Response to DHSC Open Consultation: Changes to Human Medicine Regulations to support the rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines (2020)
Report
Fairgreave, D., Feldschreiber, P., Goldberg, R., Holm, S., Howells, G., Kirchhelle, C., …Vanderslott, S. (2020). Response to DHSC Open Consultation: Changes to Human Medicine Regulations to support the rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines. British Institute of International and Comparative Law

This publication is a response to the UK Government consultation in respect of the proposals to modify the Human Medicine Regulations 2012 ("the Regulations") in order to support the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine. This is a submission to the UK Gover... Read More about Response to DHSC Open Consultation: Changes to Human Medicine Regulations to support the rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines.

Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies (2020)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., Jamie, K., & Pope, S. (2020). Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies. Women's Studies International Forum, 83, Article 102416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102416

Since their entry onto the competitive scene in 1977, female bodybuilders have been the subject of sustained debate among scholars from a range of disciplines. Within this body of literature, discourses are polarised and offer two opposing representa... Read More about Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies.

Maternal request caesareans and COVID-19: the virus does not diminish the importance of choice in childbirth (2020)
Journal Article
Romanis, E. C., & Nelson, A. (2020). Maternal request caesareans and COVID-19: the virus does not diminish the importance of choice in childbirth. Journal of Medical Ethics, 46(11), 726-731. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106526

It has recently been reported that some hospitals in the UK have placed a blanket restriction on the provision of maternal request caesarean sections (MRCS) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pregnancy and birthing services are obviously facing ch... Read More about Maternal request caesareans and COVID-19: the virus does not diminish the importance of choice in childbirth.

Homebirthing in the United Kingdom during COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
Romanis, E. C., & Nelson, A. (2020). Homebirthing in the United Kingdom during COVID-19. Medical Law International, https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533220955224

COVID-19 has significantly impacted all aspects of maternity services in the United Kingdom, exacerbating the fact that choice is insufficiently centred within the maternity regime. In this article, we focus on the restrictions placed on homebirthing... Read More about Homebirthing in the United Kingdom during COVID-19.

On the Origins of Human Rights (2020)
Journal Article
Nicholson, M. (2020). On the Origins of Human Rights. European Human Rights Law Review, 5, 512-525

This article reviews Pamela Slotte and Miia Halme-Tuomisaari’s edited volume Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights, treating it as an opportunity to reconsider theories about the history and origins of human rights thought and practice. It argues th... Read More about On the Origins of Human Rights.

Medical Law and Ethics (2020)
Book
Pattinson, S. D. (2020). Medical Law and Ethics. (6th ed.). Sweet and Maxwell

Climate Change and Causation: Joining Law and Climate Science on the basis of Formal Logic (2020)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P., & Otto, F. E. (2020). Climate Change and Causation: Joining Law and Climate Science on the basis of Formal Logic. Buffalo environmental law journal, 27(1), 49-86

Free Movement of Life? The Interaction Between the Best Interests Test and the Right to Freely Receive Services in Tafida Raqeeb (2020)
Journal Article
Van Leeuwen, B. (2020). Free Movement of Life? The Interaction Between the Best Interests Test and the Right to Freely Receive Services in Tafida Raqeeb. Public Law, 398-408

Comments on Raqeeb v Barts NHS Foundation Trust (Admin) on whether parents had the right to take their child to Italy for continuing care after UK doctors recommended that treatment be withdrawn. Discusses the distinction between the best interests t... Read More about Free Movement of Life? The Interaction Between the Best Interests Test and the Right to Freely Receive Services in Tafida Raqeeb.

Reviewing the womb (2020)
Journal Article
Romanis, E. C., Begović, D., Brazier, M. R., & Mullock, A. K. (2020). Reviewing the womb. Journal of Medical Ethics, medethics-2020-106160. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106160

"I just don't think it's that natural": Adolescent mothers' constructions of breastfeeding as deviant (2020)
Journal Article
Jamie, K., Hackshaw-McGeagh, L., Bows, H., & O'Neill, R. (2020). "I just don't think it's that natural": Adolescent mothers' constructions of breastfeeding as deviant. Sociology of Health & Illness, 42(7), 1689-1708. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13157

Breastfeeding is recognised globally as the optimal method of infant feeding. For Murphy (1999) Sociology of Health & Illness, 21, 187–208 its nutritional superiority positions breastfeeding as a moral imperative where mothers who formula‐feed are op... Read More about "I just don't think it's that natural": Adolescent mothers' constructions of breastfeeding as deviant.

