How Nature Matters: Culture, Identity, and Environmental Value (2022)
Book
James, S. P. (2022). How Nature Matters: Culture, Identity, and Environmental Value. Oxford University Press

How Nature Matters presents an original theory of nature’s value based on part–whole relations. James argues that when natural things have cultural value, they do not always have it as means to valuable ends. In many cases, they have value as parts o... Read More about How Nature Matters: Culture, Identity, and Environmental Value.

On Gestation and Motherhood (2022)
Journal Article
Mahmoud, Z., & Romanis, E. C. (2023). On Gestation and Motherhood. Medical Law Review, 31(1), 109-140. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwac030

In English law, legal motherhood is allocated to the person who gestated. However, we argue that gestation—legally denoted as the “natural” source of parenting obligations—is often constructed as mothering, rather than the precursor to it. This means... Read More about On Gestation and Motherhood.

Against Relational Value (2022)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2022). Against Relational Value. The Harvard Review of Philosophy, 29, 45-54. https://doi.org/10.5840/harvardreview20228645

In some environmental circles, talk of relational values is very much in fashion. It is said that we must think in terms of such values if we are to understand how such things as canyons, mangroves, and coral reefs matter to people. But that is bad a... Read More about Against Relational Value.

Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The Role of the social Superstructure Narrative (2022)
Journal Article
Otto, F. E., Minnerop, P., Raju, E., Harrington, L. J., Stuart-Smith, R. F., Boyd, E., …Lauta, K. C. (2022). Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The Role of the social Superstructure Narrative. Global Policy, 13(5), 736-750. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13113

Climate litigation has become a strategic tool to push for climate justice, including compensation for losses caused by climate change. Many cases rely on the establishment of a causal relationship between the defendants’ emission of greenhouse gases... Read More about Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The Role of the social Superstructure Narrative.

Paying for Parliament (2022)
Book Chapter
Lee, C., & Yong, B. (2022). Paying for Parliament. In A. Horne, L. Thompson, & B. Yong (Eds.), Parliament and the Law (57-86). (3rd ed.). Hart Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509934126.ch-003

From ‘Non-market Economy’ to ‘Significant Market Distortions’: rethinking the EU anti-dumping regulation and China’s state interventionism (2022)
Journal Article
Du, M. (2022). From ‘Non-market Economy’ to ‘Significant Market Distortions’: rethinking the EU anti-dumping regulation and China’s state interventionism. Yearbook of European Law, 41, 314-347. https://doi.org/10.1093/yel/yeac004

This article questions the consistency of the EU antidumping regulation with the WTO Antidumping Agreement. It argues that with the expiry of paragraph 15 (a) (ii) on 11 December 2016, China’s WTO Accession Protocol may no longer provide the legal ba... Read More about From ‘Non-market Economy’ to ‘Significant Market Distortions’: rethinking the EU anti-dumping regulation and China’s state interventionism.

Telemedical and Self-Managed Abortion: A Human Rights Imperative? (2022)
Journal Article
Tongue, Z. L. (2023). Telemedical and Self-Managed Abortion: A Human Rights Imperative?. European Journal of Health Law, 30(2), 158-181. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718093-bja10092

Early into the COVID-19 pandemic, abortion rights advocates highlighted the importance of maintaining access to abortion through telemedicine. It was argued that telemedical and self-managed abortion was, in the pandemic context, a human rights imper... Read More about Telemedical and Self-Managed Abortion: A Human Rights Imperative?.

Renewable Energy and the Law of the Sea (2022)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2022). Renewable Energy and the Law of the Sea. In J. Kraska, & Y. Park (Eds.), Emerging Technology and the Law of the Sea (35-62). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009042178.003

Contemporary technologies for offshore electricity generation and transmission enable sea uses of types and at scales that could not have been envisaged when the text of UNCLOS was agreed. The chapter considers whether UNCLOS is able to accommodate t... Read More about Renewable Energy and the Law of the Sea.

Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960 (2022)
Journal Article
Gijbels, J., Lancaster, C., Maehle, A., & Vander Hulst, R. (2022). Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960. Journal of Religious History, 46(3), 439-459. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12871

This paper focuses on intersections of medical ethics and religious commitments by charting conceptions of the Catholic doctor in French and English-language normative texts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Behavioural norms for... Read More about Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960.

The climate-oceans nexus: Oceans in the climate regime, climate in the oceans regime (2022)
Book Chapter
Roland Holst, R. J. (2022). The climate-oceans nexus: Oceans in the climate regime, climate in the oceans regime. In P. G. Harris (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change (28-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315149745

Climate Litigation and Climate Activism (2022)
Digital Artefact
Bouwer, K. (in press). Climate Litigation and Climate Activism. [Video]

Laurie's Legacy (2022)
Digital Artefact
Cave, E. (2022). Laurie's Legacy. [Blog Post]

Directed and Conditional Uterus Donation (2022)
Journal Article
Romanis, E. C., & Parsons, J. A. (2022). Directed and Conditional Uterus Donation. Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(11), 810-815. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2021-107902

Uterus transplantation (UTx) is highly anticipated for the benefits that it might bring to individuals wanting to carry a pregnancy in order to reproduce who do not have a functioning uterus. The surgery—now having been performed successfully in seve... Read More about Directed and Conditional Uterus Donation.

Artificial Womb Technology, Pregnancy and EU Employment Rights (2022)
Journal Article
Hooton, V., & Romanis, E. C. (2022). Artificial Womb Technology, Pregnancy and EU Employment Rights. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 9(1), Article 009. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsac009

This article considers challenges for the European Union (EU) maternity and pregnancy rights framework when faced with advances in reproductive technology. Specifically, we consider how the introduction of the ‘artificial womb’ technology, an alterna... Read More about Artificial Womb Technology, Pregnancy and EU Employment Rights.

Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific, Edited by Jolene Lin and Douglas A. Kysar Published by Cambridge University Press, 2020 (2022)
Journal Article
Bouwer, K. (2022). Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific, Edited by Jolene Lin and Douglas A. Kysar Published by Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12435

Ministerial Responsibility (2022)
Book Chapter
Yong, B. (2022). Ministerial Responsibility. In Constitution and Governance in the UK. UK in a Changing Europe

Assisted Gestative Technologies (2022)
Journal Article
Romanis, E. C. (2022). Assisted Gestative Technologies. Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(7), 439-446. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2021-107769

A large body of literature considers the ethico-legal and regulatory issues surrounding assisted conception. Surrogacy, however, within this body of literature is an odd-fit. It involves a unique demand of another person – a form of reproductive labo... Read More about Assisted Gestative Technologies.

Net Zero Rule of Law: Climate Consciousness and Legal Education (2022)
Digital Artefact
Bouwer, K. (2022). Net Zero Rule of Law: Climate Consciousness and Legal Education. [Blog]

Nasogastric tube feeding under physical restraint on paediatric wards: ethical, legal and practical considerations regarding this lifesaving intervention (2022)
Journal Article
Fuller, S. J., Chapman, S., Cave, E., Druce-Perkins, J., Daniels, P., & Tan, J. (2023). Nasogastric tube feeding under physical restraint on paediatric wards: ethical, legal and practical considerations regarding this lifesaving intervention. BJPsych Bulletin, 47(2), 105-110. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2022.11

Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric condition. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of patients who have required medical stabilisation on paediatric wards has increased significantly. Likewise, the number of patien... Read More about Nasogastric tube feeding under physical restraint on paediatric wards: ethical, legal and practical considerations regarding this lifesaving intervention.

Vaccine damage schemes in the US and UK reappraised: making them fit for purpose in light of COVID-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Goldberg, R. (2022). Vaccine damage schemes in the US and UK reappraised: making them fit for purpose in light of COVID-19. Legal Studies, 42(4), 576-599. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2022.9

Vaccines have continued to play a crucial global role in preventing infectious diseases in the twenty-first century. The Covid-19 pandemic has underlined their importance, with vaccines seen as the best way to protect the public from coronavirus. A l... Read More about Vaccine damage schemes in the US and UK reappraised: making them fit for purpose in light of COVID-19.