Outputs (5)

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.

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.

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

Flannel and the Cloth (2014)
Journal Article
Douglas, B., & Wilkinson, D. (2014). Flannel and the Cloth