Sally Wheeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 6307847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Wheeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Wheeler |
| SIGNATURE | WHEELER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5995-4744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women and Equality in Publishing
This article examines the participation of women as authors in five leading law journals of a generalist nature in the UK. For its data points, it takes each author of an article in the Cambridge Law Journal, the Journal of Law and Society, Legal Studies, the Modern Law Review and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. From 2016 to 2020, around 900 authors have published over 700 articles in these five journals. The analysis of these results reveal…
Introduction
As this Special Supplement of the journal that he founded demonstrates, Phil Thomas has had an enduring influence on the socio-legal project in the United Kingdom and internationally. In part, this has been achieved by the establishment of a leading journal in the field, which for half a century has been responsible for publishing challenging articles and constantly enriching and disrupting accounts of its perimeters. Phil's commitment to the jou…
Couldn't You Have Got a Computer Program to Do That for You?’ Reflections on the Impact that Machines Have on the Ways We Think About and Undertake Qualitative Research in the Socio‐Legal Community
This article addresses the role that computer software programs play in the sort of textual analysis that has typically been the preserve of the qualitative researcher. Drawing on two distinct research projects conducted separately by the authors, it considers the transformation of social science software from a competent assistant that can help to sort and retrieve data, to an intelligent assistant capable of independently finding trends and cou…
Socio‐Legal Studies in 2020
This article looks back to a paper written by the author and Phil Thomas in 2000 on socio‐legal studies and reflects on what has changed in the world of socio‐legal studies since then. It then turns to the continued modesty of the claims that socio‐legal studies researchers make for their work. The suggestion made is that socio‐legal studies forms a social ecology in what is termed the ‘hyphen‐space’ and that through this space social ecology the…
Committing to human rights in Australia’s corporate sector
This paper draws on data collected from ASX 50 listed corporations. As the UNGP makes clear a visible and accessible policy commitment is the most basic form of recognition that corporations can afford to human rights under the schema it offers. The paper takes the position that this policy commitment gives corporations a chance to declare a positive relationship with human rights. The presence or not of a policy statement, and the form that the …
Susan Block‐Lieb and Terence Halliday
Modelling the contracts of the future
This article examines contract as a focal point of modern society both in terms of the way that it is used to classify relationships and the way in which it is used to order relationships. I look at how contractual structures and relationships across a variety of speciman scenarios (private sector supply contracts and public service delivery contracts) can be explained using the work of Ian Macneil. He gives us an account of how the socialising c…
Visions of Contract
Stewart Macaulay and Ian Macneil were the prime movers in creating a model of contractual relations that went beyond the confines of the formal legal model that defined contract enforceability. The work of both of them has been influential even though it has suffered from many misdescriptions along the way. In this article I map their respective contributions and explain the differences between their visions of contract. I then add a third dimens…
Global production, CSR and human rights
This article takes as its starting point the responsibility placed upon corporations by the United Nations’ (UN) Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework as elaborated upon by the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to respect human rights. The overt pragmatism and knowledge of the complex business relationships that are embedded in global production led John Ruggie, the author of the framework, to adopt a structure for the relationship …
Dangerously, Outrageously, Elitist’ – A Solution to Law Graduate Unemployment
Climate change, Hans Jonas and indirect investors1
This article considers how corporate behaviour in relation to climate change might be reconfigured and the role that indirect investors might play in this reconfiguring. The article suggests that the consequences of climate change are serious enough that indirect investors might be prevailed upon, using a model of behaviour suggested by the work of Hans Jonas, to pressure institutional investors into demanding changes in corporate policy towards …
Internalities and the Foundations of Corporate Governance
This paper considers the potential contained in an ‘internalities’ approach to corporate governance. Rather than viewing the company as a ‘black box’ that can only be regulated through state action, we argue that corporate governance holds in tension the relationship between investors, managers and the corporate board. It is from that tension that a change in corporate culture will emerge. We argue that a state focus on promoting and managing the…
