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Capacity and incapacity: an appropriate border for non-consensual interventions? (2024)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2025). Capacity and incapacity: an appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 98, Article 102042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.102042

Those who support decision-making capacity as a criterion for non-consensual interventions for persons with mental disabilities (mental illness, learning disability, neurodivergence, acquired brain injury and dementia) argue that it creates parity be... Read More about Capacity and incapacity: an appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?.

The RESIST Project Report. Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe: A Report on Nine Case Studies (2024)
Report
RESIST Project Team. (2024). The RESIST Project Report. Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe: A Report on Nine Case Studies

This report explores the lived experiences of encountering ‘anti-gender’ politics, its effects, and resistances in nine case studies: Belarus, people living in exile in Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Switzerland. We used the... Read More about The RESIST Project Report. Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe: A Report on Nine Case Studies.

The RESIST Project Report. Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe: A Report on Poland (2024)
Report
Kulpa, R., & Kania, T. (2024). The RESIST Project Report. Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe: A Report on Poland

Poland's transforming socio-cultural landscape has witnessed across the years an intensified political focus on issues of gender and sexuality, which have become a battleground for a diverse spectrum of views and group interests. There has been notab... Read More about The RESIST Project Report. Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe: A Report on Poland.

ポーランドの選択的夫婦別姓制度から見た 日本の夫婦別姓についての問題 (2024)
Journal Article
Piegzik, M. (2024). ポーランドの選択的夫婦別姓制度から見た 日本の夫婦別姓についての問題. Yokohama Hōgaku, 33(1), 187-213

本論文では、日本の夫婦別氏についての問題を概要し、ポーランドの選択的夫婦別姓制度の要点とその歴史的発展を提示した。日本において、夫婦別氏の問題を比較学をもって解決できるだろうか、ポーランドの選択的夫婦別姓制度は、日本に対応するだろうか、こういう疑問に... Read More about ポーランドの選択的夫婦別姓制度から見た 日本の夫婦別姓についての問題.

A Controversy around Single Parental Authority after Divorce in Japanese Family Law - a Happy Ending for the Parents and Children? (2024)
Journal Article
Piegzik, M. A. (2024). A Controversy around Single Parental Authority after Divorce in Japanese Family Law - a Happy Ending for the Parents and Children?. The Warsaw East Law Review, 1(3), 67-86

Japan is one example of a democratic state governed by the rule of law, which ratified international conventions on children’s rights, yet it has been struggling with their full implementation. A vivid example of such a problem is the system of singl... Read More about A Controversy around Single Parental Authority after Divorce in Japanese Family Law - a Happy Ending for the Parents and Children?.

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, September). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’. Presented at 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (EGSC) 2024, University of Brighton, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity or self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in orde... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’..

Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation (2024)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2024). Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation. In N. Gill, & N. Sartorius (Eds.), Mental Health and Human Rights: The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (153-165). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52179-9_11

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) challenges the foundations of mental health legislation. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has stated that non-consensual psychiatric measures reinforce inequalit... Read More about Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation.

UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers" (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers". Presented at Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL

In this invited contribution, Dr Kulpa will share reflections on how EDI (equality, diversity, and inclusion) and decolonialisation work in the UK academic contexts, embedded in the processes of neoliberalization of higher education in the anglophone... Read More about UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers".

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. Presented at UCU Equality Research Conference 2024, University of Manchester, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity, and self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in or... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities..

The CRPD and Mental Health Law Reform in Scotland (2024)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2024). The CRPD and Mental Health Law Reform in Scotland. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 94, Article 101991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.101991

Scotland's mental health and capacity legislation and its implementation is underpinned by European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) informed principles, and such legislation and its implementation has remained largely ECHR compliant. It is designed... Read More about The CRPD and Mental Health Law Reform in Scotland.

The RESIST Project Report. National and Transnational Reports on the Formation of Anti-Gender Politics (2024)
Report
RESIST Project Team. (2024). The RESIST Project Report. National and Transnational Reports on the Formation of Anti-Gender Politics

This Report is focused on mapping anti-gender discourses in media and parliamentary debates across five case studies: the European Parliament, UK, Poland, Switzerland and Hungary. Overall, the research found an animated anti-gender political landscap... Read More about The RESIST Project Report. National and Transnational Reports on the Formation of Anti-Gender Politics.

