Outputs (264)

Taking the Current When it Serves: Prospects and Challenges for an ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Oceans and Climate Change (2022)
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The 2021 Agreement for the Establishment of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law has brought the prospect of an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)... Read More about Taking the Current When it Serves: Prospects and Challenges for an ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Oceans and Climate Change.

The legal status of registered partnerships in Greece and Cyprus (2016)
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Case Note: Towards Cross-Border Recognition of Same-Sex Parenthood (2022)
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The Netherlands: The 2018 Agreement between The Ocean Cleanup and the Netherlands (2019)
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Against Relational Value (2022)
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In some environmental circles, talk of relational values is very much in fashion. It is said that we must think in terms of such values if we are to understand how such things as canyons, mangroves, and coral reefs matter to people. But that is bad a... Read More about Against Relational Value.

Law of the Sea: UNCLOS as a Living Treaty, edited by Jill Barrett and Richard Barnes, The British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2016, 489 pp, £40 pb, ISBN 9781905221523 (2017)
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On conscientious objection to abortion: Questioning mandatory referral as compromise in the international human rights framework (2022)
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This article explores the approach of international human rights bodies to conscientious objection to abortion, by requiring states to implement mandatory referral mechanisms where conscientious objection is permitted. This, however, represents an in... Read More about On conscientious objection to abortion: Questioning mandatory referral as compromise in the international human rights framework.

Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy (2022)
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In cases where the best interests of the child are disputed or finely balanced, Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) can provide a valuable source of advice to clinicians and Trusts on the pertinent ethical dimensions. Recent judicial cases have critici... Read More about Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy.

Should states restrict recipient choice amongst relevant and available COVID-19 vaccines? (2022)
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Several COVID-19 vaccinations have been authorised worldwide. Whilst some vaccines are contraindicated for certain age groups or health conditions, there are often multiple clinically suitable authorised vaccine brands available. Few states have allo... Read More about Should states restrict recipient choice amongst relevant and available COVID-19 vaccines?.

On Gestation and Motherhood (2022)
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In English law, legal motherhood is allocated to the person who gestated. However, we argue that gestation—legally denoted as the “natural” source of parenting obligations—is often constructed as mothering, rather than the precursor to it. This means... Read More about On Gestation and Motherhood.

Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The Role of the social Superstructure Narrative (2022)
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Climate litigation has become a strategic tool to push for climate justice, including compensation for losses caused by climate change. Many cases rely on the establishment of a causal relationship between the defendants’ emission of greenhouse gases... Read More about Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The Role of the social Superstructure Narrative.

Huawei Strikes Back: Challenging National Security Decisions before Investment Arbitral Tribunals (2023)
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As a direct reaction to rising investment from China amid the transformation of the geopolitical context in which China has emerged as a great power, Western countries, including the United States, have introduced new or reinforced existing national... Read More about Huawei Strikes Back: Challenging National Security Decisions before Investment Arbitral Tribunals.

Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960 (2022)
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This paper focuses on intersections of medical ethics and religious commitments by charting conceptions of the Catholic doctor in French and English-language normative texts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Behavioural norms for... Read More about Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960.

From ‘Non-market Economy’ to ‘Significant Market Distortions’: rethinking the EU anti-dumping regulation and China’s state interventionism (2022)
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This article questions the consistency of the EU antidumping regulation with the WTO Antidumping Agreement. It argues that with the expiry of paragraph 15 (a) (ii) on 11 December 2016, China’s WTO Accession Protocol may no longer provide the legal ba... Read More about From ‘Non-market Economy’ to ‘Significant Market Distortions’: rethinking the EU anti-dumping regulation and China’s state interventionism.

China's State-owned Enterprises and International Investment Law (2022)
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Not only do Chinese SOEs play a key role in China’s domestic economy, but they are also a major force in implementing the Government of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. The expansion of Chinese SOEs’ global footprint has caused widespread... Read More about China's State-owned Enterprises and International Investment Law.

When gist is mist: mismatches in small-scale climatechange litigation (2015)
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The Unsexy Future of Climate Change Litigation (2018)
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Directed and Conditional Uterus Donation (2022)
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Uterus transplantation (UTx) is highly anticipated for the benefits that it might bring to individuals wanting to carry a pregnancy in order to reproduce who do not have a functioning uterus. The surgery—now having been performed successfully in seve... Read More about Directed and Conditional Uterus Donation.

The Emergence of Climate Litigation in Africa (2021)
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Nasogastric tube feeding under physical restraint on paediatric wards: ethical, legal and practical considerations regarding this lifesaving intervention (2022)
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Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric condition. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of patients who have required medical stabilisation on paediatric wards has increased significantly. Likewise, the number of patien... Read More about Nasogastric tube feeding under physical restraint on paediatric wards: ethical, legal and practical considerations regarding this lifesaving intervention.