Gender Diversity in the FTSE 100
This article examines the debate within corporate governance about the appointment of female non‐executive directors (NEDs). The first part tracks the diversity story that corporate governance tells about itself from the Cadbury Report (1992) to the Davies Report (2011). The second sets out the evidence used to support the argument that female appointments enhance profits and corporate profile. The third part presents the authors' empirical analy…
Martin Partington
Ethics in the workplace
Fraser and the Politics of Corporate Governance
Works Councils
The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of employees as stakeholders within the corporation. The paper focuses on the European Works Councils Directive' and the steps taken by undertakings towards employee consultation and participation as a result of the Directive. It is suggested that what marks works councils out as worthy of particular discussion in the context of stakeholding is that their innovation on a pan-European basis is …
The corporate way of death
Empty Rhetoric and Empty Promises
This article focuses on creditors' meetings in insolvent liquidation. A creditors' meeting is, as its name suggests, a meeting of a company's creditors at which a liquidator is appointed to realize and distribute what assets of the company remain amongst its creditors. In 1992-93 there were 36,369 company liquidations compared with 5,104 company insolvencies which used other available insolvency procedures.' The statutory description of a credito…
Reservation of Title Clauses
The legal background methods of credit control construction of a claim negotiation of a claim the role of the legal profession. Appendices: Questionnaire to trade associations extracts from the Companies Act 1985 extracts from the Insolvency Act 1986 extracts from the Sale of Goods Act 1979 sample insolvency practitioners' questionnaire
Lawyer Involvement in Commercial Disputes
This article provides an insight into the role that lawyers play in commercial disputes. To do this it focuses on data drawn from a study of reservation of title claims,' the legal background to which is given below. The central issues raised are the importance for the lawyer of creating a negotiating identity within the disputing process and how this is achieved. These issues are illuminated by an examination of negotiation tactics and practices…
Global production, CSR and human rights
This article takes as its starting point the responsibility placed upon corporations by the United Nations’ (UN) Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework as elaborated upon by the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to respect human rights. The overt pragmatism and knowledge of the complex business relationships that are embedded in global production led John Ruggie, the author of the framework, to adopt a structure for the relationship …
Gender Diversity in the FTSE 100
This article examines the debate within corporate governance about the appointment of female non‐executive directors (NEDs). The first part tracks the diversity story that corporate governance tells about itself from the Cadbury Report (1992) to the Davies Report (2011). The second sets out the evidence used to support the argument that female appointments enhance profits and corporate profile. The third part presents the authors' empirical analy…
Ethics in the workplace
Lawyer Involvement in Commercial Disputes
This article provides an insight into the role that lawyers play in commercial disputes. To do this it focuses on data drawn from a study of reservation of title claims,' the legal background to which is given below. The central issues raised are the importance for the lawyer of creating a negotiating identity within the disputing process and how this is achieved. These issues are illuminated by an examination of negotiation tactics and practices…
Reservation of Title Clauses
The legal background methods of credit control construction of a claim negotiation of a claim the role of the legal profession. Appendices: Questionnaire to trade associations extracts from the Companies Act 1985 extracts from the Insolvency Act 1986 extracts from the Sale of Goods Act 1979 sample insolvency practitioners' questionnaire
Empty Rhetoric and Empty Promises
This article focuses on creditors' meetings in insolvent liquidation. A creditors' meeting is, as its name suggests, a meeting of a company's creditors at which a liquidator is appointed to realize and distribute what assets of the company remain amongst its creditors. In 1992-93 there were 36,369 company liquidations compared with 5,104 company insolvencies which used other available insolvency procedures.' The statutory description of a credito…
The corporate way of death
Works Councils
The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of employees as stakeholders within the corporation. The paper focuses on the European Works Councils Directive' and the steps taken by undertakings towards employee consultation and participation as a result of the Directive. It is suggested that what marks works councils out as worthy of particular discussion in the context of stakeholding is that their innovation on a pan-European basis is …
Fraser and the Politics of Corporate Governance
Ethics in the workplace
Martin Partington
Gender Diversity in the FTSE 100
