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 🌈🎓

⚠️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

⚠️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

🚨 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...

🚨 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...

“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.

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. 🌈🎓

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/

🚨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).

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....

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' #LSAChicago2025

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

1) You can read @senthorun.bsky.social book open access here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo... The book argues:

Huge congratulations to @senthorun.bsky.social on the publication of his new book! We’re so proud and can’t wait to celebrate the launch at Manchester Law School! 📗 #academicbook #LGBTrights #law&emotions

I'll be back in the UK next week and am very excited to be presenting a public lecture in Oxford about doing creative queer legal work. The lecture will take place 4pm on Thursday 15th May at Oxford Brookes University. Please come along if you’re around/interested and feel free to share the event!

So excited that my book is now in press! It’ll be out next month.

Some of the fantastic nominations for our MLS awards this week! Huge congratulations to all the nominees and winners. Thank you for making MLS such an incredible community!

Manchester Law School Away Day has begun

Dr Hasret Cetinkaya has authored an article titled "Breaking Free from ‘Honour’: Namûs, Epistemic (In)justice, and the Colonial Politics of Translation," published in the European Journal of Women's Studies. You can read it here: #decolonialtranslation

Huge congrats on your new publication @bevclough.bsky.social. This paper utilizes the conceptual tools offered by scholarship on temporality and extends their use through engaging with disability, legal capacity and the CRPD. You can find the piece here: academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

Several publications from Aysha Mazhar - huge congrats! 1) Aysha Mazhar has published a book review of Jane Creaton and Owen Gower’s “Prioritising the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Doctoral Researchers [...]” in the journal Studies in the Education of Adults: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exciting news! In August, we're thrilled to announce the release of "Territorial Disputes in the Americas" by Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez. See more here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Welcome to #SLSA2025!🤝 We're excited to kick off 3 days of socio-legal research at @liverpooluni.bsky.social — with 900+ papers across 33 streams & 6 key topics.🔍 Here’s to a brilliant few days of discussion, collaboration and connection! 🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-2025/ @slsauk.bsky.social

On the way to SLSA Liverpool! Looking forward to presenting work with @annanelson95.bsky.social on Home and the Spatio-Legal Dynamics of Birth in the Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law panel tomorrow @slsauk.bsky.social

Excited to see many MLS staff members at @slsauk.bsky.social's annual conference this week at the University of Liverpool! Wishing everyone a fantastic time filled with knowledge exchange and intellectual stimulation!

New publication! 🎉 Dr James Brown has published an online annual review for LawInSport titled ‘Sport, Safety and Participation - Annual Review 2024/25’. The article is available here: www.lawinsport.com/topics/item/.... #SportsLaw

MLS Seminar Series today with Dr Jill Dickinson, Reader of Law at Leeds Beckett University, on the topic of 'pracademics (those with dual practitioner and academic professional experience)'. Thanks to @jamieatkinson.bsky.social for organising this!

Professor Lua Yuille giving a fascinating talk at MLS now on 'Girls These Days: Today's Facile Corporatist Faux Feminism' Thanks Prof @bevclough.bsky.social for organising this great event!

MLS is thrilled to welcome Professor Lua Yuille from Northeastern University as a visiting professor. Looking forward to engaging conversations and fruitful collaboration this week! For more on Professor Yuille's work see here: law.northeastern.edu/faculty/yuil...

Excited to share that Manchester Law School has been named "Law School of the Year" at the Educate North Awards 2025! This achievement reflects our commitment to driving positive change through exceptional teaching, research, and impactful, data-driven initiatives

Aysha Mazhar has published a paper (with Dr Rosie Fox) in The Law Teacher on ‘Illuminating the law doctoral researcher’s web of mental and emotional support’. The article is available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm looking forward to this tomorrow! Further info is available here: rise.mmu.ac.uk/activity/man...

It was a lovely sight to see Sydney University fly the trans flag for Transgender Day of Visibility. At a time when academic institutions are ignoring trans voices and countenancing transphobia because of political and other pressures, small gestures of symbolic support like this feel significant. 🏳️‍⚧️

We are having a launch event for the Manchester Law Journal on Tuesday 1 April, 4:30-6:30pm in room SB 2.10. Please join us to celebrate the student authors and editors who have worked on our 2025 issue! This launch will also include a talk by Dr Kay Lalor on academic publishing📝

We are so excited about our new LLM International Sports Law and Governance 🏅⛷️⚽🤽!! More info can be found below and here: www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...

More info on our new LLM International Sports Law & Governance @mmulawresearch.bsky.social: Video: youtu.be/apKjgtTtOZ8?... Info: www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr... Open Days: www.mmu.ac.uk/study/open-d... #sportslaw

🌸MMU campus is bursting with spring vibes!

We are delighted that Professor Lua Yuille (law.northeastern.edu/faculty/yuil...) will be joining us at MLS as a Visiting Professor in April 2025. As part of this we are organising a number of opportunities to meet Lua and discuss research.

Mike Poulsom’s insightful article on ‘Drafting Green Leases’ is featured in the March 2025 edition of Property in Practice, the Journal of the Law Society’s Property Section. This edition reaches over 700 law firms across the UK 📗 #GreenLeases #PropertyInPractice

In writing news, a committee of librarians have paid to make my new book open access. At a time when doing/accessing queer work is fraught with more uncertainty, I’m feeling so glad that I will not have to ask people to bear the high cost of buying an academic book. Also, yay for cool librarians! 🌈🎓

Delighted that @bevclough.bsky.social & I have received a BA/Leverhulme Small Grant for our project ‘Birth Doulas as a Liminal Actor With/in Medical Law: Identifying Regulatory & Conceptual Tensions’. We’ve been plotting this project for over 2 years & are so excited to bring it to life!