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‘My Friends are my Family’: an argument about the limitations of contemporary law's recognition of relationships in later life. (2013)
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(2013). ‘My Friends are my Family’: an argument about the limitations of contemporary law's recognition of relationships in later life. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 347-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2013.801688

Current law and social policy in the various UK legal systems privilege the conjugal couple, biological and filial relationships. Friendship remains on the margins of regulatory recognition. Yet friendship is of growing significance in contemporary s... Read More about ‘My Friends are my Family’: an argument about the limitations of contemporary law's recognition of relationships in later life..

Transgender Marriage and the Legal Obligation to Disclose Gender History (2012)
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(2012). Transgender Marriage and the Legal Obligation to Disclose Gender History. Modern Law Review, 33 -53. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2011.00887.x

Section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 as amended by the Gender Recognition Act 2004 requires transgender people to disclose their ‘gender history’ to the other party to a marriage prior to the marriage ceremony. Failure to do so enables the o... Read More about Transgender Marriage and the Legal Obligation to Disclose Gender History.

Harm To Future Persons: Non-Identity Problems and Counterpart Solutions (2012)
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Wrigley. (2012). Harm To Future Persons: Non-Identity Problems and Counterpart Solutions. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15, 175 -190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-011-9280-0

Non-Identity arguments have a pervasive but sometimes counter-intuitive grip on certain key areas in ethics. As a result, there has been limited success in supporting the alternative view that our choices concerning future generations can be consider... Read More about Harm To Future Persons: Non-Identity Problems and Counterpart Solutions.

‘I May Be Older, But I Ain’t No ‘Elder’: A Critique of ‘Elder Law’ (2012)
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(2012). ‘I May Be Older, But I Ain’t No ‘Elder’: A Critique of ‘Elder Law’

The provision of legal services for people in later life is an emerging area of legal specialism in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, "Elder Law" legal practice is a "growth industry," with an increasing number... Read More about ‘I May Be Older, But I Ain’t No ‘Elder’: A Critique of ‘Elder Law’.

‘Ethnicity’ in the International Law of Minority Protection: The Post-Cold War Context in Perspective (2012)
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(2012). ‘Ethnicity’ in the International Law of Minority Protection: The Post-Cold War Context in Perspective. Leiden Journal of International Law, 885 - 907. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156512000490

As a concept, ‘ethnicity’ has been informing the notions of the ‘self’ as well as the ‘other’ since antiquity. While in ancient Greek it referred to the ‘other’ in a derogatory sense, in the Romantic literature of the nineteenth century, ethnicity ca... Read More about ‘Ethnicity’ in the International Law of Minority Protection: The Post-Cold War Context in Perspective.

Granting Conscientious Exemptions: The Need to Take Sides (2012)
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Nehushtan, Y. (2012). Granting Conscientious Exemptions: The Need to Take Sides. Religion and Human Rights, 7(1), 31-58

There are several possible views of the proper way in which the state should respond to claims to be granted conscientious exemptions. This article discusses, and ultimately rejects, two main approaches to the issue of granting conscientious exemptio... Read More about Granting Conscientious Exemptions: The Need to Take Sides.

The Links between Religion and Intolerance (2011)
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Nehushtan, Y. (2011). The Links between Religion and Intolerance. Philosophy and Theology, 23(1), 91-132. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol20112315

This paper explores two main arguments. The first argument is that religious persons—because they are religious persons—are likely to be more intolerant than non-religious persons. This argument is supported by decisive empirical evidence. The second... Read More about The Links between Religion and Intolerance.

Affective displacements: Understanding emotions and sexualities in refugee law (2011)
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(2011). Affective displacements: Understanding emotions and sexualities in refugee law. https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X1103600308

Validating asylum claims on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation relies on discerning what constitutes sexuality and a ‘well founded fear’ of persecution. This administrative process works by suturing narratives of ‘functioning’ sexuality to sp... Read More about Affective displacements: Understanding emotions and sexualities in refugee law.

Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire (2011)
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(2011). Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire

Online technologies provide new participatory spaces for gay men to organise sexual and intimate encounters. While these spaces are often characterised as enabling new forms of sexual subjectivity and queer sociability, they mobilise new sexual templ... Read More about Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire.

The Principle of Tolerance (2011)
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Nehushtan, Y. (2011). The Principle of Tolerance. (TAU) Tel-Aviv University Law Review (Iyunei Mishpat), 34, 5-46

The Problem of Counterfactuals in Substituted Judgement Decision‐Making (2011)
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WRIGLEY, A. (2011). The Problem of Counterfactuals in Substituted Judgement Decision‐Making. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 28(2), 169-187. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5930.2011.00516.x

The standard by which we apply decision-making for those unable to do so for themselves is an important practical ethical issue with substantial implications for the treatment and welfare of such individuals. The approach to proxy or surrogate decisi... Read More about The Problem of Counterfactuals in Substituted Judgement Decision‐Making.

Religious Conscientious Exemptions (2010)
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Nehushtan, Y. (2011). Religious Conscientious Exemptions. Law and Philosophy, 30(2), 143-166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-010-9088-4

Several possible approaches can be applied by the state when it responds to religious conscientious objections. These approaches compare the response to religious-conscientious objections with that to non-religious objections. If the content of the o... Read More about Religious Conscientious Exemptions.

Reaching the Bar (2010)
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(2010). Reaching the Bar

Reports on the issues addressed at the Bar Council-Aimhigher widening participation conference, "How to get to the Bar" held at St Philips Chambers, Birmingham on July 12, 2010 and attended by 80 sixth form students.