Amicus Curiae Series 2, Volume 7, Issue 1 Autumn 2025 is now published

We are delighted to announce the publication of Amicus Curiae 7.1 (autumn) 2025. This Issue was edited by Dr Maria Federica Moscati.

It opens with an article from Johannes San Miguel Giralt on transplants from different legal families in comparative law featuring a case study of US common law in Cuba. Next, Neemah Ahamed’s study of Black women’s experience of workplace harassment utilises the naming, blaming, claiming paradigm to show how this group is often reluctant to seek redress. Victoria Barnes, Liam Sunner and Monica Vessio offer a timely examination of options for the use of AI in law schools. Nicholas A Pratt’s article then undertakes a comparative law analysis of ‘custom’ and ‘good custom’ in the Chinese legal systems of the People’s Republic of China (Mainland China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan). Finally, in a note on case law, Bianca Jackson examines the concept of a ‘special category’ of medical treatment with regard to trans children.

The Issue then moves on to present three Special Sections. The first, Queer Judgments, is edited by Katie Jukes and Alex Powell. It opens with a video ‘Foreword’ by Graeme Reid, the United Nations Independent Expert on Protection Against Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. In our second Special Section, Kristen Hope and a team of contributors, including youth activists, bring together their responses to Pushing the Boundaries of Intergenerational Activism in an Era of Polycrisis. The final Special Section, edited by Andrew Benjamin Bricker and entitled Law’s Spaces and Places, is an output from the IALS Law and the Humanities Hub (LHub) exploring law’s spatial dimensions in Central London.

In Visual Law, via her own artworks and photographs, Hamsini Marada reflects on the various ways in which law interacts with the visual when it is captured by the camera.  

This extensive Issue closes with three book reviews contributed by Marian Roberts, Ling Zhou and Mei Ning Yan.