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⚠️Manchester Law School's Research Bulletin for Spring/Summer 2025 is finally out! Click this link to see all of the great work done by colleagues: drive.google.com/file/d/1PeOD...
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In the context of a worsening climate threat, some believe solar radiation management, a form of geoengineering, offers a path worth exploring to reduce heating.
Check out Dr Ash Murphy's latest co-authored post on this issue below 👇
Check out Dr Ash Murphy's latest co-authored post on this issue below 👇
🌍A new PSI publication authored by Dr Ash Murphy from @mcrmetropolis.bsky.social @mmulawresearch.bsky.social and Mario Prost on pulling geoengineering out of its democratic vacuum.
📖 Read the article:
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#Geoengineering #ClimateGovernance #SRM #CDR #UNEP
📖 Read the article:
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#Geoengineering #ClimateGovernance #SRM #CDR #UNEP
Hacking the planet: pulling geoengineering out of its democratic vacuum | Planetary Security Initiative
As global temperatures continue to rise, geoengineering – the deliberate manipulation of Earth’s climate system – is moving from the fringes of policy debate to the mainstream.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
In the context of a worsening climate threat, some believe solar radiation management, a form of geoengineering, offers a path worth exploring to reduce heating.
Check out Dr Ash Murphy's latest co-authored post on this issue below 👇
Check out Dr Ash Murphy's latest co-authored post on this issue below 👇
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I joined some fab colleagues on a podcast to chat about the Queer Judgments Project. We discussed the kinship that comes from bringing together scholars/activists from around the world to explore the possibilities, tensions, and hopes of re-creating judgments from queer perspectives.
Listen to us!👇🏾
Listen to us!👇🏾
The Queer Judgments Project - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies
In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Nuno Ferreira and Senthorun Raj about the Queer Judgments Project.
frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I joined some fab colleagues on a podcast to chat about the Queer Judgments Project. We discussed the kinship that comes from bringing together scholars/activists from around the world to explore the possibilities, tensions, and hopes of re-creating judgments from queer perspectives.
Listen to us!👇🏾
Listen to us!👇🏾
Huge congratulations to @sammorgn97.bsky.social who successfully passed her PhD viva last week! 🎉👏
The title of Sam's thesis is ‘The Production of Law Through Space and Affect: Examining LGBTQI+ Rights Strategic Litigation and Activist Practice in the Caribbean’
The title of Sam's thesis is ‘The Production of Law Through Space and Affect: Examining LGBTQI+ Rights Strategic Litigation and Activist Practice in the Caribbean’
October 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Huge congratulations to @sammorgn97.bsky.social who successfully passed her PhD viva last week! 🎉👏
The title of Sam's thesis is ‘The Production of Law Through Space and Affect: Examining LGBTQI+ Rights Strategic Litigation and Activist Practice in the Caribbean’
The title of Sam's thesis is ‘The Production of Law Through Space and Affect: Examining LGBTQI+ Rights Strategic Litigation and Activist Practice in the Caribbean’
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I’m SO PROUD of my PhD student @sammorgn97.bsky.social who successfully defended her thesis yesterday. Sam wrote a brilliant thesis examining how we can use emotion and space to navigate the legal politics of LGBTQ+ rights advocacy in the Caribbean.
Now to celebrate! 🥂
@mmulawresearch.bsky.social
Now to celebrate! 🥂
@mmulawresearch.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I’m SO PROUD of my PhD student @sammorgn97.bsky.social who successfully defended her thesis yesterday. Sam wrote a brilliant thesis examining how we can use emotion and space to navigate the legal politics of LGBTQ+ rights advocacy in the Caribbean.
Now to celebrate! 🥂
@mmulawresearch.bsky.social
Now to celebrate! 🥂
@mmulawresearch.bsky.social
New publication!🚨
@jamieatkinson.bsky.social has contributed to writing a chapter on the UK which appears in the 21st International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research 2025.
Have a read over the chapter here from page 557👇
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@jamieatkinson.bsky.social has contributed to writing a chapter on the UK which appears in the 21st International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research 2025.
Have a read over the chapter here from page 557👇
www.leavenetwork.org/fileadmin/us...
www.leavenetwork.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New publication!🚨
@jamieatkinson.bsky.social has contributed to writing a chapter on the UK which appears in the 21st International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research 2025.
Have a read over the chapter here from page 557👇
www.leavenetwork.org/fileadmin/us...
@jamieatkinson.bsky.social has contributed to writing a chapter on the UK which appears in the 21st International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research 2025.
