CHARLES STEPHENS – författare

This edited volume brings together perspectives from scholars, lawyers, and activists to examine the HIV justice movement in present day – particularly the push to abolish HIV criminalization. As debates around reform versus abolition have electrified political discourse surrounding public safety, surveillance, and funding for law enforcement, contributors to this volume provide an intervention in public policy and grassroots organizing in an age of increased repression. Although the chance of passing on HIV is now zero when the viral load is suppressed, there are still currently 34 U.S. states that criminalize HIV exposure, using laws that were implemented early on in the epidemic due to stigma and bias. As surveillance technologies and the interconnectedness of public health and law enforcement increase, contributors argue, so do new dangers in the carceral state. Ultimately, this book provides a racial justice lens for analyzing and understanding HIV criminalization and speaks to the continued reckoning in the United States around issues of racial justice and the role of racism in public health and mass incarceration. Readers will be left with a vision of the movement’s future and an archive of the HIV decriminalization movement that captures the deepest desires and sacred visions of those who have defiantly resisted.

When Lord Denning died in 1999, the leader writer of the Daily Telegraph wrote of 'a deep and almost tangible 'Englishness' which 'shone through many of Lord Denning's celebrated judgments. He was patriotic, sceptical and humane; intelligent without being intellectual'.Since 1999, the nature of English identity has become the subject of debate and contention, not only within the academy, but also in politics and the media. In some respects, it could be argued that the debate about English identity is one of the most important in contemporary Britain. The Last of England considers the role of Englishness in the jurisprudence of Lord Denning, setting his conception of the role of the judiciary in the constitution, his views about the nature of history, the land and war, his understanding of equity, in particular the way in which he developed the doctrine of estoppel, his attitudes towards immigration and race and his approach to the law of the European Community in the context of the developing debate about the nature of English identity.