Jonathan Herring

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Jonathan Herring has written on criminal, family and medical law. He focuses on how the law interacts with the important things in life: not money, companies or insurance; but love, friendship and intimacy. In his work he seeks to develop ways in 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.   Family Law Jonathan Herring has written a popular textbook in this subject and has edited several books on theoretical issues in family law.  He was written on domestic abuse, children’s rights and nature of marriage.  He is an editor for the Child and Family Law Quarterly. Medical Law Jonathan Herring has written a leading textbook on this subject. He has written on the regulation of pregnancy and enforced medical treatment. He has also co-authored with Dr P-L Chau a series of papers on the medical and legal definition of sex, with particular consideration of intersex people. Criminal Law Jonathan Herring has written two best-selling textbooks on criminal law. He has researched the law on sexual offences, crimes against corpses and failures of parents to protect children from death. Elder Law Jonathan Herring has written a leading monograph on the law’s treatment of older people. He has also published on legal issues surrounding dementia.  Care Law  Jonathan Herring has written a monograph on the law’s treatment of caring and how adopting an ethic of care could transform the law.  Law and Vulnerability is the subject of his recent book.

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  • 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, 'Author meets critics: Identity, Personhood and the Law' (2018) 44 Journal of Medical Ethics 69
  • 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, '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, '"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, 'Book Review of F. Stark, Culpable Carelessness' (2017) 134 Law Quarterly Review 150 [Review]
  • J J W Herring, 'Caring to the Bitter End' (2017) New Law Journal 13
  • J J W Herring, Criminal Law (10th edn Palgrave 2017)
  • 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, 'Ending Life' in J. Laing and J. McHale (eds), Principles of Medical Law (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)
  • 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, Legal Ethics (2nd edn. OUP 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, Vulnerable Adults and the Law (Oxford University Press 2016)
  • 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, Criminal Law 7th ed (Oxford University Press 2016)
  • J J W Herring, Criminal Law : Concentrate (OXford University Press 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, Medical Law: Law Express (Pearson 2016)
  • J J W Herring, Medical ~Law and Ethics (OUP 2016)
  • 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, '"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, '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 Charles Foster, Altruism, Welfare and the Law (Springer 2015)
  • J J W Herring, Beginning Family Law (Taylor and Francis 2015)
  • 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
  • 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, 'Introduction' in Jonathan Herring and Jesse Wall (eds), Landmark Cases in Medical Law (Hart 2015)
  • D Feenan, D Bedford and J J W Herring, 'Judicial Compassion' (2015) 5 Elder Law Journal 392
  • 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, 'Meet and Cheat' (2015) New Law Journal
  • J J W Herring, A Very Short Introduction to Family Law (Oxford University Press 2014)
  • 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, '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 and Jesse Wall, 'Capacity to consent to sex' (2014) 22 Medical Law Review 620
  • 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)
  • 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 and P-L Chau, 'Interconnected, inhabited and insecure: why bodies should not be property' (2014) 40 Journal of Medical Ethics 39
  • 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, Legal Ethics (Oxford University Press 2014)
    A textbook on professional ethics for lawyers.
  • 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, 'Making family law less sexy...and more careful' in R. Leckey (ed), After Legal Equality (Routledge 2014)
  • J J W Herring, Medical Law and Ethics (5th Ed Oxford University Press 2014)
    ISBN: 9780198702269
  • 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, 'Rape and the definition of consent' (2014) 26 National Law School of India Review 62
  • J J W Herring, Relational Autonomy and Family Law (Springer 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, 'Same Sex Marriage and Civil Partnerships: Book Review' (2014) New Law Journal [Review]
  • 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
  • Charles Foster, J J W Herring and Issi Doran, The Law and Ethics of Dementia (Hart 2014)
  • 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 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, 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 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, '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, Criminal Law, 8th ed (2013)
    ISBN: 13 9781137281395
  • 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, '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, Family Law, 6th ed (Pearson 2013)
  • J J W Herring, Family Law: Questions and Answers, 2nd ed (Pearson 2013)
  • 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, 'Making Family Law More Careful' in Julie Wallbank and Jonathan Herring (eds), Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2013)
  • J J W Herring, 'Mental disability and capacity to consent to sex' (2013) 34 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 471
  • J J W Herring, 'Older People and Nursing Care' in John Tingle and Alan Cribb (eds), Nursing Law and Ethics (Wiley Blackwell 2013)
  • 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, '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 and Oliver Powell, 'The rise and fall of presumptions surrounding the welfare principle' (2013) 43 Family Law 553
  • 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
  • J J W Herring and Julie Wallbank, Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2013)
  • 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, '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, 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, 'Different strokes' (2012) New Law Journal 1018
    Discussion of Re T (Children) on costs orders in family cases
  • 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, 'Double Jeopardy. When is a marriage not a marriage?' (2012) New Law Journal 317
  • 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, 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' 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, 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, '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 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, S. Gilmore and R. Probert, A journey through landmark cases of family law (Hart 2011)
