Richard Stacey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1323381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Stacey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Stacey |
| SIGNATURE | STACEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5074-6180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Teaching The Tempest , from Sixth Form to Seminar: A Study in Collaborative Pedagogy
This article outlines how teaching strategies developed at Key Stage 5 can be built on in Higher Education. Focussing on act one, scene two of The Tempest, a play that is taught in both 16–19 curricula and university syllabi, we posit that collaboration between teachers and academics across successive stages of education can extend the capacity for critical reflection and close reading. Situated in the context of the current recruitment crisis in…
A rule-of-law compliant reading of section 33: The continuing relevance of Lorraine Weinrib’s public law scholarship
Lorraine Weinrib has contributed greatly both as a scholar and as a litigator to Canada’s jurisprudence on section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 33 empowers legislatures to ‘override’ certain Charter rights by declaring that legislation will continue to be operative ‘notwithstanding’ its inconsistency with the provisions of the Charter guaranteeing those rights. Weinrib has maintained for many years that, while sectio…
Material characterisation of the Neo-Assyrian writing boards from Nimrud
Potential and limitations of adhesive identification on museum curated metal objects
Potential to identify ancient adhesives on museum-curated metal objects. • Chemical identifications demonstrate exploitation of various adhesive materials. • Wax related conservation treatments may cause limitations in adhesive interpretation. • Iron age objects highlight combined material technologies or réseaux opératoires . In Europe, adhesives were produced and employed from the Middle Palaeolithic onwards. In the earlier periods, adhesives w…
Public Law’s Cerberus: A Three-Headed Approach to Charter Rights-Limiting Administrative Decisions
This article offers a theoretical and doctrinal solution to a vexing question in public law: how to determine the justifiability of Charter rights-limiting administrative decisions. The jurisprudence suggests three approaches, or modes of reasoning: minimal impairment analysis, ‘interest balancing’, and ‘values-advancing reasoning’. Like Cerberus, the guard dog of Hades, Canadian public law has become three-headed. While scholars and courts argue…
Chemical analyses reveal dual functionality of Early Mesolithic birch tar at Krzyż Wielkopolski (Poland)
Birch bark tar played an important role as an adhesive in the European Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic with key practical functions. For the Mesolithic in northern Europe, tar is suggested to have a variety of functions, including decorative, on various artefacts such as amber beads, antler and bone objects. However, no chemical characterisation has been conducted to confirm the organic composition of such decorations. To address this gap, we …
Polysaccharide Paint Binding Media at Two Pharaonic Settlements in Nubia
Paints and plasters from two pharaonic settlement sites in Nubia (northern Sudan) were analysed to investigate the presence and origin of organic binding materials. The town of Sai was founded around the time of the pharaonic conquest of Kush (Upper Nubia) around 1500 BC, with Amara West created as a new centre for the pharaonic administration of the region around 1300 BC. Recent fieldwork at both sites yielded examples of paint palettes, includi…
Winston Churchill’s Divi Britannici (1675) and Archipelagic Royalism
Divi Britannici (1675) is a major restoration history that deserves to be more widely known. The work’s author, Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688), is certainly less well-known than his celebrated descendant of the same name. Seldom mentioned in discussions of seventeenth-century historiography, Divi Britannici can be read alongside contemporary histories, including John Milton’s History of Britain (1670). If British historians have generally over…
Constituting and Regulating Democracy: Kenya's Electoral Commission and the Courts in the 2010s
In August 2017, responding to a petition from the losing candidate in the presidential election held days before, the Supreme Court of Kenya declared the results of the election null and void. Dramatic in itself, the decision stands in surprising contrast to the same Court's decision to uphold the 2013 election results following a similar petition. Beyond the different outcomes in 2013 and 2017, the Court's jurisprudential approach to the two pet…
Rediscovering Nestawedjat: Embalming residue analyses reunite the mummified remains of an ancient Egyptian woman with her coffins
Long held museum collections can sometimes lack a clear provenance or context. Here, an ancient Egyptian mummified individual in the British Museum collection was reconnected with a set of three coffins in an interdisciplinary study using bioarchaeological, scientific and Egyptological analyses. Previously assigned as male, based on earlier X-rays due to the presence of radiopaque internal packing, CT scanning was used to re-establish her sex. Fo…
