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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 6d

Dr Tamsin Paige giving a fascinating talk at MLS on 'Fines Do Not Make for Fine Law'.

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jul 27

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! ☀️📚

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Queer Judgments Project @queerjudgments.bsky.social · Jul 21

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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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Jul 18

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/

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jul 16

⚠️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

MLS Research Bulletin Spring_Summer 2025.pdf

drive.google.com

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jul 14

⚠️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

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...

doi.org

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨 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...

link.springer.com

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 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...

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

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Jul 10

“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.

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

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Jul 8

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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Bharat Malkani @bmalkani.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jun 10

⚠️ 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

committees.parliament.uk

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚨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

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...

www.frontiersin.org

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jun 4

@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).

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jun 4

Introduction: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Critic 1: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Critic 2: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Critic 3: 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

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · Jun 4

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...

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

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 27

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

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 23

3) Dr @senthorun.bsky.social: 'Emotional Accountabilities: Affective Autoethnography and Queer Legal Work
4) Dr Jenny Kanellopoulou: 'From the body to the WIPO: Intellectual Property Across Scales'

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 23

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 [...]'

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 23

Fascinating presentation by Dr Adedayo Akingbade (MLS) titled 'Trapped in the Migration Lens: The Misguided Approach to the Protection of Victims of Human Trafficking' at the annual #Law&Society conference in Chicago.
#LSAChicago2025 #anti-trafficking&coloniality

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 23

At the annual #Law&Society conference in Chicago, MLS staff member @senthorun.bsky.social launched the Queer Judgment book, contributing to important discussions on law and justice! Pictured here with a number of colleagues, including MLS staff member Dr Kay Lalor.
#LSAChicago2025

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · May 15

This was such a wonderful session! Blown away by the brilliant research my colleagues are doing, and the engaged and reflective questions from the audience ❤️

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 15

This morning's panel on 'Reimagining rights and identities: Critical perspectives on social justice' at the Faculty of Business and Law Research Conference 2025

Dr Jen Neller @jenneller.bsky.social
Dr Caroline Redhead
Dr Hasret Cetinkaya
Sam Morgan, PhD Candidate @sammorgn97.bsky.social

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 15

This morning's panel on 'Reimagining rights and identities: Critical perspectives on social justice' at the Faculty of Business and Law Research Conference 2025

Dr Jen Neller @jenneller.bsky.social
Dr Caroline Redhead
Dr Hasret Cetinkaya
Sam Morgan, PhD Candidate @sammorgn97.bsky.social

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · May 15

4. The book provides some useful analytic tools for unpacking emotional entanglements across different sites of socio-legal conflict relating to LGBT people and cultivating opportunities for solidarity and repair as we work with, and against, law reform and legal rights.

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