John A Harrington
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Harrington |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrington |
| SIGNATURE | HARRINGTON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Law and Politics Cardiff University Cardiff CF10 3AX Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4066-0735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Territory, values, and health law in a devolved United Kingdom: Examining the role of the gift in opt‐out organ donation
Devolution since 1998 has seen administrations in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales gain distinct powers over a range of policy fields, with health prominent among them. This poses two pressing questions for socio‐legal scholarship that we address in this article: to what extent are changing territorial arrangements significant for the substance of United Kingdom (UK) health law and the values by which it is oriented, and what role i…
The Connection‐Friction Axis in Devolved Health Policy and Law‐Making in the UK: A Case Study of Organ Donation
This article explores the dynamics of devolved health policy and law‐making in the UK, drawing on a case study of opt‐out organ donation reform. Given that health is a significant area of devolved competence, such case studies offer the opportunity to examine both similarities and differences in approach between the four nations in the context of the UK's evolving constitutional settlement. We argue that there is a need to move away from the char…
Teaching about Local Climates, Global Climate, and Climatic Change
The basics of climate must be understood to have a climate literate populace. Understanding climatic change is a wicked problem. This work identifies three foundational content challenges to climate and climate change education, discusses them thoroughly, and offers graphics and conceptual models to address this content in the classroom. The three concepts covered are: 1) conflation between weather and climate, 2) understanding the differences am…
Human-Environment Thinking and K-12 Geography Education
Pollution issues, anthropogenic climate change, and biodiversity declines, formerly local in scope, accumulate to threaten crossing planetary boundaries and tipping Earth’s system to an uninhabitable state. The human-environment identity is an unsung cornerstone of geography that can educate upcoming generations of citizens about trends over time, current conditions, and pathways to a more desirable future. The geography education community shoul…
Covid- 19 and human right to food: Lived experiences of the urban poor in Kenya with the impacts of government’s response measures, a participatory qualitative study
The government's COVID-19 restrictive measures exacerbated the already existing vulnerability of the urban poor to food insecurity and violated their human right to food. Future response measures should be executed in ways that respect the human right to food and protect marginalized people from resultant vulnerabilities
A Human-environment Timeline
Concern about accelerating human impact on Earth systems coincides with discussion of adding a new proposed geologic epoch that would document the Age of Humans. This research contributes a human-environment timeline prototype. Time-period classification provides academics and citizens alike with a common temporal reference frame for discussion and further investigation. A hierarchical human-environment timeline was built from analysis of entries…
Geographic Thought and the Anthropocene: What Geographers Have Said and Have to Say
Drawing from early modern and contemporary geographic thought, this article explores how the premise of an Anthropocene (Age of Humans) can be used to reinforce enduring modes of human–environment thinking. Anthropocene dialogues build on insights posed by geographers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: unity of nature, humans as nature made conscious, humans as nature’s conscience, and time periods as devices for thinking about hum…
Probability of compound climate extremes in a changing climate: A copula-based study of hot, dry, and windy events in the central United States
Climate extreme events exert disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and humankind. Focusing on univariate statistics to estimate the harm from compound extreme events usually falls short in communicating the real risk. Here, the co-occurrence of hot, dry, and windy events (HDWs) in the central United States was analyzed over the period 1949–2018. Results demonstrate south-west Kansas and north Texas as locations where HDWs are more frequent. The …
Evaluating a No Hit Zone program and provider interventions at an urban academic pediatric practice
Law and Rhetoric: Critical Possibilities
What contribution can rhetoric make to socio-legal studies? Though now a byword for deception and spin, rhetoric was long identified with the very substance of law and politics. Latterly radical scholars have foregrounded an understanding of law as rhetoric in their polemics against legal formalism, but it needs to be complemented by a critical perspective which goes beyond simple revivalism, taking account of rhetoric's own blind spots, inquirin…
The Limits of Socio-Legal Radicalism: Social and Legal Studies and Third World Scholarship
