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A Standing Investment Court under TTIP from the Perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). A Standing Investment Court under TTIP from the Perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Journal of World Investment and Trade, 701 -742. https://doi.org/10.1163/22119000-12340010

This article critically assesses the feasibility of the recently proposed Investment Court System (ICS) under the envisaged Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), from the perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJE... Read More about A Standing Investment Court under TTIP from the Perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners. In Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization (50-79). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0723-9.ch003

The recent association agreements with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia are meant to replace the existing Partnership and Cooperation Agreements between the EU and the three Eastern Partners. Their purpose is to deepen the political and economic ties bet... Read More about Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners.

Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners. In Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization (50-79). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0723-9.ch003

The recent association agreements with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia are meant to replace the existing Partnership and Cooperation Agreements between the EU and the three Eastern Partners. Their purpose is to deepen the political and economic ties bet... Read More about Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners.

Marieke Vervoort – and how the right to euthanasia can help some people to live better (2016)
Journal Article
Wrigley. (2016). Marieke Vervoort – and how the right to euthanasia can help some people to live better

Belgian Paralympic athlete Marieke Vervoort, who won a silver medal in the T52 400 metre event at the 2016 Rio games, recently disclosed that she likely would already have attempted suicide if she had not been able to legally plan to undergo euthanas... Read More about Marieke Vervoort – and how the right to euthanasia can help some people to live better.

Negligence, Genetics and Families: A Duty to Disclose Actionable Risks (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Negligence, Genetics and Families: A Duty to Disclose Actionable Risks. Medical Law International, 115-142. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533216664113

Genetic testing can reveal information significant to patients’ relatives. This familial aspect raises an important question: should clinicians owe a duty to disclose genetic risk to patients’ blood relations? In ABC v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trus... Read More about Negligence, Genetics and Families: A Duty to Disclose Actionable Risks.

Serbia's Action against Transnational Organised Crime (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Serbia's Action against Transnational Organised Crime. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 151-175. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718174-24032090

This article examines the extent to which Serbia has implemented relevant international standards on action against transnational organised crime contained in the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime 2000. The first part ex... Read More about Serbia's Action against Transnational Organised Crime.

Marwan Barghouti in Tel Aviv: Occupation, Terrorism, and Resistance in the Courtroom (2016)
Journal Article
Allo, A. (2016). Marwan Barghouti in Tel Aviv: Occupation, Terrorism, and Resistance in the Courtroom. Social and Legal Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663916651000

On 15 April 2002, Marwan Barghouti, a high profile Member of the Palestinian Parliament and a close aide of the late Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, was arrested and transferred to Israel for trial. On 14 August 2002, he was charged with multiple c... Read More about Marwan Barghouti in Tel Aviv: Occupation, Terrorism, and Resistance in the Courtroom.

The Case for a General Constitutional Right to be Granted Conscientious Exemption (2016)
Journal Article
Nehushtan, Y. (2016). The Case for a General Constitutional Right to be Granted Conscientious Exemption. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 230 - 254. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rww004

Conscientious exemption is called for when a person’s conscience conflicts with the demands or the requirements of the law. Most of the academic research about the practice of granting conscientious exemptions and its justification explores the quest... Read More about The Case for a General Constitutional Right to be Granted Conscientious Exemption.

Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law. In The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (221 - 228)

What is a (trans)gender identity? How do we measure gender identity related persecution? Does refugee law offer adequate protection to culturally diverse gender minorities? Constructions gender identity as a ‘particular social group’ in international... Read More about Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law.

Manufacturing Consent to the Investment Regime: Problematising Public Participation (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Prost, M. (2016, May). Manufacturing Consent to the Investment Regime: Problematising Public Participation. Presented at Rethinking International Investment Law: Civic Advocacy, Representation and Participation in the International Investment Regime, School of Law, University of Warwick, England, UK

The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation? (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation?. In The Institutionalisation of EU-US Relations: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Transatlantic Trade and Data Privacy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50221-2_4

This chapter explores the forms of governance that the EU–US PNR, TFTP, Privacy Shield and Umbrella Agreement have established in the transatlantic data space by looking at the relevant rules, procedures and institutions. It concludes that transatlan... Read More about The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation?.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer (2016)
Journal Article
Newson, A., Wilkinson, S., & Wrigley, A. (2016). Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 589-591. https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201606281

The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine recently provided conditional endorsement for mitochondrial transfer. While its approach is more conservative in some respects than that of the United Kingdom (which passed its own regula... Read More about Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer.

The Courtroom as a Site of Epistemic Resistance: Mandela at Rivonia (2016)
Journal Article
Allo, A. (2016). The Courtroom as a Site of Epistemic Resistance: Mandela at Rivonia. Law, Culture and the Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872116643274

The 1963–64 trial of Nelson Mandela and other leading members of the liberation movement was a political trial par excellence. In the courtroom, the Apartheid government was trying the accused for the crime of sabotage but in the court of public opin... Read More about The Courtroom as a Site of Epistemic Resistance: Mandela at Rivonia.

Religion, sexuality and (in)equality in the lives of older lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Religion, sexuality and (in)equality in the lives of older lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the UK. Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging, 47-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528030.2016.1155525

This article explores how older lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people in the United Kingdom engage with religion in later life. Drawing on research with older persons who are LGB and with activists, it explores religious spaces as sites of both inc... Read More about Religion, sexuality and (in)equality in the lives of older lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the UK.