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About Jane Richards

I have a PhD in Human Rights Law from The University of Hong Kong. I am a Lecturer in Law at The University of Leeds. In my free time, I run, I protest and I parent - not always in that order.

Jane Richards is a doctoral student at the University of Hong Kong. You can find her on twitter where she follows all things related to human rights and Hong Kong politics @JaneRichardsHK

NBN Episodes hosted by Jane:

Law May 21, 2023

Historical Criminology

David Churchill, Henry Yeomans, and Iain Channing

Hosted by Jane Richards
Historical Criminology (Routledge, 2022) breaks new ground by challenging researchers to question what we do, and why we do it. It draws out what criminologists can learn from historians, and examines the …
Law May 8, 2023

State Responses to Crimes of Genocide

What Went Wrong and How to Change It

Ewelina U. Ochab and David Alton

Hosted by Jane Richards
In State Responses to Crimes of Genocide: What Went Wrong and How to Change It (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) Dr Ewelina U. Ochab and Lord Alton of Liverpool bring together ongoing situations of genocide around the …
Law May 2, 2023

What Is Legal Education For?

Reassessing the Purposes of Early Twenty-First Century Learning and Law Schools

Rachel Dunn, Paul Maharg, and Victoria Roper

Hosted by Jane Richards
This book delves deep into the question of what is legal education for? Who does it serve, and how, as educators can we reflect on what we deliver in the …
Law March 20, 2023

Better Law for a Better World

New Approaches to Law Practice and Education

Liz Curran

Hosted by Jane Richards
In Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education (Routledge, 2021) I spoke with Dr Liz Curran about the urgent need for innovation in law, legal practice, and legal …
Law February 19, 2023

The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide

Jonathan Herring

Hosted by Jane Richards
Professor Jonathan Herring makes an argument that suicidal people have a right to be protected from committing suicide, and that the state should be under a duty to take reasonable …
Law January 28, 2023

The China Nexus

Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny

Benedict Rogers

Hosted by Jane Richards
The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny (Optimum Publishing, 2022) brings together Benedict Rogers' 30 years of advocacy, research and work in and around China. Opening …
Law December 7, 2022

Human Rights at Risk

Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity

Salvador Santino F. Regilme and Irene Hadiprayitno

Hosted by Jane Richards
Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (Rutgers University Press, 2022) is a fascinating book that brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars from …
Law December 3, 2022

The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law

Moving Beyond Binaries

Beverley Clough

Hosted by Jane Richards
This book cuts new ground, challenging the assumption of law as an objective concept. It draws out the way that binary frameworks situate and create the notion of the individual in …
Law November 25, 2022

Foreign Judges in the Pacific

Anna Dziedzic

Hosted by Jane Richards
While it might ordinarily be assumed that judges who sit on constitutional courts will be local citizens, in the islands of the Pacific, more than three-quarters of judges are foreign. This is …
Law October 24, 2022

Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution

Lucy Series

Hosted by Jane Richards
Dr Lucy Series Deprivations of Liberty in The Shadows of the Institution (Bristol University Press, 2022) is one that I have long been looking forward to reading, and it did not disappoint. Series …
Law May 27, 2022

Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South

African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920–1945

Brandon T. Jett

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this groundbreaking work, Professor Brandon T. Jett unearths how police departments evolved with the urbanization of the Jim Crow South, to target African Americans through a variety of mechanisms of …
Law May 13, 2022

Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World

What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere

Mark L. Clifford

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this account of the rapid erosion of liberties, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and civil and political rights in Hong Kong, Mark L. Clifford's latest book provides …
Law May 6, 2022

Indelible City

Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

Louisa Lim

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this timely book, award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger, Louisa Lim, weaves together Hong Kong's fraught political and social history with her own first hand account of the spirit …
Law April 27, 2022

The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-terrorism

Fiona De Londras

Hosted by Jane Richards
The attacks of 9/11 changed the course of the global counter-terrorism order which has entrenched a system of global governance. This institutional creep is arguably eroding national borders, spheres of domestic …
Law February 25, 2022

A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy

Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Piers Gooding

Hosted by Jane Richards
This book cuts new ground by applying a human rights lens of analysis to domestic mental health laws. It makes a timely contribution into the discourse regarding mental health, supported …
Law February 23, 2022

Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System

Comparative and Therapeutic Responses

Gaye T. Lansdell, Bernadette J. Saunders, and Anna Eriksson

Hosted by Jane Richards
Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021) delves into an under-researched and little understood but extremely pertinent issue in law; the prevalence of neurodisability within …
Law December 15, 2021

Aid Imperium

United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia

Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr.

Hosted by Jane Richards
The United States is the world's largest donor of foreign aid, and in this profound analysis, Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. demonstrates the links between human rights protections and the provision …
Law November 8, 2021

Clustered Injustice and The Level Green

Luke Clements

Hosted by Jane Richards
In Clustered Injustice and The Level Green (Legal Action Group, 2020), Professor Luke Clements tackles the problem of the way in which "our legal system generates and exacerbates disadvantage." Examining the interconnectedness of disadvantage …
Law October 25, 2021

Human Choice in International Law

Anna Spain Bradley

Hosted by Jane Richards
Professor Anna Spain Bradley "wrote this book to be accessible to anyone, because international law is for everyone." In this accessible and concise monograph, Professor Spain Bradley asks how human choice influences …
Law September 28, 2021

Disability, Criminal Justice and Law

Reconsidering Court Diversion

Linda Steele

Hosted by Jane Richards
With a focus on the court diversion of disabled people, Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion (Routledge 2020) undertakes a theoretical and empirical examination of how law is complicit in debilitating …
Law September 7, 2021

Obligations

New Trajectories in Law

Scott Veitch

Hosted by Jane Richards
Obligations: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2021) critically analyses the role that obligations play in law and social ordering. As rights have become preeminent feature in modern societies, the work that obligations do has faded …
Law August 16, 2021

Mental Capacity in Relationship

Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy

Camillia Kong

Hosted by Jane Richards
Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), challenges the current legal landscape of mental capacity law and human rights legislation, arguing that assessments of mental capacity …
Law July 28, 2021

Myanmar's Enemy Within

Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'

Francis Wade

Hosted by Jane Richards
In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of widespread targeted violence against its Rohingya minority. The horrific atrocities was later described by United Nations experts as genocide. This had been building …
Law July 1, 2021

Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law

Heather Douglas

Hosted by Jane Richards
Every year, millions of women turn to law to help them escape intimate partner violence. The legal processes are complex and varied, often enmeshing women for many years. In Intimate Partner …