In this review to mark the 25th anniversary of Social and Legal Studies ( SLS), we offer an assessment of the evolution of socio-legal scholarship on the Third World. We seek to locate the journal in the broader history of socio-legal studies and legal education in the United Kingdom and to consider its engagement with the work of Third World scholars. In order to do this, we recall the founding commitment of the journal’s first editorial board t…
Satire and the Politics of Corruption in Kenya
Corruption in Kenya has been a matter of intense concern for foreign donors and the international financial institutions. External efforts to change the ‘governance culture’ in this regard are not simply instrumental, composed of material restrictions and incentives. They are also inherently rhetorical, seeking to establish the plausibility of a set of values rooted in political economy. This paper examines two widely reported speeches of a forme…
Sites for health rights: Local, national, regional and global
The Scope and Content of Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) provides that “[e]veryone has the right to a nationality” and that “[n]o one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.” Enshrining citizenship and the right to be free from arbitrary deprivation of citizenship as human rights in and of themselves, article 15 of the UDHR establishes the bedrock legal relationship between individual…
Law, globalisation and the NHS
The regulation of medical work in the UK has been shaped by the post-war settlement, which lead to the creation of the National Health Service in 1948. The removal of clinical care from the market was supported over the following decades by prohibitions of the sale of human organs and gametes. That settlement is now being dismantled, with the increasing privatisation of NHS facilities. The recommodification of medicine in Britain is achieved as p…
Citizenship and the Biopolitics of Post‐nationalist Ireland
In June 2004 voters in the Republic of Ireland endorsed a constitutional amendment to deprive children born on the island of Ireland of their previously automatic right to Irish citizenship. This change came amid increasing immigration and so‐called ‘baby tourism’, whereby non‐national mothers were alleged to be coming to Ireland to give birth for the sole purpose of bestowing Irish citizenship on their children. This article sets the referendum …
Mind with Mind and Spirit with Spirit’: Lord Denning and African Legal Education
Lord Denning played an important role in the establishment and development of legal education and lawyers' training in Africa from the late 1950s onwards. By exploring this involvement it is possible to add to existing work on Denning's vision of the role of law and legal professionalism. In post‐colonial Africa, order and stability were best assured by a cadre of lawyers imbued with the virtues characteristic of English practitioners over the ce…
The emergence of African law as an academic discipline in Britain
This article examines the role of British legal scholars and institutions in the development of African law in the period from the end of the Second World War to the 1960s. In particular, it considers the extent to which the new legal scholars broke with the methods and priorities of anthropologists who had studied and developed African law in the colonial period. In editing journals and law reports, as well as founding law faculties, these schol…
The instrumental uses of autonomy: A review of Aids law and policy in Europe
Red in Tooth and Claw’: The Idea of Progress in Medicine and the Common Law
The interaction of medicine and the common law is best understood through an examination of the epistemic properties shared (or taken to be shared) by both disciplines. One such property is represented in the ideal of evolutionary progress through a conflict of ideas, as developed in the work of Karl Popper on science and politics. This ideal also provides an orientation for judicial and theoretical reflections on the role of the dissenting judge…
Between the state and civil society: Medical discipline in Tanzania
This article seeks to examine the status of the medical profession in Tanzania, in the context of political and economic developments since independence. It demonstrates that doctors have maintained a relatively privileged position within the health care system and in the wider society from the colonial period, through the early years of indpendence, to the present. This has been achieved by a variety of means. During the 1970s and early 1980s th…
Privatizing scarcity: Civil liability and health care in Tanzania
There has been no significant consideration of the civil liability of doctors under Tanzanian law, either in the decisions of the courts of that country or in legal scholarship. The most obvious explanation for this has been the infrequency with which issues of medical malpractice have been litigated. Society and politics in Tanzania have changed greatly over the past ten years, however, and there is some reason to expect that the volume of litig…
Balancing Scientific and Ethical Values in Environmental Science
Contrasting Rainfall Patterns in the Upper Middle West
August, 1975 and 1976, featured strongly contrasting rainfall regimes in the midwestern United States. Both the severe drought of 1976 and the record surpluses of 1975 were related to repetitive, but different, circulations in the middle troposphere which ultimately governed the amount of moist air available to disturbances crossing the Middle West. Moist air overlay the southern half of the eastern United States during much of August, 1975, and …
