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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.

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!👇🏾

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’

Group of people sat around a table toasting with champagne.

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

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...

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...

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!

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! ☀️📚

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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⚠️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

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...

⚠️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

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...

🚨 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...

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...

🚨 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...

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

“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.

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.

Cover of Southwestern Law Review.

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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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.

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/

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...

🚨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

@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).

Developing Pedagogies of Compassion in Higher Education: A Practice First Approach Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 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....

In Interesting Times Article In Interesting Times was published on May 23, 2025 in the journal ICL Journal (volume 0, issue 0).

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).

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...

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'

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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'

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 [...]'

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

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

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 ❤️

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