Have a read over the chapter here from page 557👇
www.leavenetwork.org/fileadmin/us...
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Thrilled to share I’ll be launching my new book in London next month. I’ll be joined by fab feminist and queer legal scholars who’ll share their thoughts on it. The launch takes place 6.30pm Tuesday 11th November in King’s College London. There will be drinks and chats. Register and come along!
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The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law | King's College London
This Queer@King’s event celebrates Dr Senthorun Raj’s new monograph, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), and invites responses from esteemed femi...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Thrilled to share I’ll be launching my new book in London next month. I’ll be joined by fab feminist and queer legal scholars who’ll share their thoughts on it. The launch takes place 6.30pm Tuesday 11th November in King’s College London. There will be drinks and chats. Register and come along!
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Today, MLS welcomed Dr Tsubasa Shinohara from the University of Tsukuba to discuss his research on “Esports Law and Governance: Japanese and Global Perspectives”.
Many thanks to Dr Seamus Byrne for organising!
Many thanks to Dr Seamus Byrne for organising!
October 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Today, MLS welcomed Dr Tsubasa Shinohara from the University of Tsukuba to discuss his research on “Esports Law and Governance: Japanese and Global Perspectives”.
Many thanks to Dr Seamus Byrne for organising!
Many thanks to Dr Seamus Byrne for organising!
Dr Tamsin Paige giving a fascinating talk at MLS on 'Fines Do Not Make for Fine Law'.
October 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Dr Tamsin Paige giving a fascinating talk at MLS on 'Fines Do Not Make for Fine Law'.
Manchester Law School is officially signing off for the summer. A huge well done to all our students, staff, and community—you have earned a well-deserved break! 🌞
We will be back soon with more updates. Until then, enjoy the sunshine and take care! ☀️📚
We will be back soon with more updates. Until then, enjoy the sunshine and take care! ☀️📚
July 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Manchester Law School is officially signing off for the summer. A huge well done to all our students, staff, and community—you have earned a well-deserved break! 🌞
We will be back soon with more updates. Until then, enjoy the sunshine and take care! ☀️📚
We will be back soon with more updates. Until then, enjoy the sunshine and take care! ☀️📚
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Check out the latest issue of Manchester Law Journal, where one of our co-editors (@senthorun.bsky.social) speaks about the importance of queer judgments work in times of rising fascism.
Read the interview here: manchesterlawjournal.mmu.ac.uk/issue-2-2025/
HT @mmulawresearch.bsky.social
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Read the interview here: manchesterlawjournal.mmu.ac.uk/issue-2-2025/
HT @mmulawresearch.bsky.social
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Last year, one of my brilliant students interviewed me about doing queer legal research and how we might respond to escalating anti-LGBT authoritarianisms. It’s great to see it now out in print in the Manchester Law Journal! You can read the issue here: manchesterlawjournal.mmu.ac.uk/issue-2-2025/
July 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Check out the latest issue of Manchester Law Journal, where one of our co-editors (@senthorun.bsky.social) speaks about the importance of queer judgments work in times of rising fascism.
Read the interview here: manchesterlawjournal.mmu.ac.uk/issue-2-2025/
HT @mmulawresearch.bsky.social
🌈🎓
Read the interview here: manchesterlawjournal.mmu.ac.uk/issue-2-2025/
HT @mmulawresearch.bsky.social
🌈🎓
⚠️Manchester Law School's Research Bulletin for Spring/Summer 2025 is finally out! Click this link to see all of the great work done by colleagues: drive.google.com/file/d/1PeOD...
#lawschool #researchlaw #bulletin #mmu #ManMetProud
#lawschool #researchlaw #bulletin #mmu #ManMetProud
MLS Research Bulletin Spring_Summer 2025.pdf
drive.google.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
⚠️Manchester Law School's Research Bulletin for Spring/Summer 2025 is finally out! Click this link to see all of the great work done by colleagues: drive.google.com/file/d/1PeOD...
#lawschool #researchlaw #bulletin #mmu #ManMetProud
#lawschool #researchlaw #bulletin #mmu #ManMetProud
⚠️Dr Caroline Redhead has published an article: "Protecting emotional wellbeing during childbirth: exploring the role of organisational regulatory processes in promoting compassion" with Frontiers in Global Women’s Health. The article is available at: doi.org/10.3389/fgwh...
#childbirth #compassion
#childbirth #compassion
Frontiers | Protecting emotional wellbeing during childbirth: exploring the role of organisational regulatory processes in promoting compassion
In this article I consider how legal processes have power to facilitate or impede emotional safety and wellbeing for women and birthing people. I suggest tha...
