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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, J. A. (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

<jats:p> 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 tha... 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.

Weighing Ethical Considerations in Proposed Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse Investigations: A Response to Maslen and Paine’s Oxford CSA Framework (2020)
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Hughes. (2020). Weighing Ethical Considerations in Proposed Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse Investigations: A Response to Maslen and Paine’s Oxford CSA Framework. Criminal Justice Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2020.1800179

Questions about when it is right for police forces to investigate alleged offences committed in the more or less distant past have become increasingly pressing. Recent widely publicized cases of child sexual abuse (CSA) and exploitation, sometimes in... Read More about Weighing Ethical Considerations in Proposed Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse Investigations: A Response to Maslen and Paine’s Oxford CSA Framework.

Domestic Violence through the window of the Covid-19 Lockdown: A Public crisis embodied/exposed in the private/domestic sphere (2020)
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Krishnadas, J., & Taha Hayat, S. (2020). Domestic Violence through the window of the Covid-19 Lockdown: A Public crisis embodied/exposed in the private/domestic sphere. https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.7.1.0046

COVID-19 has been recognized globally as a public health crisis, which has directly led to the deaths of more than 40,000 people in the UK (World Health Organization, 2020). The lockdown measures in the public sphere have created a window into the ex... Read More about Domestic Violence through the window of the Covid-19 Lockdown: A Public crisis embodied/exposed in the private/domestic sphere.

Navigating complexity of child abuse through intuition and evidence-based guidelines: a mix-methods study among child and youth healthcare practitioners (2020)
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Erisman, J. C., De Sabbata, K., Zuiderent-Jerak, T., & Syurina, E. V. (2020). Navigating complexity of child abuse through intuition and evidence-based guidelines: a mix-methods study among child and youth healthcare practitioners. BMC Family Practice, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01226-6

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>Dutch child and youth health care (CYHC) practitioners monitor and assess the well-being of children. One of their main concerns is identifying cases of child abu... Read More about Navigating complexity of child abuse through intuition and evidence-based guidelines: a mix-methods study among child and youth healthcare practitioners.

Teaching Feeling: Bringing Emotion into the Law School (2020)
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(2020). Teaching Feeling: Bringing Emotion into the Law School. The Law Teacher, https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2020.1781456

This paper explores the dynamics of emotion in law and legal classrooms by showing: (1) why foregrounding how law is shaped by emotion better equips students to learn about how law advances and/or inhibits various pursuits of social justice and (2) h... Read More about Teaching Feeling: Bringing Emotion into the Law School.

Agency Contracts and the Scope of the Incapacity Defence in English Contract Law: A Topic too Hot to Handle? (2020)
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(2020). Agency Contracts and the Scope of the Incapacity Defence in English Contract Law: A Topic too Hot to Handle?. Journal of Business Law, 382-402

This article assesses the impact of a principal's mental incapacity on agency agreements in English contract law and calls for an approach compatible with the values pursued by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The ethical accommodation of patients’ religious beliefs in healthcare: a care respect framework prompted by examples from modern Paganism (2020)
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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.

Climate change and disappearing island states: deterritorialisation, sovereignty and statehood in international law (2020)
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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.

Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations (2020)
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(2020). Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations. Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2820%2931417-3

Amid frenzied national responses to COVID-19, the world could soon reach a critical juncture to revisit and strengthen the International Health Regulations (IHR), the multilateral instrument that governs how 196 states and WHO collectively address th... Read More about Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations.

Does the heterogeneity of autism undermine the neurodiversity paradigm? (2020)
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Hughes. (2020). Does the heterogeneity of autism undermine the neurodiversity paradigm?. Bioethics, https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12780

The neurodiversity paradigm is presented by its proponents as providing a philosophical foundation for the activism of the neurodiversity movement. Its central claims are that autism and other neurodivergent conditions are not disorders because they... Read More about Does the heterogeneity of autism undermine the neurodiversity paradigm?.

Contested feelings: Mapping emotional journeys of LGBTI rights and reforms (2020)
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(2020). Contested feelings: Mapping emotional journeys of LGBTI rights and reforms. https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X20927500

This reflection explores how emotion shapes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights and law reforms. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the author maps how disgust regulates sexu... Read More about Contested feelings: Mapping emotional journeys of LGBTI rights and reforms.