Stewart Manley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4091874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stewart Manley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stewart |
| FAMILY NAME | Manley |
| SIGNATURE | MANLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3389-9679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Defamatory Half-Truths in Malaysia
Seema Elizabeth Isoy wrote in a condominium owner Whatsapp group that developer David Chiu had been arrested for fraud several years earlier. She knew but left out that he had later been acquitted. In holding her liable for defamation, the Malaysian Federal Court in Seema Elizabeth Isoy v Tan Sri David Chiu Tat -Cheong relied on the concept of a half-truth – a statement that is literally true but omits key information that would change the statem…
Islands, Confluences and Estuaries
Encounters between scholars conducting doctrinal legal research and those using methodologies traditionally associated with the social sciences can be antagonistic. Students and researchers without the confidence to successfully navigate these tensions especially struggle from this methodological friction. It does not need to be this way. These encounters, like a river’s encounters with islands, confluences and estuaries, can enrich the field. I …
The Last Page
The (Non-)Use of African Law by the International Criminal Court
All defendants before the International Criminal Court (ICC) to date have been African, with their alleged crimes having been committed, at least partly, on African soil. When turning to national laws to resolve issues of interpretation in these cases, should the ICC see whether it can use laws of the African state in which the crime occurred? This article argues that it should, but observes – from a dataset of 16,192 citations containing over 20…
Mapping interpretation by the International Criminal Court
This article is one of very few attempts to empirically measure legal interpretation. It maps the application of eleven interpretation elements (good faith, ordinary meaning, object and purpose, etc.) in Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) across ten International Criminal Court case studies. The elements were coded for identity and sequence of element, and amount of text used in applying each element. The ma…
Chilling and Warming Effects on the Production of Legal Scholarship
How do legal scholars decide what to write about? I hope that most of us try to write about what interests us or what benefits society. In this article though, I suggest that more insidious influences chill and warm our interest in research topics. I reflect on some sources of these chilling and warming effects in my own research environment – specifically, the implicit intimidation of power and the pressure to increase publications. I never imag…
Invisible Currents of Power Course Beneath the Surface of Our Rivers
This triptych uses academic literature, poetry, and personal reflection to illustrate the impact of the invisible currents of power that run through society and history on three fictional individuals—a Native Hawaiian woman on the Hamakua coast of the Island of Hawai`i, a girl in a refugee camp on the Thailand-Myanmar border, and a military general in a government building in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar
Critical Speech in Southeast Asian Grey Literature During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Each op-ed was assigned a 'criticalness score' based on the frequency of criticising the government and the severity of the language used. The scores were then used to test whether, for instance, the level of criticalness correlates with a country's Global Freedom Scores or a government's handling of the epidemic. Although little to no correlation was found, among other things, the criticalness scores nonetheless revealed that male and female aut…
Hugo Blick (directed and screenplay), Michaela Coel and John Goodman (actors), Black Earth Rising
As a coping mechanism, some doctors reportedly remain emotionally detached by viewing patients as groups of interacting biological systems instead of people with feelings and histories. This dehumanization is arguably, though to a much lesser extent, also true for some lawyers — particularly international criminal law scholars. In my own experience, at times, I find myself studying war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide as artefacts. I …
Hawai‘i Jungle Writing
This autoethnography uses a series of loosely connected personal reflections, imaginative flights and academic commentary to explore life writing from the Hawaiian jungle. Jungle – the cacophonic chaos of ecologic diversity, memory, intersection, interdependence, fragility and, of course, impending end and rebirth – overflows with biology, yet is also threatened by it. The writing of the struggle of the jungle is nothing less than the writing of …
A Morning at the Dealership
Citation Practices of the International Criminal Court
This article analyzes the 9,203 citations made by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in its cases involving Sudan. To date, few empirical studies have assessed the citation practices of courts and even fewer of international courts. The data is rich. It reveals, for instance, the changing nature of the Court's citations over time, the disproportionate distribution of citations among chambers, the potential impact of party pleadings on citatio…
