All Outputs (44)

Best interests decisions for people with advanced dementia: a qualitative study of nurses’ perspectives in England (2023)
Thesis
Murphy, J. S. C. (2023). Best interests decisions for people with advanced dementia: a qualitative study of nurses’ perspectives in England. (Thesis). Keele University

In the United Kingdom (UK), there are 907,900 people aged over 65 with dementia, 546,500 of whom would be classed as having severe dementia (Wittenberg et al 2019). Advanced dementia is now recognised as a leading cause of death in the UK and across... Read More about Best interests decisions for people with advanced dementia: a qualitative study of nurses’ perspectives in England.

Reformative perspective on the principle of legitimate expectation in Turkish administrative law (2023)
Thesis
Cindik, T. (2023). Reformative perspective on the principle of legitimate expectation in Turkish administrative law. (Thesis). Keele University

This PhD thesis aims to reform the principle of legitimate expectation in Turkish Administrative Law by considering European Union Law, decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), and utilizing Hohfeld analysis. The narrow interpretation... Read More about Reformative perspective on the principle of legitimate expectation in Turkish administrative law.

Squaring the Adoption Triangle: reconciling the competing needs of sibling children (2023)
Thesis
Dowding, S. (2023). Squaring the Adoption Triangle: reconciling the competing needs of sibling children. (Thesis). Keele University

Siblings are important – so far, so obvious – and yet the sibling relationship does not feature in the commonly-described ‘Adoption Triangle’1 of birth parent, child and prospective adopters. Social workers construct care plans, making recommenda... Read More about Squaring the Adoption Triangle: reconciling the competing needs of sibling children.

Drones, settler colonialism and the law (2023)
Thesis
Dagan, Y. (2023). Drones, settler colonialism and the law. (Thesis). Keele University

This dissertation explores two sets of questions. The first focuses on the development of military drones and the use of this technology for distinctly settler colonial purposes. The second focuses on the challenges posed by lethal drones to the lega... Read More about Drones, settler colonialism and the law.

A genealogy of rights: emancipatory rights-claiming as a conscious act of freedom (2022)
Thesis
Holder, S. D. (2022). A genealogy of rights: emancipatory rights-claiming as a conscious act of freedom. (Thesis). Keele University

This project seeks to excavate and explore the emancipatory potential of rights and rights language. Public international law, and its most powerful normative concept, sovereignty, helped manufacture a distinct brand of freedom and equality in the ro... Read More about A genealogy of rights: emancipatory rights-claiming as a conscious act of freedom.

Exploring the securitisation of climate change within the meaning of Article 39: mapping the narratives of UN Security Council intervention (2021)
Thesis
Murphy, A. (2021). Exploring the securitisation of climate change within the meaning of Article 39: mapping the narratives of UN Security Council intervention. (Thesis). Keele University

The IPCC is unequivocal that climate change is happening, and its consequences will continue to be devastating for the earth and humanity. The inadequacy of international climate law to mitigate the threat, makes it essential that we search for ways... Read More about Exploring the securitisation of climate change within the meaning of Article 39: mapping the narratives of UN Security Council intervention.

The English torts of defamation and (false) privacy: analysing the impact of the overlap on defences, interim injunctions and damages (2020)
Thesis
Jinana, H. H. A. (2020). The English torts of defamation and (false) privacy: analysing the impact of the overlap on defences, interim injunctions and damages. (Thesis). Keele University

Following the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998, the English law recognised direct protection of the right to privacy under the tort of misuse of private information (MOPI) by virtue of the House of Lords’ judgment in the landmark case of Campbe... Read More about The English torts of defamation and (false) privacy: analysing the impact of the overlap on defences, interim injunctions and damages.

Re-evaluating the moral status of the embryo and pre-sentient fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level approach (2020)
Thesis
Suffield, W. M. (2020). Re-evaluating the moral status of the embryo and pre-sentient fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level approach. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis contends that the concept of moral status, which earmarks those entities towards which we have moral obligations, ought to be re-evaluated so that it is ascribed on the basis of multiple criteria, each of which may have increasing levels... Read More about Re-evaluating the moral status of the embryo and pre-sentient fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level approach.

Climate change and disappearing island states: deterritorialisation, sovereignty and statehood in international law (2020)
Thesis
Allen, E. L. (2020). Climate change and disappearing island states: deterritorialisation, sovereignty and statehood in international law. (Thesis). Keele University

At the present time, at least eight low-lying islands have been found to have disappeared as a result of climate change-induced rising sea levels and more seem likely to suffer the same fate in the future. Indeed, according to scientific estimates, i... Read More about Climate change and disappearing island states: deterritorialisation, sovereignty and statehood in international law.

