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Publications

Below you will find a selection of publications from members of the Centre for Human Rights. Centre members publish academic works, author consultancy documents and provide policy papers for governments and political regions. 

Selected publications include:

Articles
  • Amna Nazir, ‘The Universal Periodic Review and the Death Penalty: A Case Study of Pakistan’ (2020) 4 RSIL Law Review 126-156
  • Amna Nazir, ‘The Universal Periodic Review and Muslim States’ Engagement’ (2019) 15 Journal of International Law and Islamic Law 1-28
  • Iyan Offor, ‘Second wave animal ethics and (global) animal law: a view from the margins’ (2020) 11(2) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 268
  • Iyan Offor, ‘Animals and the Impact of Trade Law and Policy: A Global Animal Law Question’ (2020) 9(2) Transnational Environmental Law 239
  • Libby Anderson and Iyan Offor, ‘Animal welfare measures in Scotland: Penalties, protections, powers and a Commission’ (2020) 4(1) UK Journal of Animal Law 29
  • Iyan Offor, ‘Animal Welfare, Bilateral Trade Agreements, and Sustainable Development Goal Two’ (2019) 3(1) UK Journal of Animal Law 1
  • Iyan I.H. Offor and Jan Walter, ‘GATT Article XX(a) Permits Otherwise Trade-Restrictive Animal Welfare Measures’ (2017) 12(4) Global Trade and Customs Journal 158
  • Iyan I.H. Offor and Jan Walter, ‘The Applicability of GATT Article XX(a) to Animal Welfare’ (2017) 1(1) UK Journal of Animal Law 10
  • Rebecca Smyth, ‘‘Repeal the 8th’ in a Transnational Context: Ireland, El Salvador, and the Role of the Human Rights System in Advancing Abortion Access’ (2020) 124 Feminist Review 192
  • Alice Storey, ‘Challenges and Opportunities for the UN Universal Periodic Review: A Case Study on Capital Punishment in the USA’ (2021) 90 UMKC Law Review 129
  • Alice Storey, ‘A Tale of Two Realities: Foreign Nationals, Consular Assistance, and the Death Penalty in the USA’, 15 Charleston Law Review 459 (2021)
  • Alice Storey, ‘Engaging with the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review as an Academic’ Juris Poiesis, Vol. 23, No. 32, 662-664 (2020)
  • Jon Yorke, An Experience of Time in the Capital Judicial Process 24 Texas Journal of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (2018) 189
  • Jon Yorke, Comity, Finality and Oklahoma’s Lethal Injection Protocol, 69 Oklahoma Law Review. 4 (2017) 545-621.
Book Chapters
  • Iyan Offor, ‘Climate Change and Biodiversity Law: The Case Against Anthropocentrism’ in Richard Caddell and Phillipa McCormack (eds), Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law (upcoming, Edward Elgar)
  • Iyan Offor, ‘Animals in Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements’ in Anne Peters, Kristen Stilt and Saskia Stucki (eds), Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law (upcoming, Oxford University Press)
  • Rebecca Smyth, ‘Gender and Justice in International Human Rights Law: The Need for an Intersectional Feminist Approach to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights’ in Wood E (ed), Gender Justice: Theoretical Practices of Intersectional Identity (Vancouver, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2020)
  • Rebecca Smyth, ‘Mary Robinson, A Woman of Meitheal’ in McCall-Smith K, Wouters J, Gómez Isa F (eds), The Faces of Human Rights (Oxford, Hart 2019)
  • Alice Storey & Mark Eccleston-Turner, ‘Transparency, Accountability, and Legitimacy in the United Nations’ Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review’, in, Salvador Santino Regilme Jr. & Irene Hadiprayitno (eds) Human Rights at Risk: Rethinking International Institutions, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (Forthcoming, Rutgers University Press, 2022)
  • Jon Yorke and Alice Storey, Towards a World Without the Death Penalty, in Peter N. Stears, (ed) The Modern History of Death, (Oxford: Routledge, 2020) 
  • Jon Yorke and Amna Nazir, Imagining Utopia: The Global Abolition of the Death Penalty, in Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker (eds), Comparative Capital Punishment (Edward Elgar Publishing 2019)
  • Jon Yorke and Amna Nazir, Monotheism and the Death Penalty, in Russell Sandberg and others (eds), Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion (Edward Elgar Publishing 2019)
  • Jon Yorke, Criminal Justice, in The Oxford Human Rights Hub Anthology, 2016-2017
  • Jon Yorke, Deconstructing a Sovereign Right: The Hybridization of the Anti-Death Penalty Discourse in Europe, in Nicolas Lemay-Hebert and Rosa Freedman, (eds) Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development, (Routledge, 2017)
Reports
  • Iyan Offor and Julie Gibson, ‘What can Lawyers do for Animals? Education in and Practice of Animal Law in Scotland – Event Report’ (2019) 3(1) UK Journal of Animal Law 36
  • Amna Nazir, et. al., ‘Sudan Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2021).
  • Amna Nazir, Alice Storey & Jon Yorke, ‘South Sudan Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission), The UPR Project at BCU (2021).
  • Alice Storey, Amna Nazir & Jon Yorke, ‘Eswatini Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2021).
  • Alice Storey, Amna Nazir & Jon Yorke, ‘Namibia Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2020).
  • Alice Storey, et. al., ‘United States Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2020).
  • Jon Yorke, Amna Nazir & Alice Storey, ‘Syrian Arab Republic Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2021).
  • Jon Yorke, Amna Nazir & Alice Storey, ‘Papua New Guinea Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2021).
  • Jon Yorke, Amna Nazir & Alice Storey, ‘Thailand Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2021).
  • Jon Yorke, Amna Nazir & Alice Storey, ‘Myanmar Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2020).
Book Reviews
  • Iyan Offor, ‘Book Review – International Marine Mammal Law by Nikolas Sellheim’ (upcoming) Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law
  • Iyan Offor, ‘Book Review – The Seal Hunt: Cultures, Economies and Legal Regimes by Nikolas Sellheim’ (2020) 29(2) Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 307
  • Iyan Offor, ‘Book Review – Animal Welfare and International Environmental Law: From Conservation to Compassion’ (2020) 10 IUCN AEL e-journal
  • Alice Storey, “Austin Sarat (ed.), Human Rights and Legal Judgments: The American Story”, Human Rights Law Review, Volume 19, Issue 1, 28 February 2019, 193–198