Dr Benedict Douglas' Outputs (34)

Love and Human Rights (2023)
Journal Article
Douglas, B. (2023). Love and Human Rights. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 43(2), 273–297. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqac034

This article explains and critiques the protection of love within judgments concerning relationships under the Human Rights Act 1998. Using theory of emotion to conduct doctrinal analysis of the protection of love within international human rights la... Read More about Love and Human Rights.

A Human Constitution (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2022, December). A Human Constitution. Paper presented at Law Research Seminar, Hull, England

Human Foundations of Constitutional Architecture (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2022, December). Human Foundations of Constitutional Architecture. Paper presented at The Constitutional Architecture of these Islands, International Society of Public Law Great Britain and Ireland Chapter, Online

Love as a Human Rights in Medical Treatment (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2020, December). Love as a Human Rights in Medical Treatment. Paper presented at Feminist Ethics of Care and the Doctor-Woman medical encounter: What Love has to do with it?, Rome

What's love got to do with it? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2019, December). What's love got to do with it?. Paper presented at Irish Association of Law Teachers, Limerick, Ireland

What's love got to do with it? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2019, December). What's love got to do with it?. Paper presented at Society of Legal Scholars, University of Central Lancashire, England

"He loved Big Brother" But What of the State's Love for the Citizen? (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2018, December). "He loved Big Brother" But What of the State's Love for the Citizen?. Paper presented at Constitutionalism, Scale and Tyranny, Durham, England

“I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.” The importance of AI being able to say no. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2018, December). “I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.” The importance of AI being able to say no. Paper presented at Regulating Intelligence: The Challenge of Consciousness in New Forms of Life, Newcastle, England

Too Attentive to our Duty: The Fundamental Conflict Underlying Human Rights Protection in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Douglas, B. (2018). Too Attentive to our Duty: The Fundamental Conflict Underlying Human Rights Protection in the UK. Legal Studies, 38(3), 360-378. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2017.25

Are we defined by the choices we make or the duties we owe? This paper argues that there is a conflict between the fundamental conception of the individual as possessing the capacity to choose how to live, which has been held to be the foundation of... Read More about Too Attentive to our Duty: The Fundamental Conflict Underlying Human Rights Protection in the UK.

The mtDNA of Human Rights (2017)
Journal Article
Douglas, B. (2018). The mtDNA of Human Rights. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 43(1), 86-94. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243917737853

Mitochondrial replacement therapy is a process whereby a child is created by combining the nuclear DNA of two people wishing to have a child with mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) donated by a third person. It poses a new question as to the extent of a perso... Read More about The mtDNA of Human Rights.

Modifying the Trolley Problem to Develop Understanding of Ethics (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B., & Kind, V. (2016, December). Modifying the Trolley Problem to Develop Understanding of Ethics. Paper presented at Society of Legal Scholars, Oxford, England

The Phenomenology of Dignity - Why Dignity Discourse Alone Cannot Fix the UK's Human Rights Hostility (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2016, December). The Phenomenology of Dignity - Why Dignity Discourse Alone Cannot Fix the UK's Human Rights Hostility. Paper presented at The Future of Human Dignity, Utrecht, Holland

Safe Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion and the Law (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2016, December). Safe Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion and the Law. Paper presented at St Chad’s College Perspectives Programme, Durham, England

The Implications of the Nature of Being for Human Rights Protection (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2016, December). The Implications of the Nature of Being for Human Rights Protection. Paper presented at Intersubjectivity and Values, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Human Rights and Philosophical Underpinning of the Autonomy/Paternalism Debate (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2015, December). Human Rights and Philosophical Underpinning of the Autonomy/Paternalism Debate. Paper presented at Young People with Mental Disorder - Is the Law Fit for Purpose?

Undignified Rights: The Importance of a basis in Dignity for the Possession of Human Rights in the United Kingdom (2015)
Journal Article
Douglas, B. (2015). Undignified Rights: The Importance of a basis in Dignity for the Possession of Human Rights in the United Kingdom. Public Law, 2015(2), 241-257

Chimp of Trial (Witness for the Defence) (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Cross, C., Dean, L., Douglas, B., & Price, B. (2015). Chimp of Trial (Witness for the Defence). [[Media unknown]]. Performed at Durham. 18 March 2015. (Unpublished)

Let’s Get Metaphysical: Interpreting Article 8 using Sartre and Gewirth (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2014, December). Let’s Get Metaphysical: Interpreting Article 8 using Sartre and Gewirth. Paper presented at Society of Legal Scholars, Nottingham, England

Why We Have & Need Human Rights (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2014, December). Why We Have & Need Human Rights. Paper presented at School Discussion, Ackworth, England

Commentary on: Dr. Ilke Turkmendag, “It is just a battery: m(DNA) replacement and the right to know.” (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, B. (2014, December). Commentary on: Dr. Ilke Turkmendag, “It is just a battery: m(DNA) replacement and the right to know.”. Paper presented at New Technologies, Developments in the Biosciences and the New Frontiers of Human Rights, Durham, England