Jo Shaw

Biographic Data

ID3677207
NAMEJo Shaw
GIVEN NAMESJo
FAMILY NAMEShaw
SIGNATURESHAW J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0002-4423-2984
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS55
TOTAL CITATIONS136
AUTHOR COUNT51
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Global constitutionalism and/as enlightenment

    Open AccessJared Holley, Antje Wiener et al.ARTICLEGlobal Constitutionalism2026

    This editorial considers how scholars interested in issues of global constitutionalism should approach the questions that have concerned those interested in enlightenment. Reflecting on the relocation of the journal’s editorial offices to Edinburgh, we foreground discussions from the historiography of the long eighteenth century that should be of interest to scholars of international relations, international law and political theory. Two main con…

  • Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten

    Sara Sheridan, Ben Fletcher-Watson et al.BOOKWomen Who Dared2025

    Stories of resistance, power and defiance from the women who dared to make history Provides a global view of feminist history, taking in every continent in a span stretching from antiquity to the 21st century. Brings together a range of distinctive voices, from eminent historians to personal reflections on family members and ancestors; contributors include scholars, critics, creative writers, journalists and commentators. Makes history accessible…

  • Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism

    Open AccessAntje Wiener, Jo Shaw et al.ARTICLEGlobal Constitutionalism2025Cited by: 3

    Taking Global Constitutionalism as an agora, a platform for international interdisciplinary discussions this article asks a question about the state we are in with regard to the international order as an order that is not just a ‘rule-based order’ but also more substantially, a ‘legal order’ based on the rule of law. The topic is illustrated with reference to examples of ‘contested compliance’ i.e. objections to implementing international law and…

  • Risky conclusions regarding shrinking rhino horns

    Open AccessSam Ferreira, Michael ‘t Sas-Rolfes et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2024

    Image‐based analyses from an online repository on rhino horns asserted that declines in size over time could be the consequence of poaching and hunting. We provide reflections on whether the sample was representative enough to make generalizations, the study adequately accounted for the main sources of horn‐size variation and the statistical methods were adequate to be confident in the results. The sample had a limited representation, most coming…

  • Private law, private international law and public interest litigation

    Open AccessStephanie Law, Jo Shaw et al.ARTICLEGlobal Constitutionalism2024Cited by: 1References: 3

    Private actors and institutions, and by extension private law itself, are increasingly being forced to reckon with a multiplicity of challenges that extend beyond the domain of private law as it is traditionally conceived. They reflect threats to the global constitutional order and liberal constitutionalism, and threats to individual and collective fundamental rights and constitutional values. As a result, the role of private law in framing and f…

  • The Transient Foreigner’: Restrictions on Citizenship Acquisition in Chile and Colombia for Those Said to Be ‘Passing Through’

    Open AccessJuan Pablo Ramaciotti, Jo ShawARTICLEInternational and Comparative Law…2024References: 4

    This article explores the constitutional regulation of birthright ius soli citizenship in two Latin American countries which restrict access to citizenship for the children of foreigners deemed to be passing through the countries. Access to citizenship is a significant marker of membership, setting the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion within and across States. Choosing the cases of Chile and Colombia, this article uses historical, institutio…

  • The constitutionalisation of cities and the future of global society

    Open AccessJo Shaw, Igor ŠtiksARTICLEIdentities2023

    The constitutionalisation of cities is analysed as a process through which urban residents operate as constitutionalising forces within their cities through lived experiences, practices and engagement, and cities try to impose themselves as constitutionalising forces within a rapidly transforming global society. This article explores the tensions generated by the constitutionalisation of cities. It focuses on identifying their character, assessin…

  • Climate change and the challenge to liberalism

    Open AccessSusan Kang, Jonathan Havercroft et al.ARTICLEGlobal Constitutionalism2023Cited by: 1References: 2

    In this editorial, we consider the ways in which liberal constitutionalism is challenged by and presents challenges to the climate crisis facing the world. Over recent decades, efforts to mitigate the climate crisis have generated a new set of norms for states and non-state actors, including regulatory norms (emission standards, carbon regulations), organising principles (common but differentiated responsibility) and fundamental norms (climate ju…

  • The pendulum swings back: New authoritarian threats to liberal democratic constitutionalism

    Open AccessJacob Eisler, Jonathan Havercroft et al.ARTICLEGlobal Constitutionalism2022References: 9

    The End of History

  • Citizenship and Covid-19: Syndemic Effects

    Open AccessJo ShawARTICLEGerman Law Journal2021

    This article begins the task of outlining the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to matters of citizenship, using what is termed a “syndemic analysis.” This type of analysis places both the pandemic and citizenship in their wider contexts. The synergistic or intersectional thinking encouraged by the characterization of the pandemic as a syndemic, which links together health, socio-economic issues, and political questions, is useful for …

  • After Trump

    Open AccessJo Shaw, Jacob Eisler et al.ARTICLEGlobal Constitutionalism2021Cited by: 1References: 1