The ethical accommodation of patients’ religious beliefs in healthcare: a care respect framework prompted by examples from modern Paganism (2020)
Thesis
Griffin, S. J. M. (2020). The ethical accommodation of patients’ religious beliefs in healthcare: a care respect framework prompted by examples from modern Paganism. (Thesis). Keele University

Conflicts of values arise between the values of healthcare staff, and the values of some religious patients. The reasons why, and the extent to which, patient beliefs and values ought to be accommodated has been a feature of the ethics literature for... Read More about The ethical accommodation of patients’ religious beliefs in healthcare: a care respect framework prompted by examples from modern Paganism.

What should be the role of social value in organ allocation decisions? (2019)
Thesis
Johnson, J. (2019). What should be the role of social value in organ allocation decisions?. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413841

With this thesis, I argue that when selecting which patient should be the recipient of an organ for transplant, a social value judgment about the patient should be included alongside judgments about the patient’s level of urgency and prognosis. The r... Read More about What should be the role of social value in organ allocation decisions?.

The queer, the cross and the closet: a critique of rights discourse in conflicts between religious belief and sexual orientation
Thesis
Coyle, S. M. (2017). The queer, the cross and the closet: a critique of rights discourse in conflicts between religious belief and sexual orientation

The clash between religious belief and sexual orientation has become a key flashpoint in modern rights struggles. A decade after the first recognition of lesbians and gay men in UK equality law, the conflict continues to be played out in domestic cou... Read More about The queer, the cross and the closet: a critique of rights discourse in conflicts between religious belief and sexual orientation.

The parasomnia defence: expert evidence in criminal trials
Thesis
Rumbold, J. M. M. (2015). The parasomnia defence: expert evidence in criminal trials

There are increasing numbers of defendants seeking to rely on the occurrence of sleepwalking or some other parasomnia in their defence to a criminal charge. Consequently this has become a matter for public concern, particularly in relation to sexual... Read More about The parasomnia defence: expert evidence in criminal trials.

Ageing, Gender and Sexuality: Equality in Later Life Susan Linda Westwood
Thesis
Susan Linda Westwood

In this thesis I explore how ageing, gender and sexuality intersect to influence equality in later life, in relation to older lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals and non-labelling individuals in same-gender relationships (LGBN). In particular I arg... Read More about Ageing, Gender and Sexuality: Equality in Later Life Susan Linda Westwood.

A-Legal space as a political strategy : an analysis of constitutive power and democracy based on case studies from Latin America
Thesis
Hughes, C. (2017). A-Legal space as a political strategy : an analysis of constitutive power and democracy based on case studies from Latin America

This project develops a theory of a-legal space as a political strategy. A-legal space refers to the space created by initiatives which assume a quasi-legal or quasi-institutional form without any official basis, or where they exceed their recognized... Read More about A-Legal space as a political strategy : an analysis of constitutive power and democracy based on case studies from Latin America.

Professional associations, agency, motivation and capacity for change: The case of social mobility and the Bar.
Thesis
Freer, E. A. O. (2016). Bar

This thesis uses a mixed methods approach utilising questionnaires, focus groups and interviews to explore how and why an embedded professional association may act to alter a longstanding trait of its profession. Focussing on the trait of social clos... Read More about Professional associations, agency, motivation and capacity for change: The case of social mobility and the Bar..

Performing caste: the ban on bar dancing in Mumbai
Thesis
(2012). Performing caste: the ban on bar dancing in Mumbai

This thesis examines the ban on bar dancing in Mumbai and Maharashtra as an outcome of politics of gender and caste in a globalising India. By redeploying the historical erotic dancing in a globalising India, the dance bars emerged as the new market... Read More about Performing caste: the ban on bar dancing in Mumbai.

HIV positive refugees/asylum seekers and clinical trials: some ethical issues
Thesis
(2014). HIV positive refugees/asylum seekers and clinical trials: some ethical issues

The aim of this thesis was to identify some of the ethical issues of HIV positive asylum seekers and refugees participating in clinical trials in Britain. While all individuals are to some degree vulnerable in clinical trials, I have shown in this th... Read More about HIV positive refugees/asylum seekers and clinical trials: some ethical issues.

A conceptual analysis of trust in medicine: its definition, decline, and significance
Thesis
Wolfensberger, M. (2016). A conceptual analysis of trust in medicine: its definition, decline, and significance

Over the past decades, trust in medicine has steadily declined. The purpose of this thesis is to present a definition of 'trust', which helps us (a) understand what trust means in medicine, (b) analyse whether and if so why we have reason to be conce... Read More about A conceptual analysis of trust in medicine: its definition, decline, and significance.

Rich law, poor law: differential response to tax and supplementary benefit fraud
Thesis
(1988). Rich law, poor law: differential response to tax and supplementary benefit fraud

People who (in relation to their personal taxation) defraud the Inland Revenue and people who (in relation to their supplementary benefit payments) defraud the Department of Health and Social Security are similarly engaged in economic crimes which re... Read More about Rich law, poor law: differential response to tax and supplementary benefit fraud.