Jonathan Herring

Biography

I focus on how the law interacts with the important things in life: not money, companies or insurance; but love, friendship and intimacy. In my work I seek to develop ways the law can recognise and value the goods in activities such as carework and sex, while protecting people from the harms that so often result. I draw particularly on feminist ethic of care and relational theory in developing my thinking.

Family Law I have written a popular textbook in this subject and edited several books on theoretical issues in family law. My recent book, Law Through the Life Course, examines how the law is based on particular udnerstandings of the different stages in life. Domestic Abuse and Human Rights is a powerful call to understand domestic abuse as breach of human rights. I have also discussed children’s rights; the law of naming; and the nature of marriage. I was a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and an editor of the Child and Family Law Quarterly.

Medical Law I have written a leading textbook on this subject. I am particularly interested in the regulation of pregnancy and childbirth; legal responses to depression; and issues around mental capacity. I have co-edited with Camilla Pickles books on obstetric violence and intimate examinations during labour.

Criminal Law I have produced two best-selling textbooks on criminal law and have researched the law on sexual offences.

Elder Law I have written a leading monograph on the law’s treatment of older people and edited a collection of essays on issues surrounding dementia.

Care Law My book, Caring and the Law, explores the law’s treatment of caring and how adopting an ethic of care could transform the law.

Law and Vulnerability Vulnerable Adults and the Law explores the nature of human vulnerability and its relevance to the law. In Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law I have explored the law's conception of childhood vulneariblity. My most recent book, Law and the Relational Self, explores how the law could be reshaped to focus on relationships rather than individual rights.

Professional Legal Ethics My text, Legal Ethics, is a popular textbook on professional ethics for lawyers.

Current projects My current projects include an co-edited collection on the philosophy of disability law; an edited book on the law on "rough sex" (with Hannah Bows); a book on sexual offences with Michelle Madden Dempsey; co-authorering with Imogen Goold a book Debating Autonomy; and a book on suicide prevention.

Publications

Selected publications

J J W Herring, Law and The Relational Self (Cambridge University Press 2019)
J J W Herring, Domestic Abuse and Human Rights (Intersentia 2020)

Domestic Abuse and Human Rights presents an overview of the relevance of the European Convention on Human Rights to domestic abuse. It will have three aims: first, to consider the relevant case law and application of the key articles to questions around domestic abuse; second, to consider at a theoretical level the balancing between protection and autonomy at the heart of the legal response to domestic abuse; third, to propose practical application of a human rights approach to issues around domestic abuse, with particular emphasis placed on the significance of the Istanbul Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence against Women.
ISBN: 9781780682310
J J W Herring, Caring and the Law (Hart 2013)

This book explores at a theoretical and practical level the law's interaction with caring.
ISBN: 9781849461061

Book (112)

J J W Herring and P-L Chau, Emergent Medicine and the Law (Palgrave 2021)

J J W Herring and Charles Foster, Law as a Moral Agent (Springer 2021)

This book examines the controversial and repercussive contention that an objective of the law should be to promote personal morality - to make people ethically better. It surveys a number of domains, including criminal law, tort law, contract law, family law, and medical law (particularly the realm of moral enhancement technologies) asking for each: (a) Does the existing law seek to promote personal morality? (b) If so, what is the account of morality promoted, and what is the substantive content? (c) Does it work? and (d) Is this a legitimate objective?

Beverley Clough and J J W Herring, Disability, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2021)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (12th ed Red Globe Press/ Macmillan 2021)

ISBN: https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/Criminal-Law/?K=9781352012040

J J W Herring, Criminal Law: The Basics (2nd ed Routledge 2021)

J J W Herring, Family Law (10th ed Pearson 2021)

Clayton O'Neill, Charles Foster, J J W Herring and John Tingle, Routledge Handbook of Global Health Rights (Routledge 2021)

Camilla Picles and J J W Herring, Women’s Birthing Bodies and the Law: Unauthorised Intimate Examinations, Power and Vulnerability (Hart 2020)

This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour. The book uses feminist, socio-legal and philosophical tools to explore the issues of power, vulnerability and autonomy. The collection challenges the perception that the law adequately addresses different manifestations of unauthorised medical touch through the lens of women's experiences of unauthorised vaginal examinations during labour. The book unearths several broader themes that are of huge significance to lawyers and healthcare professionals such as the legal status of women and their bodies. The book raises questions about women's experiences during childbirth in hospital settings. It explores the status of women's bodies during labour and childbirth where too easily they become objectified, and it raises important issues around consent. The book highlights links to the law on sexual offences and women's loss of power under the medical gaze. Women's Birthing Bodies and the Law includes contributions from leading feminist philosophers, healthcare professionals, and academics in healthcare and law, and offers pioneering analysis relevant to lawyers and healthcare professionals with an interest in medical law and ethics; feminist theory; criminal law; tort law; and human rights law.

J J W Herring, Medical Law and Ethics (8th ed Oxford University Press 2020)

Camilla Pickles and J J W Herring, Childbirth, Vulnerability and Law: Exploring Issues of Violence and Control (Routledge 2020)

This book is inspired by a statement released by the World Health Organization directed at preventing and eliminating disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility-based childbirth. Exploring the nature of vulnerability during childbirth, and the factors which make childbirth a site for violence and control, the book looks at the role of law in the regulation of professional intervention in childbirth. The WHO statement and other published work on ‘mistreatment’, ‘obstetric violence’, ‘birth trauma’, ‘birth rape’, and ‘dehumanised care’ all point to the presence of vulnerability, violence, and control in childbirth. This collected edition explores these issues in the experience of those giving birth, and for those providing obstetric services. It further offers insights regarding legal avenues of redress in the context of this emerging area of concern. Using violence, vulnerability, and control as a lens through which to consider multiple facets of the law, the book brings together innovative research from an interdisciplinary selection of authors. The book will appeal to scholars of law and legal academics, specifically in relation to tort, criminal law, medical law, and human rights. It will also be of interest to postgraduate scholars of medical ethics and those concerned with gender studies more broadly.

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (10th ed Oxford University Press 2020)

J J W Herring, Concentrate: Criminal Law (7th ed Oxford University Press 2020)

J J W Herring, Domestic Abuse and Human Rights (Intersentia 2020)

Domestic Abuse and Human Rights presents an overview of the relevance of the European Convention on Human Rights to domestic abuse. It will have three aims: first, to consider the relevant case law and application of the key articles to questions around domestic abuse; second, to consider at a theoretical level the balancing between protection and autonomy at the heart of the legal response to domestic abuse; third, to propose practical application of a human rights approach to issues around domestic abuse, with particular emphasis placed on the significance of the Istanbul Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence against Women.

ISBN: 9781780682310

Daniel Bedford and J J W Herring, Embracing Vulnerability (Routledge 2020)

This book brings together legal scholars engaging with vulnerability theory to explore the implications and challenges for law of understanding vulnerability as generative and a source of connection and development. The book is structured into five sections that cover fields of law where there is already significant recourse to the concept of vulnerability. These sections include a main chapter by a legal theorist who has previously examined the creative potential of vulnerability and responses from scholars working in the same field. This is designed to draw out some of the central debates concerning how vulnerability is conceptualised in law. Several contributors highlight the need to re-focus on some of these more positive aspects of vulnerability to counter the way law is being used enable persons to escape the stigma associated with vulnerability by concealing that condition. They seek to explore how law might embrace vulnerability, rather than conceal it. The book also includes contributions that seek to bring vulnerability into a non-binary relationship with other core legal concepts, such as autonomy and dignity. Rather than discarding these legal concepts in favour of vulnerability, these contributions highlight how vulnerability can be entwined with relational autonomy and embodied dignity. This book is essential reading for both students studying legal theory and practitioners interested in vulnerability.