A unified model of public law: Charter values and reasonableness review in Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada concluded in its 2012 judgment in Doré that the rational connection test and the less restrictive means inquiry from the Oakes analysis are not useful when assessing the justifiability of administrative decisions limiting Charter rights. The Court instead articulated a ‘robust’ conception of proportionality that requires administrative decision makers to demonstrate only that any rights limitations that their decisions…
Birch bark tar in early Medieval England – Continuity of tradition or technological revival
Birch bark tar is a manufactured product with a history of production and use that reaches back to the Palaeolithic. Its sticky, water resistant and biocidal properties mean that it has a wide range of applications, for example, as a multipurpose adhesive, sealant and in medicine. Archaeological evidence for birch bark tar in the old world covers a broad geographic range from the UK to the Baltic and from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia. In the …
The Magnetism of Moral Reasoning and the Principle of Proportionality in Comparative Constitutional Adjudication
A constitutional limitations clause manages the conflict between constitutional rights and the legislative pursuit of broader social objectives. In six paradigm postwar constitutional democracies—Canada, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, and South Africa—the principle of proportionality has emerged as the analytical fulcrum of the judicial inquiry into the constitutionality of rights limitations. Criticism of the principle of proportionality has cr…
The Dilemma of Indigenous Self-Government in Canada: Indigenous Rights and Canadian Federalism
Canada's constitutional distribution of authority between the provinces and federal government leaves no room for Indigenous self-government, but there are increasingly vocal calls for change. Whether Indigenous peoples are acknowledged as one of Canada's founding nations alongside its English and French settlers, or are recognized as distinctive peoples within its multicultural society, these calls affirm Indigenous peoples as sovereign nations …
Honour in sovereignty: Can Crown consultation with Indigenous peoples erase Canada’s sovereignty deficit
It has been uncontroversial in Canada since the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Haida Nation v British Columbia (Minister of Forests) that the Crown bears a constitutional duty to consult Indigenous peoples before proceeding with any conduct that threatens potential or unproven Indigenous rights or title. This duty is rooted in the honour of the Crown and is important to the broader goal of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigeno…
Artists before Columbus: A multi-method characterization of the materials and practices of Caribbean cave art
This study represents the first positive identification of plant gum binding media in pre-Columbian art, and the first dates from indigenous cave art in the Caribbean. Mona Island reveals an extensive and well-preserved pre-Columbian and early colonial subterranean cultural landscape with dense concentrations of newly-discovered cave art in up to 30 caves. A multi-method approach to the research of pigments and binding media, charcoal, and cave s…
Falling Short of Constitutional Norms: Does “Normative (In)Congruence” Explain the Courts' Inability to Promote the Right to Water in South Africa
In South Africa, municipal noncompliance with legislation promoting the constitutional right to sufficient water is both a failure of the rule of law and a betrayal of that right. Judicial intervention has prompted formalistic compliance with water law, but the underlying commitment to sufficient water remains unfulfilled. Does the inability of courts to achieve social justice despite enforcing social legislation confirm the thesis that commitmen…
Birdmen, cemís and duhos: Material studies and AMS 14C dating of Pre-Hispanic Caribbean wood sculptures in the British Museum
Constituent power and Carl Schmitt's theory of constitution in Kenya's constitution-making process
The decade-long constitutional reform process in Kenya spans two phases. The first ended with a High Court decision that the constitution-making process was unconstitutional because it failed to provide an opportunity for the exercise of constituent power by the Kenyan people. In the second phase Parliament sought to shield substantive questions of constitutional design from the reach of the constituent power. Drawing on Carl Schmitt’s constituti…
First results on thermally induced porosity in chlorite cooking vessels from Merv (Turkmenistan) and implications for the formation and preservation of archaeological lipid residues
Chemical Characterization of Ancient Mesoamerican ‘Copal’ Resins: Preliminary Results
So‐called ‘copal’ resins from nine Aztec/Mixtec turquoise mosaics have been subject to analysis by gas chromatography – mass spectrometry to examine their higher terpenoid composition with a view to botanical identification. Botanical specimens and modern commercial ‘copal’ resins were analysed for reference. A range of botanical sources for the resins was identified, including pine, Protium and possibly Bursera. The data reinforce the ambiguity …
Substantive Protection of Legitimate Expectations in the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act – Tirfu Raiders Rugby Club V SA Rugby Union
(2006). Substantive Protection of Legitimate Expectations in the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act – Tirfu Raiders Rugby Club V SA Rugby Union. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 664-672
We the people: The relationship between the South African constitution and the ANC's transformation policies
This paper engages current policies of social transformation in South Africa from a political theoretical point of view. As the transformation project purports to serve the ideal of equality, conceptions of equality that might justify or underwrite a policy of affirmative action are considered. On the basis of the political rhetoric behind South Africa's current affirmative action policy and the nature of the Employment Equity Act itself, it is a…
Birdmen, cemís and duhos: Material studies and AMS 14C dating of Pre-Hispanic Caribbean wood sculptures in the British Museum
Artists before Columbus: A multi-method characterization of the materials and practices of Caribbean cave art
This study represents the first positive identification of plant gum binding media in pre-Columbian art, and the first dates from indigenous cave art in the Caribbean. Mona Island reveals an extensive and well-preserved pre-Columbian and early colonial subterranean cultural landscape with dense concentrations of newly-discovered cave art in up to 30 caves. A multi-method approach to the research of pigments and binding media, charcoal, and cave s…
First results on thermally induced porosity in chlorite cooking vessels from Merv (Turkmenistan) and implications for the formation and preservation of archaeological lipid residues
Chemical Characterization of Ancient Mesoamerican ‘Copal’ Resins: Preliminary Results
So‐called ‘copal’ resins from nine Aztec/Mixtec turquoise mosaics have been subject to analysis by gas chromatography – mass spectrometry to examine their higher terpenoid composition with a view to botanical identification. Botanical specimens and modern commercial ‘copal’ resins were analysed for reference. A range of botanical sources for the resins was identified, including pine, Protium and possibly Bursera. The data reinforce the ambiguity …
Chemical analyses reveal dual functionality of Early Mesolithic birch tar at Krzyż Wielkopolski (Poland)
Birch bark tar played an important role as an adhesive in the European Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic with key practical functions. For the Mesolithic in northern Europe, tar is suggested to have a variety of functions, including decorative, on various artefacts such as amber beads, antler and bone objects. However, no chemical characterisation has been conducted to confirm the organic composition of such decorations. To address this gap, we …
Rediscovering Nestawedjat: Embalming residue analyses reunite the mummified remains of an ancient Egyptian woman with her coffins
Long held museum collections can sometimes lack a clear provenance or context. Here, an ancient Egyptian mummified individual in the British Museum collection was reconnected with a set of three coffins in an interdisciplinary study using bioarchaeological, scientific and Egyptological analyses. Previously assigned as male, based on earlier X-rays due to the presence of radiopaque internal packing, CT scanning was used to re-establish her sex. Fo…
A unified model of public law: Charter values and reasonableness review in Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada concluded in its 2012 judgment in Doré that the rational connection test and the less restrictive means inquiry from the Oakes analysis are not useful when assessing the justifiability of administrative decisions limiting Charter rights. The Court instead articulated a ‘robust’ conception of proportionality that requires administrative decision makers to demonstrate only that any rights limitations that their decisions…
Birch bark tar in early Medieval England – Continuity of tradition or technological revival
Birch bark tar is a manufactured product with a history of production and use that reaches back to the Palaeolithic. Its sticky, water resistant and biocidal properties mean that it has a wide range of applications, for example, as a multipurpose adhesive, sealant and in medicine. Archaeological evidence for birch bark tar in the old world covers a broad geographic range from the UK to the Baltic and from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia. In the …
We the people: The relationship between the South African constitution and the ANC's transformation policies
This paper engages current policies of social transformation in South Africa from a political theoretical point of view. As the transformation project purports to serve the ideal of equality, conceptions of equality that might justify or underwrite a policy of affirmative action are considered. On the basis of the political rhetoric behind South Africa's current affirmative action policy and the nature of the Employment Equity Act itself, it is a…
We the people: The relationship between the South African constitution and the ANC's transformation policies
This paper engages current policies of social transformation in South Africa from a political theoretical point of view. As the transformation project purports to serve the ideal of equality, conceptions of equality that might justify or underwrite a policy of affirmative action are considered. On the basis of the political rhetoric behind South Africa's current affirmative action policy and the nature of the Employment Equity Act itself, it is a…
