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Policy Paper: The Place of Northern Ireland within UK Human Rights Reform (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Murray, C. R., O'Donoghue, A., & Warwick, B. T. (2015). Policy Paper: The Place of Northern Ireland within UK Human Rights Reform

Considerable speculation has surrounded the impact of the Good Friday Agreement’s provisions on human rights upon the Conservative Government’s proposals for repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998. This Policy Paper seeks to demystify this aspect of the... Read More about Policy Paper: The Place of Northern Ireland within UK Human Rights Reform.

Policy Paper: The Common Travel Area: Prospects After Brexit (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
O'Donoghue, A., Murray, C., Warwick, B., & de Mars, S. (2017). Policy Paper: The Common Travel Area: Prospects After Brexit

Maintaining the Common Travel Area that has existed between the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man has been set down by the UK Prime Minister as one of her government’s 12 key negotiating objectives. In this note, some of the funct... Read More about Policy Paper: The Common Travel Area: Prospects After Brexit.

Policy Paper: Brexit, Ireland and Northern Ireland (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
de Mars, S., Murray, C., O'Donoghue, A., & Warwick, B. T. (2016). Policy Paper: Brexit, Ireland and Northern Ireland

http://crossborder.ie/site2015/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Policy-Paper_Brexit-Ireland-and-Northern-Ireland-June-2016-1.pdf

The United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act as a Catalyst of Constitutional Migration: Patterns and Limitations of Rights Importation by Design (2023)
Journal Article
Masterman, R. (2023). The United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act as a Catalyst of Constitutional Migration: Patterns and Limitations of Rights Importation by Design. European Constitutional Law Review, 19(1), 88-110. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1574019623000019

The United Kingdom Human Rights Act 1998 – constitutional migration – impacts of legislative design and process on the internalisation of international standards – a taxonomy of migratory patterns under the Human Rights Act – constitutional migration... Read More about The United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act as a Catalyst of Constitutional Migration: Patterns and Limitations of Rights Importation by Design.

Vaccination, conscientious objection and human rights (2022)
Journal Article
Leigh, I. (2023). Vaccination, conscientious objection and human rights. Legal Studies, 43(2), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2022.27

This paper discusses the extent to which conscientious objections to vaccination qualify for protection under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Drawing on an examination of the nature of conscience and the ethics of vaccine refusal, it... Read More about Vaccination, conscientious objection and human rights.

Protecting private information in the digital era: making the most effective use of the availability of the actions under the GDPR/DPA and the tort of misuse of private information (2022)
Journal Article
Brimblecombe, F., & Fenwick, H. (2022). Protecting private information in the digital era: making the most effective use of the availability of the actions under the GDPR/DPA and the tort of misuse of private information. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 73(1), 26-73. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v73i1.999

Globally, enhanced data protection schemes are being introduced in the face of threats to privacy in the digital era. In England and Wales protection from one such threat – from unconsented-to disclosures of private information online - is covered by... Read More about Protecting private information in the digital era: making the most effective use of the availability of the actions under the GDPR/DPA and the tort of misuse of private information.

Brexit and the United Kingdom’s Devolutionary Constitution (2022)
Journal Article
Masterman, R. (2022). Brexit and the United Kingdom’s Devolutionary Constitution. Global Policy, 13(52), 58-68. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13064

This piece considers the implications of the Brexit process for the United Kingdom’s territorial constitution. It advances two narratives of the devolutionary settlement; one which emphasises the continuing post-devolution influence – and dominance –... Read More about Brexit and the United Kingdom’s Devolutionary Constitution.

Joining the “Galactic Club”: What Price Admission? – A hypothetical case study of the impact of human rights on a future accession of humanity to interstellar civilisation networks   (2021)
Journal Article
Bohlander, M. (2021). Joining the “Galactic Club”: What Price Admission? – A hypothetical case study of the impact of human rights on a future accession of humanity to interstellar civilisation networks  . Futures, 132, Article 102801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102801