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12 02, 2025

Special Issue on climate-induced (im)mobilities: Glass of water is not the same for everyone: EU Mixed treaties with climate-vulnerable third countries

By Szymon Kucharski| 2025-02-12T10:51:49+00:00 February 12th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities|Tags: climate change, climate displacement, climate migrations, climate-vulnerable countries, EU Mixed treaties|0 Comments

Szymon Kucharski (S.K.J.), PhD candidate, Doctoral School for Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University (Kraków) Climate migrations, or climate mobilities, have been the subject of legal research for some time already. Many scholars have proposed numerous ways to aid persons in dire situations of that phenomenon including international conventions, protocols to the United Nations Framework Convention on [...]

12 02, 2025

Special Issue on climate-induced (im)mobilities: Forging a European Response to Environmental Displacement: Assessing Efforts and Constraints during the Revision of the Qualification Directive (2017-2024)

By Nikolas Keckhut| 2025-02-12T10:50:31+00:00 February 12th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities|Tags: climate change, climate displacement, environmental migration, European response, Qualification Directive (2017-2024)|0 Comments

Nikolas Keckhut, Master’s student, University of Strasbourg - Jagiellonian University Although the issue of environmental migration is struggling to move beyond public debate and into the legal sphere, it has surprisingly made its way into the European Parliament's debates on the revision of the Qualification Directive. The latter is the main European instrument for international protection, [...]

12 02, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: Digital health governance in East Africa: The actors and peddlars

By Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa| 2025-02-12T11:00:21+00:00 February 12th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: actors, digital health governance, East Africa, health, law, peddlars, technology|0 Comments

Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, Lawyer and PhD Student, School for Cross-faculty Studies, University of Warwick Digital health governance is pivotal in ensuring that developers, innovators and implementers of Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) in healthcare provision utilise them in an ethical and efficient manner and that patients’ needs and rights are not displaced by profit driven motives. Countries in [...]

12 02, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: Realising participation in health data infrastructures: What gets in the way?

By Amrita Nanda and Rattanmeek Kaur| 2025-02-12T11:04:56+00:00 February 12th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: barriers, good practice, health, health data infrastructures, law, participatory data governance, technology|0 Comments

Amrita Nanda (Senior Manager, Aapti Institute) and Rattanmeek Kaur (Senior Research Analyst, Aapti Institute) What are health data infrastructures? The increased availability of high-quality health data and health-related data, has resulted in a growing impetus to develop data infrastructure for health care and research. Concerted efforts are being made to develop networks of interoperable and [...]

11 02, 2025

Misageyny: Equality Law and the Bias Against Older Women

By Katie Hunt| 2025-02-13T10:00:26+00:00 February 11th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts|Tags: ageism, dual discrimination, equality, intersectionality, sexism|0 Comments

by Dr Katie Hunt, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Lincoln What is misageyny? Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work on intersectionality[1] shows us how people who are members of two or more oppressed groups find that the forms of discrimination to which they are subject can overlap, each compounding and complicating the other(s). For example, a Black woman’s [...]

23 01, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: Navigating the ethical tightrope in healthcare: Balancing AI and the monetization of health data

By Stuart Ssebibubbu| 2025-01-23T13:28:37+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: AI, ethical tightrope, health, heath data, law, monetization, technology|0 Comments

Stuart Ssebibubbu, Research Officer, Afya na Haki Artificial intelligence (AI) integration in healthcare holds immense promise, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The healthcare industry is on the brink of a transformative era, thanks to the advent of AI. This shift brings new solutions that have the potential to significantly improve patient care, simplify diagnostics, and enhance treatment procedures. [...]

23 01, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: Data bias and the risk of algorithmic apartheid in South African healthcare

By Johannes Machinya| 2025-01-23T13:22:29+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: algorithmic apartheid, Data bias, health, law, South African healthcare, technology|0 Comments

Johannes Machinya, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand The South African healthcare landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, driven by rapid technological advancements, as evidenced by the rise of the “digital nurse,” reflecting the growing integration of digital technologies into the nursing profession. The concept of the digital nurse refers to nurses who develop expertise [...]

23 01, 2025

Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities: Taking ecological vulnerability seriously: Climate change-induced human trafficking and non-refoulement

By Carmen Pérez-González| 2025-01-23T12:53:11+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities, current series|Tags: climate change, ecological vulnerability, human trafficking, non-refoulement|0 Comments

Post 3 in the Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities Carmen Pérez-González, Associate Professor of Public International Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid The accelerated deterioration of the earth’s life support system has exacerbated forced displacement. Such displacement places individuals and communities in a situation of vulnerability that multiplies opportunities for recruitment by human trafficking networks. We find examples [...]

23 01, 2025

Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities: ‘The Climate Refugee’ – a short review: Developing new solutions through the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment

By Carla Field| 2025-01-23T12:53:35+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities, current series|Tags: and Sustainable Environment, Clean, climate change, climate displacement, climate refugees, Healthy, solutions|0 Comments

Post 2 in the Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities Carla Field, PhD Candidate at the University of Leicester School of Law Migration has been a coping strategy for millennia in times of uncertainty, and migration in the face of climate change is no different. However, early migration took place before the concepts of international borders, state [...]

23 01, 2025

ICPR guest-edited blog 6 – Voicing Loss: ‘I know it’s all about the death, but somehow it becomes about their life when you’ve got the inquest’

By Jessica Jacobson, Alexandra Murray and Lorna Templeton| 2025-02-12T10:55:16+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Guest Series|Tags: bereaved people, coroner, coronial process, deceased person, inclusion, inquest, participation|0 Comments

Jessica Jacobson, Alexandra Murray and Lorna Templeton This is the second blog post about the project Voicing Loss, which explored the role of bereaved people in coroners’ inquests in England and Wales. Voicing Loss was funded by the ESRC (grant reference ES/V002732/1) and conducted by the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research at Birkbeck [...]