The Problem of Sweeping Objectives: The Case of International Relations
Geographic Thought and the Anthropocene: What Geographers Have Said and Have to Say
Drawing from early modern and contemporary geographic thought, this article explores how the premise of an Anthropocene (Age of Humans) can be used to reinforce enduring modes of human–environment thinking. Anthropocene dialogues build on insights posed by geographers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: unity of nature, humans as nature made conscious, humans as nature’s conscience, and time periods as devices for thinking about hum…
Citizenship and the Biopolitics of Post‐nationalist Ireland
In June 2004 voters in the Republic of Ireland endorsed a constitutional amendment to deprive children born on the island of Ireland of their previously automatic right to Irish citizenship. This change came amid increasing immigration and so‐called ‘baby tourism’, whereby non‐national mothers were alleged to be coming to Ireland to give birth for the sole purpose of bestowing Irish citizenship on their children. This article sets the referendum …
Satire and the Politics of Corruption in Kenya
Corruption in Kenya has been a matter of intense concern for foreign donors and the international financial institutions. External efforts to change the ‘governance culture’ in this regard are not simply instrumental, composed of material restrictions and incentives. They are also inherently rhetorical, seeking to establish the plausibility of a set of values rooted in political economy. This paper examines two widely reported speeches of a forme…
Red in Tooth and Claw’: The Idea of Progress in Medicine and the Common Law
The interaction of medicine and the common law is best understood through an examination of the epistemic properties shared (or taken to be shared) by both disciplines. One such property is represented in the ideal of evolutionary progress through a conflict of ideas, as developed in the work of Karl Popper on science and politics. This ideal also provides an orientation for judicial and theoretical reflections on the role of the dissenting judge…
Balancing Scientific and Ethical Values in Environmental Science
The Limits of Socio-Legal Radicalism: Social and Legal Studies and Third World Scholarship
In this review to mark the 25th anniversary of Social and Legal Studies ( SLS), we offer an assessment of the evolution of socio-legal scholarship on the Third World. We seek to locate the journal in the broader history of socio-legal studies and legal education in the United Kingdom and to consider its engagement with the work of Third World scholars. In order to do this, we recall the founding commitment of the journal’s first editorial board t…
Law, globalisation and the NHS
The regulation of medical work in the UK has been shaped by the post-war settlement, which lead to the creation of the National Health Service in 1948. The removal of clinical care from the market was supported over the following decades by prohibitions of the sale of human organs and gametes. That settlement is now being dismantled, with the increasing privatisation of NHS facilities. The recommodification of medicine in Britain is achieved as p…
The emergence of African law as an academic discipline in Britain
This article examines the role of British legal scholars and institutions in the development of African law in the period from the end of the Second World War to the 1960s. In particular, it considers the extent to which the new legal scholars broke with the methods and priorities of anthropologists who had studied and developed African law in the colonial period. In editing journals and law reports, as well as founding law faculties, these schol…
A Human-environment Timeline
Concern about accelerating human impact on Earth systems coincides with discussion of adding a new proposed geologic epoch that would document the Age of Humans. This research contributes a human-environment timeline prototype. Time-period classification provides academics and citizens alike with a common temporal reference frame for discussion and further investigation. A hierarchical human-environment timeline was built from analysis of entries…
Evaluating a No Hit Zone program and provider interventions at an urban academic pediatric practice
Law and Rhetoric: Critical Possibilities
What contribution can rhetoric make to socio-legal studies? Though now a byword for deception and spin, rhetoric was long identified with the very substance of law and politics. Latterly radical scholars have foregrounded an understanding of law as rhetoric in their polemics against legal formalism, but it needs to be complemented by a critical perspective which goes beyond simple revivalism, taking account of rhetoric's own blind spots, inquirin…
Sites for health rights: Local, national, regional and global
The Scope and Content of Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) provides that “[e]veryone has the right to a nationality” and that “[n]o one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.” Enshrining citizenship and the right to be free from arbitrary deprivation of citizenship as human rights in and of themselves, article 15 of the UDHR establishes the bedrock legal relationship between individual…
Mind with Mind and Spirit with Spirit’: Lord Denning and African Legal Education
