Jill Marshall, Professor of Law in the department, presented her research at a conference organised and hosted by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in May 2020. This was the first time Jill presented at, and attended, a conference via Zoom.

Jill Marshall, Professor of Law

Jill’s paper was a shortened version of her chapter in Anja Matwijkiw & Anna Oriolo (eds.), The Legal “Burqa Ban” Trend: Criminalizing the Trivial or Separating National and International Law? (Intersentia, 2020 forthcoming).

Her chapter builds on her evidence provided at the Equalities Committee at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and her previous publications, including Human Rights Law and Personal Identity (Routledge 2014). She focuses on the international human rights regime’s role in enabling certain ways of being and identities to be lived in societies. This includes analysing the purpose of international human rights law, its relevant treaties, and philosophy on personal identity, community, belonging and recognition theory and what that means for women’s rights to make free choices about wearing what they want, including full face veils.