Joe Wills
Biographic Data
| ID | 6548112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Wills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Wills |
| SIGNATURE | WILLS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Animal rights, legal personhood and cognitive capacity
This article considers objections to current litigation strategies of the US-based Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), which seek to extend legal personhood and liberty rights to nonhuman animals who possess ‘practical autonomy’. By tying personhood to intellectual abilities, so the objections go, such strategies endanger the present legal standing of humans with profound cognitive impairments. This article will argue that such cause for concern is l…
A Nation of Animal Lovers? The Case for a General Animal Killing Offence in UK Law
This article argues that criminal liability for offences against animals under UK law should be extended to include offences of killing, even if the death caused is painless and does not interfere with property rights or biodiversity.I defend this position by appealing to two norms that have significant purchase in the UK legal context: (1) the value of protecting animal welfare and (2) the harm principle as a basis for criminalisation.It will be…
Contesting World Order? Socioeconomic Rights And Global Justice Movements
"What do equality, dignity and rights mean in a world where eight men own as much wealth as half the world's population? Contesting World Order? Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements examines how global justice movements have engaged the language of socioeconomic rights to contest global institutional structures and rules responsible for contributing to the persistence of severe poverty. Drawing upon perspectives from critical interna…
Contesting Austerity
This article argues that, while socioeconomic rights have the potential to contribute to the contestation of austerity measures and the reimagining of a “postneoliberal” order, there are a number of features of socioeconomic rights as currently constructed under international law that limit these possibilities. We identify these limitations as falling into two categories: “contingent” and “structural.” Contingent limitations are shortcomings in t…
The World Turned Upside Down? Neo-Liberalism, Socioeconomic Rights, and Hegemony
This article draws upon a neo-Gramscian analysis of world order to critically assess the relationship between neo-liberal globalization and socioeconomic rights. It argues that, notwithstanding the well-documented discursive tensions that appear to exist between neo-liberalism and socioeconomic rights, the latter have been reconceptualized in a manner that is congruent with the hegemonic framework of the former in a number of international instit…
The World Turned Upside Down? Neo-Liberalism, Socioeconomic Rights, and Hegemony
This article draws upon a neo-Gramscian analysis of world order to critically assess the relationship between neo-liberal globalization and socioeconomic rights. It argues that, notwithstanding the well-documented discursive tensions that appear to exist between neo-liberalism and socioeconomic rights, the latter have been reconceptualized in a manner that is congruent with the hegemonic framework of the former in a number of international instit…
A Nation of Animal Lovers? The Case for a General Animal Killing Offence in UK Law
This article argues that criminal liability for offences against animals under UK law should be extended to include offences of killing, even if the death caused is painless and does not interfere with property rights or biodiversity.I defend this position by appealing to two norms that have significant purchase in the UK legal context: (1) the value of protecting animal welfare and (2) the harm principle as a basis for criminalisation.It will be…
The World Turned Upside Down? Neo-Liberalism, Socioeconomic Rights, and Hegemony
This article draws upon a neo-Gramscian analysis of world order to critically assess the relationship between neo-liberal globalization and socioeconomic rights. It argues that, notwithstanding the well-documented discursive tensions that appear to exist between neo-liberalism and socioeconomic rights, the latter have been reconceptualized in a manner that is congruent with the hegemonic framework of the former in a number of international instit…
Contesting Austerity
This article argues that, while socioeconomic rights have the potential to contribute to the contestation of austerity measures and the reimagining of a “postneoliberal” order, there are a number of features of socioeconomic rights as currently constructed under international law that limit these possibilities. We identify these limitations as falling into two categories: “contingent” and “structural.” Contingent limitations are shortcomings in t…
Contesting World Order? Socioeconomic Rights And Global Justice Movements
"What do equality, dignity and rights mean in a world where eight men own as much wealth as half the world's population? Contesting World Order? Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements examines how global justice movements have engaged the language of socioeconomic rights to contest global institutional structures and rules responsible for contributing to the persistence of severe poverty. Drawing upon perspectives from critical interna…
A Nation of Animal Lovers? The Case for a General Animal Killing Offence in UK Law
This article argues that criminal liability for offences against animals under UK law should be extended to include offences of killing, even if the death caused is painless and does not interfere with property rights or biodiversity.I defend this position by appealing to two norms that have significant purchase in the UK legal context: (1) the value of protecting animal welfare and (2) the harm principle as a basis for criminalisation.It will be…
Animal rights, legal personhood and cognitive capacity
This article considers objections to current litigation strategies of the US-based Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), which seek to extend legal personhood and liberty rights to nonhuman animals who possess ‘practical autonomy’. By tying personhood to intellectual abilities, so the objections go, such strategies endanger the present legal standing of humans with profound cognitive impairments. This article will argue that such cause for concern is l…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Socioeconomic status (3 works) · Animal rights (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)