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Picture Jane Austen’s unpersuaded Anne Elliot or even Charles Dickens’ Miss Havisham. The spinster is often understood as an unpleasant term for a woman of a

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British contemporary sculptor Nicola Anthony. A rising star, Nicola's artwork can be found in museums, galleries, public collections and collector's homes across the world. Her UK studio has a selecti...

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Published in Law and Humanities (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Aislinn Fanning, Cristy Clark, Zoe Tongue and Ruth Houghton about utopia as a method.

AbstractDiscussions on constituent power are often concerned with who has authority to bring about constitutional change, and liberal constitutionalist res

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In this episode of Called to the Bar, Tamsin Phillipa Paige is joined by Aoife O’Donoghue (Queen’s University Belfast), Ruth Houghton (Newcastle University), and Cher Weixia Chen (George Mason Univers

In this episode of Called to the Bar, Tamsin Phillipa Paige is joined by Aoife O’Donoghue (Queen’s University Belfast), Ruth Houghton (Newcastle University), and Cher Weixia Chen (George Mason Univers

In this episode of Called to the Bar, Tamsin Phillipa Paige is joined by Aoife O’Donoghue (Queen’s University Belfast), Ruth Houghton (Newcastle University), and Cher Weixia Chen (George Mason Univers

Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

From the Paris Commune of 1871 to the ‘assembly movements’ of the past decade: what these movements and uprisings had in common is their investment in changing ...

This collection celebrates the quadricentennial anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), examining the intersection of law, literature, history, and performance through eight scholarly essays....

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Aoife O’Donoghue, Ruth Houghton and Cher Weixia Chen  introduce a new handbook: Research Handbook on Global Governance (Edward Elgar 2025) ISBN: 978 1 78990 632 5. Extent: 632 pp

In the opening chapter of this new Research Handbook on Global Governance, Aoife O’Donoghue asks, “why bother?” In an age when international cooperation and collaboration is on the decline, attempts t...

In the opening chapter of this new Research Handbook on Global Governance, Aoife O’Donoghue asks, “why bother?” In an age when international cooperation and collaboration is on the decline, attempts to work together to cut worldwide carbon emissions or to bring about the end of prolonged conflict are pathetic at best and failing at worst, and faith in international institutions and organisations is dwindling, there seems little desire for global governance. Indeed, the fierce return of the rhetoric of state sovereignty in the last decade, and the performance of isolationist nationalism by right-wing, authoritarian populist governments around the world lessens the need for any mechanisms of governance beyond the state. A research handbook on Global Governance, which seeks to proffer new research agendas across the field, might feel too late in the circumstances.

In the opening chapter of this new Research Handbook on Global Governance, Aoife O’Donoghue asks, “why bother?” In an age when international cooperation and collaboration is on the decline, attempts t...