Thomas Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 4097935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7314-465X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Human Body as Property: The Meaning of Embodiment, Markets, and the Meaning of Strangers
For as long as I can recall, newspapers have published brief items in which someone has calculated what the human body is "worth" on the open market. The value of the body-as reduced to its chemical components-was never more than a few dollars. A more accurate accounting, though, would include the market value of transplantable organs and tissues, as well as the potential bonanza to be had should a cell line cultured from that body prove valuable…
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during Covid-19: A moderated mediation model
Asian American (AA) early educators’ experiences of racism harm students directly. • AA early educators’ experiences are detrimental to their mental health. • AA early educators’ experiences of racism affect students indirectly via their mental health. • Neighborhood Asian concentration moderates the mediating effect of mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Asian racism intensified in the United States (US), impairing the mental healt…
Genetic algorithms reveal identity independent representation of emotional expressions
People readily and automatically process facial emotion and identity, and it has been reported that these cues are processed both dependently and independently. However, this question of identity independent encoding of emotions has only been examined using posed, often exaggerated expressions of emotion, that do not account for the substantial individual differences in emotion recognition. In this study, we ask whether people's unique beliefs of…
The people, the spaces, the talking!’ Igniting community-based higher education
In the context of rapid economic, social, and demographic change, fostering equity and inclusion in third level education is a prerequisite for adaptability, social cohesion, and human development. Community-university collaborations demonstrate significant potential to widen participation in Higher Education (HE). In the following article, we examine community-based HE through the lens of a single case study. An Cosán is a community education ce…
Economic and Social Rights in Ireland
This chapter examines the law and politics of contesting economic and social rights in Ireland. Civil society mobilizations for the constitutional recognition of socio-economic rights provoke disagreement about the feasibility, legitimacy, and effectiveness of using such rights to de-commodify labour and social reproduction. The chapter situates these debates in their socio-legal context. It examines why state actors have opposed socio-economic r…
Contesting Economic and Social Rights in Ireland: Constitution, State and Society, 1848–2016
This book presents a political understanding of socio-economic rights by contextualising constitution-makers' and judges' decision-making in terms of Ireland's rich history of people's struggles for justice 'from below' between 1848 and the present. Its theoretical framework incorporates critical legal studies and world-systems analysis. It performs a critical discourse analysis of constitution-making processes in 1922 and 1937 as well as subsequ…
Contesting a World-Constitution? Anti-Systemic Movements and Constitutional Forms in Ireland, 1848-2008
Recent accounts of constitutional development have emphasised commonalities among diverse constitutions in terms of the transnational migration of legal institutions and ideas. World-systems analysis gives critical expression to this emergent intellectual trajectory. Since the late 18th century, successive, international waves of constitution-making have tended to correspond with decisive turning points in the contested formation of the historica…
Contesting the Commonwealth: The Life and Social Legal Thought of Clemens France
Clemens J. France (1877–1959), a labour lawyer at the Port of Seattle, contributed substantially to the making of the 1922 Irish Free State Constitution. Notably, he advocated referendum and initiative measures similar to those used in the State of Washington. France also advocated egalitarian socio-economic development as a basis for genuine national independence. Ultimately, proposals for an ‘economic commonwealth’ and for direct democratic mec…
Socio-Economic Rights Versus Social Revolution? Constitution Making in Germany, Mexico and Ireland, 1917–1923
Socio-economic rights are ethico-political claims to employment, social security, health, education and adequate living standards, the understanding and contestation of which have changed over time. In this article, I examine the first wave of attempts to constitutionalize socio-economic rights in Mexico (1917), Weimar Germany (1919) and, in particular, the Irish Free State (1922). The real politics of constitutionalizing socio-economic rights, I…
Socio-Economic Rights and the Making of the 1937 Irish Constitution
The present article draws on a critical theory of law 'from below' and a range of archival sources to account for the contested role and significance of economic and social rights in the making of the 1937 Irish Constitution. That socio-economic rights featured so prominently in the constitution-making process owed, as elsewhere, to constitution-makers' concerns for 'class-abatement' during the Great Depression. During various agrarian, labour an…
The Life and Death of Carnie
This essay examines the history and ongoing livelihood of Carnie, a subcultural argot once popular among workers in circuses, carnivals,sideshows, athletic shows, and, more recently, professional wrestling. Through the use of published sources as well as personal interviews, we trace the origins of the argot to the late nineteenth century, when it may have been used exclusively as a secret language to conceal the illicit activities of some carniv…
Reproductive Ethics
The Impact of Combination Therapy on the Health Behaviors of HIV+ Gay Men
Ethics & Social Science Research
Contesting a World-Constitution? Anti-Systemic Movements and Constitutional Forms in Ireland, 1848-2008
Recent accounts of constitutional development have emphasised commonalities among diverse constitutions in terms of the transnational migration of legal institutions and ideas. World-systems analysis gives critical expression to this emergent intellectual trajectory. Since the late 18th century, successive, international waves of constitution-making have tended to correspond with decisive turning points in the contested formation of the historica…
The Life and Death of Carnie
This essay examines the history and ongoing livelihood of Carnie, a subcultural argot once popular among workers in circuses, carnivals,sideshows, athletic shows, and, more recently, professional wrestling. Through the use of published sources as well as personal interviews, we trace the origins of the argot to the late nineteenth century, when it may have been used exclusively as a secret language to conceal the illicit activities of some carniv…
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during Covid-19: A moderated mediation model
