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Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter? (2023)
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It is often supposed that valuable organisms are more valuable if they are rare. Likewise if they belong to endangered species. I consider what kinds of value rarity and endangerment can add in such cases. I argue that individual organisms of a valua... Read More about Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter?.

The Ethical and Legal Status of ‘Fetonates’ Or ‘Gestatelings’ (2023)
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The (mis)use of fetal viability as the determinant of non-criminal abortion in the Netherlands and England and Wales (2023)
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Time plays a fundamental role in abortion regulation. In this article, we compare the regulatory frameworks in England and Wales and the Netherlands as examples of the centrality accorded to viability in the determination of the parameters of non-cri... Read More about The (mis)use of fetal viability as the determinant of non-criminal abortion in the Netherlands and England and Wales.

Equality-enhancing potential of novel forms of assisted gestation: Perspectives of reproductive rights advocates (2023)
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Novel forms of assisted gestation—uterus transplantation and artificial placentas—are highly anticipated in the ethico-legal literature for their capacity to enhance reproductive autonomy. There are also, however, significant challenges anticipated i... Read More about Equality-enhancing potential of novel forms of assisted gestation: Perspectives of reproductive rights advocates.

Translational or translationable? A call for ethno-immersion in (empirical) bioethics research (2023)
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The shift towards "empirical bioethics" was largely triggered by a recognition that stakeholders' views and experiences are vital in ethical analysis where one hopes to produce practicable recommendations. Such perspectives can provide a rich resourc... Read More about Translational or translationable? A call for ethno-immersion in (empirical) bioethics research.

Early telemedical abortion, safeguarding, and under 18s: a qualitative study with care providers in England and Wales (2023)
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Background: Telemedical early medical abortion (TEMA) was introduced in England and Wales as a temporary measure in 2020 and was made permanent in 2022. While there are considerable data showing the safety, efficacy, and acceptability of TEMA for pat... Read More about Early telemedical abortion, safeguarding, and under 18s: a qualitative study with care providers in England and Wales.

Estimating the impact of new high seas activities on the environment: the effects of ocean-surface macroplastic removal on sea surface ecosystems (2023)
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The open ocean beyond national jurisdiction covers nearly half of Earth’s surface and is largely unexplored. It is also an emerging frontier for new types of human activity. Understanding how new activities interact with high seas ecosystems is criti... Read More about Estimating the impact of new high seas activities on the environment: the effects of ocean-surface macroplastic removal on sea surface ecosystems.

Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law (2023)
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This article argues that the protection of ‘community interests’ in international law includes intertemporal obligations of States, in cases where it is scientifically foreseeable that (fully) maintaining the ‘status quo’ of a protected community int... Read More about Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law.

The end of (reproductive) liberty as we know it: A note on Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health 597 USC __ (2022) (2023)
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In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a 6–3 majority of the US Supreme Court overturned 50 years of established precedent, ruling that the Constitution confers no right to abortion. Since first recognition that the constitutional right to privacy encom... Read More about The end of (reproductive) liberty as we know it: A note on Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health 597 USC __ (2022).

Abortion Access and the Benefits and Limitations of Abortion-Permissive Legal Frameworks: Lessons from the United Kingdom (2023)
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This paper argues that abortion access is an important subject for bioethics scholarship and reflects on the relationship between legal frameworks and access to care. The author uses the example of the United Kingdom to examine the benefits and limit... Read More about Abortion Access and the Benefits and Limitations of Abortion-Permissive Legal Frameworks: Lessons from the United Kingdom.

Law, justice and the role of courts in changing the social superstructure narrative in climate litigation: A Rejoinder to Benoit Mayer (2023)
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Reflections on the Governance Function of Compulsory Dispute Settlement in the Legal Order for the Ocean (2023)
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This article takes the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea as an opportunity to reflect on the role that the compulsory dispute settlement system under Part XV of the Convention plays in maintaining the legal o... Read More about Reflections on the Governance Function of Compulsory Dispute Settlement in the Legal Order for the Ocean.

Unpacking the Black Box of China's State Capitalism (2023)
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Much ink has been splashed on the ideological, conceptual, and practical challenges that China’s state capitalism has posed to global trade rules. There is a growing perception that the current international trade rules are neither conceptually coher... Read More about Unpacking the Black Box of China's State Capitalism.

Love and Human Rights (2023)
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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.

Law and governance in the Anthropocene (2022)
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This special issue on ‘Law and Governance in the Anthropocene’ brings together scholars from the disciplines of law and international relations to examine the ramifications of the Anthropocene for global governance and international law. The predomin... Read More about Law and governance in the Anthropocene.

Telemedical and Self-Managed Abortion: A Human Rights Imperative? (2022)
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Early into the COVID-19 pandemic, abortion rights advocates highlighted the importance of maintaining access to abortion through telemedicine. It was argued that telemedical and self-managed abortion was, in the pandemic context, a human rights imper... Read More about Telemedical and Self-Managed Abortion: A Human Rights Imperative?.

Skeleton Keys to Hospital Doors: Adolescent Adults who Refuse Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment (2023)
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We consider how the sufficiency of young adults’ autonomy is judged in light of biological, social and psychological evidence that adolescence can continue into the mid 20s. Until then, adolescent adults are prone to developmental immaturity which ca... Read More about Skeleton Keys to Hospital Doors: Adolescent Adults who Refuse Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment.

Ethical, Translational, and Legal Issues Surrounding the Novel Adoption of Ectogestative Technologies (2022)
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Increasing numbers of research teams are investigating the feasibility of developing artificial amnion and placenta technology (AAPT), commonly referred to as “artificial womb technology”. This technology, aimed at supporting ex vivo gestation, has n... Read More about Ethical, Translational, and Legal Issues Surrounding the Novel Adoption of Ectogestative Technologies.

Combating Crime in the Digital Age: a Critical Review of EU Information Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the Post-Interoperability Era (2020)
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Could AI Agents Be Held Criminally Liable? Artificial Intelligence and the Challenges for Criminal Law (2018)
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