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Artificial Womb Technology, Pregnancy and EU Employment Rights (2022)
Journal Article

This article considers challenges for the European Union (EU) maternity and pregnancy rights framework when faced with advances in reproductive technology. Specifically, we consider how the introduction of the ‘artificial womb’ technology, an alterna... Read More about Artificial Womb Technology, Pregnancy and EU Employment Rights.

Assisted Gestative Technologies (2022)
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A large body of literature considers the ethico-legal and regulatory issues surrounding assisted conception. Surrogacy, however, within this body of literature is an odd-fit. It involves a unique demand of another person – a form of reproductive labo... Read More about Assisted Gestative Technologies.

Vaccine damage schemes in the US and UK reappraised: making them fit for purpose in light of COVID-19 (2022)
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Vaccines have continued to play a crucial global role in preventing infectious diseases in the twenty-first century. The Covid-19 pandemic has underlined their importance, with vaccines seen as the best way to protect the public from coronavirus. A l... Read More about Vaccine damage schemes in the US and UK reappraised: making them fit for purpose in light of COVID-19.

A Defence of COVID-19 Vaccine Patents (2022)
Journal Article

Appropriately framing maternal request caesarean section (2022)
Journal Article

In their paper, ‘How to reach trustworthy decisions for caesarean sections on maternal request: a call for beneficial power’, Eide and Bærøe present maternal request caesarean sections (MRCS) as a site of conflict in obstetrics because birthing peopl... Read More about Appropriately framing maternal request caesarean section.

Reading Clay: The Temporal and Transformative Potential of Clay in Contemporary Scientific Practice (2022)
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Clay has a long history in the global south and has been extensively studied by ‘Western’ social scientists particularly anthropologists and archeologists in relation to histories of earlier civilisations and cultural practices. Clay in relation to c... Read More about Reading Clay: The Temporal and Transformative Potential of Clay in Contemporary Scientific Practice.

Vaccine Liability in the Light of Covid-19: A defence of risk-benefit (2022)
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Vaccines have played an essential role in advancing medical treatment in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. However, no medical intervention is risk free, and vaccines are no exception to that rule. This article considers how lawyers have conf... Read More about Vaccine Liability in the Light of Covid-19: A defence of risk-benefit.

The Status of Chinese State-owned Enterprises in International Investment Arbitration: Much Ado about Nothing? (2021)
Journal Article

Chinese State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play a key role not only in China’ domestic market, but also in implementing the Government of China (GOC)’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. Accordingly, Chinese SOEs have increasingly fallen back on investo... Read More about The Status of Chinese State-owned Enterprises in International Investment Arbitration: Much Ado about Nothing?.

From Discipline to Quality of Care: How Neurologists Can Learn from Decisions of Disciplinary Tribunals (2022)
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Background: One of the primary aims of medical disciplinary law is to improve the quality of care. However, the decisions of disciplinary tribunals are not sufficiently analysed to identify the learning elements. Aim: This study aimed to investigate... Read More about From Discipline to Quality of Care: How Neurologists Can Learn from Decisions of Disciplinary Tribunals.

Legal normativity in Kenneth Einar Himma's Coercion and the Nature of Law (2021)
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The Advance Interference-Like Effect of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court (2021)
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Some climate lawsuits qualify as landmark cases, because they either mark an unexpected turning point in environmental jurisprudence, or they introduce a new conceptual analysis of the law vis-à-vis the global challenge of climate change. The decisio... Read More about The Advance Interference-Like Effect of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court.

European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights (2022)
Journal Article

The “European Consensus” is a key doctrine in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. It assists the Court in establishing an international human rights standards vis-à-vis a national margin of appreciation. This article argues that... Read More about European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Three Decades of the Nakajima Doctrine in EU Law: Where Are We Now? (2021)
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Under the Nakajima doctrine, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) can review the legality of a European Union (EU) measure in the light of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements if the EU legislature intended to implement a partic... Read More about Three Decades of the Nakajima Doctrine in EU Law: Where Are We Now?.

The Medicalisation of Childbirth and Access to Homebirth in the UK: COVID-19 and Beyond (2021)
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In this article, we explore how the law has perpetuated the medicalisation of childbirth, and outline why this may limit the ability of birthing persons to access and opt for homebirth. We argue that this is inherently problematic because it restrict... Read More about The Medicalisation of Childbirth and Access to Homebirth in the UK: COVID-19 and Beyond.

Clinical ethics support services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a cross-sectional survey (2021)
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for clinical ethics support provision to ensure as far as possible fair decision-making and to address healthcare workers’ moral distress. Purpose: To describe the availability, characteristics a... Read More about Clinical ethics support services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a cross-sectional survey.

The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the United Kingdom: The Case for Reform (2021)
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Early medical abortion (EMA) involves the administration of two medications—mifepristone and misoprostol—24–48 hours apart. These routinely used medications are recognised as safe and effective by the World Health Organization which recommends this c... Read More about The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the United Kingdom: The Case for Reform.

Ethical advice in paediatric care (2021)
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The need for local ethics advice during the COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) and services. In this review, we focus on paediatric CECs which raise both generic questions and specific issues. In doing this, we... Read More about Ethical advice in paediatric care.

Dialogic Teaching Approach vis-à-vis Middle School Physics Teacher’s Content Knowledge (2021)
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This study aimed to explore Ethiopian middle school physics teachers’ content knowledge (CK) and their implementation of Dialogic teaching (DT). A qualitative method, case study design, and purposive and convenient sampling employed in the study. Dat... Read More about Dialogic Teaching Approach vis-à-vis Middle School Physics Teacher’s Content Knowledge.

The case for telemedical early medical abortion in England: dispelling adult safeguarding concerns (2021)
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Access to abortion care has been hugely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has prompted several governments to permit the use of telemedicine for fully remote care pathways, thereby ensuring pregnant people are still able to access services. One... Read More about The case for telemedical early medical abortion in England: dispelling adult safeguarding concerns.

Disadvantage, Disagreement, and Disability: Re-evaluating the Continuity Test (2021)
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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.