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The Unexpected Consequences of the EU Right to Be Forgotten: Internet Search Engines as Fundamental Rights Adjudicators (2020)
Book Chapter
Tzanou, M. (2020). The Unexpected Consequences of the EU Right to Be Forgotten: Internet Search Engines as Fundamental Rights Adjudicators. In Personal Data Protection and Legal Developments in the European Union. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9489-5.ch014

The right to be forgotten as established in the CJEU's decision in Google Spain is the first online data privacy right recognized in the EU legal order. This contribution explores two currently underdeveloped in the literature aspects of the right to... Read More about The Unexpected Consequences of the EU Right to Be Forgotten: Internet Search Engines as Fundamental Rights Adjudicators.

2017-19 governmental decisions to allow home use of misoprostol for early medical abortion in the UK. (2020)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. A. (2020). 2017-19 governmental decisions to allow home use of misoprostol for early medical abortion in the UK. Health Policy, 679 - 683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.04.014

Home use of misoprostol for early medical abortion has long been an established practice in several countries. It is a safe, effective, and dignified means of obtaining a legal abortion, with a low risk of complications. In the UK, however, the pract... Read More about 2017-19 governmental decisions to allow home use of misoprostol for early medical abortion in the UK..

States of Exception: Legal Governance of Trans Women in Urban Turkey (2020)
Journal Article
Tascioglu, E. (2020). States of Exception: Legal Governance of Trans Women in Urban Turkey. Social and Legal Studies, 30(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920924780

Based on life story narratives of trans women, this article aims to shed light on the role of the law in their exclusion from public spaces in urban Turkey over the last four decades. In light of Giorgio Agamben’s work on the sovereign exception, I a... Read More about States of Exception: Legal Governance of Trans Women in Urban Turkey.

COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic. (2020)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. A. (2020). COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, lsaa027 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa027

In this paper we consider the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on access to abortion care in Great Britain (GB) (England, Wales, and Scotland) and the United States (US). The pandemic has exacerbated problems in access to abortion services... Read More about COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic..

Procedural Developments in Investment Arbitration (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Procedural Developments in Investment Arbitration. Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, 269 - 303. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718034-12341424

This column focuses on procedural developments in recent investment arbitration cases, relying on publicly available interim decisions and final awards, handed down during the period 1 January 2019 to 31 March 2020. Given the large number of new case... Read More about Procedural Developments in Investment Arbitration.

Best interests versus resource allocation: could COVID-19 cloud decision-making for the cognitively impaired? (2020)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. A. (2020). Best interests versus resource allocation: could COVID-19 cloud decision-making for the cognitively impaired?. Journal of Medical Ethics, 447 - 450. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106323

The COVID-19 pandemic is putting the NHS under unprecedented pressure, requiring clinicians to make uncomfortable decisions they would not ordinarily face. These decisions revolve primarily around intensive care and whether a patient should undergo i... Read More about Best interests versus resource allocation: could COVID-19 cloud decision-making for the cognitively impaired?.

Issues in Sentencing Procedure (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Issues in Sentencing Procedure. Criminal Law Review, 397-410

Discusses key issues relevant to sentencing procedure, including the burdens and standards of proof involved, the boundaries of Newton hearings, the mitigating and aggravating factors, evidence of local prevalence of a crime, and the use of victim pe... Read More about Issues in Sentencing Procedure.

The Right to Be Forgotten as a Fundamental Right in the UK After Brexit (2020)
Journal Article
Aidinlis. (2020). The Right to Be Forgotten as a Fundamental Right in the UK After Brexit. SSRN,

Will Brexit diminish digital rights protection in the UK or are domestic institutions better-placed to deliver such protection unencumbered by the oversight of EU institutions? This article scrutinises the validity of conflicting arguments about the... Read More about The Right to Be Forgotten as a Fundamental Right in the UK After Brexit.

Advance euthanasia directives and the Dutch prosecution. (2020)
Journal Article
Hughes. (2020). Advance euthanasia directives and the Dutch prosecution. Journal of Medical Ethics, 253-256. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106131

In a recent Dutch euthanasia case, a woman underwent euthanasia on the basis of an advance directive, having first been sedated without her knowledge and then restrained by members of her family while the euthanasia was administered. This article con... Read More about Advance euthanasia directives and the Dutch prosecution..

Doing Law Amidst Climate Breakdown (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Prost, M. (2020, March). Doing Law Amidst Climate Breakdown. Presented at Reading Law School Guest Seminar Series, Reading, England, UK

Coronavirus and the homeless: Why increasing police powers is not the answer (2020)
Journal Article
Emmerich, F., & Adams, F. (2020). Coronavirus and the homeless: Why increasing police powers is not the answer

What would be a humane response to the needs of the most vulnerable in society during a humanitarian crisis? Lock them up — that’s what the new Emergency Coronavirus Bill proposes. The Government introduced it on Thursday (March 19) to Parliament. Read More about Coronavirus and the homeless: Why increasing police powers is not the answer.

Using Concepts: Lessons Learnt and Best Practices (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Prost, M. (2020, March). Using Concepts: Lessons Learnt and Best Practices. Presented at Glasgow Conversations in International Law - Methods, Theories, Inquiries: Conceptual Critique in International Law, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

The Decolonisation of Children's Rights and the Colonial Contours of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (2020)
Journal Article
Faulkner. (2020). The Decolonisation of Children's Rights and the Colonial Contours of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. International Journal of Children's Rights, 66 - 88. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02801009

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (uncrc) 1989 has been celebrated for its universal acceptance. However, questions still arise around its provenance and representation. In particular, the Convention is deemed to enshrine Weste... Read More about The Decolonisation of Children's Rights and the Colonial Contours of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

‘That’s a bit of a minefield!’: Supported Decision-Making in Intellectually Disabled People’s Intimate Lives (2020)
Book Chapter
Harding, R., & Tascioglu, E. (2020). ‘That’s a bit of a minefield!’: Supported Decision-Making in Intellectually Disabled People’s Intimate Lives. In Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law (256 - 270). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788111157

In this chapter, we explore the issue of support for intellectually disabled people in developing intimate relationships within the constraints of the regulatory position set out in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Throu... Read More about ‘That’s a bit of a minefield!’: Supported Decision-Making in Intellectually Disabled People’s Intimate Lives.

The True Meaning of Rationality as a Distinct Ground of Judicial Review in UK Public Law (2020)
Journal Article
Nehushtan, Y. (2020). The True Meaning of Rationality as a Distinct Ground of Judicial Review in UK Public Law. Israel Law Review, 135-158. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223719000189

Ever since the Wednesbury decision in 1947 UK public law has been applying the concepts ‘rationality’ and ‘reasonableness’ indistinguishably. Rationality has also been used as a ‘mega ground of judicial review’, covering many other, distinct grounds... Read More about The True Meaning of Rationality as a Distinct Ground of Judicial Review in UK Public Law.