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Is Mitochondrial Donation Germ-Line Gene Therapy? Classifications and Ethical Implications (2016)
Journal Article
Wrigley, A., & Newson, A. (2016). Is Mitochondrial Donation Germ-Line Gene Therapy? Classifications and Ethical Implications. Bioethics, 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12312

The classification of techniques used in mitochondrial donation, including their role as purported germ-line gene therapies, is far from clear. These techniques exhibit characteristics typical of a variety of classifications that have been used in bo... Read More about Is Mitochondrial Donation Germ-Line Gene Therapy? Classifications and Ethical Implications.

The Strikethrough: an Approach to Regulatory Writing and Professional Discipline (2016)
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(2016). The Strikethrough: an Approach to Regulatory Writing and Professional Discipline. Legal Studies, 137-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/lest.12142

This paper attends to writing practices by way of examining how a professional regulator engages with research activities conducted by doctors. In order to explore regulatory responses to alleged research misconduct, I use a specific calligraphic pra... Read More about The Strikethrough: an Approach to Regulatory Writing and Professional Discipline.

"This Man with Dementia" - 'Othering' the Person with Dementia in the Court of Protection (2016)
Journal Article
Pritchard-Jones. (2016). "This Man with Dementia" - 'Othering' the Person with Dementia in the Court of Protection. Medical Law Review, 518-543. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fww022

In recent years, dementia has been subjected to an increasing ethical, legal, and political gaze. This article analyses how the Court of Protection considers the perspective of the person with dementia when making best interests decisions on their be... Read More about "This Man with Dementia" - 'Othering' the Person with Dementia in the Court of Protection.

On The Scope And Typology Of ‘Research Misconduct’: The Gaze Of The General Medical Council, 1990-2015 (2016)
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(2016). On The Scope And Typology Of ‘Research Misconduct’: The Gaze Of The General Medical Council, 1990-2015. Medical Law Review, 497-517. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fww019

Violations of research integrity are understood to have wide-ranging negative consequences for the trustworthiness of science and the health of the public. My goal in this article is not to cause further outrage about research misconduct. Instead, th... Read More about On The Scope And Typology Of ‘Research Misconduct’: The Gaze Of The General Medical Council, 1990-2015.

A Standing Investment Court under TTIP from the Perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). A Standing Investment Court under TTIP from the Perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Journal of World Investment and Trade, 701 -742. https://doi.org/10.1163/22119000-12340010

This article critically assesses the feasibility of the recently proposed Investment Court System (ICS) under the envisaged Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), from the perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJE... Read More about A Standing Investment Court under TTIP from the Perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Marieke Vervoort – and how the right to euthanasia can help some people to live better (2016)
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Wrigley. (2016). Marieke Vervoort – and how the right to euthanasia can help some people to live better

Belgian Paralympic athlete Marieke Vervoort, who won a silver medal in the T52 400 metre event at the 2016 Rio games, recently disclosed that she likely would already have attempted suicide if she had not been able to legally plan to undergo euthanas... Read More about Marieke Vervoort – and how the right to euthanasia can help some people to live better.

Negligence, Genetics and Families: A Duty to Disclose Actionable Risks (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Negligence, Genetics and Families: A Duty to Disclose Actionable Risks. Medical Law International, 115-142. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533216664113

Genetic testing can reveal information significant to patients’ relatives. This familial aspect raises an important question: should clinicians owe a duty to disclose genetic risk to patients’ blood relations? In ABC v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trus... Read More about Negligence, Genetics and Families: A Duty to Disclose Actionable Risks.

Serbia's Action against Transnational Organised Crime (2016)
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(2016). Serbia's Action against Transnational Organised Crime. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 151-175. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718174-24032090

This article examines the extent to which Serbia has implemented relevant international standards on action against transnational organised crime contained in the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime 2000. The first part ex... Read More about Serbia's Action against Transnational Organised Crime.

Marwan Barghouti in Tel Aviv: Occupation, Terrorism, and Resistance in the Courtroom (2016)
Journal Article
Allo, A. (2016). Marwan Barghouti in Tel Aviv: Occupation, Terrorism, and Resistance in the Courtroom. Social and Legal Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663916651000

On 15 April 2002, Marwan Barghouti, a high profile Member of the Palestinian Parliament and a close aide of the late Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, was arrested and transferred to Israel for trial. On 14 August 2002, he was charged with multiple c... Read More about Marwan Barghouti in Tel Aviv: Occupation, Terrorism, and Resistance in the Courtroom.

The Case for a General Constitutional Right to be Granted Conscientious Exemption (2016)
Journal Article
Nehushtan, Y. (2016). The Case for a General Constitutional Right to be Granted Conscientious Exemption. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 230 - 254. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rww004

Conscientious exemption is called for when a person’s conscience conflicts with the demands or the requirements of the law. Most of the academic research about the practice of granting conscientious exemptions and its justification explores the quest... Read More about The Case for a General Constitutional Right to be Granted Conscientious Exemption.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer (2016)
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Newson, A., Wilkinson, S., & Wrigley, A. (2016). Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 589-591. https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201606281

The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine recently provided conditional endorsement for mitochondrial transfer. While its approach is more conservative in some respects than that of the United Kingdom (which passed its own regula... Read More about Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer.

The Courtroom as a Site of Epistemic Resistance: Mandela at Rivonia (2016)
Journal Article
Allo, A. (2016). The Courtroom as a Site of Epistemic Resistance: Mandela at Rivonia. Law, Culture and the Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872116643274

The 1963–64 trial of Nelson Mandela and other leading members of the liberation movement was a political trial par excellence. In the courtroom, the Apartheid government was trying the accused for the crime of sabotage but in the court of public opin... Read More about The Courtroom as a Site of Epistemic Resistance: Mandela at Rivonia.

Religion, sexuality and (in)equality in the lives of older lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Religion, sexuality and (in)equality in the lives of older lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the UK. Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging, 47-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528030.2016.1155525

This article explores how older lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people in the United Kingdom engage with religion in later life. Drawing on research with older persons who are LGB and with activists, it explores religious spaces as sites of both inc... Read More about Religion, sexuality and (in)equality in the lives of older lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the UK.