

Alison Struthers has secured £500 from the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2016 to hold a event
 
'Addressing challenging social science issues with young people'

Monday, 20 June 2016, Dr Ania Zbyszewska was featured as a speaker at the Gender Rules! Research Methods in Law seminar at the Cardiff Law School. Dr Zbyszewska spoke about discourse analysis and regulatory design, drawing on her forthcoming book Gendering European Working Time Regimes (CUP, 2016). The seminar is sponsored by the Cardiff Centre of Law and Society and Cardiff Law School's Law and Gender research group. For more information,

The recent wave of land deals for agribusiness investments has highlighted the widespread demand for greater accountability in the governance of land and investment. Legal frameworks influence opportunities for accountability, and recourse to law has featured prominently in grassroots responses to the land deals. Drawing on comparative socio-legal research in Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal, the report explores how the law enables, or constrains, accountability in investment processes. The report develops a conceptual framework for understanding accountability; assesses how national law in the three countries influences opportunities for accountability; and provides pointers for research and action.

The report is available (free) from the International Institute for Environment and Development,

CHRP fellow Alison Struthers is travelling to Canada to attend and present at the Canada International Conference on Education, being held at the University of Toronto Mississauga between the 27^th and 30^th of June 2016.

She is co-presenting a paper with Chrystal Lynch of the University of Manitoba entitled ‘A Comparative Exploration of Human Rights Education in Primary Schools and Higher Education Institutes’. This comparative paper draws upon the authors’ respective research fields in England and Canada and they plan to write a journal article together following the conference.

Alison is also chairing a panel on ‘Global Issues in Education and Research’.

For more information, please go to

Dr. Ming-Sung Kuo will present a paper entitled ‘Beyond Constitutionalism: Thinking Hard about Multilevel Constitutional Ordering in the Shadow of the State of Emergency’ at the ‘Legal Theory and Legitimacy beyond the State: What’s Law Got to Do with It?’ panel on the (International Society of Public Law) conference in Humboldt University (Berlin), Germany on 17-18 June, 2016. To find out more

Dr. Ming-Sung Kuo will present a paper entitled ‘Between Trailblazer and Trend-Follower: Political Rights and the Taiwan Constitutional Court’s Role in Democratic Transition’ at the ‘Bills of Rights and Regional Institutions: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on European and East Asian Cases’ International Workshop in University of Tuebingen, Germany on 16-17 June, 2016. To find out more

Focusing on the testamentary motif in Shakespeare’s plays, Gary Watt demonstrates how the shared rhetorical arts of law and theatre employ movement, materials and the affective properties of words to perform will on the social and playhouse stage.

Shakespeare was born into a new age of will, in which individual intent had the potential to overcome dynastic expectation. The 1540 Statute of Wills had liberated testamentary disposition of land and thus marked a turning point from hierarchical feudal tradition to horizontal free trade. Focusing on Shakespeare’s late Elizabethan plays, Gary Watt demonstrates Shakespeare’s appreciation of testamentary tensions and his ability to exploit the inherent drama of performing will.

Drawing on years of experience delivering rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company and as a prize-winning teacher of law, Gary Watt shows that Shakespeare is playful with legal technicality rather than obedient to it. The author demonstrates how Shakespeare transformed lawyers’ manual book rhetoric into powerful drama through a stirring combination of word, metre, movement and physical stage material, producing a mode of performance that was truly testamentary in its power to engage the witnessing public.

Published on the 400^th anniversary of Shakespeare’s last will and testament, this is a major contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of law and humanities.

Table of Contents

1. ‘Performance is a kind of will or testament’; 2. Handling Tradition: Testament as Trade in Richard II and King John; 3. Worlds of Will in As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice; 4. ‘Shall I descend?’: Rhetorical Stasis and Moving Will in Julius Caesar; 5. ‘His will is not his own’: Hamlet Downcast and the Problem of Performance’; 6. Dust to Dust and Sealing Wax: The Materials of Testamentary Performance