J J W Herring, Great Debates in Criminal Law 4th ed. (Macmillan 2020)

J J W Herring, Medical Law and Ethics 8th ed. (OUP 2020)

J J W Herring, Law and The Relational Self (Cambridge University Press 2019)

J J W Herring, Andelka Phillipis and Thana de Campos, Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law (Oxford University Press 2019)

J J W Herring, Family Law (9th Pearson 2019)

Dominic Wilkinson, J J W Herring and Julian Savulescu, Medical Ethics and Law: A Curriculum for the 21st Century (3rd edn Elsevier 2019)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (11th Palgrave 2019)

J J W Herring, Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law (Springer 2018)

Beverley Clough and J J W Herring, Ageing, Gender and Family Law (Routledge 2018)

This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts. Family life for older members has, then, been largely neglected; addressing this neglect, the current volume explores how the issues which might be important for younger people are not necessarily the same as those for older people. The significance of family, the nature of family life, and the understanding of self in terms of one’s relationships, tend to change over the life course. For example, the state may play an increasing role in the lives of older people – as access to services, involvement in work and the community, the ability to live independently, and to form or maintain caring relationships, are all impacted by law and policy. This collection therefore challenges the standard models of family life and family law that have been developed within a child/parent-centred paradigm, and which may require rethinking in the turn to family life in old age. Interdisciplinary in its scope and orientation, this book will appeal not just to academic family lawyers and students interested in issues around family law, ageing, gender, and care; but also to sociologists and ethicists working in these areas.

Charles Foster and J J W Herring, Human Thriving and the Law (Springer 2018)

J J W Herring and Imogen Goold, Medical Law and Ethics: Great Debates (2nd edn Plagrave 2018)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (8th edn Oxford University Press 2018)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law: Great Debates (3rd edn Macmillan 2018)

J J W Herring, Essential Cases: Criminal Law 2nd ed (Oxford University Press 2018)

J J W Herring, Family Law : Law Express (7th edn Pearson 2018)

J J W Herring, Medical Law and Ethics (7th edn Oxford University Press 2018)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (10th edn Palgrave 2017)

Charles Foster and J J W Herring, Depression: Law and Ethics (OUP 2017)

J J W Herring, Essential Cases: Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2017)

J J W Herring, Family Law 8th edn. (Pearson 2017)

J J W Herring and Charles Foster, Identity, Personhood and the Law (Springer 2017)

J J W Herring, Legal Ethics (2nd edn. OUP 2017)

J J W Herring, Vulnerable Adults and the Law (Oxford University Press 2016)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law 7th ed (Oxford University Press 2016)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law : Concentrate (OXford University Press 2016)

J J W Herring, Medical Law: Law Express (Pearson 2016)

J J W Herring, Medical ~Law and Ethics (OUP 2016)

J J W Herring and Charles Foster, Altruism, Welfare and the Law (Springer 2015)

J J W Herring, Beginning Family Law (Taylor and Francis 2015)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law, 9th ed (Palgrave 2015)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law: Great Debates (Palgrave 2015)

J J W Herring, Family Law (7th edn Pearson 2015)

J J W Herring, Stephen Gilmore and Rebecca Probert, Family Law: Great Debates (2nd edn Palgrave 2015)

J J W Herring and Jesse Wall, Landmark Cases in Medical Law (Hart 2015)

J J W Herring, Medical Law Q and A (3rd edn Routledge 2015)

J J W Herring, A Very Short Introduction to Family Law (Oxford University Press 2014)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (6th Ed Oxford University Press 2014)

ISBN: 9780198702276

J J W Herring, Family Law: Law Express (5th Ed Pearson 2014)

J J W Herring and Imogen Goold, Great Debates: Medical Law and Ethics (Palgrave 2014)

J J W Herring, Legal Ethics (Oxford University Press 2014)

A textbook on professional ethics for lawyers.

J J W Herring, Medical Law and Ethics (5th Ed Oxford University Press 2014)

ISBN: 9780198702269

J J W Herring and Imogen Goold, Medical Law and Ethics: Great Debates (1st edn Plagrave 2014)

J J W Herring, Medical Law: Law Express (4th edn Pearson 2014)

ISBN: 9781292012889

J J W Herring, Imogen Goold, Kate Greasley and Loane Skene, Persons, Parts and Property (Hart 2014)

J J W Herring, Relational Autonomy and Family Law (Springer 2014)

Charles Foster, J J W Herring and Issi Doran, The Law and Ethics of Dementia (Hart 2014)

J J W Herring, Caring and the Law (Hart 2013)

This book explores at a theoretical and practical level the law's interaction with caring.

ISBN: 9781849461061

J J W Herring, Criminal Law, 8th ed (2013)

ISBN: 13 9781137281395

J J W Herring, Family Law, 6th ed (Pearson 2013)

J J W Herring, Family Law: Questions and Answers, 2nd ed (Pearson 2013)

J J W Herring and Julie Wallbank, Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2013)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law Statutes 2012-2013 (Routledge 2012)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law, 5th ed (Oxford University Press 2012)

Text and materials on criminal law

ISBN: 023001870X

J J W Herring, Criminal Law: Great Debates (2nd edn Palgrave Macmillan 2012)

J J W Herring, Family Law: Law Express (4th edn Pearson 2012)

J J W Herring, How to Decide: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do (Pearson 2012)

A book on decision making techniques

J J W Herring, C. Regan, D. Weinberg and P. Withington, Intoxication and Society (Palgrave 2012)

J J W Herring, Medical Law and Ethics, 4th ed (Oxford University Press 2012)

Textbook on medical law and ethics

ISBN: 978-0-19-964640-1

J J W Herring, Medical Law: Law Express (3rd edn Pearson 2012)

J J W Herring, Medical Law: Questions and Answers (2nd edn Routledge 2012)

J J W Herring, R Templar, L Thompson and T Fadem, Negotiating to Win: Strategies and Skills for Everyday Situations (Pearson 2012)

J J W Herring, S. Gilmore and R. Probert, A journey through landmark cases of family law (Hart 2011)

J J W Herring, Criminal Law, 7th ed (Palgrave Mcmillan 2011)

Textbook on criminal law

ISBN: 97802302875729

J J W Herring, Family Law, 5th ed. (Longman 2011)

Textbook on family law

ISBN: 9781408255520

J J W Herring, S. Gilmore and R. Probert, Landmark Cases in Family Law (Hart 2011)

Collection of essays on key cases in family law

ISBN: 9781849461016

J J W Herring, Medical Law: Core Text (Oxford University Press 2011)

Textbook on medical law

ISBN: 9780199492531

J J W Herring, Medical Law: Questions and Answers (Routledge 2011)

A book containing suggested answers to questions about medical law

ISBN: 9780415575416

J J W Herring, Question and Answer: Family Law (Pearson 2011)

Sample questions and answers on family law

ISBN: 9781408241271

J J W Herring, Criminal Law, 4th ed (Oxford University Press 2010)

Textbook on criminal law

ISBN: 978019 9578115

J J W Herring, Family Law: Law Express, 3rd ed (Pearson 2010)

A short guide to Family Law

J J W Herring, How to argue (Pearson 2010)

A book giving practical advice on how to argue well, or better, how to avoid arguments.

ISBN: 9780273734185

J J W Herring, Medical Law and Ethics (OUP 2010)

A comprehensive textbook on medical law and ethics.