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July 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
⚠️Dr Caroline Redhead has published an article: "Protecting emotional wellbeing during childbirth: exploring the role of organisational regulatory processes in promoting compassion" with Frontiers in Global Women’s Health. The article is available at: doi.org/10.3389/fgwh...
#childbirth #compassion
#childbirth #compassion
🚨 New article by @prof-mark-james.bsky.social and Guy Osborn: "Defining the Olympic legal framework and the IOC’s lawmaking capability: lex Olympica, Olympic law, and their relationships with lex sportiva and sports law" in the International Sports Law Journal. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Defining the olympic legal framework and the IOC’s lawmaking capability: lex Olympica, Olympic law and their relationships with lex sportiva and sports law - The International Sports Law Journal
The Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the legal framework that regulates them, have long been the subject of multidisciplinary scrutiny. Despite significant academic critiq...
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July 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🚨 New article by @prof-mark-james.bsky.social and Guy Osborn: "Defining the Olympic legal framework and the IOC’s lawmaking capability: lex Olympica, Olympic law, and their relationships with lex sportiva and sports law" in the International Sports Law Journal. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🚨 New Book Alert! 🌍📘
Ash Murphy’s Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States is out now with Routledge (2025).
A vital read on climate, security & small island states. Available here: www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...
Ash Murphy’s Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States is out now with Routledge (2025).
A vital read on climate, security & small island states. Available here: www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...
Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States
This book examines the operation of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to better understand the motivating factors that underpin its activation of Article 39. Arguing that climate change shoul...
www.routledge.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🚨 New Book Alert! 🌍📘
Ash Murphy’s Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States is out now with Routledge (2025).
A vital read on climate, security & small island states. Available here: www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...
Ash Murphy’s Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States is out now with Routledge (2025).
A vital read on climate, security & small island states. Available here: www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...
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“Semenya was legally identified as female at birth but has a condition which means her body naturally produces higher levels of testosterone than women without the condition.”
Bureaucratic policing of sex in sports is harmful and excludes many women, including intersex athletes like Caster Semenya.
Bureaucratic policing of sex in sports is harmful and excludes many women, including intersex athletes like Caster Semenya.
Caster Semenya wins ECHR appeal as sex eligibility case set to return to court
The 34-year-old has been unable to compete in her favoured 800 metres event since 2019
www.independent.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
“Semenya was legally identified as female at birth but has a condition which means her body naturally produces higher levels of testosterone than women without the condition.”
Bureaucratic policing of sex in sports is harmful and excludes many women, including intersex athletes like Caster Semenya.
Bureaucratic policing of sex in sports is harmful and excludes many women, including intersex athletes like Caster Semenya.
Day two of the Business and Law Faculty Writing Retreat.
Huge thanks to Prof Gary Warnaby for organising such an inspiring event! We are also grateful to Prof Dominic Medway for his insightful talk on sustaining a research career through enthusiasm and collaboration.
Huge thanks to Prof Gary Warnaby for organising such an inspiring event! We are also grateful to Prof Dominic Medway for his insightful talk on sustaining a research career through enthusiasm and collaboration.
July 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Day two of the Business and Law Faculty Writing Retreat.
Huge thanks to Prof Gary Warnaby for organising such an inspiring event! We are also grateful to Prof Dominic Medway for his insightful talk on sustaining a research career through enthusiasm and collaboration.
Huge thanks to Prof Gary Warnaby for organising such an inspiring event! We are also grateful to Prof Dominic Medway for his insightful talk on sustaining a research career through enthusiasm and collaboration.
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I was invited to take part in Southwestern Law Review’s roundtable reflecting on the futures of LGBTQ+ rights. I shared a thought experiment on crafting a queer judgment as a critical-creative exercise in teaching. It’s wonderful to see my contribution now in print!
DM for a copy if interested.
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DM for a copy if interested.
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July 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I was invited to take part in Southwestern Law Review’s roundtable reflecting on the futures of LGBTQ+ rights. I shared a thought experiment on crafting a queer judgment as a critical-creative exercise in teaching. It’s wonderful to see my contribution now in print!
DM for a copy if interested.
🌈🎓
DM for a copy if interested.