Chemical Characterization of Ancient Mesoamerican ‘Copal’ Resins: Preliminary Results
So‐called ‘copal’ resins from nine Aztec/Mixtec turquoise mosaics have been subject to analysis by gas chromatography – mass spectrometry to examine their higher terpenoid composition with a view to botanical identification. Botanical specimens and modern commercial ‘copal’ resins were analysed for reference. A range of botanical sources for the resins was identified, including pine, Protium and possibly Bursera. The data reinforce the ambiguity …
Substantive Protection of Legitimate Expectations in the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act – Tirfu Raiders Rugby Club V SA Rugby Union
(2006). Substantive Protection of Legitimate Expectations in the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act – Tirfu Raiders Rugby Club V SA Rugby Union. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 664-672
First results on thermally induced porosity in chlorite cooking vessels from Merv (Turkmenistan) and implications for the formation and preservation of archaeological lipid residues
Constituent power and Carl Schmitt's theory of constitution in Kenya's constitution-making process
The decade-long constitutional reform process in Kenya spans two phases. The first ended with a High Court decision that the constitution-making process was unconstitutional because it failed to provide an opportunity for the exercise of constituent power by the Kenyan people. In the second phase Parliament sought to shield substantive questions of constitutional design from the reach of the constituent power. Drawing on Carl Schmitt’s constituti…
Birdmen, cemís and duhos: Material studies and AMS 14C dating of Pre-Hispanic Caribbean wood sculptures in the British Museum
Falling Short of Constitutional Norms: Does “Normative (In)Congruence” Explain the Courts' Inability to Promote the Right to Water in South Africa
In South Africa, municipal noncompliance with legislation promoting the constitutional right to sufficient water is both a failure of the rule of law and a betrayal of that right. Judicial intervention has prompted formalistic compliance with water law, but the underlying commitment to sufficient water remains unfulfilled. Does the inability of courts to achieve social justice despite enforcing social legislation confirm the thesis that commitmen…
Artists before Columbus: A multi-method characterization of the materials and practices of Caribbean cave art
This study represents the first positive identification of plant gum binding media in pre-Columbian art, and the first dates from indigenous cave art in the Caribbean. Mona Island reveals an extensive and well-preserved pre-Columbian and early colonial subterranean cultural landscape with dense concentrations of newly-discovered cave art in up to 30 caves. A multi-method approach to the research of pigments and binding media, charcoal, and cave s…
The Dilemma of Indigenous Self-Government in Canada: Indigenous Rights and Canadian Federalism
Canada's constitutional distribution of authority between the provinces and federal government leaves no room for Indigenous self-government, but there are increasingly vocal calls for change. Whether Indigenous peoples are acknowledged as one of Canada's founding nations alongside its English and French settlers, or are recognized as distinctive peoples within its multicultural society, these calls affirm Indigenous peoples as sovereign nations …
Honour in sovereignty: Can Crown consultation with Indigenous peoples erase Canada’s sovereignty deficit
It has been uncontroversial in Canada since the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Haida Nation v British Columbia (Minister of Forests) that the Crown bears a constitutional duty to consult Indigenous peoples before proceeding with any conduct that threatens potential or unproven Indigenous rights or title. This duty is rooted in the honour of the Crown and is important to the broader goal of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigeno…
Birch bark tar in early Medieval England – Continuity of tradition or technological revival
Birch bark tar is a manufactured product with a history of production and use that reaches back to the Palaeolithic. Its sticky, water resistant and biocidal properties mean that it has a wide range of applications, for example, as a multipurpose adhesive, sealant and in medicine. Archaeological evidence for birch bark tar in the old world covers a broad geographic range from the UK to the Baltic and from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia. In the …
The Magnetism of Moral Reasoning and the Principle of Proportionality in Comparative Constitutional Adjudication
A constitutional limitations clause manages the conflict between constitutional rights and the legislative pursuit of broader social objectives. In six paradigm postwar constitutional democracies—Canada, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, and South Africa—the principle of proportionality has emerged as the analytical fulcrum of the judicial inquiry into the constitutionality of rights limitations. Criticism of the principle of proportionality has cr…