ISBN: 0199576483

J J W Herring and Shazia Choudhry, European Human Rights and Family Law (Hart 2010)

A detailed analysis of the relevance of the ECHR and rights analysis to family law.

ISBN: 978 1 84113 175 7

J J W Herring, Older People in Law and Society (Oxford University Press 2009)

A book looking at the legal treatment of old age. It also consider the interaction of social policy and law on the lives of older people.

ISBN: 978-0-19-922902-4

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (Palgrave 2009)

Textbook on criminal law

ISBN: 1397802302717133

J J W Herring, Great Debates: Criminal Law (Palgrave 2009)

Book discussing theoretical debate in criminal law

ISBN: 978 0230577237

J J W Herring, Medical Law: Law Express, 2nd ed (Pearson 2009)

Medical Law revision textbook

ISBN: 9781408225813

J J W Herring, Rape (TONE 2009)

Discussion of the problems with the law on rape.

J J W Herring, Criminal Law: The Basics (Routledge 2009)

An introduction to criminal law

ISBN: 10-415-49132-9

J J W Herring, Family Law (Pearson 2009)

A textbook on family law

ISBN: 99781405899567

J J W Herring, Rebecca Probert and Stephen Gilmore, Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility (Hart 2009)

A collection of essays discussing parental reponsibility

J J W Herring, The Woman Who Tickled Too Much (Pearson 2009)

A light-hearted guide to bizarre family law cases.

ISBN: 9780273723257

J J W Herring, Criminal Law: Text Cases and Materials (OUP 2008)

A textbook on criminal law

ISBN: 9780199234325

J J W Herring, Family Law: Law Express (Pearson 2008)

A revision guide for family law

ISBN: 978140589953

J J W Herring, Medical Law and Ethics, 2nd ed (OUP 2008)

Textbook on Medical Law and Ethics

ISBN: 9780199230662

F. Ebtehaj, J J W Herring, M. Johnson and M. Richards, Birth Rites and Rights (Hart 2007)

J J W Herring, Caring (Law and Justice 2007)

The article considers how the law interacts with caring practices.

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (5th ed. PALGRAVE 2007)

Textbook on criminal law

ISBN: 10 0230 01870X

J J W Herring, Law Express: Family Law (Pearson 2007)

Family Law Textbook

ISBN: 9781405847155

J J W Herring, Medical Law (Pearson Longman 2007)

Textbook on medical law

ISBN: 978405872904

J J W Herring, Family Law, 3rd ed. (Longman 2007)

ISBN: 9781405846806

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (OUP 2006)

Textbook on criminal law

ISBN: 199289352

J J W Herring, Criminal Law: Text, Cases and Materials, 2nd ed (OUP 2006)

ISBN: 978-0-19-928935-6

J J W Herring, Medical Law and Ethics (OUP 2006)

ISBN: 978-0-19-927696-7

J J W Herring, Criminal law (Palgrave 2005)

textbook on criminal law

ISBN: 10: 1-4039-3417-7

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (OUP 2004)

Criminal Law Textbook

J J W Herring, Family Law (Pearson 2004)

Family Law Textbook

ISBN: 582822807

J J W Herring, Criminal Law (Macmillan 2002)

Textbook on criminal law

Journal Article (114)

J J W Herring, 'Relational Personhood' (2021) 1 Keele Law Review 24

This article discusses the basis on which it is determined that something or someone has moral personhood. It rejects mainstream approaches which rely on intellectual attributes or membership of the human species as the markers of personhood. An approach based on intellectual abilities leads to a denial of the moral status of those with cognitive impairments. The emphasis on membership of the human species struggles to explain why such membership in itself generates moral status. Instead this article promotes the view that moral values is found in caring relationships. It argues that this better captures what we regard as morally valuable and reflects the true nature of what it is to be human. This approach is potentially very significant for lawyers because the law tends to promote the rights and well-being of individuals, considered in isolation. Instead we should be designing our legal system around the promotion of caring relationships.

J J W Herring, 'Disability and Care' (2021) 12 Journal of Indian Law and Society 35

This article will look at the surprising tensions between those who support disability rights and those who support rights for carers. It might be thought that such well-minded people would be in agreement, but there are certainly disputes between their camps. Some disability rights activists are critical of the concept of care because it posits the disabled person as passive and needing to be looked after. The cosy language around care overlooks the power that carers have over disabled people. By contrast, carers groups often emphasise the disadvantages they suffer and wish to emphasise the high level skills they possess. However, this can easily be seen as presenting disability as a ‘problem’ and one that causes disadvantage to others. This paper will unpack that debate and explain the tensions between the concepts of disability and care. It will argue that this dispute can be overcome if we emphasise the importance of caring relationships, rather than separating the parties into “carers” and the “cared for”. In other words, care should be understood in a relational way.1 Care should not be seen as something that is done by one person to another. Indeed, it is in the nature of caring relationships that the boundaries between the parties become blurred. The lines between one who is a carer and one who is cared for; those who are disabled, and those who are non-disabled, break down. With this approach, the tension between disability activists and carers activists can be mitigated. Further, we can recognise the need for all of us to receive and give care.

Charlotte Elves and J J W Herring, 'Ethical framework for adult social care in COVID-19' (2021) 46 Journal of Medical Ethics 662

J J W Herring, 'The Ethical Conflicts of the COVID Pandemic in Criminal and Medical Law' (2021) 12 Anatomia Do Crime 13

David Metcalf, Carole Pitkeathley and J J W Herring, ''Advice, not orders’? The evolving legal status of clinical guidelines' (2020) Journal of Medical Ethics

DOI: doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106592

Charlotte Elves and J J W Herring, 'Ethical framework for adult social care in COVID-19' (2020) 46 Journal of Medical Ethics 662

DOI: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5023-7650

Kirsten Johnson , J J W Herring and Jörg Richstein, 'Fragile X Premutation Associated Conditions (FXPAC)' (2020) Frontiers in Pediatrics

Fragile X Premutation Associated Conditions (FXPAC) should be adopted as a universal term covering any condition linked to the Fragile X premutation. To date, there has not been an umbrella term assigned to issues associated with the FMR1 premutation, though several defined conditions which affect some premutation carriers, namely Fragile X-associated Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (FXPOI) and Fragile X-associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS), are now commonly accepted. An overarching term covering all FX premutation conditions will help doctors in determining how the premutation might be affecting their patient; and encourage researchers to explore the interrelationships of the various conditions affecting premutation carriers.

J J W Herring, 'Ethics of Care and the Public Good of Abortion' (2019) 2 University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal

Michael Dunn, K.W.M. Fulford, J J W Herring and Ashok Handa, 'Between the Reasonable and the Particular: Deflating Autonomy in the Legal Regulation of Informed Consent to Medical Treatment' (2019) Health Care Analysis

DOI: 10.1007/s10728-018-0358-

Charles Foster and J J W Herring, 'Author meets critics: Identity, Personhood and the Law' (2018) 44 Journal of Medical Ethics 69

Michael Dunn, Ashok Handa, J J W Herring and K.W.M. Fulfford, 'Between the Reasonable and the Particular: Deflating Autonomy in the Legal Regulation of Informed Consent to Medical Treatment' (2018) Health Care Analysis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-018-0358-x

Jonathan Pugh, Tipu Aziz, J J W Herring and Julian Savulescu, 'Deep brain stimulation and revising the Mental Health Act: the case for intervention-specific safeguards' (2018) British Journal of Psychiatry

J J W Herring, 'Foreword' (2018) 41 UNSW Law Journal 624

foreward to special issue on law and vulnerability.

