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Precedent before Principle: Adverse Possession, “Reasonable Belief” and Statutory Interpretation of the Land Registration Act 2002 Sch.6 para.5(4) (2024)
Journal Article
Bevan, C. (in press). Precedent before Principle: Adverse Possession, “Reasonable Belief” and Statutory Interpretation of the Land Registration Act 2002 Sch.6 para.5(4). The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 88(2),

There are few areas of the adverse possession regime under the Land Registration Act 2002 still requiring clarification. One outstanding and live issue, however, is Schedule 6 paragraph 5(4)(c). Megarry & Wade note this as one aspect that, ‘remains t... Read More about Precedent before Principle: Adverse Possession, “Reasonable Belief” and Statutory Interpretation of the Land Registration Act 2002 Sch.6 para.5(4).

BCI Toolbox: An Open-Source Python Package for the Bayesian Causal Inference Model (2024)
Journal Article
Zhu, H., Beierholm, U., & Shams, L. (in press). BCI Toolbox: An Open-Source Python Package for the Bayesian Causal Inference Model. PLoS Computational Biology,

Psychological and neuroscientific research over the past two decades has shown that the Bayesian causal inference (BCI) is a potential unifying theory that can account for a wide range of perceptual and sensorimotor processes in humans. Therefore, we... Read More about BCI Toolbox: An Open-Source Python Package for the Bayesian Causal Inference Model.

Graphs with minimum degree-entropy (2024)
Journal Article
Dong, Y., Gadouleau, M., Wan, P., & Zhang, S. (2024). Graphs with minimum degree-entropy. Information Sciences, 671, 120629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2024.120629

We continue studying extremal values of the degree-entropy, which is an information-theoretic measure defined as the Shannon entropy based on the information functional involving vertex degrees. For a graph with a given number of vertices and edges a... Read More about Graphs with minimum degree-entropy.

Martin Loughlin, Public Law and Political Theory (2024)
Book Chapter
Yong, B. (in press). Martin Loughlin, Public Law and Political Theory. In P. O'Brien, & B. Yong (Eds.), Leading Works in Public Law. Routledge

In this chapter, Ben Yong discusses Martin Loughlin’s Public Law and Political Theory. Drawing in part on conversation with the author, Yong explores the significance of a book that, despite interrogating the nature of public law as a discipline in a... Read More about Martin Loughlin, Public Law and Political Theory.

Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, P., & Yong, B. (in press). Introduction. In P. O'Brien, & B. Yong (Eds.), Leading Works in Public Law. Routledge