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Disadvantage, Disagreement, and Disability: Re-evaluating the Continuity Test (2021)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2021). Disadvantage, Disagreement, and Disability: Re-evaluating the Continuity Test. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1972585

The suggestion that individuals should be considered disadvantaged, and consequently entitled to compensation, only if they consider themselves disadvantaged (Dworkin’s ‘continuity test’) is initially appealing. However, it also faces problems. First... Read More about Disadvantage, Disagreement, and Disability: Re-evaluating the Continuity Test.

The Future of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Exploring China’s Changing Attitude (2021)
Book Chapter
Du, M., & Shen, W. (2021). The Future of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Exploring China’s Changing Attitude. In J. Chaisse, L. Choukroune, & S. Jusoh (Eds.), Handbook of international investment law and policy (2483-2506). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3615-7_86

The legitimacy of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) system has come under fire in recent years, and the call for reform or even transformation of global foreign direct investment governance is in vogue, with proposals ranging from incremental... Read More about The Future of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Exploring China’s Changing Attitude.

On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism (2021)
Journal Article
Woodbury-Smith, K. (2021). On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism. Journal of ethics & social philosophy, 20(2), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v20i2.1382

In this discussion of Emad Atiq's article "There are No Easy Counterexamples to Legal Anti-Positivism" I pose three challenges to his construction of an Inclusive Anti-positivism. I firstly argue that, contra Atiq, the moral facts that both ground IA... Read More about On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism.

Safeguarding and Teleconsultation for Abortion (2021)
Journal Article
Romanis, E. C., Parsons, J. A., Salter, I., & Hampton, T. (2021). Safeguarding and Teleconsultation for Abortion. The Lancet, 398(10299), 555-558. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2821%2901062-x

In response to COVID-19 and measures implemented to control virus transmission, some governments adapted abortion law and policy to ensure access to abortion care through telemedicine. In Great Britain, approval orders were issued March 30–31, 2020,... Read More about Safeguarding and Teleconsultation for Abortion.

Compulsory Childhood Vaccination: Human Rights, Solidarity and Best Interests (2021)
Journal Article
Archard, D., Brierley, J., & Cave, E. (2021). Compulsory Childhood Vaccination: Human Rights, Solidarity and Best Interests. Medical Law Review, 29(4), 716-727. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwab024

Across Europe an increasing number of States have set out policies which limit the right of parents to refuse routinely administered vaccinations on their children’s behalf. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Vavřička and Ot... Read More about Compulsory Childhood Vaccination: Human Rights, Solidarity and Best Interests.

Surrogacy and uterus transplantation using live donors: Examining the options from the perspective of ‘womb‐givers’ (2021)
Journal Article
Mullock, A., Romanis, E. C., & Begović, D. (2021). Surrogacy and uterus transplantation using live donors: Examining the options from the perspective of ‘womb‐givers’. Bioethics, https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12921

For females without a functioning womb, the only way to become a biological parent is via assisted gestation—either surrogacy or uterus transplantation (UTx). This paper examines the comparative impact of these options on two types of putative ‘womb-... Read More about Surrogacy and uterus transplantation using live donors: Examining the options from the perspective of ‘womb‐givers’.

Twin pregnancy reduction is not an ‘all or nothing’ problem: a response to Räsänen (2021)
Journal Article
Begovic, D., Romanis, E. C., & Joanne Verweij, E. (2021). Twin pregnancy reduction is not an ‘all or nothing’ problem: a response to Räsänen. Journal of Medical Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2021-107363

In his paper, ‘Twin pregnancy, fetal reduction and the ‘all or nothing problem’, Räsänen sets out to apply Horton’s ‘all or nothing’ problem to the ethics of multifetal pregnancy reduction from a twin to a singleton pregnancy (2-to-1 MFPR). Horton’s... Read More about Twin pregnancy reduction is not an ‘all or nothing’ problem: a response to Räsänen.

Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation (2021)
Journal Article
Stuart-Smith, R. F., Otto, F. E., Saad, A. I., Lisi, G., Minnerop, P., Cedervall, K., …Wetzer, T. (2021). Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation. Nature Climate Change, 11, 651-655. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01086-7

Lawsuits concerning the impacts of climate change make causal claims about the effect of defendants’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on plaintiffs and have proliferated around the world. Plaintiffs have sought, inter alia, compensation for climate-rel... Read More about Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation.

‘It was the easiest way to kind of announce it’: Exploring death announcements on social media through a dramaturgical lens (2021)
Journal Article
Murrell, A., Jamie, K., & Penfold-Mounce, R. (2023). ‘It was the easiest way to kind of announce it’: Exploring death announcements on social media through a dramaturgical lens. Mortality, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2021.1946496

The internet and social media have radically transformed grief, mourning and memorialisation. This article addresses how online death announcements (ODAs) (where bereaved people use social media platforms to share news of a loved one’s death) are ext... Read More about ‘It was the easiest way to kind of announce it’: Exploring death announcements on social media through a dramaturgical lens.

Climate Law and Environmental Law: Is Conflict Between Them Inevitable? (2021)
Book Chapter
Woolley, O. (2021). Climate Law and Environmental Law: Is Conflict Between Them Inevitable?. In B. Mayer, & A. Zahar (Eds.), Debating Climate Law (398-411). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108879064.029

Climate law has often been framed as a component of environmental law. Under this conception, environmental law and climate law are mutually supportive endeavours towards sustainable development. Yet, in a growing number of instances, climate action... Read More about Climate Law and Environmental Law: Is Conflict Between Them Inevitable?.

‘Abortion & "Artificial Wombs": Would ‘artificial womb’ technology legally empower non-gestating genetic progenitors to participate in decisions about how to terminate a pregnancy?' (2021)
Journal Article
Romanis, E. C. (2021). ‘Abortion & "Artificial Wombs": Would ‘artificial womb’ technology legally empower non-gestating genetic progenitors to participate in decisions about how to terminate a pregnancy?'. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsab011

‘Artificial womb’ technology is highly anticipated for the benefits it might have as an alternative to neonatal intensive care and for pregnant people. In the bioethical literature, it has been suggested that such technology will force us to rethink... Read More about ‘Abortion & "Artificial Wombs": Would ‘artificial womb’ technology legally empower non-gestating genetic progenitors to participate in decisions about how to terminate a pregnancy?'.