This article examines the debate within corporate governance about the appointment of female non‐executive directors (NEDs). The first part tracks the diversity story that corporate governance tells about itself from the Cadbury Report (1992) to the Davies Report (2011). The second sets out the evidence used to support the argument that female appointments enhance profits and corporate profile. The third part presents the authors' empirical analy…
Climate change, Hans Jonas and indirect investors1
This article considers how corporate behaviour in relation to climate change might be reconfigured and the role that indirect investors might play in this reconfiguring. The article suggests that the consequences of climate change are serious enough that indirect investors might be prevailed upon, using a model of behaviour suggested by the work of Hans Jonas, to pressure institutional investors into demanding changes in corporate policy towards …
Internalities and the Foundations of Corporate Governance
This paper considers the potential contained in an ‘internalities’ approach to corporate governance. Rather than viewing the company as a ‘black box’ that can only be regulated through state action, we argue that corporate governance holds in tension the relationship between investors, managers and the corporate board. It is from that tension that a change in corporate culture will emerge. We argue that a state focus on promoting and managing the…
Dangerously, Outrageously, Elitist’ – A Solution to Law Graduate Unemployment
Global production, CSR and human rights
This article takes as its starting point the responsibility placed upon corporations by the United Nations’ (UN) Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework as elaborated upon by the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to respect human rights. The overt pragmatism and knowledge of the complex business relationships that are embedded in global production led John Ruggie, the author of the framework, to adopt a structure for the relationship …
Modelling the contracts of the future
This article examines contract as a focal point of modern society both in terms of the way that it is used to classify relationships and the way in which it is used to order relationships. I look at how contractual structures and relationships across a variety of speciman scenarios (private sector supply contracts and public service delivery contracts) can be explained using the work of Ian Macneil. He gives us an account of how the socialising c…
Visions of Contract
Stewart Macaulay and Ian Macneil were the prime movers in creating a model of contractual relations that went beyond the confines of the formal legal model that defined contract enforceability. The work of both of them has been influential even though it has suffered from many misdescriptions along the way. In this article I map their respective contributions and explain the differences between their visions of contract. I then add a third dimens…
Susan Block‐Lieb and Terence Halliday
Committing to human rights in Australia’s corporate sector
This paper draws on data collected from ASX 50 listed corporations. As the UNGP makes clear a visible and accessible policy commitment is the most basic form of recognition that corporations can afford to human rights under the schema it offers. The paper takes the position that this policy commitment gives corporations a chance to declare a positive relationship with human rights. The presence or not of a policy statement, and the form that the …
Introduction
As this Special Supplement of the journal that he founded demonstrates, Phil Thomas has had an enduring influence on the socio-legal project in the United Kingdom and internationally. In part, this has been achieved by the establishment of a leading journal in the field, which for half a century has been responsible for publishing challenging articles and constantly enriching and disrupting accounts of its perimeters. Phil's commitment to the jou…
Couldn't You Have Got a Computer Program to Do That for You?’ Reflections on the Impact that Machines Have on the Ways We Think About and Undertake Qualitative Research in the Socio‐Legal Community
This article addresses the role that computer software programs play in the sort of textual analysis that has typically been the preserve of the qualitative researcher. Drawing on two distinct research projects conducted separately by the authors, it considers the transformation of social science software from a competent assistant that can help to sort and retrieve data, to an intelligent assistant capable of independently finding trends and cou…
Socio‐Legal Studies in 2020
This article looks back to a paper written by the author and Phil Thomas in 2000 on socio‐legal studies and reflects on what has changed in the world of socio‐legal studies since then. It then turns to the continued modesty of the claims that socio‐legal studies researchers make for their work. The suggestion made is that socio‐legal studies forms a social ecology in what is termed the ‘hyphen‐space’ and that through this space social ecology the…
Women and Equality in Publishing
This article examines the participation of women as authors in five leading law journals of a generalist nature in the UK. For its data points, it takes each author of an article in the Cambridge Law Journal, the Journal of Law and Society, Legal Studies, the Modern Law Review and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. From 2016 to 2020, around 900 authors have published over 700 articles in these five journals. The analysis of these results reveal…
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