Matilda Gillis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5794796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matilda Gillis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matilda |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillis |
| SIGNATURE | GILLIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Modern Slavery in Armed Conflict
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his support for a plan to recruit fighters from abroad to join the Russian army in early 2022, foreigners have fought in Ukraine as part of Russian forces. Many of these fighters are mercenaries in the commonly understood sense of that term. That is, they are fighters who have gone, intentionally, to fight for Russia in return for significant payment. Although these fighters have often found themse…
Can We Talk? The Application of the Public Law Democratic Dialogue Model to the Interactions between Domestic Legislatures and the European Courts
The democratic dialogue model is a domestic constitutional model of rights protection, which is used to explain and evaluate the relationship between domestic courts and legislatures. It is characterised by there being some capacity on the part of the legislature to respond to a court decision and it claims, among other things, to produce a ‘better protection of human rights’. This paper examines whether the democratic dialogue model can be, and …
Ventilators, missiles, doctors, troops … the justification of legislative responses to Covid-19 through military metaphors
This article examines the legislative measures imposed by governments as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and scrutinizes, in particular, governments' extensive use of military metaphors to justify those measures. It argues that while the use of military metaphors can usefully and desirably function to mobilize widespread acceptance and compliance with the relevant legislative measures and to motivate action, the use of metaphors in this way s…
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Ventilators, missiles, doctors, troops … the justification of legislative responses to Covid-19 through military metaphors
This article examines the legislative measures imposed by governments as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and scrutinizes, in particular, governments' extensive use of military metaphors to justify those measures. It argues that while the use of military metaphors can usefully and desirably function to mobilize widespread acceptance and compliance with the relevant legislative measures and to motivate action, the use of metaphors in this way s…
Can We Talk? The Application of the Public Law Democratic Dialogue Model to the Interactions between Domestic Legislatures and the European Courts
The democratic dialogue model is a domestic constitutional model of rights protection, which is used to explain and evaluate the relationship between domestic courts and legislatures. It is characterised by there being some capacity on the part of the legislature to respond to a court decision and it claims, among other things, to produce a ‘better protection of human rights’. This paper examines whether the democratic dialogue model can be, and …
Modern Slavery in Armed Conflict
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his support for a plan to recruit fighters from abroad to join the Russian army in early 2022, foreigners have fought in Ukraine as part of Russian forces. Many of these fighters are mercenaries in the commonly understood sense of that term. That is, they are fighters who have gone, intentionally, to fight for Russia in return for significant payment. Although these fighters have often found themse…
Human rights (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Legislature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Armed conflict (1 works) · Constitution (1 works) · Constitutional court (1 works) · Democracy (1 works)