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  • Citizenship in Africa

    Jo ShawARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2021

    When reviewing a continental-scale, encyclopaedic work, there are two obvious directions in which to go. The reviewer could stick to the continental scale and the general themes and provide an info

  • The People in Question: Citizens and Constitutions in Uncertain Times

    Open AccessJo ShawBOOKPeople in Question2020

  • Decolonising global constitutionalism

    Open AccessJonathan Havercroft, Jacob Eisler et al.ARTICLEGlobal Constitutionalism2020Cited by: 4

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  • Shunning’ and ‘seeking’ membership: Rethinking citizenship regimes in the European constitutional space

    Open AccessJo ShawARTICLEGlobal Constitutionalism2019References: 42

    This article explores parallels between the ‘shunning’ and ‘seeking’ of membership of the EU in the context of Brexit and stalled enlargement in south-east Europe, via a focus on the partial, fragmentary and contested governance of citizenship. The case studies place Union citizenship into a wider political and socio-economic context, demonstrating its central importance as an enabler of personal freedom. At the same time, they highlight how the …

  • Citizenship for Sale: Could and Should the EU Intervene?

    Open AccessJo ShawCHAPTERDebating Transformations of…2018

    ‘Intervention’ is much too strong a word for whatever it is that the European Parliament could and should do on 15 January, when it debates the issue of EU citizenship for sale. But a first and wide-ranging reflection on some of the emerging consequences of EU citizenship for national democracies would at least be a start. 2013 was the year of the EU citizen. It did not do much to raise public awareness about EU citizenship and it ended with move…

  • Deprivation of Citizenship: Is There an Issue of EU Law?

    Open AccessJo ShawCHAPTERDebating Transformations of…2018

    The purpose of this short intervention in the debate on The Return of Banishment initiated by Audrey Macklin, where the pros and cons of various forms of deprivation policies pursued by, or sought by, liberal states have been fully debated, is to add an element of EU law. Specifically, in the light of the judgments of the European Court of Justice in Rottmann and Ruiz Zambrano , how – if at all – are Member States’ laws and procedures on involunt…

  • Citizenship and Constitutional Law

    Jo ShawBOOKCitizenship and Constitutional Law2018

    This research review highlights the complex, dynamic relationship between citizenship – as membership status – and the constitutional law that provides the cornerstone of all polities. It shows the many different ways in which we must use constitutional law in order to fully understand how one becomes a citizen, and what the meaning of citizenship is. It also analyses the key works which cover national, transnational and international aspects of …

  • Citizenship Rights

    Jo Shaw, Igor ŠtiksBOOKCitizenship Rights2017

  • The quintessentially democratic act? Democracy, political community and citizenship in and after the UK’s EU referendum of June 2016

    Jo ShawARTICLEJournal of European Integration2017Cited by: 8References: 13

    On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, by a rather small majority. Although much about the future relations between the EU and the UK remains uncertain, it is already possible to explore in more detail the issues of democracy, political community and citizenship which were thrown up by this referendum result. The article explores the reconstruction of the vote as the ‘will of the people’, in the light of the princi…

  • Citizenship and the Franchise

    Jo Shaw, Ayelet Shachar et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Citizenship2017References: 15

    The struggle for universal suffrage has been a paradigmatic political struggle in the modern state, as people have striven to achieve full and equal citizenship. This chapter examines - from a conceptual, legal and historical perspective - the ‘selection’ of voters as one of the core hallmarks of citizenship in modern democracies. It explores the ways in which the ideas and practices of citizenship intersect with the right to vote, allowing us to…

  • The Governance of Citizenship Practices in the Post-Yugoslav States: The Impact of Europeanisation

    Jelena Dzankic, Simonida Kacarska et al.ARTICLEEuropean Politics and Society2015Cited by: 2References: 2

    Published online: 09 July 2015

  • Community, memory, and migration in a globalizing world: The Goan experience,c. 1890–1980

    Jo ShawARTICLEAfrican Affairs2015

    Why would someone whose expertise lies in the field of European Union (EU) law and EU studies pick up this book and read it with great interest and appreciation? Well, there are professional reasons; parts of this book were written while the author was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, although that was before my tenure as Director. But there are also broader reasons, namely the searc…

  • Citizenship after Yugoslavia

    Jo Shaw, Igor ŠtiksBOOKCitizenship after Yugoslavia2013

    This book is the first comprehensive examination of the citizenship regimes of the new states that emerged out of the break up of Yugoslavia. It covers both the states that emerged out of the initial disintegration across 1991 and 1992 (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Macedonia), as well as those that have been formed recently through subsequent partitions (Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo). While citize…

  • Scotland: 40 Years of EU Membership

    Open AccessJo ShawARTICLEJournal of Contemporary European…2013

    This chronology picks out the most significant UK and EU events, noting where possible how these affect Scotland in specific ways.It also identifies some Scotland specific events