J J W Herring, 'Rationing by fault' (2018) 121 Theology 122

This article argues against the proposition that people should be denied medical treatment on the basis that they are responsible for their ill health. While it accepts that people can cause their own ill health, it argues that NHS staff are not in a position to determine the extent to which a person can be said to have contributed to their ill health in a blameworthy way. Further, that ill health is often a result of multiple causes, and it is unfair to isolate the patient to bear the costs. The article concludes by promoting a vision of relational health whereby we recognize our responsibilities to produce healthy communities and relationships.

J J W Herring, 'The Vulnerability of God and Humanity' (2018) 180 Law and Justice 5

J J W Herring, 'Compassion, ethics of care and legal rights' (2017) 13 International Journal of Law in Context 158

J J W Herring and Jesse Wall, 'The Nature and Significance of Bodily Integrity' (2017) 76 Cambridge Law Journal 566

ISBN: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-law-journal/article/nature-and-significance-of-the-right-to-bodily-integrity/79703F3BE9C5C21BB76338C050E951BC

J J W Herring, '"Is Law too Sexy?"' (2017) 58 Modern Believing 363

A discussion of legal and theological understandings of sex.

Shazia Choudhry and J J W Herring, 'A human right to legal aid? – The implications of changes to the legal aid scheme for victims of domestic abuse' (2017) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 152

J J W Herring, 'Abuse upon abuse?' (2017) 14 july 2017 New Law Journal 11

Discussion of cross-examination of victims of domestic abuse

J J W Herring, 'Caring to the Bitter End' (2017) New Law Journal 13

Dr Hugh Series and J J W Herring, 'Doctor in court: what do lawyers really need from doctors, and what can doctors learn from lawyers?' (2017) 211 British Journal of Psychiatry 135

J J W Herring, 'Elbow Room for Best Practice? Montgomery, Patients’ values, and Balanced Decision-Making in Person-Centred Clinical Care ' (2017) 25 Medical Law Review Medical Law Review 582

Charles Foster and J J W Herring, 'Identity, personhood and the law: a response to Ashcroft and McGee' (2017) 44 Journal of Medical Ethics 73

J J W Herring, 'Health as Vulnerability; Interdependence and Relationality' (2016) 22 The New Bioethics 18

J J W Herring, 'The age of criminal responsibility and the age of consent: should they be any different?' (2016) 67 Northern Ireland Law Quarterly 343

J J W Herring, 'Aggrieving agreements' (2015) 6 September 2015 New Law Journal 10

Discussion of when FDR agreements must be followed at a final hearing

J J W Herring and J. Wall , 'Autonomy, capacity and vulnerable adults: filling the gaps in the Mental Capacity Act' (2015) 35 Legal Studies 698

J J W Herring, 'Contact Sport: Family Courts' Treatment of Wilful Teenagers' (2015) New Law Journal 11

Discussion of contact cases where children refuse to see parents

D Feenan, D Bedford and J J W Herring, 'Judicial Compassion' (2015) 5 Elder Law Journal 392

J J W Herring, 'Meet and Cheat' (2015) New Law Journal

J J W Herring, 'Alarm bells' (2014) New Law Journal 9

Discussion of Re W (A Child) [2014] EWCA 772 and litigants in person in family law cases

J J W Herring, 'Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Liberalization: Book Review' (2014) 10 International Journal of Law in Context 273

J J W Herring and Jesse Wall, 'Capacity to consent to sex' (2014) 22 Medical Law Review 620

J J W Herring and P-L Chau, 'Interconnected, inhabited and insecure: why bodies should not be property' (2014) 40 Journal of Medical Ethics 39

J J W Herring, 'Life after death' (2014) New Law Journal 10

A discussion of posthumous parenting

J J W Herring and Stephen Gilmore, 'Listening to children...whatever' (2014) 130 Law Quarterly Review 531

J J W Herring, 'Rape and the definition of consent' (2014) 26 National Law School of India Review 62

J J W Herring, C. Foster and M. Boyd, 'Testing the limits of the 'joint account' model of genetic information: a legal thought experiment ' (2014) Journal of Medical Ethics

J J W Herring, 'The disability critique of care' (2014) 8 Elder Law Review 1

A consideration of the disaiblity rights critique of an ethic of care.

J J W Herring, 'The divorce debacle' (2014) New Law Journal 12

A discussion of Rapisarda v Colladon

J J W Herring, 'The welfare principle and the Children Act: presumably it's about welfare?' (2014) 36 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 14

A discussion of the use of presumptions in interpreting the welfare principle in the Children Act 1989.

J J W Herring and Jesse Wall, 'Understanding capacity: 'the heart may easily overrule the head'' (2014) 4 Elder Law Journal 190

J J W Herring, 'A Lost Cause' (2013) 17 May 2013 New Law Journal

A discussion of whether unmarried cohabitants are discriminated against if treated unlike married couples

J J W Herring, 'All's fair in in law and' (2013) New Law Journal 10

J J W Herring, 'An injection of sense' (2013) 163 New Law Journal 9

Discussion of legal issues around immunization and children

J J W Herring and Jesse Wall, 'Capacity to cohabit: Hoping everything turns out well in the end' ' (2013) Child and Family Law Quarterly 471

J J W Herring, 'Escaping the shackles of law at the end of life' (2013) 21 Medical Law Review 487

Discussion of Nicklinson and legal issues around end of life

J J W Herring, 'Forging a relational approach: Best interests or human rights?' (2013) Medical Law Internation

Charles Foster, Tony Hope, J J W Herring and Karen Melham, 'Intention and Foresight - From Ethics to Law and Back Again' (2013) 22 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 86

A discussion of the doctrine of double effect

J J W Herring, 'Mental disability and capacity to consent to sex' (2013) 34 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 471

Imogen Goold, Loane Skene and J J W Herring, 'Regulating the Use of Human Bodily Material' (2013) 245-250 Journal of Law and Medicine

J J W Herring and P-L Chau, 'Relational Bodies' (2013) 21 Journal of Law and Medicine 294

J J W Herring and Oliver Powell, 'The rise and fall of presumptions surrounding the welfare principle' (2013) 43 Family Law 553

J J W Herring, 'Breaking the chain' (2012) New Law Journal 705

A discussion of financial orders on dissolution of civil partnerships

J J W Herring and Stephen Gilmore, 'Children's refusal of treatment: the debate continues' (2012) 42 Family Law 973

J J W Herring, 'Different strokes' (2012) New Law Journal 1018

Discussion of Re T (Children) on costs orders in family cases

J J W Herring, 'Double Jeopardy. When is a marriage not a marriage?' (2012) New Law Journal 317

J J W Herring, 'How to conquer indecision' (2012) Management Today

Article on decision-making

J J W Herring and Charles Foster, 'Welfare means relationality, virtue and altruism' (2012) Legal Studies 480

A discussion of the nature of welfare, best intersts and well being.

J J W Herring, 'Welfare warfare' (2012) 162 New Law Journal 1

Article on Re W and welfare

J J W Herring, 'What's wrong with kidnapping?' [2012] Criminal Law Review 343

Consideration of proposed reforms to the law on kidnapping.

J J W Herring and Charles Foster, '"Please don't tell me": The Right Not to Know' (2011) 21 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1

discussion of the right not to know

J J W Herring, Robert H George and Peter G Harris, '"With this Ring I Thee Wed (Terms and Conditions Apply)"' (2011) 41 Family Law 367

An article discussing pre-nups

J J W Herring, 'Children first: but which?' (2011) New Law Journal 724

Article discussing how cases involving chidlren with competing intersts should be dealt with.