Transitional justice in Myanmar
This creative piece combines non-fiction, poetry and fiction to imagine the voices of a refugee, a market vendor, a soldier and a dissident addressing the question of transitional justice in Myanmar. Drawing primarily from my experiences working with Burmese lawyers and refugees on the Thailand–Myanmar border, the piece first provides an overview of transitional justice efforts in Myanmar, and then shifts to voices inspired by people whom I met a…
A Morning at the Dealership
This practice note describes an encounter between a Burmese migrant worker and Thai police officers in a Honda dealership, and some of the human rights practice dilemmas it raised
Referencing Patterns at the International Criminal Court
A largely neglected area of study in international law has been referencing patterns by international courts and tribunals. This article assesses referencing data collected from the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) records issued in the Uganda and Central African Republic situations. The data is generally restricted to ‘persuasive citations’ – those references that the ICC’s various chambers have used to help decide a point of law. Covering o…
Scenes from a Failed Revolution
A slender rivulet, polluted with soapy, slippery foam, Found its way slowly
Exploring the paradox of limitation clauses
Myanmar's new Constitution contains provisions that ostensibly protect fundamental freedoms. These provisions have been criticised because they permit the government to limit freedoms for reasons such as ‘national security’ and ‘public order’. After pointing out that such limitations are commonplace, this article explores whether the limitations may counterintuitively provide greater constitutional protection than if they were not there. The Cons…
Referencing Patterns at the International Criminal Court
A largely neglected area of study in international law has been referencing patterns by international courts and tribunals. This article assesses referencing data collected from the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) records issued in the Uganda and Central African Republic situations. The data is generally restricted to ‘persuasive citations’ – those references that the ICC’s various chambers have used to help decide a point of law. Covering o…
Mapping interpretation by the International Criminal Court
This article is one of very few attempts to empirically measure legal interpretation. It maps the application of eleven interpretation elements (good faith, ordinary meaning, object and purpose, etc.) in Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) across ten International Criminal Court case studies. The elements were coded for identity and sequence of element, and amount of text used in applying each element. The ma…
Exploring the paradox of limitation clauses
Myanmar's new Constitution contains provisions that ostensibly protect fundamental freedoms. These provisions have been criticised because they permit the government to limit freedoms for reasons such as ‘national security’ and ‘public order’. After pointing out that such limitations are commonplace, this article explores whether the limitations may counterintuitively provide greater constitutional protection than if they were not there. The Cons…
Exploring the paradox of limitation clauses
Myanmar's new Constitution contains provisions that ostensibly protect fundamental freedoms. These provisions have been criticised because they permit the government to limit freedoms for reasons such as ‘national security’ and ‘public order’. After pointing out that such limitations are commonplace, this article explores whether the limitations may counterintuitively provide greater constitutional protection than if they were not there. The Cons…
A Morning at the Dealership
This practice note describes an encounter between a Burmese migrant worker and Thai police officers in a Honda dealership, and some of the human rights practice dilemmas it raised
Referencing Patterns at the International Criminal Court
A largely neglected area of study in international law has been referencing patterns by international courts and tribunals. This article assesses referencing data collected from the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) records issued in the Uganda and Central African Republic situations. The data is generally restricted to ‘persuasive citations’ – those references that the ICC’s various chambers have used to help decide a point of law. Covering o…
Scenes from a Failed Revolution
A slender rivulet, polluted with soapy, slippery foam, Found its way slowly
A Morning at the Dealership
Citation Practices of the International Criminal Court
This article analyzes the 9,203 citations made by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in its cases involving Sudan. To date, few empirical studies have assessed the citation practices of courts and even fewer of international courts. The data is rich. It reveals, for instance, the changing nature of the Court's citations over time, the disproportionate distribution of citations among chambers, the potential impact of party pleadings on citatio…
