Feminist Judicial Decision-Making as Judicial Decision-Making: A Legitimate and Valuable Approach?
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Adams, F. (2020). Feminist Judicial Decision-Making as Judicial Decision-Making: A Legitimate and Valuable Approach?
The queer, the cross and the closet: a critique of rights discourse in conflicts between religious belief and sexual orientation
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Coyle, S. M. (2017). The queer, the cross and the closet: a critique of rights discourse in conflicts between religious belief and sexual orientationThe clash between religious belief and sexual orientation has become a key flashpoint in modern rights struggles. A decade after the first recognition of lesbians and gay men in UK equality law, the conflict continues to be played out in domestic cou... Read More about The queer, the cross and the closet: a critique of rights discourse in conflicts between religious belief and sexual orientation.
The Women's Convention and Malaysian Laws on Muslim Women's Rights: The Possibility of Harmonisation.
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(2013). The Women's Convention and Malaysian Laws on Muslim Women's Rights: The Possibility of HarmonisationMy thesis critically examines whether Malaysian laws on Muslim women’s rights are harmonious with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Women’s Convention). I argue that the interpretation of ‘equality’ is th... Read More about The Women's Convention and Malaysian Laws on Muslim Women's Rights: The Possibility of Harmonisation..
Performing caste: the ban on bar dancing in Mumbai
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(2012). Performing caste: the ban on bar dancing in MumbaiThis thesis examines the ban on bar dancing in Mumbai and Maharashtra as an outcome of politics of gender and caste in a globalising India. By redeploying the historical erotic dancing in a globalising India, the dance bars emerged as the new market... Read More about Performing caste: the ban on bar dancing in Mumbai.
Rich law, poor law: differential response to tax and supplementary benefit fraud
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(1988). Rich law, poor law: differential response to tax and supplementary benefit fraudPeople who (in relation to their personal taxation) defraud the Inland Revenue and people who (in relation to their supplementary benefit payments) defraud the Department of Health and Social Security are similarly engaged in economic crimes which re... Read More about Rich law, poor law: differential response to tax and supplementary benefit fraud.
A conceptual analysis of trust in medicine: its definition, decline, and significance
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Wolfensberger, M. (2016). A conceptual analysis of trust in medicine: its definition, decline, and significanceOver the past decades, trust in medicine has steadily declined. The purpose of this thesis is to present a definition of 'trust', which helps us (a) understand what trust means in medicine, (b) analyse whether and if so why we have reason to be conce... Read More about A conceptual analysis of trust in medicine: its definition, decline, and significance.
The parasomnia defence: expert evidence in criminal trials
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Rumbold, J. M. M. (2015). The parasomnia defence: expert evidence in criminal trialsThere are increasing numbers of defendants seeking to rely on the occurrence of sleepwalking or some other parasomnia in their defence to a criminal charge. Consequently this has become a matter for public concern, particularly in relation to sexual... Read More about The parasomnia defence: expert evidence in criminal trials.
Ageing, Gender and Sexuality: Equality in Later Life Susan Linda Westwood
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Susan Linda WestwoodIn this thesis I explore how ageing, gender and sexuality intersect to influence equality in later life, in relation to older lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals and non-labelling individuals in same-gender relationships (LGBN). In particular I arg... Read More about Ageing, Gender and Sexuality: Equality in Later Life Susan Linda Westwood.
A-Legal space as a political strategy : an analysis of constitutive power and democracy based on case studies from Latin America
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Hughes, C. (2017). A-Legal space as a political strategy : an analysis of constitutive power and democracy based on case studies from Latin AmericaThis project develops a theory of a-legal space as a political strategy. A-legal space refers to the space created by initiatives which assume a quasi-legal or quasi-institutional form without any official basis, or where they exceed their recognized... Read More about A-Legal space as a political strategy : an analysis of constitutive power and democracy based on case studies from Latin America.
Professional associations, agency, motivation and capacity for change: The case of social mobility and the Bar.
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Freer, E. A. O. (2016). BarThis thesis uses a mixed methods approach utilising questionnaires, focus groups and interviews to explore how and why an embedded professional association may act to alter a longstanding trait of its profession. Focussing on the trait of social clos... Read More about Professional associations, agency, motivation and capacity for change: The case of social mobility and the Bar..