Publications

This is a list of recent publications by members of the Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy. Full publication lists can be obtained by visiting the appropriate  staff profile page. Open access copies of the publications are available via Durham Research Online. 

• Brooks, T. (2025). A Critique of Von Hirsch's Censure Theory. Ratio Juris: An international journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law.
• Chadha, K. (2024). Criminalizing Sex: Is Consent all that Matters?. Criminal Law and Philosophy.
• Li, Z. (2024). Two Kinds of Dual States: Judicial Empowerment and Disempowerment in Authoritarian Politics. Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law,
• Lucy, W. (2024). Legal Regulation, Technological Management and the Future of Human Agency. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.
• Neuvonen, P. J. (2024). A way of critique: What can EU law scholars learn from critical theory?. Cahiers de méthodologie juridique, 2023 - 3(37), 1397-1443.
• Sakharova, I. (2024). The Power to Contract and the Offer-and-Acceptance Analysis of Contract Formation. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 37(1), 261-285.
• Wang, J. (2024). Reconstructing the copyright idea/expression dichotomy for video games. Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 14(3), 248-266.
• Buck, J. (2023). Dignifying Dignity: Germany as a Model for Embracing Human Dignity under English Medical Law. Anglo-German Law Journal, 8, 77-101.
• Douglas, B. (2023). Love and Human Rights. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 43(2), 273–297.
• Morris, K. A. (2023). Vulnerability, Care Ethics and the Protection of Socioeconomic Rights via Article 3 ECHR. Human Rights Law Review, 23(4), Article ngad028.
• Otto, F. E., Minnerop, P., Raju, E., Harrington, L. J., Stuart‐Smith, R. F., Boyd, E., James, R., Jones, R. G., & Lauta, K. C. (2023). Law, justice and the role of courts in changing the social superstructure narrative in climate litigation: A Rejoinder to Benoit Mayer. Global Policy, 14(2), 416-419.
• Pichl, A., Ranisch, R., Altinok, O. A., Antonakaki, M., Barnhart, A. J., Bassil, K., Boyd, J. L., Chinaia, A. A., Diner, S., Gaillard, M., Greely, H. T., Jowitt, J., Kreitmair, K., Lawrence, D., Lee, T. N., McKeown, A., Sachdev, V., Schicktanz, S., Sugarman, J., Trettenbach, K., …Árnason, G. (2023). Ethical, legal and social aspects of human cerebral organoids and their governance in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 11, Article 1194706. 
• Romanis, E. C. (2023). The end of (reproductive) liberty as we know it: A note on Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health 597 USC (2022). Medical Law International, 23(1).
• Somers-Joce, C., & O’Loughlin, E. A. (2023). Recent Judicial Perspectives on the Duty of Candour. Judicial Review, 28(3), 155-163.
• Bouwer, K. (2022). The Influence of Human Rights on Climate Litigation in Africa. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 13(1), 157-177.
• Jones, H., & O’Donoghue, A. (2022). History and self-reflection in the teaching of international law. London Review of International Law, 10(1), 71-103.
• McGlynn, C. (2022). Challenging anti-carceral feminism: Criminalisation, justice and continuum thinking. Women's Studies International Forum, 93, Article 102614.
• Brooks, T. (2021). Global Justice and Stakeholding. International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 34(1), 105-122.
• Webster, A. K. (2021). Proof Paradoxes, Agency, and Stereotyping. Philosophical Issues, 31(1).
• Webster, A. K. (2021). How to theorise about the criminal law: thoughts on methodology prompted by Alex Sarch’s Criminally Ignorant. Jurisprudence, 12(2).
• Brooks, T. (2020). More than Recognition: Why Stakeholding Matters for Reconciliation in Hegel's Philosophy of Right. The Owl of Minerva, 51(1/2), 59-86.
• Lucy, W. (2020). Access to Justice and the Rule of Law. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 40(2), 377-402.
• Mukwiri, J. (2020). The end of history for the board neutrality rule in the EU. European Business Organization Law Review, 21(2), 253-277.