School of Law (LAW)

Clashes, collaborations and convergences: evolving relations of Turkish and Kurdish women’s rights activists (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Ali, N., & Tas, L. (in press). Clashes, collaborations and convergences: evolving relations of Turkish and Kurdish women’s rights activists. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 21(3), 304-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2018.1497754

This article discusses the various ways the Kurdish women’s movement has impacted feminism in the Turkish context. Against the background of the problematic historical relationship between Turkish and Kurdish women’s rights activists, the article exp... Read More about Clashes, collaborations and convergences: evolving relations of Turkish and Kurdish women’s rights activists.

Humanitarian Intervention and Gender Dynamics (2018)
Book Chapter
Heathcote, G. (2018). Humanitarian Intervention and Gender Dynamics. In N. Cahn, D. Haynes, F. Ni Aolain, & N. Valji (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on Gender and Conflict (199-210). Oxford University Press

The intervention of military force to resolve a humanitarian crisis, such as the Security Council authorised intervention in Libya in 2011, raises a host of questions regarding the usefulness of military force to secure humanitarian goals. Within the... Read More about Humanitarian Intervention and Gender Dynamics.

Concept of Fault, Post-Marital Maintenance Obligation and Discrimination of Women in Turkish Judiciary System (2018)
Journal Article
Ozluk, B., & Saral, M. (in press). Concept of Fault, Post-Marital Maintenance Obligation and Discrimination of Women in Turkish Judiciary System. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 32(3), 281-301. https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/eby009

In case of dissolution of a marital union because of divorce, the maintenance obligation is regulated in Article 1741 and 1752 of the new Turkish Civil Code of 2002 under the titles ‘material compensation’ and ‘destitution alimony’ in Turkish Law, wh... Read More about Concept of Fault, Post-Marital Maintenance Obligation and Discrimination of Women in Turkish Judiciary System.

War’s Perpetuity: Disabled Bodies of War and the Exoskeleton of Equality (2018)
Journal Article
Heathcote, G. (in press). War’s Perpetuity: Disabled Bodies of War and the Exoskeleton of Equality. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 44(1), 71-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2018.1470447

This paper responds to battlefield technologies that enhance the endurance and capacities of the wearer, known as exoskeletons. Following the argument that exoskeleton technology is set to provide equality for bodies on the battlefield in the near fu... Read More about War’s Perpetuity: Disabled Bodies of War and the Exoskeleton of Equality.

PLO Cultural Activism: Mediating Liberation aesthetics in revolutionary contexts (2018)
Journal Article
Matar, D. (in press). PLO Cultural Activism: Mediating Liberation aesthetics in revolutionary contexts. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 38(2), 354-364. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-6982123

Matar’s essay addresses the PLO’s cultural activism, in other words, its investment in diverse spheres of popular culture, at the beginning of the revolutionary period 1968–82. Drawing on archival research of the main spheres of the PLO’s cultural ou... Read More about PLO Cultural Activism: Mediating Liberation aesthetics in revolutionary contexts.

An Innovative Approach to Women's Studies in Sudan: A Review and a Report (2018)
Journal Article
Oette, L. (2018). An Innovative Approach to Women's Studies in Sudan: A Review and a Report

‘Dual Use Research of Concern’ and ‘Select Agents’: How Researchers Can Use Free Speech to Avoid ‘Weaponising’ Academia (2018)
Journal Article
Scott-Baumann, A. (in press). ‘Dual Use Research of Concern’ and ‘Select Agents’: How Researchers Can Use Free Speech to Avoid ‘Weaponising’ Academia. Journal of Muslims in Europe, 7(2), 237-261. https://doi.org/10.1163/22117954-12341373

Creating a suspect community is a time-consuming task and requires persistence. Once achieved, it is difficult to undo. In security terms, inspiring fear of dual use is one of many successful methods used to create suspicion. The concept of dual use... Read More about ‘Dual Use Research of Concern’ and ‘Select Agents’: How Researchers Can Use Free Speech to Avoid ‘Weaponising’ Academia.

Security Council Resolution 2242 on women, peace and security: progressive gains or dangerous development? (2018)
Journal Article
Heathcote, G. (in press). Security Council Resolution 2242 on women, peace and security: progressive gains or dangerous development?. Global Society, 32(4), 374-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2018.1494140

This paper challenges the UN Security Council’s approach to women, peace and security through a detailed analysis of participation initiatives in the eight resolutions on women, peace and security, alongside study of the recent shift to include count... Read More about Security Council Resolution 2242 on women, peace and security: progressive gains or dangerous development?.

Law as a global entity through Italian eyes and minds (2018)
Journal Article
Menski, W. F. (in press). Law as a global entity through Italian eyes and minds. Ethics & Global Politics, 11(2), 37-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2018.1498701

This contribution discusses, from the perspective of global comparative law, how Mariano Croce’s English translation of a major book by an important early-Italian scholar, Santi Romano, allows helpful insights into early twentieth-century Italian thi... Read More about Law as a global entity through Italian eyes and minds.

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