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...law in 2016, named after Alan Turing, to Northern Ireland allowing those, particularly gay and bisexual men, who had been convicted of a crime that would no longer be unlawful such as consensual sex among adults, to have this conviction expunged from their record – and the removal of the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood and the introduction of the FAIR system...

...law/the-fight-equal-pay-glasgow-city-council-2018 BBC News ‘Equal pay strikes suspended as financial deal under way’, April 13, 2022: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-61093247 Unison Glasgow: ‘Glasgow branch overwhelmingly votes to back new strike action’: (The long running dispute around equal pay and has continued even after the members were...

...laws condemning women who speak to having their teeth knocked out are traced through to laws forbidding women’s speech in the Napoleonic code. Veils, foot binding and kimonos are discussed as tools of female confinement and symbols of male ownership. Yet this, as Foreman passionately argues, is not the entire story. Throughout history, women acted, laying claim to...

...law, philosophy, history, anthropology, economics, and geography, whilst crossing through fields such as gender studies, international studies, migration and refugee studies, human rights, development studies, public policy and education. Yet, the interdisciplinarity of the field, and the variety of ways of looking at citizenship, have also meant that there is no distinct...