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Book review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (2020)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

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.

Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982) (2020)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. A. (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)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
(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.