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R v Foster: Exemplifying the urgency of the decriminalisation of abortion (2023)
Journal Article
Romanis, E. C. (2023). R v Foster: Exemplifying the urgency of the decriminalisation of abortion. Medical Law Review, 31(4), 606–614. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwad026

On 12th June 2023, Ms Foster was sentenced in the Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court to 28 months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to unlawful procurement of miscarriage.1 This sentence was shortly after reduced to 14 months and suspended by the Court of... Read More about R v Foster: Exemplifying the urgency of the decriminalisation of abortion.

Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights (2023)
Book
Bohlander, M. (2023). Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights. Leiden;Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004677708

It is statistically unlikely that humans are the only intelligent species in the universe. Nothing about the others will be known until contact is made beyond a radio signal from space that merely tells us they existed when it was sent. That contact... Read More about Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights.

Explaining China’s approach to investor-state dispute settlement reform: a contextual perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Du, M. (2023). Explaining China’s approach to investor-state dispute settlement reform: a contextual perspective. European Law Journal: Review of European Law in Context, 28(4-6), 281-303. https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12468

China's approach to ISDS reform is widely perceived as undecided and ambiguous. This paper provides the first detailed analysis of China's submission to the UNITRAL Working Group III and situates China's approach in the context of global dialogue of... Read More about Explaining China’s approach to investor-state dispute settlement reform: a contextual perspective.

Gender, conflict and the environment: Surfacing connections in international humanitarian law (2023)
Journal Article
O'Rourke, C., & Martin, A. (2023). Gender, conflict and the environment: Surfacing connections in international humanitarian law. International Review of the Red Cross, 105(924), 1600-1622. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1816383123000279

Both gender and the environment have traditionally been positioned at the periphery of international humanitarian law (IHL). In recent decades, there has been important progress in moving both concerns closer to its centre; to date, however, an under... Read More about Gender, conflict and the environment: Surfacing connections in international humanitarian law.

The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence (2023)
Book
Banwel, S., Black, L., Cecil, D. K., Djamba, Y. K., Kimuna, S. R., Milne, E., …Tenkorang, E. Y. (Eds.). (2023). The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence. Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781803822556

Grounded in feminist scholarship, this book upends normative accounts of femme fatale violence to focus beyond the misogyny and the sensationalism and unearth the motivation behind women’s roles in homicide, terrorism, combat, and even nationalist mo... Read More about The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence.

Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter
Banwell, S., Black, L., Cecil, D. K., Djamba, Y. K., Kimuna, S. R., Milne, E., …Tenkorang, E. Y. (2023). Introduction. In S. Banwel, L. Black, D. K. Cecil, Y. K. Djamba, S. R. Kimuna, E. Milne, …E. Y. Tenkorang (Eds.), . Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-255-620231001

The Northern Ireland Protocol in the Supreme Court (2023)
Journal Article
Kilford, N. (2023). The Northern Ireland Protocol in the Supreme Court. Cambridge Law Journal, 82(2), 200-203. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197323000247

THE Supreme Court’s judgment in Re an application by James Hugh Allister for Judicial Review [2023] UKSC 3, [2023] 2 W.L.R. 457 provides evidence, if any were needed, that the UK’s Constitution is still grappling with the implications of Brexit; in t... Read More about The Northern Ireland Protocol in the Supreme Court.

Forum-Shifting and Human Rights: Prospects for Queering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda (2023)
Journal Article
Hagen, J., & O'Rourke, C. F. (2023). Forum-Shifting and Human Rights: Prospects for Queering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Human Rights Quarterly, 45(3), 406-430. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2023.a903334

The adoption of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda by the UN Security Council constituted a forum-shift by women’s rights advocates away from the human rights system. As queer critique of the WPS agenda gathers pace, this article reflects on... Read More about Forum-Shifting and Human Rights: Prospects for Queering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.

‘The law is very, very outdated and not keeping up with the technology’: novel forms of assisted gestation, legal challenges, and perspectives of reproductive rights advocates in England and Wales (2023)
Journal Article
Romanis, C. (2023). ‘The law is very, very outdated and not keeping up with the technology’: novel forms of assisted gestation, legal challenges, and perspectives of reproductive rights advocates in England and Wales. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 10(2), Article lsad027. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsad027

A growing body of literature examines the ethico-legal challenges resulting from novel forms of assisted gestation like uterus transplantation and artificial placentas (also known as ‘artificial wombs’). However, there has not yet been consideration... Read More about ‘The law is very, very outdated and not keeping up with the technology’: novel forms of assisted gestation, legal challenges, and perspectives of reproductive rights advocates in England and Wales.