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Vaccination, conscientious objection and human rights (2022)
Journal Article
Leigh, I. (2023). Vaccination, conscientious objection and human rights. Legal Studies, 43(2), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2022.27

This paper discusses the extent to which conscientious objections to vaccination qualify for protection under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Drawing on an examination of the nature of conscience and the ethics of vaccine refusal, it... Read More about Vaccination, conscientious objection and human rights.

Intelligence Law and Oversight in the UK (2019)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I. (2019). Intelligence Law and Oversight in the UK. In J. Dietrich, & S. Sule (Eds.), Intelligence law and policies in Europe (535-585). C.H. Beck/ Hart

The Courts and Conscience Claims (2019)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I. (2019). The Courts and Conscience Claims. In J. Adenitire (Ed.), Religious beliefs and conscientious exemptions in a liberal state. Hart Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509920969.ch-006

Religious Adjudication and the European Convention on Human Rights (2019)
Journal Article
Leigh, I. (2019). Religious Adjudication and the European Convention on Human Rights. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 8(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rwz008

Despite extensive discussion of the desirability of recognition of religious law in Europe in recent years and widespread agreement among commentators that the precondition for any such recognition must be respect for human rights, there has little d... Read More about Religious Adjudication and the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Legal Recognition of Freedom of Conscience as Conscientious Objection: Familiar Problems and New Lessons (2018)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I. (2018). The Legal Recognition of Freedom of Conscience as Conscientious Objection: Familiar Problems and New Lessons. In R. J. Ahdar (Ed.), Research handbook on law and religion (378-396). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112475.00029

This chapter examines the recognition of freedom of conscience in international human law. Through the progressive recognition of the right of conscientious objection to military service, international tribunals have grappled with questions regarding... Read More about The Legal Recognition of Freedom of Conscience as Conscientious Objection: Familiar Problems and New Lessons.

Introduction, Chapter 1.Intelligence and Oversight at the outset of the 21st century and Chapter 5. Reappraising Intelligence Oversight in the UK (2018)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I. (2018). Introduction, Chapter 1.Intelligence and Oversight at the outset of the 21st century and Chapter 5. Reappraising Intelligence Oversight in the UK. In I. Leigh, & N. Wegge (Eds.), Intelligence Oversight in the Twenty-First Century: Accountability in a Changing World. Routledge

This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight. Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing se... Read More about Introduction, Chapter 1.Intelligence and Oversight at the outset of the 21st century and Chapter 5. Reappraising Intelligence Oversight in the UK.

Intelligence and Oversight at the outset of the 21st century. (2018)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I., & Njord, W. (2018). Intelligence and Oversight at the outset of the 21st century. In I. Leigh, & W. Njord (Eds.), Intelligence Oversight in the Twenty-First Century: Accountability in a Changing World (7-24). Routledge

Conceiving Freedom of Religion in Terms of Obedience to Conscience (2017)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I. (2017). Conceiving Freedom of Religion in Terms of Obedience to Conscience. In Supreme Court law review, 2nd Series (175-202). LexisNexis Canada

Reversibility, Proportionality, and Conflicting Rights: Fernández Martínez v. Spain (2017)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I. (2017). Reversibility, Proportionality, and Conflicting Rights: Fernández Martínez v. Spain. In S. Smet, & E. Brems (Eds.), When human rights clash at the European Court of Human Rights : conflict or harmony? (218-241). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795957.003.0012

Making International Intelligence Cooperation Accountable. (2015)
Report
Born, H., Leigh, I., & Wills, A. (2015). Making International Intelligence Cooperation Accountable. Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee

Religious Symbols, Conscience, and the Rights of Others (2014)
Journal Article
Leigh, I., & Hambler, A. (2014). Religious Symbols, Conscience, and the Rights of Others. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 3(1), 2-24. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rwt048

This article considers some of the features of the judgment in Eweida and Others v United Kingdom, which are positive from a religious claimant’s perspective—not least the welcome removal of unhelpful definitional ‘filters’ preventing individuals fro... Read More about Religious Symbols, Conscience, and the Rights of Others.

Local Government and Political Constitutionalism. (2014)
Journal Article
Leigh, I. (2014). Local Government and Political Constitutionalism. Public Law, 2014, 43-55

Assesses the scholarship of the administrative law jurist J.A.G. Griffith on local government issues in the light of the wider trends in this jurisprudence from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Considers what made Griffith's approach to local gover... Read More about Local Government and Political Constitutionalism..

Religious Freedom in the UK After the Human Rights Act 1998 (2012)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I. (2012). Religious Freedom in the UK After the Human Rights Act 1998. In P. Babie, & N. Rochow (Eds.), Freedom of religion under Bills of Rights (239-252). University of Adelaide Press

Post-Secularism and the European Court of Human Rights: or how God never really went away (2012)
Journal Article
Leigh, I., & Ahdar, R. (2012). Post-Secularism and the European Court of Human Rights: or how God never really went away. Modern Law Review, 75(6), 1064-1098. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2012.00933.x

Objective, Critical and Pluralistic? Religious Education and Human Rights in the European Public Sphere (2012)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I. (2012). Objective, Critical and Pluralistic? Religious Education and Human Rights in the European Public Sphere. In L. Zucca, & C. Ungureanu (Eds.), Law, state and religion in the New Europe : debates and dilemmas (192-214). Cambridge University Press

The Changing Nature of Local and Regional Democracy (2011)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I. (2011). The Changing Nature of Local and Regional Democracy. In J. Jowell, & D. Oliver (Eds.), The changing constitution (237-259). (7th ed). Oxford University Press

Damned if they do, Damned if they don’t: the European Court of Human Rights and the Protection of Religion from Attack (2011)
Journal Article
Leigh, I. (2011). Damned if they do, Damned if they don’t: the European Court of Human Rights and the Protection of Religion from Attack. Res Publica, 17(1), 55-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-011-9143-5

International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability (2011)
Book
Born, H., Leigh, I., & Wills, A. (Eds.). (2011). International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability. Routledge

The Role of Judges (2010)
Book Chapter
Leigh, I. (2010). The Role of Judges. In S. Farson, & M. Phythian (Eds.), Commissions of inquiry and national security (98-112). Praeger

New Trends in Religious Liberty and the European Court of Human Rights (2010)
Journal Article
Leigh, I. (2010). New Trends in Religious Liberty and the European Court of Human Rights. Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 12(3), 266-279. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x10000396

This article analyses recent trends in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights concerned with the right to freedom of thought, belief and religion (Article 9, European Convention on Human Rights) and the right of parents to respect by... Read More about New Trends in Religious Liberty and the European Court of Human Rights.