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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🚨Dr James Brown's annual review on 'Sport, Safety and Participation' for LawInSport is now available. This year's review highlights key legal developments in sports-related negligence, nuisance, and spectator safety. Read it below 👇 www.lawinsport.com/topics/item/...

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Sport, Safety and Participation – Year in Review 2025/26 - LawInSport

Welcome to the Safety and Participation chapter of the LawInSport Annual Review 2025/26. Once again, we have seen several important developments this year in relation to sports safety. In particular, ...

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Huge congratulations to Dr Rossella Pulvirenti, who has been awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for her project: "Witnesses in the Era of Open-Source Evidence: Navigating Testimony and Protection in Modern Atrocity Trials".🎉👏 Fantastic news!

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Last Friday, Dr James Brown was the first speaker in the MLS seminar series at the Civil Justice Centre in Manchester. Each month, MLS members present research to the judiciary, practitioners, and legal professionals. His presentation was titled ‘Negligence Liability for Sports-Related Concussion’.

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Check out Dr Rossella Pulvirenti's latest piece for The Conversation👇 Syrian ex-colonel faces crimes against humanity charges in landmark case for UK – expert explains theconversation.com/syrian-ex-co...

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Syrian ex-colonel faces crimes against humanity charges in landmark case for UK – expert explains

Syrian national Salem Al-Salem faces prosecution for crimes against humanity in a first for the UK.

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Dr Jinal Dadiya (QMUL) gave a fascinating talk today at Manchester Law School on ‘The Curious Case of the Reprobate Fiance’.

Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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So excited to be heading to Melbourne on Thursday 12th March to give a talk on my new book. I’ll be talking about current conflicts over LGBT rights and how emotions shape the possibilities of social repair and law reform. Come along if you’re around! Register here: www.monash.edu/law/research...

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A wonderful afternoon at the Sylvia Pankhurst Network Annual Lecture, ‘Intersectional Feminism: Resistance, Community Power and Transformative Justice’, with Lady Unchained and Sandhya Sharma. A powerful conversation on feminist practice, community resilience, and transformative justice.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It’s an honour to be invited by the Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group at Oxford to give a talk about my new book. If you’re around next week (4th February), feel free to come along. You can also join online. See here for more details: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even... 📖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We are delighted to share this upcoming event from the Sylvia Pankhurst Network. Join us for an inspiring discussion exploring intersectional feminism, resistance, and transformative justice, featuring two powerful voices in activism and community work! Details below👇

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We were delighted to host a book launch yesterday for Dr Senthorun Raj’s new book, ‘The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law’. Congratulations @senthorun.bsky.social!

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Dr Cecilia Flores Elizondo in full flow discussing her project, 'Receivers of Justice in the Global Just Transition'. This event was the conclusion of a pilot photovoice study funded by an internal research acceleration grant.

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We were thrilled to welcome Dr Bharat Malkani (Cardiff) for our final MLS Seminar of the semester. Bharat gave an excellent talk on “Racial Justice and the Limits of the Law”.

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Dr Jan Zglinski (LSE Law School) joined us today to give a fascinating talk: ‘The End of Self-Regulation: Will the Football Governance Act Fix the National Game?’ @janzglinski.bsky.social

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Earlier this month, Professor Annapurna Waughray spoke at a Parliamentary Briefing on Caste Discrimination, convened at Westminster by the APPG on Dalits and ACDA. Have a read over the Metropolis news item on the November 2025 briefing below 👇 mcrmetropolis.uk/professor-wa...

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Professor Waughray and Campaigners Urge End to Caste Discrimination - Metropolis

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Huge congratulations to our current BTC student, Elle-Sue Calderbank, who recently won the Rising Star Award at the 30th Anniversary Awards for the Black Solicitors Network. 🎉👏

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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'.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My new book, “The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law,” uses emotion as a critical lens to navigate how conflicts over LGBT rights structure/limit the potential of law reform to improve our lives. You can download the book (for free!) here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

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The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A queer joy to launch my book in London today with old and new friends! It’s always such a gift to have your work read and returned to you with curiosity, critique, care, and celebration. 📕🍷🌈

Author in a purple kurta and red scarf holds up their book, “The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.”

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Yesterday, MLS hosted a wonderful talk by Dr Alessio Norrito (MMU) entitled “Between Hope and Cruel Optimism? The Dangers and Possibilities of Football in Fostering Hope for Male Refugees”

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

In the context of a worsening climate threat, some believe solar radiation management, a form of geoengineering, offers a path worth exploring to reduce heating. Check out Dr Ash Murphy's latest co-authored post on this issue below 👇

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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!👇🏾

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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.

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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’

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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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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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...

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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!

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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! ☀️📚

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Queer Judgments Project @queerjudgments.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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 - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

⚠️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

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MLS Research Bulletin Spring_Summer 2025.pdf

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

⚠️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

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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...

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🚨 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...

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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...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

“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.

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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

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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.

Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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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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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

⚠️ 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/

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WRITTEN EVIDENCE SUBMITTED BY DR ROSSELLA PULVIRENTI AND DR KAY LALOR

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🚨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

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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...

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

@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).

Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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....

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Developing Pedagogies of Compassion in Higher Education: A Practice First Approach

Published in British Journal of Educational Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)