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The Tower (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). The Tower. Amicus Curiae, 352 - 370. https://doi.org/10.14296/ac.v2i3.5303

The image of the tower is a potent symbol in many cultures. In the ‘Epilogue’ in Blackstone’s Tower, Twining referred to the Eiffel Tower with respect to his book. This article will instead look at the Tower of Babel, the concept of the ivory tower a... Read More about The Tower.

Experiencing English Law Schools: the student perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Guth, J., Cownie, F., & Jones, E. (2021). Experiencing English Law Schools: the student perspective. Amicus Curiae, 390-405. https://doi.org/10.14296/ac.v2i3.5305

This article examines Blackstone’s Tower: The English Law School from the perspective of law students entering and studying in law schools 25+ years after the publication of the book. The article provides an alternative ‘tour’ of an English law schoo... Read More about Experiencing English Law Schools: the student perspective.

Building Access Routes into Blackstone’s Tower Including Disability Perspectives in the Liberal Law School (2021)
Journal Article
Pearson. (2021). Building Access Routes into Blackstone’s Tower Including Disability Perspectives in the Liberal Law School. Amicus Curiae, 406 - 427. https://doi.org/10.14296/ac.v2i3.5306

Disability, and its relationship to and relative absence within the English university law school permeates Blackstone’s Tower, from Rutland’s rickety lift and law library filled with inaccessible print texts to the recognition that minority perspect... Read More about Building Access Routes into Blackstone’s Tower Including Disability Perspectives in the Liberal Law School.

Nurture, Pleasure and Read and Resist!: Abolition Feminist Methodology for a Collective Recovery? (2021)
Journal Article
Emmerich, F., & Adams, F. (2021). Nurture, Pleasure and Read and Resist!: Abolition Feminist Methodology for a Collective Recovery?. Feminist Legal Studies, 29, 399–410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-021-09463-5

COVID-19 has magnified intersecting inequalities that are central to the functioning of capitalism. At the height of the crisis, the value of an economy based on the exchange of goods and services faded away to expose the importance of care across th... Read More about Nurture, Pleasure and Read and Resist!: Abolition Feminist Methodology for a Collective Recovery?.

Evidence and practice: a review of vignettes in qualitative research (2021)
Journal Article
Murphy, J., Hughes, J., Read, S., & Ashby, S. (2021). Evidence and practice: a review of vignettes in qualitative research. Nurse Researcher, 29(3), 8-14. https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2021.e1787

BACKGROUND: Developing and working through a PhD research study requires tenacity, continuous development and application of knowledge. It is paramount when researching sensitive topics to consider carefully the construction of tools for collecting d... Read More about Evidence and practice: a review of vignettes in qualitative research.

Why women judges really matter: The impact of women judges on property law outcomes in Kenya (2021)
Journal Article
Gayoye, M. (2021). Why women judges really matter: The impact of women judges on property law outcomes in Kenya. Social and Legal Studies, 096466392110079 - 096466392110079

<jats:p> In this paper, I discuss the impact that women judges have made in property law outcomes in Kenya. The study shows that women judges were able to influence a feminist jurisprudence in matrimonial property and inheritance disputes peripherall... Read More about Why women judges really matter: The impact of women judges on property law outcomes in Kenya.

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, L. (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

<jats:p>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 <jat... 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, J. A. (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, J. A. (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..

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

<jats:p>In the original publication of the article, errors in the production stages resulted in Vanessa Munro being listed as sole author.</jats:p>

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.

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.