The Civil Code Controversy in Meiji Japan: The Struggle to Modernize the Nation (2024)
Book
Piegzik, M. (2024). The Civil Code Controversy in Meiji Japan: The Struggle to Modernize the Nation. Leiden University Press

The book outlines a dramatic history of the failed liberalization of Japanese private law during the Meiji era. Once Japan overthrew the shogunate and fully opened up to contact with the world, modernization of the backward country and its fragmented... Read More about The Civil Code Controversy in Meiji Japan: The Struggle to Modernize the Nation.

COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3 The Provision of Health and Social Care Services Adult Social Care (2024)
Report
McKay, C., Stavert, J., Johnston, L., Murray, J., Rek, J., Breen, C., Zarins, A., Woodrow, A., Anderson, L., & King, M. (2024). COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3 The Provision of Health and Social Care Services Adult Social Care. Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry

Report commissioned by Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry into the Scottish Government's strategic response to the COVID pandemic in relation to the provision of healthcare services and social care support to adults, excluding residential care

Vulnerability and Private International Law: Mapping a Normative Approach Towards Asymmetrical Substantive Equality (2024)
Book Chapter
Gillies, L. (2024). Vulnerability and Private International Law: Mapping a Normative Approach Towards Asymmetrical Substantive Equality. In J. Borg-Barthet, K. Trimmings, B. Yüksel Ripley, & P. Živkovic (Eds.), From Theory to Practice in Private International Law: Gedächtnisschrift for Professor Jonathan Fitchen. Bloomsbury Publishing

The first two decades of this century have already witnessed an increasing range of inequalities between individuals across borders. These inequalities are socio-legal or socio-economic challenges which manifest as vulnerability. Operating at the le... Read More about Vulnerability and Private International Law: Mapping a Normative Approach Towards Asymmetrical Substantive Equality.

Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union (2024)
Journal Article
Volintiru, C., Surubaru, N.-C., Epstein, R. A., & Fagan, A. (2024). Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(3), 782-800. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2313694

This introduction argues that the East-West divide in Europe continues to be politically salient since the fall of the Berlin Wall and two decades since the accession of most East Central European (ECE) countries to the European Union. We re-evaluate... Read More about Re-evaluating the East-West divide in the European Union.

Harmonisation and European Integration in Times of Crisis (2024)
Book Chapter
Ghio, E. (2024). Harmonisation and European Integration in Times of Crisis. In E. Ghio, & R. Perlingeiro (Eds.), Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises (255-276). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38180-5_14

Globalisation, generally, and European integration, more specifically, have led to calls for the minimisation of legal diversity which can result in transaction costs and the lack of level-playing field for cross-border actors. One of the prevailing... Read More about Harmonisation and European Integration in Times of Crisis.

Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises (2024)
Book
Ghio, E., & Perlingeiro, R. (Eds.). (2024). Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38180-5

This edited volume investigates legal convergence. It takes an international and thematical approach where chapters focus on how selected legal areas in selected jurisdictions have responded to contemporary crises. The volume aims to provide some ins... Read More about Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises.

Terminology (2024)
Book Chapter
Ghio, E. (2024). Terminology. In E. Ghio, & R. Perlingeiro (Eds.), Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises (15-25). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38180-5_2

This chapter presents the background and framework of the book. It defines key terms, concepts and phenomena relating to the discussions in this volume, such as crisis, globalisation, integration, disintegration, harmonisation, convergence and legal... Read More about Terminology.

Introduction: Convergence and Divergence in Times of Crisis (2024)
Book Chapter
Ghio, E. (2024). Introduction: Convergence and Divergence in Times of Crisis. In E. Ghio, & R. Perlingeiro (Eds.), Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38180-5_1

While legal harmonisation/convergence is considered to be one of the most influential theses in the discipline of law, the law of harmonisation is full of paradoxes. On the one hand, legal borrowing is commonplace, leading to a phenomenon of converge... Read More about Introduction: Convergence and Divergence in Times of Crisis.