  • 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, 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, 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, '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, Criminal Law, 7th ed (Palgrave Mcmillan 2011)
    Textbook on criminal law
    ISBN: 97802302875729
  • 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, 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, 'Legal Issues Surrounding Dementia' (2011) 1 Elder Law Journal 182
  • 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, '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, '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, '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, Question and Answer: Family Law (Pearson 2011)
    Sample questions and answers on family law
    ISBN: 9781408241271
  • 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 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 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, '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, '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, 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 (ed), Criminal Law Statutes (Routledge 2010)
    A collection of criminal law statutes.
  • 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' in (ed), All England Law Review 2009 (Butterworths 2010)
    discussion of major case law developments in family law in 2009
  • 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, 'How to survive Christmas Rows' (2010) Daily Express
  • J J W Herring, Medical Law and Ethics (OUP 2010)
    A comprehensive textbook on medical law and ethics.
    ISBN: 0199576483
  • 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, '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 Law’s 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 Law’s 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, 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, 'Seven ways of getting it wrong' (2010) New Law Journal 718
    An article discussing issues surrounding child protection cases
  • 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, '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, '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, '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, 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 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, '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, Criminal Law (Palgrave 2009)
    Textbook on criminal law
    ISBN: 1397802302717133
  • J J W Herring (ed), Criminal Law Statutes 2009-2010 (routledge 2009)
    Collection of statutes
    ISBN: 0145552818
  • J J W Herring, Great Debates: Criminal Law (Palgrave 2009)
    Book discussing theoretical debate in criminal law
    ISBN: 978 0230577237
  • 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, Medical Law: Law Express, 2nd ed (Pearson 2009)
    Medical Law revision textbook
    ISBN: 9781408225813
  • 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, 'Protecting Vulnerable Adults' (2009) Child and Family Quarterly 498
    This article considers developments in the law protecting vulernable adults.
  • J J W Herring, Rape (TONE 2009)
    Discussion of the problems with the law on rape.
  • 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, 'Who decides on human rights?' (2009) 125 Law Quarterly Review 1 [Case Note]
    A discussion of Re P [2008] UKHL 38.
  • 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, '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, '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, Rebecca Probert and Stephen Gilmore, Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility (Hart 2009)
    A collection of essays discussing parental reponsibility
  • 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, The Woman Who Tickled Too Much (Pearson 2009)
    A light-hearted guide to bizarre family law cases.
    ISBN: 9780273723257
  • 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, '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, Criminal Law: Text Cases and Materials (OUP 2008)
    A textbook on criminal law
    ISBN: 9780199234325
  • 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, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2007 (Lexis Nexis Butterworths 2008)
    Review of developments in family law
  • J J W Herring, Family Law: Law Express (Pearson 2008)
    A revision guide for family law
    ISBN: 978140589953
  • 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, Medical Law and Ethics, 2nd ed (OUP 2008)
    Textbook on Medical Law and Ethics
    ISBN: 9780199230662
  • J J W Herring, Caring (Law and Justice 2007)
    The article considers how the law interacts with caring practices.
  • 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, Criminal Law (5th ed. PALGRAVE 2007)
    Textbook on criminal law
    ISBN: 10 0230 01870X
  • 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, '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, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2006 (2007)
  • J J W Herring, 'Human Rights and Rape' [2007] Criminal Law Review 228
    Discussion of the law of rape.
  • 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 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 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 and Michelle Madden Dempsey, 'Why Sexual Penetration Requires Justification' (2007) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 467
    Discussion of sexual penetration
  • 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 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, '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 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 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, 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, 'Family Law' in (ed), All England Law Review 2004 (Butterworths 2005)
    Summary of legal developments in family law in 2004
  • 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, Criminal Law (OUP 2004)
    Criminal Law Textbook
  • J J W Herring, Family Law (Pearson 2004)
    Family Law Textbook
    ISBN: 582822807
  • 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 and P-L Chau, 'Cloning in the House of Lords' (2003) Family Law (Jordans) 781
    Article discussing cloning.
  • J J W Herring, 'Connecting Contact' in (ed), Children and Their Families (Hart Publishing 2003)
    Discussion of law on contact
  • 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, '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, Criminal Law (Macmillan 2002)
    Textbook on criminal law
  • 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
  • J J W Herring (ed), Family Law: Issues, Debates, Policy (2001)
  • 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)

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Jonathan Herring greatly enjoys teaching criminal, family, and contract law.

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Medical Law and ethics, Elder Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Vulnerability, Law and Caring

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Criminal Law (Mods), Family Law, Medical Law and Ethics (FHS)

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