A massive well done to Dr Cathy Jacquiss, who passed her viva today!🎉 Cathy gave an excellent defence of her thesis, 'Hostility, Resistance and Hope: The Operation of Space and Affect in LGBTQ+ Asylum Litigation'.

Book Launch: Threads of Labour: Tapestry of an Ex-Industrial Community, by Lisa Taylor Thursday 20th November 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person at The Leeds Library Threads of Labour examines how art & industrial heritage foster cohesion in post-industrial communities. isrf.org/events/threa...

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’

Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October! Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster. #LegalHistory #cfp

Recent blog post for BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health contextualising our birth doula project- with @annanelson95.bsky.social blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2025/...

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

People often express concerns that birth doulas are entirely unregulated, but the reality is a little more nuanced - as @bevclough.bsky.social & I unpack here: birthdoulas.mmu.ac.uk/2025/09/22/b...

Sharing our surveys for birth doulas and for healthcare professionals (both broadly defined) for a project with @annanelson95.bsky.social on birth doulas and medical law. Please share widely!

Surveys are now live - link are in the thread!

Sharing our surveys for birth doulas and for healthcare professionals (both broadly defined) for a project with @annanelson95.bsky.social on birth doulas and medical law. Please share widely!

Great to see our research bulletin for Spring/Summer 📚

🚨 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...

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨 The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will 'deepen the signs of regression' in disabled people's human rights. tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...

Always a highlight of the year! So lovely to spend time writing with colleagues

🚨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

Despite my best efforts, we are back here… if anyone is looking for a socio-legal / medical law researcher do let me know! Particularly interested in all things #childbirth, #obstetricviolence #reproductivetechnology and #consent but absolutely not fussy at this stage 📚

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 ❤️

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

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

Margot Brazier was the Editor of Medical Law Review from 2004-2011. In 2012, a special issue was published to recognise her extraordinary contribution to the field. Following Margot's untimely death in March, this is available free-to-view until the end of May academic.oup.com/medlaw/issue...

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 am doing a survey to gather people’s experiences of receiving Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or Adult Disability Payment (ADP) to highlight the impact that disability benefits can have on the wellbeing of disabled people. forms.office.com/e/7Kda0UzP6G

SURVEY: Women’s Budget Group (a feminist economics think tank) and Sisters of Frida (a Disabled women and non-binary people’s collective) The impact of the Government’s proposed reforms to disability benefits announced in March 2025. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This @britishacademy.bsky.social / @leverhulme.ac.uk project on #doulas officially starts today: looking forward to getting past the ethics approval stage and on to the fun bits! @bevclough.bsky.social

New paper out in symposium on the UNCRPD: Next Generation Thinking. My paper 'Temporal Disruptions in the UNCRPD: An Untimely Future for Legal Capacity' brings a critical disability lens to the temporalities and ableist foundations of legal frameworks academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

🚨Some very exciting news! A new event alert! 📌 Against All Odds: Class and Resistance in the Arts 📆 Tuesday 27th of May ⏰6-8pm 📍Unity Theatre, Liverpool Join us at this a dynamic and thought-provoking event! For more information and to register, please visit 👇 www.pran.org.uk/events/again...

New paper out in symposium on the UNCRPD: Next Generation Thinking. My paper 'Temporal Disruptions in the UNCRPD: An Untimely Future for Legal Capacity' brings a critical disability lens to the temporalities and ableist foundations of legal frameworks academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

My article is finally out in the Human Rights Law Review (part of a symposium on Next-Generation Thinking on the CRPD) where I argue that the CRPD is a queer document! 'The CRPD is Here and queer! A lesson in queering human rights law' academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

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

Then tomorrow @bevclough.bsky.social & I are chairing a panel on Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law (part of the Health Law & Bioethics stream). Looking forward to hearing the wonderful presentations we have lined up, and to presenting our ongoing work on the spatio-legal dynamics of homebirth.

This was such a great start to Lua's visit to Manchester. Really looking forward to the other events this week and hearing more about this project next week at @slsauk.bsky.social

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!

It’s tomorrow! Join us:

Lots coming up for the Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law Network. If you're at @slsauk.bsky.social do come to our panel on Wednesday 11-12.30 @annanelson95.bsky.social Then on 20th May we have an online Network event-Thinking about movement. More info here eventbrite.co.uk/e/shifting-d...

Event: Social Murder in Labour’s Pathways to Work Thursday, April 10th 5:30 - 7pm Professor Sara Ryan will be speaking alongside other academics, activists, and trade unionists on the implications of the ‘Pathways to Work’ green paper for disabled people. Click the link below for more info:

Looking forward to hosting Professor Yuille in April. Do get in touch if you'd like to join any of the events

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.

The first of these will be an MLS Seminar where Lua will share her current work in progress. This will take place 8th April, 2-3.30pm in SB 3.02. Title: Girls These Days: Today's Facile Corporatist Faux Feminism (with Shelley Cavalieri, University of Toledo www.utoledo.edu/law/faculty/...)

@bevclough.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the next event from the Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law Network - picking up on a theme which emerged during the catalysing workshop last year: movement. Info about speakers & registration here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shifting-d...

Today's featured legal geography publication: @bevclough.bsky.social and Henrietta Zeffert's "‘We Could Not Imagine Their Home Could Be Our Home’: Towards a Feminist Legal Geography of home." Read more about home, featuring a guest appearance by everyone's favorite geographer Doreen Massey #geosky

New publication with the brilliant Henrietta Zeffert (UCC) offering a feminist legal geography of home. Many years in the making, exciting to have it out in the world! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It’s been an honor to serve as the SLSA’s first precarity rep but it’s time to pass the torch - happy to chat if you’re interested in the role!

So excited to get started with this project after many, many conversations!

At today’s @learningmet.bsky.social seminar we’re hearing from @mumof3amigos.bsky.social on her experiences as a campaigner and parent activist from an ethnic minoritised community. Title ‘Activism from the Margins’.

Thrilled by the success of yesterday's MLS event with Dr Niamh Keady-Tabbal! Her timely and urgent research captivated MLS staff, leading to an engaging and intellectually stimulating Q&A session. 🌟 #Research #AcademicEvent #BorderViolence

Advocacy from the Margins March 12th 2025 @ 12pm - 1pm. Online & In-Person Ramandeep Kaur, campaigner and parent activist, reflects on advocacy and activism from the perspective of an ethnic minoritised community. More info: www.ramandeepkaur.co.uk

Diverse Voices in Health Law and Ethics is now published! 🎉 to celebrate - a 🧵of all the contributions bringing a social justice/critical perspective to the health and medical law curriculum! It was such a privilege to work with every author on such important interventions 👇

Some new books waiting to be reviewed for Medical Law Review! Get in touch if interested in reviewing for us, and please do share with colleagues and networks 📚🤓

Activist Research in Focus: A Seminar Series Wednesday's seminar is the first of three brilliant upcoming hybrid seminars about activist research. Click below to read our flyer for more information: bit.ly/activismsemi...

Looking forward to spending time thinking about law, disability and motherhood at this event in March organised by Jaime Lindsey and supported by @slsauk.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/laws-role-...