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Faculty Contact Details
Room: T12
Tel: (3)30091
College Contact Details
Room: B22
Tel: (3)38894
Associate Professor
Interests
Stephanie Palmer's research interests lie in the fields of human rights, constitutional law and feminist theory. Her current projects include working on a book on human rights in the UK and a research project on gender and climate change. She has a research interest in ‘Bills of Rights’ and related constitutional developments, especially in the UK. She is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre and a member of the Centre for Public Law and the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences. She is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Behaviour Change by Design Programme in the University of Cambridge Behaviour and Health Research Unit.
She lectures and supervises students in Human Rights Law, Medical Law and Life Sciences,Constitutional and Administrative Law. She is currently supervising doctoral theses on a range of public law and human rights topics. She is a Fellow at Girton College and a barrister at Blackstone Chambers, London. She is on the Joint General Editor of the European Human Rights Law Review and was one of the founding editors of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I*CON). She has a particular interest in pro bono law and has been an executive member of the Cambridge Pro Bono scheme since its foundation in 2000 and she is also a collaborator of the Somerstown Legal Advice Corner in London.
Research centres and interest groups
Publications
Books
Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom (with Beatson, Grosz, Hickman and Singh) (Sweet and Maxwell, 2008)
Visible Women: Essays on Feminist Legal Theory and Political Philosophy (with Susan James) (eds) (Hart Publishing, 2002)
Articles
"R (on the application of Miller and another) v Secretary of State " Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law
Citation:
Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law
Published: Forthcoming
"R (on the application of Miller) v State"
Published: Forthcoming
"Mavericks or misconstruction? A reply to Campbell and Allan" [2021] Journal of Law and Society
Citation:
[2021] Journal of Law and Society
Published: Apr 2021
"Public health emergencies and human rights: Problematic jurisprudence arising from the covid-19 pandemic’" (2020) 5 European Human Rights Law review 488-498
Citation:
(2020) 5 European Human Rights Law review 488-498
Published: Apr 2021
"Who Gets the Ventilator? Important Legal Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic" Journal of Medical Ethics
Citation:
Journal of Medical Ethics
Published: Forthcoming
"Redefining the Meaning of Life: The Early Release of Life Prisoners" (1994) 53 Cambridge Law Journal, 480
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(1994) 53 Cambridge Law Journal, 480
Published: Apr 2021
"Abortion and Human RIghts" [2014] European Human RIghts Law Review 596-605
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[2014] European Human RIghts Law Review 596-605
Published: Jan 2014
"'European Court of Human Rights'" New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 418-419
Citation:
New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 418-419
Published: Mar 2011
"'R v. R (1992) '" New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 978
Citation:
New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 978
Published: Mar 2011
"'Data Protection'" New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 296
Citation:
New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 296
Published: Mar 2011
"Public Functions and Private Services: A Gap in Human Rights Protection"" (2008) 6 International Journal of Constitutional Law 585
Citation:
(2008) 6 International Journal of Constitutional Law 585
Published: Oct 2009
"Public, Private and the Human Rights Act 1998: An Ideological Divide’ " [2007] 66 Cambridge Law Journal 559-573
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[2007] 66 Cambridge Law Journal 559-573
Published: Apr 2007
"A Wrong Turning for Article 3 ECHR and Proportionality’ " (2006) 65 Cambridge Law Journal 438- 451
Citation:
(2006) 65 Cambridge Law Journal 438- 451
Published: Apr 2006
"AIDS, expulsion and Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights" (2005) 5 European Human Rights Law Review 533-540
Citation:
(2005) 5 European Human Rights Law Review 533-540
Published: Apr 2005
"The Human Rights Act and Labour Law’ " (2000) 58 Cambridge Law Journal, 168-200
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(2000) 58 Cambridge Law Journal, 168-200
Published: Apr 2000
"The Human Rights Act 1998: Bringing Rights Home" (1999) 1 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 125.
Citation:
(1999) 1 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 125.
Published: Apr 1999
"Rape in Marriage and the European Convention on Human Rights" (1997) 5 Feminist Legal Studies, 91
Citation:
(1997) 5 Feminist Legal Studies, 91
Published: Apr 1997
Book Chapters
"‘Privatisation and Human Rights in the United Kingdom’" in Tsvi Kahana and Anat Scolnicov (ed(s)), Boundaries of State, Boundaries of Rights (CUP, 2016), pp. 233-250
"Regulating Unhealthy Life Styles in The UK and South Africa: Constitutional Issues" (with Tania Voon, Andrew D. Mitchell & Jonathan Liberman), Regulating Tobacco, Alcohol and Unhealthy Foods: The Legal Issues (Routledge UK, 2014)
Publisher:
Published Jul 2014
"Feminism and the Promise of Human Rights: Possibilities and Paradoxes", Visible Women: Essays on Feminist Legal Theory and Political Philosophy (Hart Publishing , 2013), pp. 91-115
"Regulation of Political Broadcasting: The Role of the Judiciary" (with K.Ewing, J. Rowbottom and J Cheong Tham), Funding of Political Parties: Where Now? (Routledge, 2011)
Publisher:
Published Feb 2011
"Roberts v Hopwood:Commentary" (with Rosemary Hunter, Clare McGlynn and Erika Rackley), Feminist Judgments:From Theory to Practice (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2010), pp. 381
"Protecting Journalists' Sources: Section 10 Contempt of Court Act 1981" in Eric Barendt (ed(s)), Media Freedom and Contempt of Court (Ashgate Publishing, 2009), pp. 373-384
"Freedom of Information: A New Constitutional Landscape?" in Nicholas Bamforth & Peter Leyland (ed(s)), Public Law in a Multi-Layered Constitution (Hart Publishing , 2003), pp. 221-246
"Freedom of Information: The New Proposals" in Jack Beatson and Yvonne Cripps (ed(s)), Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information (OUP, 2000), pp. 349-475
Case Notes
The “benefit cap” scheme and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (2016) 75 Cambridge Law Journal 34-37
Published: Apr 2021
The Choice is Cruel”: assisted suicide and Charter rights in Canada Canada (2015) 74 Cambridge Law Journal 191-194
Published: Apr 2021
Protecting the right to respect for family life in "foreign" cases 2009) 68 Cambridge Law Journal 498-500
Published: Apr 2021
Max Mosley and the Right to Respect for Private Life [2012-13] Greek Public Law Journal 27
Published: Feb 2014
Protecting the right to respect for family life in "foreign" cases (2009) 68 C.L.J. 498
Published: Mar 2011
Military Intervention, public inquiries and the right to life (2009) 68 CLJ 17
Published: Oct 2009
Arbitrary Detention in Guantanamo Bay: Legal Limbo in the Land of the Free (2003) 62 Cambridge Law Journal 6
Published: Apr 2003
’They made a Desert and called it Peace’: Banishment and the Royal Prerogative (2001) 60 Cambridge Law Journal 234-236.
Published: Apr 2001
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