Writing

As well as my blog on this website – which I haven’t really written much on for a few years – here is a list of things I’ve written on other platforms.

• I wrote a three-part series for the Lawyers for Nature blog which covered Social Ecology, the Relational Paradigm for Society, and Interconnected Law (Lawyers for Nature, July 2022)
• ‘What legal change do we need for Nature to be fully protected?‘ (Wildlife and Countryside Link Blog, June 2021). This blog post seeks to encourage environmental campaigners to think big about legal change and legal strategy.
• ‘Is opposing HS2 the best use of the left’s political energy?‘ (Bright Green, 2nd April 2021). This article looks at both sides of the HS2 debate.
• Presentation: Introducing Interconnected Law, workshop at Future Law Institute (July 2021)
• ‘Interconnected Law: a paradigm shift in legal thinking‘ (openDemocracy, 27th November 2020). This article sets out my thinking about Interconnected Law and how our legal systems should transform. This one is longer and more detailed one; the below one written for The Ecologist is more introductory.
• ‘The Law of Nature‘ (The Ecologist, 15th October 2020). This article makes the case that our legal systems need to transform as part of broader social and political change, and that we should base a new legal framework on Interconnection.
• ‘Beyond Politics? The limits of Extinction Rebellion’s strategy‘ (Novara Media, 7th December 2019). The article looks at Extinction Rebellion’s view of politics and political theory, and why I think it’s mistaken.
• ‘The Burning of the Amazon is just the tip of the iceberg‘ (openDemocracy, 30th Aug 2019). This article looks at how plundering nature is part of our legal and economic systems, and that this needs addressing (setting out some Interconnected Law thoughts).
• ‘IPCC Special Report and Human Rights‘  (Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, 9th Nov 2018). This article looks at the IPCC Special Report on 1.5^oC from a human rights perspective to understand what it means for human rights, which I think is a useful framework for understanding the effects and legal framework about climate change.
• ‘Einarsson v Iceland: Worrying Implications for Discussing Rape Allegations on Social Media‘ (Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, 13th Jan 2018). This post analyses Einarsson v Iceland, a defamation case in which a celebrity sued an Instagram user (‘X’) for calling them a ‘rapist’ on social media. The judgment has worrying implications for discussions of rape allegations.

• ‘People Power in the Driverless City‘ (redpepper, 18th Dec 2017). There are loads of possible uses of self-driving car technology, which could radically change transport and the city. But before we get utopian, we need to remember that the distribution of the benefits of it will go to those with power and wealth, instead of any sort of equitable distribution of the benefit of self-driving technology.
• ‘Why tax dodging is a human rights issue’ (Oxfam Views & Voices, 14^th Nov 2017).  Tax dodging is a human rights issue. This piece argues that we should see tax evasion as a human rights issue because it deprives states of resources to help people, and looks at the international legal framework is about the human rights aspects of tax dodging, both for states and corporations.
• ‘Basic income: a human rights approach’ (openDemocracy, 7^th Nov 2017). This is bringing a human rights approach to the discussions around Basic Income, as a different way to see and assess basic income as a concept and particular basic income policies.

• Sandra Fredman, Alison Young, Meghan Campbell and Alex May, ‘The Impact of Brexit on Equality Rights’ (Oxford Human Rights Hub, 2017). This is a report from a workshop which the Oxford Human Rights Hub held about Brexit and Equality Rights. Much of UK equality law comes from or is strong because of EU law, so is likely to be much weaker after Brexit. I was the Research Assistant and took notes from the workshop, wrote initial drafts of the report, and did the final formatting of it.