J J W Herring and Stephen Gilmore, 'Children's Refusal of Medical Treatment: Could Re W be Distinguished?' (2011) 41 Family Law 715

Article considering the case law on children's refusal of medical treatment.

J J W Herring, 'Legal Issues Surrounding Dementia' (2011) 1 Elder Law Journal 182

J J W Herring, 'Moving Forward?' (2011) New Law Journal 1011

Discussion of developments in the law on relocation

J J W Herring, 'Moving Forward?' (2011) New Law Journal 1011

discussion of recent case on relocation of children.

J J W Herring and Stephen Gilmore, 'No is the hardest word: consent and children\'s autonomy' (2011) Child and Family Law Quarterly 3

An article considering the interpretation of the Gillick decision

J J W Herring, 'Pain, Human Rights and the Law' (2011) 2 Managing Pain 1

An examination of the extent to which there is a right to relief from pain.

J J W Herring, 'Review of The Beauty Bias' (2011) 31 Legal Studies 326

Mikey Dunn and J J W Herring, 'Safeguarding children and adults: Much of a muchness?' (2011) Child and Family Law Quarterly 528

A discussion of legal interventions to protect children and vulnearble adults.

Janet Bettle and J J W Herring, 'Shaken Babies and Care Proceedings' (2011) Family Law 1370

A discussion of evidence in care proceedings with cases involving shaken babies.

J J W Herring, Charles Foster, Tony Hope and Karen Melham, 'The double effect effect' (2011) 20 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1

A discussion of the doctrine of double effect

J J W Herring, 'The meaning of domestic violence' (2011) 33 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 297

A discussion of the meaning of domestic violence

J J W Herring, 'Who's the Daddy' (2011) New Law Journal 1577

Discussion of LG v DK

J J W Herring, 'Whose Baby is it Anyway?' (2011) New Law Journal 195

Discussion of surrogacy law

J J W Herring, '20:10:2010: The death knell of marraige' (2010) New Law Journal 1511

A discussion of pre-nups

J J W Herring, 'Money, money money' (2010) Counsel 26

Consideration of recent cases on ancillary relief on divorce.

J J W Herring, 'Money, Money, Money...' (2010) New Law Journal 300

An article discussing big money divorce cases

J J W Herring, 'Seven ways of getting it wrong' (2010) New Law Journal 718

An article discussing issues surrounding child protection cases

J J W Herring, 'Sexless Family Law' (2010) 11 Lex Familiae, Revista Portugesa de Direito da Familia 3

This paper argues that rights and responsibilities in family law should not flow from the sex of the parties or the nature of any sexual relationship between them

J J W Herring, 'The Legal Duties of Carers' (2010) 18 Medical Law Review 248

A discussion of the legal duties and responsibilities of those caring informally for others.

J J W Herring, 'The right to choose' (2010) New Law Journal 1066

A discussion of capacity to consent to receive contraception.

J J W Herring, 'An Age-Old Problem' (2009) New Law Journal 770

Article on law and older people

J J W Herring and Charles Foster, 'Blaming the patient: contributory negligence in medical malpractice litigation' (2009) 25 Journal of Professional Negligence 76

A discussion of the role of contributory neglignece in clinical negligence.

J J W Herring, 'Heaven Sent' (2009) New Law Journal 1607

A discussion of the Law Commission's proposals on intestacy

J J W Herring, 'Protecting Vulnerable Adults' (2009) Child and Family Quarterly 498

This article considers developments in the law protecting vulernable adults.

J J W Herring, 'Revoking adoptions' (2009) New Law Journal 377

A discussion of when the law allows and should allow the revocation of an adoption.

J J W Herring, 'Losing it ? Losing what? The law and dementia' (2009) Child and Family Law Quarterly 3

An analysis of the law and dementia

J J W Herring, 'Caregivers in Medical Law and Ethics' (2008) 25 Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 1

An article discussing the legal and ethical significance of caring

ISBN: 0882-1046

J J W Herring, 'Deal or no deal' (2008) New Law Journal 1621

Discussion of enforceability of agreements between divorcing couples.

J J W Herring, 'Entering the Fog: On the Borderlines of Mental Capacity' (2008) 83 Indiana Law Journal 1620

A discussion of the legal position of those of borderline capacity

ISBN: 0019-6665

J J W Herring, 'Familial Homicide, Failure to Protect and Domestic Violence: Who's the Victim?' [2007] Criminal Law Review 923

Discussion of familial homicide in cases where the defendant has been the victim of domestic violence.

ISBN: 0011135X

J J W Herring, 'Human Rights and Rape' [2007] Criminal Law Review 228

Discussion of the law of rape.

J J W Herring and Elaine Palser, 'The Duty of Care in Cross Negligence Manslaughter' [2007] Criminal Law Review 24

Article on gross negligence manslaughter

J J W Herring and Michelle Madden Dempsey, 'Why Sexual Penetration Requires Justification' (2007) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 467

Discussion of sexual penetration

J J W Herring and E. Palser, 'Gross Negligence Manslaughter and the Duty of Care' [2007] Criminal Law Review 17

J J W Herring, 'Where are the carers in healthcare law and ethics' (2007) 27(1) Legal Studies 51

DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2006.00037.x

ISBN: 1748-121X

J J W Herring and P-L Chau, 'Your body, My body, Our bodies' (2007) 15 Medical Law Review 34

J J W Herring and Shazia Choudhry, 'Domestic Violence and the Human Rights Act 1998: A New Means of Legal Intervention' [2006] Public Law 722

Article discussing relevance of HRA to domestic violence cases.

J J W Herring and Rachel Taylor, 'Relocating Relocation' (2006) Child and Family Law Quarterly 517

Article on relocation of children

J J W Herring and Shazia Choudhry, 'Righting Domestic Violence' (2006) 16 International Journal of Law Policy and the Family 1

Article considering the potential impact of the Human Rights Act on domestic violence cases.

J J W Herring, 'Farewell Welfare?' (2005) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 159

Article on the welfare principle

J J W Herring, 'Mistaken Sex' (2005) Criminal Law Review, Sweet and Maxwell 511

Article on mistaken consent in sexual reltions.

J J W Herring, 'Why Financial Orders on Divorce Should Be Unfair' (2005) 2005 19 International Journal of Law Policy and the Family '1

Article on financial orders on divorce

J J W Herring, 'Breach of Contact?' (2004) 33 Family Law Journal 16

Discussion of human rights issues in enforcement of contact orders

J J W Herring and P-L Chau, 'Cloning in the House of Lords' (2003) Family Law (Jordans) 781

Article discussing cloning.

J J W Herring and P-L Chau, 'Are Cloned embryos embryos?' (2002) 14 Child and Family Law Quarterly 315

Discussion of the legal status of cloned embryos.

J J W Herring and P-L Chau, 'Defining, Assigning and Designing Sex' (2002) 16 International Journal of Law Policy and the Family 327

Discussion of legal and medical definition of sex, with particular emphasis on the position of intersexual people

J J W Herring, 'Does yes mean yes? The criminal law and mistaken consent to sexual activity' (2002) 22 International Journal of Law Policy and Family 183

Article on criminal law and mistaken consent to sexual activity

J J W Herring, 'Gay rights come quietly' (2002) Law Quarterly Review 31

Casenote on Da Silva Mouta

J J W Herring, 'The Human Rights of Children in Care' (2002) Law Quarterly Review

Casenote on Re S Re W

Chapter (104)

J J W Herring, 'Children Care' in Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring (eds), Disability, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2021)

A chapter discussing the legal and ethical position of "child carers".