Lord Denning played an important role in the establishment and development of legal education and lawyers' training in Africa from the late 1950s onwards. By exploring this involvement it is possible to add to existing work on Denning's vision of the role of law and legal professionalism. In post‐colonial Africa, order and stability were best assured by a cadre of lawyers imbued with the virtues characteristic of English practitioners over the ce…
Between the state and civil society: Medical discipline in Tanzania
This article seeks to examine the status of the medical profession in Tanzania, in the context of political and economic developments since independence. It demonstrates that doctors have maintained a relatively privileged position within the health care system and in the wider society from the colonial period, through the early years of indpendence, to the present. This has been achieved by a variety of means. During the 1970s and early 1980s th…
Contrasting Rainfall Patterns in the Upper Middle West
August, 1975 and 1976, featured strongly contrasting rainfall regimes in the midwestern United States. Both the severe drought of 1976 and the record surpluses of 1975 were related to repetitive, but different, circulations in the middle troposphere which ultimately governed the amount of moist air available to disturbances crossing the Middle West. Moist air overlay the southern half of the eastern United States during much of August, 1975, and …
Patients' Attitudes Towards a Psychotherapeutic Regime
The Problem of Sweeping Objectives: The Case of International Relations
The State of California and Southern African Racism
No abstract
Contrasting Rainfall Patterns in the Upper Middle West
August, 1975 and 1976, featured strongly contrasting rainfall regimes in the midwestern United States. Both the severe drought of 1976 and the record surpluses of 1975 were related to repetitive, but different, circulations in the middle troposphere which ultimately governed the amount of moist air available to disturbances crossing the Middle West. Moist air overlay the southern half of the eastern United States during much of August, 1975, and …
Privatizing scarcity: Civil liability and health care in Tanzania
There has been no significant consideration of the civil liability of doctors under Tanzanian law, either in the decisions of the courts of that country or in legal scholarship. The most obvious explanation for this has been the infrequency with which issues of medical malpractice have been litigated. Society and politics in Tanzania have changed greatly over the past ten years, however, and there is some reason to expect that the volume of litig…
Balancing Scientific and Ethical Values in Environmental Science
Between the state and civil society: Medical discipline in Tanzania
This article seeks to examine the status of the medical profession in Tanzania, in the context of political and economic developments since independence. It demonstrates that doctors have maintained a relatively privileged position within the health care system and in the wider society from the colonial period, through the early years of indpendence, to the present. This has been achieved by a variety of means. During the 1970s and early 1980s th…
The instrumental uses of autonomy: A review of Aids law and policy in Europe
Red in Tooth and Claw’: The Idea of Progress in Medicine and the Common Law
The interaction of medicine and the common law is best understood through an examination of the epistemic properties shared (or taken to be shared) by both disciplines. One such property is represented in the ideal of evolutionary progress through a conflict of ideas, as developed in the work of Karl Popper on science and politics. This ideal also provides an orientation for judicial and theoretical reflections on the role of the dissenting judge…
Mind with Mind and Spirit with Spirit’: Lord Denning and African Legal Education
Lord Denning played an important role in the establishment and development of legal education and lawyers' training in Africa from the late 1950s onwards. By exploring this involvement it is possible to add to existing work on Denning's vision of the role of law and legal professionalism. In post‐colonial Africa, order and stability were best assured by a cadre of lawyers imbued with the virtues characteristic of English practitioners over the ce…
The emergence of African law as an academic discipline in Britain
This article examines the role of British legal scholars and institutions in the development of African law in the period from the end of the Second World War to the 1960s. In particular, it considers the extent to which the new legal scholars broke with the methods and priorities of anthropologists who had studied and developed African law in the colonial period. In editing journals and law reports, as well as founding law faculties, these schol…
Citizenship and the Biopolitics of Post‐nationalist Ireland
In June 2004 voters in the Republic of Ireland endorsed a constitutional amendment to deprive children born on the island of Ireland of their previously automatic right to Irish citizenship. This change came amid increasing immigration and so‐called ‘baby tourism’, whereby non‐national mothers were alleged to be coming to Ireland to give birth for the sole purpose of bestowing Irish citizenship on their children. This article sets the referendum …
Law, globalisation and the NHS
The regulation of medical work in the UK has been shaped by the post-war settlement, which lead to the creation of the National Health Service in 1948. The removal of clinical care from the market was supported over the following decades by prohibitions of the sale of human organs and gametes. That settlement is now being dismantled, with the increasing privatisation of NHS facilities. The recommodification of medicine in Britain is achieved as p…
