Human rights, development, and global legal studies
This theme encompasses work around the development, impact, movement, and deployment of doctrine, approaches, jurisprudence, and norms across national and transnational legal spaces.
Researchers have submitted and/or influenced amici curiae and third party interventions to courts around the world; worked with civil society partners and campaigners to challenge inequalities and injustices and; provided guidance and critique of regulations, policies, and frameworks of national, supranational and global institutions. Research has been published in journals such as Feminist Review, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, and Social Legal Studies. We write frequently for The Conversation, the Oxford Human Rights Hub and provide expert comment on current affairs.
In addition to our school-wide Research Seminar Series, researchers and postgraduate students can get involved with this theme through the Global Legal Studies, and Gender and the Law Research Groups
Theme lead
- Lovleen Bhullar - regulation of antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environment, and water law
Staff
- Shaimaa Abdelkarim - critical approaches to human rights, black studies, TWAIL
- Georgia Antonopoulou - international commercial dispute resolution and access to justice
- Kate Bedford - law and development (especially in Latin America); law and political economy; law, gender, and sexuality; socio-economic rights; legal pluralism; law and regulation of gambling
- Sophie Boyron – public law and comparative law
- Meghan Campbell - gender equality, human rights and poverty
- Aleksandra Cavoski – environmental law
- Fiona de Londras – transnationalism, comparativism, human rights
- Rilka Dragneva-Lewers – regional integration, governance, development
- Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg - international human rights law and LGBTQ rights
- Alan Greene - constitutional law and human rights
- Rosie Harding- sexuality, disability and older people’s rights
- Maureen Mapp – kinship justice and human rights
- Natasa Mavronicola human rights, penality and criminal justice
- Kieron McGuffin - refugee law, migration, human rights
- Jean McHale – health law
- Lydia Morgan - public law, legal and political theory, national security
- Katharina Moser - comparative insolvency law and consumer debt
- Walters Nsoh – regulation and governance of natural resources, land and resource tenure
- Alexander Orakhelashvili - public international law, ECHR, UK public law
- Rehana Parveen - shariah tribunals, women’s rights
- Mohammad Shahabuddin - postcolonial and third world approaches to international law and human rights
- Bosko Tripkovic - human rights, EU law
- Ben Warwick - human rights and resources; human rights institutions, legal mechanisms and crisis
Projects
Major publications
- Fiona de Londras, The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-Terrorism (2022; Cambridge University Press)
- Meghan Campbell, 'Might makes right: the two child limit and justifiable discrimination against women and children', Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2021
- Meghan Campbell, 'The austerity of lone motherhood: discrimination law and benefit reform', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2021, Oxford Human Rights Hub
- Natasa Mavronicola, Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs (Hart Publishing 2021).
- Bedford, K, 'Law, gender, and development: potent hauntings', Law and Development Review, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 229–264, 2020.
- Aleksandra Čavoški, Science and Law in Environmental Law and Policy: The Case of the European Commission, Transitional Environmental Law 2020
- Fiona de Londras & Cora Chan (eds), China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law? (Hart 2020)
- Natasa Mavronicola & Laurens Lavrysen (eds) Coercive Human Rights: Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the ECHR (Hart 2020)
- Bedford, K, Bingo Capitalism: the Law and Political Economy of Everyday Gambling. (Oxford University Press 2019)
- Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg Sexuality and Transsexuality under the European Convention on Human Rights: A Queer Reading of Human Rights Law (Hart 2019)
- Ben T C Warwick, Unwinding Retrogression: Examining the Practice of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Human Rights Law Review, 2019
- Meghan Campbell, Women, Poverty, Equality: The Role of CEDAW (Hart 2018) shortlisted for the Socio-Legal Scholars Association Early Career Research Prize.
- Bosko Tripkovic The Metaethics of Constitutional Adjudication (Oxford University Press 2017)
- Mohammad Shahabuddin, Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and Practices. (Cambridge University Press. 2016)
Major events
Our forthcoming events
Blogs and online resources
Our researchers talk about their work:
Women, Poverty, Equality - Meghan Campbell
Birmingham Heroes: Fiona de Londras