Beverley Clough and J J W Herring, 'Introduction' in Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring (eds), Disability, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2021)

J J W Herring, 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Articles 7, 12, 16, 18, 19 and 25' in Clayton O'Neill, Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring and John Tingle (eds), Routledge Handbook in Global Health Rights (Routledge 2021)

J J W Herring, Emily Jackson and Sally Sheldon, 'Abortion: Would decriminalisation mean deregulation?' in Sally Sheldon and Kaye Wellings (eds), Decriminalising Abortion in the UK What Would It Mean? (Policy Press 2020)

J J W Herring, 'Disputes Over Medical Treatment for Children ' in James Dwyer (ed), Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law (OUP 2020)

Imogen Goold, Cressida Auckland and J J W Herring, 'Introduction' in Imogen Goold, Cressida Auckland and Jonathan Herring (eds), Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children (Hart 2020)

Imogen Goold, Cressida Auckland and J J W Herring, 'Introduction' in Imogen Goold, Cressida Auckland and Jonathan Herring (eds), Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms (Hart 2020)

J J W Herring, 'Vulnerability and Medical Decisions Concerning Children' in Imogen Goold, Cressida Auckland and Jonathan Herring (eds), Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms (Hart 2020)

J J W Herring, 'Maternalism and Making Decisions for Children' in Harry Willekens, Kirsten Scheiwe, Theresa Richarz, Eva Schumann (ed), Motherhood and the Law (University of Gottingen 2019)

J J W Herring, 'Feminism, Ethics of Care and Medical Ethics' in A. Phillips, T de Campos, J Herring (ed), Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law (Oxford University Press 2019)

Shazia Choudhry and J J W Herring, 'Opuz v Turkey' in Loveday Hodson and Troy Lavers (eds), Feminist Judgments in International Law (Hart 2019)

J J W Herring, 'The termination of pregnancy and the criminal law' in Alan Reed and Michael Bohlander (eds), Homicide in Criminal Law (Routledge 2019)

J J W Herring, 'Vulnerability theory and joint enterprise' in Beatrice Krebs (ed), Accessorial Liability after Jogee (Hart 2019)

Shazia Choudhry and J J W Herring, '"Introduction"' in Shazia Choudhry and Jonathan herring (eds), Comparative Familiy Law (Cambridge University Press 2019)

Andelka Phillips, Thana de Campos and J J W Herring, 'Introduction' in A. Phillips, T de Campos, J Herring (ed), Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law (Oxford Univesrity Press 2019)

J J W Herring, 'Preface' in Aline Albuquerque (ed), Capacidade Juridica e Direitos Humanos (Lumen Juris 2019)

J J W Herring, 'White v White (2000)' in Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty (eds), Women's Legal Landmarks (Hart 2019)

J J W Herring, 'Ageing, love and family law' in Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring (eds), Ageing, Gender and Family Law (Routledge 2018)

Beverley Clough and J J W Herring, 'Introduction' in Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring (eds), Ageing, Gender and Family Law (Routledge 2018)

J J W Herring, 'Medicine and the Criminal Law in England and Wales' in Matthew Dyson and Benjamin Vogel (eds), The Limits of Criminal Law (Intersentai 2018)

J J W Herring, 'Older people and deficiencies in the formal care system: equality and rights' in Sue Westwood (ed), Ageing, Diversity and Equality: Social Justice Perspectives (Routledge 2018)

J J W Herring, 'Personal Budgets: Holding onto the Purse Strings for Fear of Something Worse ' in Therese Feiler, Joshua Hordern, Andrew Papanikitas (ed), Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare: Policy, Practice and Moral Formation (Routledge 2018)

J J W Herring, 'Depression and Children' in C. Foster and JJW Herring (eds), Depression: Law and Ethics (Oxford University Press 2017)

J J W Herring, 'Ending Life' in J. Laing and J. McHale (eds), Principles of Medical Law (OUP 2017)

J J W Herring, 'Parental Responsibility, Hyper-parenting, and the Role of Technology' in R. Brownsword, E. Scotford and K. Yeung (eds), Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology (Oxford University Press 2017)

J J W Herring, 'Parental responsiiblity and medical decisions (Responsabilidad parental y decisiones medicas)' in Fabiola Gomez and Nicolas Yaksic (eds), Responsabilidad Parental (Thomson Reuters 2017)

J J W Herring, 'R (On the application of Axon) v Secretary of State of Health' in S. Smith, J. Coggon, C. Hobson, R. Huxtable, S. McGuinness, J. Miola and M. Neal (eds), Ethical Judgments (Hart 2017)

J J W Herring, 'Relational autonomy and consent' in A. Reed, M. Bohlander, N. Wake and E. Smith (eds), Consent (Routledge 2017)

J J W Herring, 'Reproduction' in P. Davey, A. Rathmell, M. Dunn, C. Foster and H, Salisbury (eds), Medical Ethics, Law and Communication (Wiley Blackwell 2017)

J J W Herring, 'Safeguarding children and adults' in P. Davey, A. Rathmell, M. Dunn, C. Foster and H, Salisbury (eds), Medical Ethics, Law and Communication (Wiley Blackwell 2017)

J J W Herring, 'Care, Vulnerability and the Law' in Brammer, A. and Boylan, J. (eds), Critical Issues in Social Work Law (Palgrave 2016)

J J W Herring, 'Family Law and Older People in a European Perspective' in J Scherpe (ed), European Family Law (Elgar 2016)

J J W Herring, 'Grundsiegendes Konzept der Autonomie' in Oliver Bilke-Hentsch und Kathrin Sevecke (ed), Aggressivitat, Impulsivitat und Delinquenz (Thieme 2016)

In German, English translation available from author.

Discussion of theories of autonomy

J J W Herring, 'Peter Skegg, and the Question No-One Asks: Why Presume Capacity' in M. Henaghan and J. Wall (eds), Law, Ethics and Medicine (Thomson 2016)

J J W Herring, 'The Law and the Symbolic Value of the Body' in B. Klink, B van Beers; L Poort (ed), Symbolic Leglslation Theory and Developments in Biolaw (Springer 2016)

J J W Herring, '"The child must live": Disability, Parents and the Law' in Jonathan Herring and Jesse Wall (eds), Landmark Cases in Medical Law (Hart 2015)

A discussion of the nature of disability and parental responsibilities towards disabled children.