Head to Head: Should doctors tackling covid-19 be immune from negligence liability claims? (2020)
Journal Article
Tomkins, C., Purshouse, C., Heywood, R., Miola, J., Cave, E., & Devaney, S. (2020). Head to Head: Should doctors tackling covid-19 be immune from negligence liability claims?. British Medical Journal, 2020(370), Article m2487. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2487

Litigation related to exceptional circumstances would be a complicated drain on a workforce and system already on its knees after the pandemic, says Christine Tomkins. But Craig Purshouse, Rob Heywood, José Miola, Emma Cave, and Sarah Devaney argue t... Read More about Head to Head: Should doctors tackling covid-19 be immune from negligence liability claims?.

Informing Patients: The Bolam Legacy (2020)
Journal Article
Cave, E., & Milo, C. (2020). Informing Patients: The Bolam Legacy. Medical Law International, 20(2), 103-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533220954228

In the context of medical advice to patients, the UK decision in Montgomery v. Lanarkshire Health Board rejected the application of Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee. This article argues that the rejection is neither complete nor settled.... Read More about Informing Patients: The Bolam Legacy.

The Nature of Law and Potential Coercion (2020)
Journal Article
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2020). The Nature of Law and Potential Coercion. Ratio Juris: An international journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 33(2), 223-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12288

This paper argues for a novel understanding of the relationship between law and coercion. It firstly refutes Kenneth Himma’s claim that the authorisation of coercive enforcement mechanisms is a conceptually necessary feature of law. It then claims th... Read More about The Nature of Law and Potential Coercion.

The Impact of the Legitimacy of European Standards on Their Application in Private Law: a Case Study on Professional Standards in the Medical Sector (2020)
Book Chapter
Van Leeuwen, B. (2020). The Impact of the Legitimacy of European Standards on Their Application in Private Law: a Case Study on Professional Standards in the Medical Sector. In M. Eliantonio, & C. Cauffman (Eds.), The Legitimacy of Standardisation as a Regulatory Technique (110-130). Edward Elgar Publishing

Desiring machines: The sexbot paradox (2020)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2020). Desiring machines: The sexbot paradox. In S. A. Midson (Ed.), Love, Technology and Theology (77-92). T&T Clark. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567689979.ch-005

Valid consent to medical treatment (2020)
Journal Article
Cave, E. (2021). Valid consent to medical treatment. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(12), Article e31. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106287

When consent to medical treatment is described as ‘valid’, it might simply mean that it has a sound basis, or it could mean that it is legally valid. Where the two meanings are regularly interchanged, however, it can lead to aspects of the sound basi... Read More about Valid consent to medical treatment.

Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, Theories and Methods (2020)
Book
Trevisanut, S., Giannopoulos, N., & Roland Holst, R. J. (Eds.). (2020). Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, Theories and Methods. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004422100

Introduction: Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance (2020)
Book Chapter
Trevisanut, S., Giannopoulos, N., & Roland Holst, R. J. (2020). Introduction: Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance. In S. Trevisanut, N. Giannopoulos, & R. J. Roland Holst (Eds.), Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, Theories and Methods (1-21). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004422100_002

Conclusion: Proposing a Three-Fold Approach to Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance (2020)
Book Chapter
Trevisanut, S., Giannopoulos, N., & Roland Holst, R. J. (2020). Conclusion: Proposing a Three-Fold Approach to Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance. In S. Trevisanut, N. Giannopoulos, & R. J. Roland Holst (Eds.), Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, Theories and Methods (222-234). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004422100_009

Digital Pruning: Agency and Social Media Use as a Personal Political Project Among Female Weightlifters in Recovery from Eating Disorders (2020)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., Pope, S., & Jamie, K. (2021). Digital Pruning: Agency and Social Media Use as a Personal Political Project Among Female Weightlifters in Recovery from Eating Disorders. New Media and Society, 23(8), 2345-2366. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820926503

In the past decade, a wealth of research has focused on women and social media. Typically assembled according to the logic of ‘risk’ and ‘exposure’, this extensive work tends to operate within a negative paradigm whereby women’s engagement with the d... Read More about Digital Pruning: Agency and Social Media Use as a Personal Political Project Among Female Weightlifters in Recovery from Eating Disorders.