Transitional justice in Myanmar
This creative piece combines non-fiction, poetry and fiction to imagine the voices of a refugee, a market vendor, a soldier and a dissident addressing the question of transitional justice in Myanmar. Drawing primarily from my experiences working with Burmese lawyers and refugees on the Thailand–Myanmar border, the piece first provides an overview of transitional justice efforts in Myanmar, and then shifts to voices inspired by people whom I met a…
Hawai‘i Jungle Writing
This autoethnography uses a series of loosely connected personal reflections, imaginative flights and academic commentary to explore life writing from the Hawaiian jungle. Jungle – the cacophonic chaos of ecologic diversity, memory, intersection, interdependence, fragility and, of course, impending end and rebirth – overflows with biology, yet is also threatened by it. The writing of the struggle of the jungle is nothing less than the writing of …
Hugo Blick (directed and screenplay), Michaela Coel and John Goodman (actors), Black Earth Rising
As a coping mechanism, some doctors reportedly remain emotionally detached by viewing patients as groups of interacting biological systems instead of people with feelings and histories. This dehumanization is arguably, though to a much lesser extent, also true for some lawyers — particularly international criminal law scholars. In my own experience, at times, I find myself studying war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide as artefacts. I …
Critical Speech in Southeast Asian Grey Literature During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Each op-ed was assigned a 'criticalness score' based on the frequency of criticising the government and the severity of the language used. The scores were then used to test whether, for instance, the level of criticalness correlates with a country's Global Freedom Scores or a government's handling of the epidemic. Although little to no correlation was found, among other things, the criticalness scores nonetheless revealed that male and female aut…
Invisible Currents of Power Course Beneath the Surface of Our Rivers
This triptych uses academic literature, poetry, and personal reflection to illustrate the impact of the invisible currents of power that run through society and history on three fictional individuals—a Native Hawaiian woman on the Hamakua coast of the Island of Hawai`i, a girl in a refugee camp on the Thailand-Myanmar border, and a military general in a government building in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar
The (Non-)Use of African Law by the International Criminal Court
All defendants before the International Criminal Court (ICC) to date have been African, with their alleged crimes having been committed, at least partly, on African soil. When turning to national laws to resolve issues of interpretation in these cases, should the ICC see whether it can use laws of the African state in which the crime occurred? This article argues that it should, but observes – from a dataset of 16,192 citations containing over 20…
Mapping interpretation by the International Criminal Court
This article is one of very few attempts to empirically measure legal interpretation. It maps the application of eleven interpretation elements (good faith, ordinary meaning, object and purpose, etc.) in Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) across ten International Criminal Court case studies. The elements were coded for identity and sequence of element, and amount of text used in applying each element. The ma…
Chilling and Warming Effects on the Production of Legal Scholarship
How do legal scholars decide what to write about? I hope that most of us try to write about what interests us or what benefits society. In this article though, I suggest that more insidious influences chill and warm our interest in research topics. I reflect on some sources of these chilling and warming effects in my own research environment – specifically, the implicit intimidation of power and the pressure to increase publications. I never imag…
The Last Page
Defamatory Half-Truths in Malaysia
Seema Elizabeth Isoy wrote in a condominium owner Whatsapp group that developer David Chiu had been arrested for fraud several years earlier. She knew but left out that he had later been acquitted. In holding her liable for defamation, the Malaysian Federal Court in Seema Elizabeth Isoy v Tan Sri David Chiu Tat -Cheong relied on the concept of a half-truth – a statement that is literally true but omits key information that would change the statem…
Islands, Confluences and Estuaries
Encounters between scholars conducting doctrinal legal research and those using methodologies traditionally associated with the social sciences can be antagonistic. Students and researchers without the confidence to successfully navigate these tensions especially struggle from this methodological friction. It does not need to be this way. These encounters, like a river’s encounters with islands, confluences and estuaries, can enrich the field. I …
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