J J W Herring and Jesse Wall, 'Introduction' in Jonathan Herring and Jesse Wall (eds), Landmark Cases in Medical Law (Hart 2015)

J J W Herring, 'The Abuse of Parents by Children' in A. Diduck, N. Peleg and H. Reece (eds), Law in Society (Brill 2015)

J J W Herring, 'Why Marriage Needs to be Less Sexy' in J. Miles, P. Mody and R. Probert (eds), Marriage Rites and Rights (Hart 2015)

J J W Herring, 'Best interests and dementia' in C Foster, J Herring and I Doran (eds), The Law and Ethics of Dementia (Hart 2014)

J J W Herring, 'Conclusion' in I Goold, K. Greasley, J. Herring and L. Skene (eds), Persons, Parts and Property (Hart 2014)

J J W Herring, 'Consent in the Criminal Law: The Importance of Relationality and Responsibility' in A Reed and M Bohlander (eds), General Defences in Criminal Law (Ashgate 2014)

Imogen Goold, Kate Greasley, J J W Herring and Loane Skene, 'Introduction' in I Goold, K. Greasley, J. Herring and L. Skene (eds), Persons, Parts and Property (Hart 2014)

J J W Herring, 'Law and policy concerning older people' in John Eekelaar and Rob George (eds), Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy (Routledge 2014)

J J W Herring, 'Making family law less sexy...and more careful' in R. Leckey (ed), After Legal Equality (Routledge 2014)

J J W Herring, 'Relational autonomy and family law' in Anne Röthel (ed), Verträge in der Unternehmerfamilie (Mohr Siebeck 2014)

J J W Herring and Charles Foster, 'What is health?' in M. Freeman, S. Hawkes and B. Bennett (eds), Law and Global Health (Oxford University Press 2014)

Discussion of the nature of health

J J W Herring, 'Why we need a statute regime to regulate bodily material' in I Goold, K. Greasley, J. Herring and L. Skene (eds), Persons, Parts and Property (Hart 2014)

J J W Herring and Julie Wallbank, ''Introduction: Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law'' in Julie Wallbank and Jonathan Herring (eds), Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2013)

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2012 (Butterworths Lexis Nexis 2013)

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in A. Burrows (ed), English Private Law (OUP 2013)

J J W Herring, 'Making Family Law More Careful' in Julie Wallbank and Jonathan Herring (eds), Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2013)

J J W Herring, 'Older People and Nursing Care' in John Tingle and Alan Cribb (eds), Nursing Law and Ethics (Wiley Blackwell 2013)

J J W Herring, 'The Power of Naming: Surnames, Children and Spouses' in M. Freeman and F. Smith (eds), Law and Language (OUP 2013)

This chapter critques the law and practices surrouding the use of surnames in marriage and for children.

J J W Herring, 'The right to protection from domestic abuse' in I. Kucuardi (ed), Violence and Human Rights (Maltepe University 2013)

ISBN: 9789756760559

J J W Herring, 'Victims as Defendants: When victims participate in crimes against themselves.' in A Reed and M Bohlander (eds), Participation in crime (Ashgate 2013)

A chapter analysing the Tyrell principle and generally cases where the victim has contributed to a crime against her/himself

ISBN: 9781409453451

Alan Bogg and J J W Herring, 'Addiction and Responsibility' in J. Herring, C. Regan, D. Weinberg and P. Withington (eds), Intoxication and Society (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)

Consideration of criminal responsibility for crimes committed by addicted people.

J J W Herring, 'Divorce, Internet Hubs and Stephen Cretney' in Rebecca Probert and Chris Barton (eds), Fifty Years in Family Law (Intersentia 2012)

A discussion of the proposed reforms to the procedures on divorce, in the light of the work of Stephen Cretney's approach to the issue

J J W Herring, 'Elder Abuse: A Human Rights Agenda for the Future' in Israel Doran and Ann Soden (eds), Beyond Elder Law (Springer 2012)

An exploration of how a human rights approach might be used to combat elder abuse.

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2011 (Butterworths Lexis Nexis 2012)

J J W Herring, C. Regan, D. Weinberg and P. Withington, 'Intoxication and Society' in (ed), (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)

Inter-disciplinary collection of essays on intoxication.

J J W Herring, C. Regan, D. Weinberg and P. Withington, 'Introduction' in J. Herring, C. Regan, D. Weinberg and P. Withington (eds), Intoxication and Society (2012)

J J W Herring, 'Vulnerability, children and the law' in M Freeman (ed), Law and Childhood Studies (OUP 2012)

A discussion of the role vulnerability plays in the construction of childhood in the law

J J W Herring, 'Age discrimination and the Law: Forging The Way Ahead' in Emma Parry and Shaun Tyson (eds), Managing an Age Diverse Workforce (Macmillan 2011)

A chapter discussing the law on age discrimination and how that might develop.

ISBN: 9780230240933

J J W Herring, 'Elder Abuse and Stessing Carers' in J Bridgeman, H Keating and C Lind (eds), Regulating Family Responsibilities (Ashgate 2011)

An article examining the causes of elder abuse and in particular the extent to which the stress suffered by carers leads to abuse.

J J W Herring, 'Ending Life' in Andrew Grubb (ed), Principles of Medical Law (OUP 2011)

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Annual Review 2010 (Butterworths Lexis Nexis 2011)

A discussion of major legal developments in family law in 2010.

J J W Herring, 'No more having and holding: The abolition of the marital rape exemption' in S. Gilmore, J. Herring and R. Probert (eds), Landmark Cases in Family Law (Hart 2011)

An analysis of the law on marital rape

J J W Herring, 'The lonliness of Status: The Legal and Moral Significance of Birth' in F Ebtehaj, J Herring, M Johnson and M Richards (eds), Birth Rites and Rights (Hart 2011)

A chapter considering the moral and legal significance of birth and the status of the fetus.

J J W Herring, 'The Serious Wrong of Domestic Abuse and the Loss of Control Defence' in A Reed and M Bohlander (eds), Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility (Ashgate 2011)

Consideration of the use of loss of control defence in cases where victim of domestic abuse kills her abuser.

ISBN: 9781409431756

J J W Herring, Rebecca Probert and Stephen Gilmore, 'A more principles approach to parental responsibility in England and Wales?' in J. Mair and E Orucu (eds), Juxtaposing Legal Systems and the Principles of European Family Law on Parental Responsibilities. (Intersentia 2010)

A discussion of the English Law on parental responsibility.

J J W Herring, 'Carers' in L. Gostin et al (ed), Principles of Mental Health Law and Policy (OUP 2010)

The legal and ethics issues surrounding the carers of those with mental health issues.

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2009 (Butterworths 2010)

discussion of major case law developments in family law in 2009

J J W Herring, 'Relational autonomy and family law' in J. Wallbank, S. Choudhry and J. Herring (eds), Rights, Gender and Family Law (Routledge 2010)

ISBN: 9780415482677

J J W Herring and Michelle Madden Dempsey, 'Rethinking the Criminal Laws Response to Sexual Offences: On Theory and Context' in C. McGlynn and V Munro (eds), Rethinking Rape Law (Routledge 2010)

This chapter promotes a moral landscape for looking at the law on sexual offences and suggests principles which should underpin it.

J J W Herring and Michelle Madden Dempsey, 'Rethinking the Criminal Laws Response to Sexual Offences: On Theory and Context' in C. McGlynn and V Munro (eds), Rethinking Rape Law (Routledge 2010)

This chapter promotes a moral landscape for looking at the law on sexual offences and suggests principles which should underpin it.

J J W Herring, 'Sheffield City Council v E Commentary' in R Hunter, C McGlynn and E Rackley (eds), Feminist Judgments (Hart 2010)

Commentary on feminist responses to marriage and mental capcity

J J W Herring, Julie Wallbank and Shazia Choudhry, 'Welfare, Rights, Care and Gender in Family Law' in J. Wallbank, S. Choudhry and J Herring (eds), Rights, Gender and Family Law (Routledge 2010)

A discussion of the use of the concepts of rights, welfare, care and gender in family law

J J W Herring, S Gilmore and R Probert, 'Parental Responsibility - Law, Issues and Themes' in R Probert, S Gilmore and J Herring (eds), Responsible Parents and Parental Responisbility (Hart 2009)

Discussion of the nature of parental responsiblity

J J W Herring, 'Relational autonomy and rape' in Day Sclater; Ebtehaj; Jackson; Richards (ed), Regulating Autonomy (2009)

A discussion of relational autonomy as a concept and in particular how it might be used to develop a law on rape

ISBN: 9781841139463

J J W Herring, 'The Shaming of Naming: Parental Rights and Responsibilities in the Naming of Children' in R Probert, S Gilmore and J Herring (eds), Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility (Hart 2009)

A discussionof the law and ethics of the naming of chidlren

J J W Herring, 'Child Abduction' in P. Cane and J. Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008)

J J W Herring, 'Co-parenting' in P Cane and J Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion To Law (OUP 2008)

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2007 (Lexis Nexis Butterworths 2008)

Review of developments in family law

J J W Herring, 'Human Rights and Family Law ' in P. Cane and J. Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion To Law (OUP 2008)

J J W Herring, 'Mum's not the word. An Analysis of Section 5, Domestic Violence, Crimes and Victims Act' in C. Clarkson and S. Cunningham (eds), Criminal Liability for Non-Agressive Death (2008)

A discussion of the offence of 'familial homicide'

ISBN: 9780754673347

J J W Herring, 'Older People and the Law' in C. O'Cinneide and J. Holder (eds), Current Legal Problems 2007 (OUP 2008)

The chapter considers the legal treatment of old age.

