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Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality (2021)
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(2021). Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality

Discussions about the human rights of LGBTIQ people tend to centre around two vastly different issues, namely, marriage equality and the criminalisation of same-sex sexual conduct. However, looking only at these two high-profile issues ignores the ma... Read More about Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

Just Say No! Appeals Against Orders for a Preliminary Reference (2020)
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Cotter, J. (2020). Just Say No! Appeals Against Orders for a Preliminary Reference. European Public Law, 26(3), 615-642. https://doi.org/10.54648/euro2020058

Can an order for a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court), made by a lower instance national court, be subject to an appeal to a higher instance national court? To date, the Court has not been sufficiently cle... Read More about Just Say No! Appeals Against Orders for a Preliminary Reference.

The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy (2020)
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(2020). The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy

The article addresses the future of European Union (EU) data privacy law and argues for a shift of paradigm, calling for a less technology-driven and more human-centric and societally focused approach. It discusses two case studies — poor people’s da... Read More about The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy.

From proband to provider: is there an obligation to inform genetic relatives of actionable risks discovered through direct-to-consumer genetic testing? (2020)
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Parsons. (2020). From proband to provider: is there an obligation to inform genetic relatives of actionable risks discovered through direct-to-consumer genetic testing?. Journal of Medical Ethics, 205 - 212. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106966

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is a growing phenomenon, fuelled by the notion that knowledge equals control. One ethical question that arises concerns the proband's duty to share information indicating genetic risks in their relatives. However, s... Read More about From proband to provider: is there an obligation to inform genetic relatives of actionable risks discovered through direct-to-consumer genetic testing?.

The Stellenbosch Consensus on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks (2020)
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(2020). The Stellenbosch Consensus on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks. International Organizations Law Review, 90 - 157. https://doi.org/10.1163/15723747-2020023

The International Health Regulations (ihr), of which the World Health Organization is custodian, govern how countries collectively promote global health security, including prevention, detection, and response to global health emergencies such as the... Read More about The Stellenbosch Consensus on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks.

The Changing Position of Legal Academics in the United Kingdom: Professionalization or Proletarianization? (2020)
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(2020). The Changing Position of Legal Academics in the United Kingdom: Professionalization or Proletarianization?. Journal of Law and Society, S227-S243. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12265

This article analyses changes to United Kingdom (UK) university law schools during the period coinciding with Phil Thomas’ career as a law teacher – the latter part of the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty-first – in part illu... Read More about The Changing Position of Legal Academics in the United Kingdom: Professionalization or Proletarianization?.

Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (2020)
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Adams, F. (2020). Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence. Social and Legal Studies, 30(2), 096466392097178 - 096466392097178. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920971781

The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Levine and Meiners, 2020) is a powerful, reflexive and much needed abolition feminist critique of carceral responses to sexual and gender violence and how feminism sho... Read More about Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence.

Compensation for Business Tenants: Mischief and Malady (2020)
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Haley, M. (2020). Compensation for Business Tenants: Mischief and Malady. Cambridge Law Journal, 79(3), 490-526. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197320000586

This article focuses upon the provisions and underlying policy of the Landlord and Tenant Acts of 1927 and 1954. It surveys the mischief that each Act was designed to address and, from the perspective of compensation for business tenants, examines cr... Read More about Compensation for Business Tenants: Mischief and Malady.

Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982) (2020)
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(2020). Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982). Life Writing, 483 - 491. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2020.1769304

This article explores Janet Frame's first autobiography To the Is-Land, reading Frame's relentless cataloguing of objects as indicative of her wider, post-imperial, life writing project. Frame insists that her ancestors (white Scottish settlers who a... Read More about Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982).

A LOCAL AUTHORITY V JB [2020] EWCA Civ 735 and A LOCAL AUTHORITY V AW [2020] EWCOP 24: RETHINKING SEXUAL CAPACITY? (2020)
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Pritchard-Jones. (2020). A LOCAL AUTHORITY V JB [2020] EWCA Civ 735 and A LOCAL AUTHORITY V AW [2020] EWCOP 24: RETHINKING SEXUAL CAPACITY?. Medical Law Review, 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwaa028

In A Local Authority v JB and A Local Authority v AW the Court of Appeal and Court of Protection respectively had to consider questions regarding decision making about sexual relationships. This case commentary suggests that both decisions are to be... Read More about A LOCAL AUTHORITY V JB [2020] EWCA Civ 735 and A LOCAL AUTHORITY V AW [2020] EWCOP 24: RETHINKING SEXUAL CAPACITY?.

Legal and policy responses to the delivery of abortion care during COVID-19. (2020)
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Parsons. (2020). Legal and policy responses to the delivery of abortion care during COVID-19. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 479 - 486. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.13377

Access to abortion care has long been a global challenge, even in jurisdictions where abortion is legal. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated barriers to access, thereby preventing many women from terminating unwanted pregnancies for an extended per... Read More about Legal and policy responses to the delivery of abortion care during COVID-19..

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and English Contract Law: A Tale of Unfinished Bridges? (2020)
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(2020). The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and English Contract Law: A Tale of Unfinished Bridges?. Kings Law Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/09615768.2020.1815941

Contract law has a multidimensional role permeating the economic and social spheres of life, connecting people in mutual relations. Despite its potential, contract law is largely overlooked by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilit... Read More about The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and English Contract Law: A Tale of Unfinished Bridges?.

A global pandemic is not a good time to introduce ‘opt-out’ for organ donation (2020)
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Parsons. (2020). A global pandemic is not a good time to introduce ‘opt-out’ for organ donation. Medical Law International, 155 - 166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533220950002

Following several international examples, England introduced a system of deemed consent for organ donation in May 2020. This had been planned for over a year. However, the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic raise issues that make t... Read More about A global pandemic is not a good time to introduce ‘opt-out’ for organ donation.

Lockdown and levelling down: why Savulescu and Cameron are mistaken about selective isolation of the elderly. (2020)
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Hughes. (2020). Lockdown and levelling down: why Savulescu and Cameron are mistaken about selective isolation of the elderly. Journal of Medical Ethics, 722-723. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106776

In their recent article, 'Why lockdown of the elderly is not ageist and why levelling down equality is wrong', Savulescu and Cameron argue for selective isolation of the elderly as an alternative to general lockdown. An important part of their argume... Read More about Lockdown and levelling down: why Savulescu and Cameron are mistaken about selective isolation of the elderly..

Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences (2020)
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Richardson, V., & Brammer, A. (2020). Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 42(3), 360 - 376. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2020.1796223

Focusing on accounts by women who have children taken into care, this paper reports on a socio-legal case study in England, investigating the life experiences of nine mothers, whose children have been made subject to care orders under the Children Ac... Read More about Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences.