sp10002@cam.ac.uk
Faculty Contact Details
Room: T12
Tel: (3)30091
University Associate Professor; Director of the Tripos (Michaelmas term)
Interests
Stephanie Palmer's research interests lie in the fields of human rights, constitutional law and feminist theory. 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 the joint General Editor of the European Human Rights law Review and a barrister at Blackstone Chambers, Temple London. She is also a Life Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge. Her co-authored book Human Rights Law in the UK was published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.
She is currently supervising doctoral theses on a range of public law and human rights topics. 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 Law Corner in London.
Research centres and interest groups
Selected publications
Books
Human Rights Law in the UK: Themes and Principles (with Kirsty Hughes, Stevie Martin) (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
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Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom (with Beatson, Grosz, Hickman and Singh) (Sweet and Maxwell, 2008)
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ISBN 13:
978-0-421-90250-3
Visible Women: Essays on Feminist Legal Theory and Political Philosophy (with Susan James) (eds) (Hart Publishing, 2002)
Co-editor(s):
1841131954, 9781841131955
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Articles
'R (on the application of Miller and another) v Secretary of State ' Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law
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Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law
Published: Forthcoming
'Who Gets the Ventilator? Important Legal Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic' Journal of Medical Ethics
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Journal of Medical Ethics
Published: Forthcoming
'Analysing Antimicrobial Resistance as a Series of Collective Action Problems ' (2024) 52(4) Policy Studies Journal 833-856
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(2024) 52(4) Policy Studies Journal 833-856
Published: Nov 2024
'Mavericks or misconstruction? A reply to Campbell and Allan' [2021] Journal of Law and Society
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[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
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(2020) 5 European Human Rights Law review 488-498
Published: Apr 2021
'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
''Data Protection'' New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 296
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New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 296
Published: Mar 2011
'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
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(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
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(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.
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(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
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(1997) 5 Feminist Legal Studies, 91
Published: Apr 1997
'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
''R v. R (1992) '' New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 978
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New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 978
Published: Mar 2011
''European Court of Human Rights'' New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 418-419
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New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008) 418-419
Published: Mar 2011
'Public Functions and Private Services: A Gap in Human Rights Protection"' (2008) 6 International Journal of Constitutional Law 585
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(2008) 6 International Journal of Constitutional Law 585
Published: Oct 2009
Book Chapters
"Women's Bodies and the Right to Abortion in Emergencies" in Mauro Balestrieri and Alice Caudero (ed(s)), The Legal Anatomy of the Body: Health, Rights and Politics in Times of Emergency (Springer), forthcoming
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Published Forthcoming
"‘Privatisation and Human Rights in the United Kingdom’" in Tsvi Kahana and Anat Scolnicov (ed(s)), Boundaries of State, Boundaries of Rights , 2016), pp. 233-250
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233-250
Published Jan 2016
"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, 2014)
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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
"Protecting Journalists' Sources: Section 10 Contempt of Court Act 1981" in Eric Barendt (ed(s)), Media Freedom and Contempt of Court , 2009), pp. 373-384
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373-384
Published Apr 2009
"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 (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 349-475
"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)
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Published Feb 2011
"Roberts v Hopwood:Commentary" (with Rosemary Hunter, Clare McGlynn and Erika Rackley), Feminist Judgments:From Theory to Practice (Hart Publishing, 2010), pp. 381
Case Notes
"The Role of Political Parties in a Parliamentary Democracy" (2025) 84 Cambridge Law Journal 497-500
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197326101184
Published: Nov 2025
"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
"The “benefit cap” scheme and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child" (2016) 75 Cambridge Law Journal 34-37
Published: Apr 2021
"Max Mosley and the Right to Respect for Private Life" [2012-13] Greek Public Law Journal 27
Published: Feb 2014
"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
"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
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