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Exploring the securitisation of climate change within the meaning of Article 39: mapping the narratives of UN Security Council intervention (2021)
Thesis
Murphy, A. (2021). Exploring the securitisation of climate change within the meaning of Article 39: mapping the narratives of UN Security Council intervention. (Thesis). Keele University

The IPCC is unequivocal that climate change is happening, and its consequences will continue to be devastating for the earth and humanity. The inadequacy of international climate law to mitigate the threat, makes it essential that we search for ways... Read More about Exploring the securitisation of climate change within the meaning of Article 39: mapping the narratives of UN Security Council intervention.

Feminist Legal Engagements towards a Transformative Justice (2021)
Book Chapter
Krishnadas, J. (2021). Feminist Legal Engagements towards a Transformative Justice. In Leading Works in Law and Social Justice (99-109). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429287572-8

Menon’s foundational book ‘Recovering Subversion, Feminist Politics Beyond the Law’ (2004) presents a critical feminist postcolonial contribution to deconstruct the concept of universal rights and law as a tool of constructing and safeguarding the au... Read More about Feminist Legal Engagements towards a Transformative Justice.

Trial of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Jonathan Sumption. London: Profile Books Ltd, 2019, 112 pp (£8.99 softback). ISBN 978-1-78-816373-6. (2021)
Journal Article
Higson-Bliss. (2021). Trial of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Jonathan Sumption. London: Profile Books Ltd, 2019, 112 pp (£8.99 softback). ISBN 978-1-78-816373-6. Legal Studies, 1 - 4. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2021.9

The UK is currently experiencing what can only be described as a political crisis. As faith in politics declines amongst citizens, there is an increasing trend to turn to the courts for answers – this is the thesis of Jonathan Sumption's Trial of the... Read More about Trial of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Jonathan Sumption. London: Profile Books Ltd, 2019, 112 pp (£8.99 softback). ISBN 978-1-78-816373-6..

Consentir (2021)
Book Chapter
Prost, M. (2021). Consentir. In Dictionnaire de l'actualité internationale (130-131)

Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review. (2021)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2021). Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00591

BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease is a significant cause of global deaths. Those who progress to end-stage kidney disease often commence dialysis as a life-extending treatment. For cognitively impaired patients, the decision as to whether they comme... Read More about Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review..

Deemed consent for organ donation: a comparison of the English and Scottish approaches. (2021)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2021). Deemed consent for organ donation: a comparison of the English and Scottish approaches. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, lsab003 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsab003

Deemed consent for organ donation has long been discussed as a potential solution to the shortage of organs for transplantation, with several countries having implemented it. In Great Britain, Wales was the first nation to introduce such a system, ha... Read More about Deemed consent for organ donation: a comparison of the English and Scottish approaches..

International Collaboration to Ensure Equitable Access to Vaccines for COVID-19: The ACT-Accelerator and the COVAX Facility (2021)
Journal Article
ECCLESTON‐TURNER, M., & UPTON, H. (2021). International Collaboration to Ensure Equitable Access to Vaccines for COVID-19: The ACT-Accelerator and the COVAX Facility. Milbank Quarterly, 99(2), 426-449. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12503

Policy Points Equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine in all countries remains a key policy objective, but experience of previous pandemics suggests access will be limited in developing countries, despite the rapid development of three successful vac... Read More about International Collaboration to Ensure Equitable Access to Vaccines for COVID-19: The ACT-Accelerator and the COVAX Facility.

Correction to: Feminist Judgments Projects at the Intersection (2021)
Journal Article
Gayoye, M., Hunter, M., Manji, A., Matinda, M., Sekalala, S., Chaudhary, R., …Lammasniemi, L. (2021). Correction to: Feminist Judgments Projects at the Intersection. Feminist Legal Studies, 263 - 265

In the original publication of the article, errors in the production stages resulted in Vanessa Munro being listed as sole author.

Conscientious Exemptions: Between Toleration, Neutrality and Respect (2021)
Book Chapter
Nehushtan, Y. (2021). Conscientious Exemptions: Between Toleration, Neutrality and Respect. In The Palgrave Handbook on Toleration. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42121-2_54

This chapter explains why granting conscientious exemptions is almost always the outcome of toleration – and always the outcome of toleration – in cases where the exemption is granted from a law that reflects or enforces moral values. The chapter exp... Read More about Conscientious Exemptions: Between Toleration, Neutrality and Respect.

Preparing for the Next Pandemic: the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization during COVID-19 (2021)
Book Chapter
(2021). Preparing for the Next Pandemic: the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization during COVID-19. In Yearbook of International Disaster Law

In this chapter we will focus on how the current IHR have limited utility during a pandemic, most notably in respect of a coordinated approach among states and international institutions and across international legal regimes to deliver the assets th... Read More about Preparing for the Next Pandemic: the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization during COVID-19.

Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom (2021)
Book Chapter
(2021). Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom. In The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom (233-271)

In this chapter, we draw from Davina Cooper (2019) to consider how we—as legal advocates and scholars—might “play” with(in) the state to pursue LGBTIQ rights. We do this by exploring four case studies of reform in the United Kingdom: self-determinati... Read More about Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTIQ Rights in the United Kingdom.

Death or dialysis: the value of burdensome life-extending treatments for the cognitively impaired (2021)
Book Chapter
Parsons. (2021). Death or dialysis: the value of burdensome life-extending treatments for the cognitively impaired. In Defining the Value of Medical Interventions Normative and Empirical Challenges

In this book international scholars with background in medicine, philosophy, health-economics and further disciplines, who participated in an interdisciplinary conference in 2019 combine in-depth analyses with reflections informed by ...

Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality

Discussions about the human rights of LGBTIQ people tend to centre around two vastly different issues, namely, marriage equality and the criminalisation of same-sex sexual conduct. However, looking only at these two high-profile issues ignores the ma... Read More about Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

The English torts of defamation and (false) privacy: analysing the impact of the overlap on defences, interim injunctions and damages (2020)
Thesis
Jinana, H. H. A. (2020). The English torts of defamation and (false) privacy: analysing the impact of the overlap on defences, interim injunctions and damages. (Thesis). Keele University

Following the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998, the English law recognised direct protection of the right to privacy under the tort of misuse of private information (MOPI) by virtue of the House of Lords’ judgment in the landmark case of Campbe... Read More about The English torts of defamation and (false) privacy: analysing the impact of the overlap on defences, interim injunctions and damages.

Just Say No! Appeals Against Orders for a Preliminary Reference (2020)
Journal Article
Cotter, J. (2020). Just Say No! Appeals Against Orders for a Preliminary Reference. European Public Law, 26(3), 615-642. https://doi.org/10.54648/euro2020058

Can an order for a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court), made by a lower instance national court, be subject to an appeal to a higher instance national court? To date, the Court has not been sufficiently cle... Read More about Just Say No! Appeals Against Orders for a Preliminary Reference.

The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy

The article addresses the future of European Union (EU) data privacy law and argues for a shift of paradigm, calling for a less technology-driven and more human-centric and societally focused approach. It discusses two case studies — poor people’s da... Read More about The Future of EU Data Privacy Law: Towards a More Egalitarian Data Privacy.