🌈🎓
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Thanks to @folukeifejola.bsky.social for this kind review of my book: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Racial Justice and the Limits of Law By Bharat Malkani, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 182 pp., £19.99
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Thanks to @folukeifejola.bsky.social for this kind review of my book: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
⚠️ Dr Rossella Pulvirenti and Dr Kay Lalor’s evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Right’s Inquiry into the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill has been published on their website, see more here: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/140248/html/
WRITTEN EVIDENCE SUBMITTED BY DR ROSSELLA PULVIRENTI AND DR KAY LALOR
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June 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
⚠️ Dr Rossella Pulvirenti and Dr Kay Lalor’s evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Right’s Inquiry into the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill has been published on their website, see more here: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/140248/html/
🚨New from Dr. Zainab Naqvi (MMU Law): 'Colourism and Law in the UK: A Story of Colonial Indifference?'
Published in Frontiers in Sociology (June 2025)
Available here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
This powerful piece argues that UK law remains blind to colourism.
#colourism #race&law
Published in Frontiers in Sociology (June 2025)
Available here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
This powerful piece argues that UK law remains blind to colourism.
#colourism #race&law
Frontiers | Colourism and law in the UK: a story of colonial indifference?
In this paper I explore legal and judicial responses toward skin tone and colourism in the UK. I argue that despite incidents involving colourism coming befo...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🚨New from Dr. Zainab Naqvi (MMU Law): 'Colourism and Law in the UK: A Story of Colonial Indifference?'
Published in Frontiers in Sociology (June 2025)
Available here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
This powerful piece argues that UK law remains blind to colourism.
#colourism #race&law
Published in Frontiers in Sociology (June 2025)
Available here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
This powerful piece argues that UK law remains blind to colourism.
#colourism #race&law
@bevclough.bsky.social (MLS), alongside Prof. Jonathan Herring, presented ‘Disability, Relationships, and a Right Against Social Deprivation’ at the Nordic Network of Disability Research conference in Helsinki (May 2025).
June 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
@bevclough.bsky.social (MLS), alongside Prof. Jonathan Herring, presented ‘Disability, Relationships, and a Right Against Social Deprivation’ at the Nordic Network of Disability Research conference in Helsinki (May 2025).
Aysha Mazhar (MLS) has published a book review of Kathryn Waddington and Bryan Bonaparte’s “Developing Pedagogies of Compassion in Higher Education: A Practice First Approach” with the British Journal of Educational Studies. Available to read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Developing Pedagogies of Compassion in Higher Education: A Practice First Approach
Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Aysha Mazhar (MLS) has published a book review of Kathryn Waddington and Bryan Bonaparte’s “Developing Pedagogies of Compassion in Higher Education: A Practice First Approach” with the British Journal of Educational Studies. Available to read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez (MLS) has had several comments and papers published engaging with his book Cosmopolitanism, State Sovereignty, and International Law and Politics (Routledge, 2023):
Dr Núñez's response: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Dr Núñez's response: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
In Interesting Times
Article In Interesting Times was published on May 23, 2025 in the journal ICL Journal (volume 0, issue 0).
www.degruyterbrill.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez (MLS) has had several comments and papers published engaging with his book Cosmopolitanism, State Sovereignty, and International Law and Politics (Routledge, 2023):
Dr Núñez's response: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Dr Núñez's response: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
At the #Law&Society Annual Conference in Chicago, @senthorun.bsky.social was presenting his fascinating research on 'Emotional Accountabilities: Affective Autoethnography and Queer Legal Work'
#LSAChicago2025
#LSAChicago2025
May 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
At the #Law&Society Annual Conference in Chicago, @senthorun.bsky.social was presenting his fascinating research on 'Emotional Accountabilities: Affective Autoethnography and Queer Legal Work'
#LSAChicago2025
#LSAChicago2025
More MLS staff updates from the annual #LSA conference in Chicago, including presentations by
1) Dr Rossella Pulvirenti: 'Prosecuting Witnesses' Suspicious Deaths at the ICC'
2) Dr Kay Lalor: 'Prefigurative Legalities and Transnational LGBTQI+ Rights [...]'
1) Dr Rossella Pulvirenti: 'Prosecuting Witnesses' Suspicious Deaths at the ICC'
2) Dr Kay Lalor: 'Prefigurative Legalities and Transnational LGBTQI+ Rights [...]'
May 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
More MLS staff updates from the annual #LSA conference in Chicago, including presentations by
1) Dr Rossella Pulvirenti: 'Prosecuting Witnesses' Suspicious Deaths at the ICC'
2) Dr Kay Lalor: 'Prefigurative Legalities and Transnational LGBTQI+ Rights [...]'
1) Dr Rossella Pulvirenti: 'Prosecuting Witnesses' Suspicious Deaths at the ICC'
2) Dr Kay Lalor: 'Prefigurative Legalities and Transnational LGBTQI+ Rights [...]'