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‘One Vast Gasoline Station for Human Exploitation’ (2023)
Book Chapter
Prost, M. (2023). ‘One Vast Gasoline Station for Human Exploitation’. In The Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism (13-34). (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003201120-3

This chapter revisits the history of one of international law's foundational concepts – sovereignty – and examines its deep anthropocentric structure. It shows that, from the sixteenth century onwards, the transformation and subjection of nature's fo... Read More about ‘One Vast Gasoline Station for Human Exploitation’.

Will Someone not Think of the Children?’ The Protectionist State and Regulating the ‘Harms’ of the Online World for Young People (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Higson-Bliss, L. (2023, April). Will Someone not Think of the Children?’ The Protectionist State and Regulating the ‘Harms’ of the Online World for Young People. Paper presented at British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association, University of Amsterdam

Since 2018, following a green paper exploring the regulation of the online world (HM Government, 2018), the Conservative Government in the United Kingdom have continued the rhetoric that they wish to become one of the safest places in the world to go... Read More about Will Someone not Think of the Children?’ The Protectionist State and Regulating the ‘Harms’ of the Online World for Young People.

The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery, and the Anti-Trafficking Machine (2023)
Book
Faulkner, E. A. (2023). The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery, and the Anti-Trafficking Machine. (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23566-5

The phenomenon of child trafficking holds a unique position as an issue of significant contemporary relevance, occupying a principal place in debates about human rights today. The interchangeable terms trafficking and modern slavery evoke emotive res... Read More about The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery, and the Anti-Trafficking Machine.

Reasonable adjustment, unfair advantage or optional extra? Teaching staff attitudes towards reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Pearson, A., & Gimblett. (2023, March). Reasonable adjustment, unfair advantage or optional extra? Teaching staff attitudes towards reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities. Presented at Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2023: The Shoulders of Giants: Listening, Learning and Improving our Practice

Early telemedical abortion, safeguarding, and under 18s: a qualitative study with care providers in England and Wales. (2023)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2023). Early telemedical abortion, safeguarding, and under 18s: a qualitative study with care providers in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2022-201762

BACKGROUND: Telemedical early medical abortion (TEMA) was introduced in England and Wales as a temporary measure in 2020 and was made permanent in 2022. While there are considerable data showing the safety, efficacy, and acceptability of TEMA for pat... Read More about Early telemedical abortion, safeguarding, and under 18s: a qualitative study with care providers in England and Wales..

Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul (2023)
Book Chapter
Tascioglu, E. (2023). Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul. In G. Radics, & P. Ciocchini (Eds.), Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World (231-251). Springer

Historically, trans women of Turkey have been frequent targets of torture and ill-treatment by the police forces. Since the early 2000s, however, the strategies of the police to control trans women’s existence within the city has moved away from infl... Read More about Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul.

Improvidence, Precaution, and the Logical-Empirical Disconnect in UK Health Policy. (2022)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2022). Improvidence, Precaution, and the Logical-Empirical Disconnect in UK Health Policy. Health Care Analysis, 1 - 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-022-00450-8

The last decade has seen significant developments in UK health policy, with are largely claimed to be evidence based. However, such a characterisation ought, in many cases, to be questioned. Policies can be broadly understood as based primarily on ei... Read More about Improvidence, Precaution, and the Logical-Empirical Disconnect in UK Health Policy..

The Paris Agreement as a Human Rights Treaty: The Ruling in PSB et al v Brazil (on Climate Fund) (2022)
Journal Article
Rutherford, A. (2022). The Paris Agreement as a Human Rights Treaty: The Ruling in PSB et al v Brazil (on Climate Fund)

This article examines the ruling of the Brazilian Supreme Court in the case PSB et al v Brazil (on Climate Fund) and its contribution to the climate litigation debate. It puts forward two main arguments. The first argument revolves around the politic... Read More about The Paris Agreement as a Human Rights Treaty: The Ruling in PSB et al v Brazil (on Climate Fund).

Lockdowns and Intergenerational Justice (2022)
Book Chapter
Nehushtan, Y. (2022). Lockdowns and Intergenerational Justice. In Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences (171 - 194). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003259336-16

In deciding its response to COVID-19, the UK government has made a policy decision to sacrifice both the short-term and long-term well-being of young people in the UK in order to shortly prolong the life of the elderly. The UK’s policy regarding the... Read More about Lockdowns and Intergenerational Justice.

Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences (Ed. Peter Sutoris, Sinéad Murphy, Aleida Mendes Borges, Yossi Nehushtan) (2022)
Book
Nehushtan, Y. (2022). P. Sutoris, S. Murphy, A. Mendes, & Y. Nehushtan (Eds.), Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences (Ed. Peter Sutoris, Sinéad Murphy, Aleida Mendes Borges, Yossi Nehushtan)

Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020–21. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic left... Read More about Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences (Ed. Peter Sutoris, Sinéad Murphy, Aleida Mendes Borges, Yossi Nehushtan).

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.