ISBN: 9786199237999

J J W Herring, 'The Place of Carers' in M. Freeman (ed), Law and Bioethics (2008)

A discussion of the legal status of carers

J J W Herring, 'Together forever? The rights and responsibilities of adult children and their parents' in J. Bridgeman, H. Keating and C. Lind (eds), Responsibility, Law and the Family (Ashgate 2008)

Chapter conisdering the obligations owed between adult children and their parents

ISBN: 9780754671091

J J W Herring, 'Crimes against the Dead' in B.Brooks-Gordon, F. Ebtehaj, J Herring, M. Johnson, M. Richards (ed), Death Rites and Rights (Hart 2007)

Discussion of offences which can be committed against corpses.

ISBN: 9781841137322

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2006 (2007)

J J W Herring and P-L Chau, 'The Meaning of Death' in B. Brooks-Gordan, F.Ebtehaj, M. Johnson, M. Richards (ed), Death Rites and Rights (Hart 2007)

Discussion of medical and legal understandings of death

ISBN: 978141137322

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in S Butler (ed), Discovering the Law (Law Matters 2006)

Chapter in book designed for sixth formers considering law

ISBN: 10: 186410274

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2005 (Butterworths 2006)

Discussion of developments in family law in 2005

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2004 (Butterworths 2005)

Summary of legal developments in family law in 2004

J J W Herring, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2003 (Butterworths 2004)

Review of Family Law

J J W Herring and P-L Chau, 'Men Women and People' in Brooks-Gordon et al (ed), Sexuality Repositioned (Hart Publishing 2004)

Discussion of legal and medical definition of sex

J J W Herring, 'Children's rights for grown ups' in S. Fredman and S Spencer (eds), Age as Equality (Hart Publishing 2003)

chapter on children's rights

J J W Herring, 'Connecting Contact' in (ed), Children and Their Families (Hart Publishing 2003)

Discussion of law on contact

J J W Herring, 'Buying, Selling and Sharing Bodies' in Bainham, Day Sclater, Richards (ed), Body Law and Lores (Hart Publishing 2002)

Chapter of book discussing ownership of bodily materials and organ donation

J J W Herring, 'Parents and Children' in J. Herring (ed), Family Law: Issues, Debates, Policy (Willan 2001)

J J W Herring, 'The Caesarean Section Cases and the Supremacy of Autonomy' in M. Freeman (ed), Law and Medicine (OUP 2001)

J J W Herring, 'The Human Rights Act and the Welfare Principle' in S. Butler (ed), Human Rights at the Millenium (Butterworths 2001)

J J W Herring, 'The Welfare Principle and the Rights of Parents' in A. Bainham, S. Day Sclater and M. Richards (eds), What is a Parent? (Hart 2001)

Edited Book (12)

Imogen Goold, Cressida Auckland and J J W Herring (eds), Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children (Hart 2020)

Imogen Goold, J J W Herring and Cressida Auckland (eds), Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms (Hart 2020)

Shazia Choudhry and J J W Herring (eds), Comparative Family Law (Cambridge University Press 2019)

Imogen Goold, J J W Herring and Cressida Auckland (eds), Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms (Hart 2019)

This timely collection brings together philosophical, legal and sociological perspectives on the crucial question of who should make decisions about the fate of a child suffering from a serious illness. In particular, the collection looks at whether the current 'best interests' threshold is the appropriate boundary for legal intervention, or whether it would be more appropriate to adopt the 'risk of significant harm' approach proposed in Gard. It explores the roles of parents, doctors and the courts in making decisions on behalf of children, actively drawing on perspectives from the clinic as well as academia and practice. In doing so, it teases out the potential risks of inappropriate state intrusion in parental decision-making, and considers how we might address them.

C. Foster and J J W Herring (eds), Depression: Law and Ethics (Oxford University Press 2017)

J J W Herring, M Richards, M Johnson and F Ebtehaj (eds), Birth Rites and Rights (Hart 2011)

A book examining birth from a range of disciplines and perspectives

J J W Herring (ed), Criminal Law Statutes 2011-2012 (Routledge 2011)

DOI: 9780415683050

J J W Herring (ed), Criminal Law Statutes (Routledge 2010)

A collection of criminal law statutes.

J J W Herring, Julie Wallbank and Shazia Choudhry (eds), Rights, Gender and Family Law (Routledge 2010)

A collections of essays looking at the use of rights in family law, primarily from a feminist standpoint.

ISBN: 10 0415482674

J J W Herring (ed), Criminal Law Statutes 2009-2010 (routledge 2009)

Collection of statutes

ISBN: 0145552818

J J W Herring, B. Brooks-Gordan, F. Ebtehaj and M. Johnson (eds), Death Rites and Rights (Hart 2007)

Socio-legal book on death

ISBN: 9781841137322

J J W Herring (ed), Family Law: Issues, Debates, Policy (2001)

Internet Publication (4)

J J W Herring, 'Implied Consent to Vaginal Examination' (2020) https://www.dur.ac.uk/cells/obstetricviolence/?itemno=43440

J J W Herring, 'Social inequality and the law' (2015)

J J W Herring and Janet Bettel, '"With this diode, I thee wed: Marrying robots and what this tells us about 21st century marriage' (2014) Family Law Week

This article considers whether you can marry a robot.

J J W Herring, 'Home made apple pie and allowing children to die' (2010) 1 Durham Law Journal

An article discussing the use of s. 5 Domestic Violence Crime and victims Act.

Review (4)

J J W Herring, 'Book Review: Rosie Harding, Duties to Care: Dementia, Relationality and Law' (2019) Journal of Social Welfare and Familiy Law [Review]

J J W Herring, 'Book Review of F. Stark, Culpable Carelessness' (2017) 134 Law Quarterly Review 150 [Review]

J J W Herring, 'Review of Ageing Gender and Society by Sue Westwood' (2017) Feminist Legal Studies [Review]

DOI: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10691-017-9342-3

J J W Herring, 'Same Sex Marriage and Civil Partnerships: Book Review' (2014) New Law Journal [Review]

Case Note (3)

J J W Herring, Robert H George and Peter G Harris, 'Ante-nuptial agreements: fairness, equality and presumptions' (2011) 127 Law Quarterly Review 335 [Case Note]

discussion of Radmacher v Granatino

J J W Herring, 'Sex and mental disorder' (2010) 126 Law Quarterly Review 36 [Case Note]

A discussion of R v C.

J J W Herring, 'Who decides on human rights?' (2009) 125 Law Quarterly Review 1 [Case Note]

A discussion of Re P [2008] UKHL 38.