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The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform. (2022)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. A. (2022). The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform. Medical Law Review, 4 - 32. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwab042

Early medical abortion (EMA) involves the administration of two medications-mifepristone and misoprostol-24-48 hours apart. These routinely used medications are recognised as safe and effective by the World Health Organization which recommends this c... Read More about The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform..

The Courtroom as an Arena of Ideological and Political Confrontation: The Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial (2021)
Journal Article
Allo, A. (2021). The Courtroom as an Arena of Ideological and Political Confrontation: The Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial. Law and Critique, 34, 81–104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-021-09315-w

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Normative theories of law conceive the courtroom as a geometrically delineated, politically neutral, and linguistically transparent space designed for a fair and orderly administration of justice. The trial, t... Read More about The Courtroom as an Arena of Ideological and Political Confrontation: The Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial.

Does Abortion Violate the Right to Life of Unborn Babies? (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). Does Abortion Violate the Right to Life of Unborn Babies?. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/kgfm-xa15

The question of when life begins is a deeply divisive issue, which has been debated to the moon and back without ever truly being answered, or so it seems. This article will critically analyse the reasoning behind the ‘Prolife’ argument and highlight... Read More about Does Abortion Violate the Right to Life of Unborn Babies?.

Children in prison during COVID-19: the new “double jeopardy” (2021)
Journal Article
Day, A. (2021). Children in prison during COVID-19: the new “double jeopardy”. Safer Communities,

Purpose
The purpose of the paper is to consider the impact on children in custody of the government response to COVID-19 in England and Wales. As the majority of children are held in young offender institutions, this forms the focus of the piece.... Read More about Children in prison during COVID-19: the new “double jeopardy”.

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.

Mapping the Manifestations of Exclusion: Challenging the Incarceration of Queer People (2020)
Book Chapter
Adams, F., & Emmerich, F. (2020). Mapping the Manifestations of Exclusion: Challenging the Incarceration of Queer People. In The Queer Outside in UK Law. (1). Springer

Prisons are coercive spaces that strengthen and support the capitalist system. They are deeply gendered institutions that enforce a gender binary and perpetuate heteronormative gender performativity. These confinement spaces produce varieties of excl... Read More about Mapping the Manifestations of Exclusion: Challenging the Incarceration of Queer People.

Mapping the Manifestations of Exclusion: Challenging the Incarceration of Queer People (2020)
Book Chapter
Emmerich, F., & Adams, F. (2020). Mapping the Manifestations of Exclusion: Challenging the Incarceration of Queer People. In The Queer Outside in UK Law (107-140). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48830-7_5

Prisons are coercive spaces that strengthen and support the capitalist system. They are deeply gendered institutions that enforce a gender binary and perpetuate heteronormative gender performativity. These confinement spaces produce varieties of excl... Read More about Mapping the Manifestations of Exclusion: Challenging the Incarceration of Queer People.

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and English Contract Law: A Tale of Unfinished Bridges? (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and English Contract Law: A Tale of Unfinished Bridges?. Kings Law Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/09615768.2020.1815941

Contract law has a multidimensional role permeating the economic and social spheres of life, connecting people in mutual relations. Despite its potential, contract law is largely overlooked by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilit... Read More about The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and English Contract Law: A Tale of Unfinished Bridges?.

Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences (2020)
Journal Article
Richardson, V., & Brammer, A. (2020). Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 42(3), 360 - 376. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2020.1796223

Focusing on accounts by women who have children taken into care, this paper reports on a socio-legal case study in England, investigating the life experiences of nine mothers, whose children have been made subject to care orders under the Children Ac... Read More about Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences.

Agency Contracts and the Scope of the Incapacity Defence in English Contract Law: A Topic too Hot to Handle? (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Agency Contracts and the Scope of the Incapacity Defence in English Contract Law: A Topic too Hot to Handle?. Journal of Business Law, 382-402

This article assesses the impact of a principal's mental incapacity on agency agreements in English contract law and calls for an approach compatible with the values pursued by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2991

This article gives key reasons for the UK's tardy and confused attempts to react to the COVID-19 pandemic. It explains very poor outcomes in the UK (in terms of the spread of the virus and high mortality, already striking at the time of writing), in... Read More about Insouciance and inexperience: A deadly combination when dealing with COVID-19..

The Right to Be Forgotten as a Fundamental Right in the UK After Brexit (2020)
Journal Article
Aidinlis. (2020). The Right to Be Forgotten as a Fundamental Right in the UK After Brexit. SSRN,

Will Brexit diminish digital rights protection in the UK or are domestic institutions better-placed to deliver such protection unencumbered by the oversight of EU institutions? This article scrutinises the validity of conflicting arguments about the... Read More about The Right to Be Forgotten as a Fundamental Right in the UK After Brexit.

Who controls university legal education? The case of England and Wales (2020)
Book Chapter
(2020). Who controls university legal education? The case of England and Wales. In Imperatives for Legal Education Research: Then, Now and Tomorrow (143 -158)

Proceedings paper adapted from UNSW Conference on Research in Legal Education: State of the Art?, held at Sydney, Australia, 3-5 December 2017.

Lessons from Roman law: EU law in England and Wales after Brexit (2019)
Journal Article
Cotter, J., & Dewhurst, E. (2019). Lessons from Roman law: EU law in England and Wales after Brexit. The Law Teacher, 53(2), 173 - 188. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2019.1585074

The experience of Roman law in legal education in England and Wales may serve as a cautionary tale for EU law post-Brexit. Similarly, past debates as to the position of Roman law in the curriculum may also be instructive in the EU law context. After... Read More about Lessons from Roman law: EU law in England and Wales after Brexit.