Rights, Equality, Citizenship and Empowerment
The collaborative nature of our research develops real-world applications to global issues.
Our research interests include:
- EU citizenship and welfare rights
- Human rights
- Legal empowerment
- Refugees, displacement and free movement
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Professor Charlotte O'Brien
Cluster convenor
charlotte.obrien@york.ac.uk
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Project spotlights
- The Verandah of Protection: the protection of Rohingya refugees
- Humanitarian protection in an age of asylum
- EU Settlement Scheme
- Generating Respect for Humanitarian Norms: The Influence of Religious Leaders on Parties to Armed Conflict
- The law of asylum in the Middle East and Asia: Developing legal engagement at the frontiers of the international refugee regime
- Marginalisation and the law
- Noma, human rights and global health
- Realising EU welfare rights: administrative gatekeeping and the accessibility of EU law
Recent publications
- Cowan, D, Dymond, A, Halliday, S & Hunter, CM 2017, 'Reconsidering Mandatory Reconsideration', Public Law, pp. 215-234.
- Etherington, LM 2017, 'Canons of Environmental Law: Pollution of Churches and the Regulation of the Medieval ‘Environment’', Legal Studies, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 566-590.
- Meers, JG 2019, 'Discretion as blame avoidance: Passing the buck to local authorities in ‘welfare reform’', Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 41-60.
- O'Brien, CR 2018, ''Done because we are too menny': the two-child rule promotes poverty, invokes a narrative of welfare decadence, and abandons children's rights', International Journal of Children's Rights, vol. 26, no. 4.
- Wright, K 2016, 'The Ambit of Judicial Competence After the EU Antitrust Damages Directive', Legal Issues of Economic Integration, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 15-40.
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Professor Charlotte O'Brien
Cluster convenor
charlotte.obrien@york.ac.uk