Dr Emily Jones
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 874178
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Location
5S.4.14, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
By appointment only
Profile
Biography
Emily Jones is a feminist international legal theorist working from a critical posthuman perspective. Her current work focuses on: military technologies including autonomous weapons systems and human enhancement technologies; feminist and queer methodologies; gender and conflict; imperialism, wealth and international law; the granting of legal personality to the environment; and the interplay between property, science and technology and the law. Emily has held visiting positions at multiple institutions including at the University of Melbourne, Sciences Po Paris, SOAS University of London and Utrecht University. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Qualifications
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LLB London School of Economics and Political Science,
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MA University College London,
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PhD SOAS, University of London,
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Emerging Military Technologies including Autonomous Weapons Systems and Human Enhancement Technologies
The Legal Subject and International Legal Personality
Posthuman Theory
Gender and Conflict
Feminist and Queer approaches to International Law
Science, Technology and the Law
Environmental Justice
Conferences and presentations
Reading Humanist Law: A Posthuman Feminist Analysis of the Debates on Autonomous Weapons Systems
Invited presentation, Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, 14/1/2020
The Crisis of Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Increasing Use of Human Enhancement Technologies in Conflict: A Critical Feminist Analysis
Invited presentation, Laureate Program in International Law Seminar Series, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia, 11/7/2019
The Crisis of Autonomous Weapons Systems
Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) Annual Conference, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia, 4/7/2019
Thinking through humanism and anthropocentrism in international law and legal personality: queer theory, feminist new materialism and the postcolonial (in conversation with Professor Dianne Otto)
Gender, Nature and Peace, LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, London, United Kingdom, 18/6/2019
The Crisis of Autonomous Weapons Systems
Cambridge International Law Journal Conference on New Technologies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 20/3/2019
A Posthuman Vision of Military Technologies: Drones, Autonomous Weapons and Human Enhancement Technologies
Invited presentation, School of Philosophy and Art History (SPAH) Seminar Series, University of Essex, 14/2/2019
Calling for the End of Humanity: Towards a Posthuman Law of Machine Intelligence
Critical Legal Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, 6/9/2018
Emerging Military Technologies and the Posthuman Limits of IHL and Disarmament
Human Rights Centre and the School of Law at the University of Essex and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Joint Conference on Current Issues in Armed Conflict, London, Colchester, United Kingdom, 29/6/2018
Humanitarian Law’s Posthuman Limits: An Analysis of the Discourse on Contemporary and Future Military Technologies
Laureate Program in International Law Conference on Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Law: History, Ideology, Practice, Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 2/6/2018
A Feminist New Materialist Analysis of Environmental Legal Personality: Transformations and Risks
Searching for Critical Environmental Law: Theories, Methods, Critiques Workshop, Oxford, United Kingdom, 11/5/2018
International and Environmental Legal Personalities: A Feminist New Materialist Analysis
Critical Legal Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, 2017
Killer Robots and Posthuman Ethics
Law and Society Association (LSA) International Meeting in Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico, 2017
Capitalism and the Necropolitical: A Posthuman-Xenofeminist Analysis of Autonomous Weapons
Against the Slow Cancellation of the Future Conference, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, London, London, United Kingdom, 2017
Challenging Dichotomies and Structures: International Law and Feminist Approaches
Invited presentation, Symposium to Celebrate the Work of Professor Dianne Otto, SOAS, University of London, London, United Kingdom, 2016
Discussing Sovereignty in Conversation with Professor Judith Butler
Invited presentation, London Review of International Law, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom, 2015
Towards a Feminine Morphology of/in International Law, Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Annual Conference, University College Dublin, 2014
Dublin, Ireland, 2014
Using Irigaray to Push at International Law's Boundaries: the Sovereign State
Working with Luce Irigaray International Seminar, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2014
Vulnerable Subjectivity: Redefining Law's Body
PECANS Conference on Vulnerability, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2013
How Useful is International Human Rights Law for Women
Women's New World with Dr. Shere Hite: In celebration of International Women's Day, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 2012
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Tort Law (LW201)
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International Human Rights: Theories and Institutions (LW901)
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Public International Law (LW902)
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Gender, Peace, Security and the Law (LW938)
Publications
Journal articles (5)
Jones, EL., Charlesworth, H. and Heathcote, G., (2019). Feminist Scholarship on International Law in the 1990s and today: An Inter-Generational Conversation. Feminist Legal Studies. 27 (1), 79-93
Jones, E., (2019). Feminist Technologies and Post-Capitalism: Defining and Reflecting upon Xenofeminism. Feminist Review. 123 (1), 126-134
Jones, EL., (2018). A Posthuman-Xenofeminist Analysis of the Discourse on Autonomous Weapons Systems and Other Killing Machines. Australian Feminist Law Journal. 44 (1), 93-118
Jones, E., Kendall, S. and Otomo, Y., (2018). Gender, War and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the 21st Century. Australian Feminist Law Journal. 44 (1), 1-8
Jones, E., (2015). dispossession: the performative in the political. Feminist Review. 109 (1), e12-e13
Book chapters (2)
Jones, EL., Chinkin, C., Jones, H. and Heathcote, G., (2019). Bozkurt Case (aka the Lotus Case): Two Ships that Go Bump in the Night. In: Feminist Judgments in International Law. Editors: Hodson, L. and Lavers, T., . Hart Publishing. 27- 51
Jones, E., (2019). Gender and Reparations: Seeking Transformative Justice. In: Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: Systems in Place and Systems in the Making, (second edition). Editors: Goetz, M. and Ferstman, C., . Brill
Other (2)
Jones, EL., 'A Posthuman Feminist Approach to Mars, ' IntLawGrrls Blog (2018): https://ilg2.org/2018/10/17/a-posthuman-feminist-approach-to-mars/
Jones, EL., (2018).Book Review: Dianne Otto (ed), Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks. Feminist Legal Studies. 1(1),Springer Verlag
Grants and funding
2019
Gender, Terrorism and Security in Africa
University of Essex (GCRF)
Contact
Academic support hours:
By appointment only