Asian American (AA) early educators’ experiences of racism harm students directly. • AA early educators’ experiences are detrimental to their mental health. • AA early educators’ experiences of racism affect students indirectly via their mental health. • Neighborhood Asian concentration moderates the mediating effect of mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Asian racism intensified in the United States (US), impairing the mental healt…
Socio-Economic Rights Versus Social Revolution? Constitution Making in Germany, Mexico and Ireland, 1917–1923
Socio-economic rights are ethico-political claims to employment, social security, health, education and adequate living standards, the understanding and contestation of which have changed over time. In this article, I examine the first wave of attempts to constitutionalize socio-economic rights in Mexico (1917), Weimar Germany (1919) and, in particular, the Irish Free State (1922). The real politics of constitutionalizing socio-economic rights, I…
Socio-Economic Rights and the Making of the 1937 Irish Constitution
The present article draws on a critical theory of law 'from below' and a range of archival sources to account for the contested role and significance of economic and social rights in the making of the 1937 Irish Constitution. That socio-economic rights featured so prominently in the constitution-making process owed, as elsewhere, to constitution-makers' concerns for 'class-abatement' during the Great Depression. During various agrarian, labour an…
Ethics & Social Science Research
The Impact of Combination Therapy on the Health Behaviors of HIV+ Gay Men
Reproductive Ethics
The Life and Death of Carnie
This essay examines the history and ongoing livelihood of Carnie, a subcultural argot once popular among workers in circuses, carnivals,sideshows, athletic shows, and, more recently, professional wrestling. Through the use of published sources as well as personal interviews, we trace the origins of the argot to the late nineteenth century, when it may have been used exclusively as a secret language to conceal the illicit activities of some carniv…
Socio-Economic Rights Versus Social Revolution? Constitution Making in Germany, Mexico and Ireland, 1917–1923
Socio-economic rights are ethico-political claims to employment, social security, health, education and adequate living standards, the understanding and contestation of which have changed over time. In this article, I examine the first wave of attempts to constitutionalize socio-economic rights in Mexico (1917), Weimar Germany (1919) and, in particular, the Irish Free State (1922). The real politics of constitutionalizing socio-economic rights, I…
Socio-Economic Rights and the Making of the 1937 Irish Constitution
The present article draws on a critical theory of law 'from below' and a range of archival sources to account for the contested role and significance of economic and social rights in the making of the 1937 Irish Constitution. That socio-economic rights featured so prominently in the constitution-making process owed, as elsewhere, to constitution-makers' concerns for 'class-abatement' during the Great Depression. During various agrarian, labour an…
Contesting Economic and Social Rights in Ireland: Constitution, State and Society, 1848–2016
This book presents a political understanding of socio-economic rights by contextualising constitution-makers' and judges' decision-making in terms of Ireland's rich history of people's struggles for justice 'from below' between 1848 and the present. Its theoretical framework incorporates critical legal studies and world-systems analysis. It performs a critical discourse analysis of constitution-making processes in 1922 and 1937 as well as subsequ…
Contesting a World-Constitution? Anti-Systemic Movements and Constitutional Forms in Ireland, 1848-2008
Recent accounts of constitutional development have emphasised commonalities among diverse constitutions in terms of the transnational migration of legal institutions and ideas. World-systems analysis gives critical expression to this emergent intellectual trajectory. Since the late 18th century, successive, international waves of constitution-making have tended to correspond with decisive turning points in the contested formation of the historica…
Contesting the Commonwealth: The Life and Social Legal Thought of Clemens France
Clemens J. France (1877–1959), a labour lawyer at the Port of Seattle, contributed substantially to the making of the 1922 Irish Free State Constitution. Notably, he advocated referendum and initiative measures similar to those used in the State of Washington. France also advocated egalitarian socio-economic development as a basis for genuine national independence. Ultimately, proposals for an ‘economic commonwealth’ and for direct democratic mec…
Economic and Social Rights in Ireland
This chapter examines the law and politics of contesting economic and social rights in Ireland. Civil society mobilizations for the constitutional recognition of socio-economic rights provoke disagreement about the feasibility, legitimacy, and effectiveness of using such rights to de-commodify labour and social reproduction. The chapter situates these debates in their socio-legal context. It examines why state actors have opposed socio-economic r…
Genetic algorithms reveal identity independent representation of emotional expressions
People readily and automatically process facial emotion and identity, and it has been reported that these cues are processed both dependently and independently. However, this question of identity independent encoding of emotions has only been examined using posed, often exaggerated expressions of emotion, that do not account for the substantial individual differences in emotion recognition. In this study, we ask whether people's unique beliefs of…
The people, the spaces, the talking!’ Igniting community-based higher education
In the context of rapid economic, social, and demographic change, fostering equity and inclusion in third level education is a prerequisite for adaptability, social cohesion, and human development. Community-university collaborations demonstrate significant potential to widen participation in Higher Education (HE). In the following article, we examine community-based HE through the lens of a single case study. An Cosán is a community education ce…
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during Covid-19: A moderated mediation model
Asian American (AA) early educators’ experiences of racism harm students directly. • AA early educators’ experiences are detrimental to their mental health. • AA early educators’ experiences of racism affect students indirectly via their mental health. • Neighborhood Asian concentration moderates the mediating effect of mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Asian racism intensified in the United States (US), impairing the mental healt…
On the Human Body as Property: The Meaning of Embodiment, Markets, and the Meaning of Strangers
For as long as I can recall, newspapers have published brief items in which someone has calculated what the human body is "worth" on the open market. The value of the body-as reduced to its chemical components-was never more than a few dollars. A more accurate accounting, though, would include the market value of transplantable organs and tissues, as well as the potential bonanza to be had should a cell line cultured from that body prove valuable…
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