The Scope and Content of Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) provides that “[e]veryone has the right to a nationality” and that “[n]o one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.” Enshrining citizenship and the right to be free from arbitrary deprivation of citizenship as human rights in and of themselves, article 15 of the UDHR establishes the bedrock legal relationship between individual…
Satire and the Politics of Corruption in Kenya
Corruption in Kenya has been a matter of intense concern for foreign donors and the international financial institutions. External efforts to change the ‘governance culture’ in this regard are not simply instrumental, composed of material restrictions and incentives. They are also inherently rhetorical, seeking to establish the plausibility of a set of values rooted in political economy. This paper examines two widely reported speeches of a forme…
Sites for health rights: Local, national, regional and global
The Limits of Socio-Legal Radicalism: Social and Legal Studies and Third World Scholarship
In this review to mark the 25th anniversary of Social and Legal Studies ( SLS), we offer an assessment of the evolution of socio-legal scholarship on the Third World. We seek to locate the journal in the broader history of socio-legal studies and legal education in the United Kingdom and to consider its engagement with the work of Third World scholars. In order to do this, we recall the founding commitment of the journal’s first editorial board t…
Law and Rhetoric: Critical Possibilities
What contribution can rhetoric make to socio-legal studies? Though now a byword for deception and spin, rhetoric was long identified with the very substance of law and politics. Latterly radical scholars have foregrounded an understanding of law as rhetoric in their polemics against legal formalism, but it needs to be complemented by a critical perspective which goes beyond simple revivalism, taking account of rhetoric's own blind spots, inquirin…
Probability of compound climate extremes in a changing climate: A copula-based study of hot, dry, and windy events in the central United States
Climate extreme events exert disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and humankind. Focusing on univariate statistics to estimate the harm from compound extreme events usually falls short in communicating the real risk. Here, the co-occurrence of hot, dry, and windy events (HDWs) in the central United States was analyzed over the period 1949–2018. Results demonstrate south-west Kansas and north Texas as locations where HDWs are more frequent. The …
Evaluating a No Hit Zone program and provider interventions at an urban academic pediatric practice
A Human-environment Timeline
Concern about accelerating human impact on Earth systems coincides with discussion of adding a new proposed geologic epoch that would document the Age of Humans. This research contributes a human-environment timeline prototype. Time-period classification provides academics and citizens alike with a common temporal reference frame for discussion and further investigation. A hierarchical human-environment timeline was built from analysis of entries…
Geographic Thought and the Anthropocene: What Geographers Have Said and Have to Say
Drawing from early modern and contemporary geographic thought, this article explores how the premise of an Anthropocene (Age of Humans) can be used to reinforce enduring modes of human–environment thinking. Anthropocene dialogues build on insights posed by geographers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: unity of nature, humans as nature made conscious, humans as nature’s conscience, and time periods as devices for thinking about hum…
Human-Environment Thinking and K-12 Geography Education
Pollution issues, anthropogenic climate change, and biodiversity declines, formerly local in scope, accumulate to threaten crossing planetary boundaries and tipping Earth’s system to an uninhabitable state. The human-environment identity is an unsung cornerstone of geography that can educate upcoming generations of citizens about trends over time, current conditions, and pathways to a more desirable future. The geography education community shoul…
Covid- 19 and human right to food: Lived experiences of the urban poor in Kenya with the impacts of government’s response measures, a participatory qualitative study
The government's COVID-19 restrictive measures exacerbated the already existing vulnerability of the urban poor to food insecurity and violated their human right to food. Future response measures should be executed in ways that respect the human right to food and protect marginalized people from resultant vulnerabilities
Teaching about Local Climates, Global Climate, and Climatic Change
The basics of climate must be understood to have a climate literate populace. Understanding climatic change is a wicked problem. This work identifies three foundational content challenges to climate and climate change education, discusses them thoroughly, and offers graphics and conceptual models to address this content in the classroom. The three concepts covered are: 1) conflation between weather and climate, 2) understanding the differences am…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Law and economics (4 works)