A unified model of public law: Charter values and reasonableness review in Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada concluded in its 2012 judgment in Doré that the rational connection test and the less restrictive means inquiry from the Oakes analysis are not useful when assessing the justifiability of administrative decisions limiting Charter rights. The Court instead articulated a ‘robust’ conception of proportionality that requires administrative decision makers to demonstrate only that any rights limitations that their decisions…
Constituting and Regulating Democracy: Kenya's Electoral Commission and the Courts in the 2010s
In August 2017, responding to a petition from the losing candidate in the presidential election held days before, the Supreme Court of Kenya declared the results of the election null and void. Dramatic in itself, the decision stands in surprising contrast to the same Court's decision to uphold the 2013 election results following a similar petition. Beyond the different outcomes in 2013 and 2017, the Court's jurisprudential approach to the two pet…
Rediscovering Nestawedjat: Embalming residue analyses reunite the mummified remains of an ancient Egyptian woman with her coffins
Long held museum collections can sometimes lack a clear provenance or context. Here, an ancient Egyptian mummified individual in the British Museum collection was reconnected with a set of three coffins in an interdisciplinary study using bioarchaeological, scientific and Egyptological analyses. Previously assigned as male, based on earlier X-rays due to the presence of radiopaque internal packing, CT scanning was used to re-establish her sex. Fo…
Polysaccharide Paint Binding Media at Two Pharaonic Settlements in Nubia
Paints and plasters from two pharaonic settlement sites in Nubia (northern Sudan) were analysed to investigate the presence and origin of organic binding materials. The town of Sai was founded around the time of the pharaonic conquest of Kush (Upper Nubia) around 1500 BC, with Amara West created as a new centre for the pharaonic administration of the region around 1300 BC. Recent fieldwork at both sites yielded examples of paint palettes, includi…
Winston Churchill’s Divi Britannici (1675) and Archipelagic Royalism
Divi Britannici (1675) is a major restoration history that deserves to be more widely known. The work’s author, Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688), is certainly less well-known than his celebrated descendant of the same name. Seldom mentioned in discussions of seventeenth-century historiography, Divi Britannici can be read alongside contemporary histories, including John Milton’s History of Britain (1670). If British historians have generally over…
Public Law’s Cerberus: A Three-Headed Approach to Charter Rights-Limiting Administrative Decisions
This article offers a theoretical and doctrinal solution to a vexing question in public law: how to determine the justifiability of Charter rights-limiting administrative decisions. The jurisprudence suggests three approaches, or modes of reasoning: minimal impairment analysis, ‘interest balancing’, and ‘values-advancing reasoning’. Like Cerberus, the guard dog of Hades, Canadian public law has become three-headed. While scholars and courts argue…
Chemical analyses reveal dual functionality of Early Mesolithic birch tar at Krzyż Wielkopolski (Poland)
Birch bark tar played an important role as an adhesive in the European Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic with key practical functions. For the Mesolithic in northern Europe, tar is suggested to have a variety of functions, including decorative, on various artefacts such as amber beads, antler and bone objects. However, no chemical characterisation has been conducted to confirm the organic composition of such decorations. To address this gap, we …
Teaching The Tempest , from Sixth Form to Seminar: A Study in Collaborative Pedagogy
This article outlines how teaching strategies developed at Key Stage 5 can be built on in Higher Education. Focussing on act one, scene two of The Tempest, a play that is taught in both 16–19 curricula and university syllabi, we posit that collaboration between teachers and academics across successive stages of education can extend the capacity for critical reflection and close reading. Situated in the context of the current recruitment crisis in…
A rule-of-law compliant reading of section 33: The continuing relevance of Lorraine Weinrib’s public law scholarship
Lorraine Weinrib has contributed greatly both as a scholar and as a litigator to Canada’s jurisprudence on section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 33 empowers legislatures to ‘override’ certain Charter rights by declaring that legislation will continue to be operative ‘notwithstanding’ its inconsistency with the provisions of the Charter guaranteeing those rights. Weinrib has maintained for many years that, while sectio…
Material characterisation of the Neo-Assyrian writing boards from Nimrud
Potential and limitations of adhesive identification on museum curated metal objects
Potential to identify ancient adhesives on museum-curated metal objects. • Chemical identifications demonstrate exploitation of various adhesive materials. • Wax related conservation treatments may cause limitations in adhesive interpretation. • Iron age objects highlight combined material technologies or réseaux opératoires . In Europe, adhesives were produced and employed from the Middle Palaeolithic onwards. In the earlier periods, adhesives w…
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