Staff Profile

Dr Emily Jones is a generalist public international lawyer whose interdisciplinary work combines theory and practice. Her work broadly examines modes of resistance and hope, drawing on feminist, queer, posthuman, decolonial and critical disability studies in that aim. Emily’s work spans several fields of international law, including: international environmental law; international human rights law; science, technology and international law; international disarmament law; the law of the sea; and outer space law, among others. Emily has also published in the humanities, primarily within the fields of gender, posthuman and interdisciplinary studies.

Emily's monograph, Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives, was recently published with Routledge's GlassHouse series (2023). Emily is the co-author of The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis, Volume One, (Bloomsbury, 2021) and has co-edited two volumes: the More Posthuman Glossary (Bloomsbury, 2022) and International Law & Posthuman Theory (in press with Routledge - forthcoming 2023).

Prior to joining Newcastle University, Emily was a Senior Lecturer based in both Essex Law School and the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. She has held visiting positions at multiple institutions including at Melbourne Law School, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University and in the School of Law at Sciences Po Paris. Emily holds a PhD from SOAS University of London, an MA from University College London (UCL) and a LLB from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). 

Dr Jones is available to supervise new doctoral students interested in conducting research in the fields of feminist, queer, posthuman and postcolonial (TWAIL) approaches to international law and the nonhuman and international law.

• Articles

  • Gilbert J, Macpherson E, Jones E, Dehm J. The Rights of Nature as a Legal Response to the Global Environmental Crisis? A Critical Review of International Law’s ‘Greening’ Agenda. Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2023, 52, 47-74.
  • Cusato E, Jones E. The 'imbroglio' of ecocide: A political economic analysis. Leiden Journal of International Law 2023, epub ahead of print.
  • Blanchard C, Harrould-Kolieb E, Jones E, Taylor ML. The Current Status of Deep-Sea Mining Governance at the International Seabed Authority. Marine Policy 2023, 147, 105396.
  • Jones E. Posthuman feminism and global constitutionalism: Environmental reflections. Global Constitutionalism 2023, 12(3), 495-509.
  • Cusato E, Jones E, Ohdedar B, Bueno De Mesquita J. Symposium Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Global Law and the Environment . Asian Journal of International Law 2022, 12(1), 1-8.
  • Jones E. Posthuman International Law and the Rights of Nature. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 2021, 12, 76-101.
  • Jones E. Feminist Technologies and Post-Capitalism: Defining and Reflecting upon Xenofeminism. Feminist Review 2019, 123(1), 126-134.
  • Charlesworth H, Heathcote G, Jones E. Feminist Scholarship on International Law in the 1990s and today. Feminist Legal Studies 2019, 27, 79-93.
  • Jones E, Kendall S, Otomo Y. Gender, War and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the 21^st Century. Australian Feminist Law Journal 2018, 44(1), 1-8.
  • Jones E. A Posthuman-Xenofeminist Analysis of the Discourse on Autonomous Weapons Systems and Other Killing Machines. Australian Feminist Law Journal 2018, 44(1), 93-118.

• Authored Books

  • Jones E. Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2023.
  • Heathcote G, Bertotti S, Jones E, Labenski SA. The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

• Book Chapters

  • Jones E, van Eijk C, Heathcote G. The Common Heritage of Kin-Kind. In: Matilda Arvidsson and Emily Jones, ed. Inernational Law and Posthuman Theory. Routledge, 2023. In Press.
  • Jones E, Braidotti R. Posthuman International Law and Outer Space. In: Braidotti R; Jones E; Klumbytė G, ed. More Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury, 2023, pp.111-112.
  • Jones E, Bignall S, Braidotti R. Outer Space Law: Posthumanism/Feminism/Anarchism/Decolonisation. In: Klumbytė, G; Jones, E; Braidotti, R, ed. Posthuman Convergences: Methods and Practices. Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming 2024), 2023. Submitted.
  • Jones E, Arvidsson M. Introduction to International Law and Posthuman Theory. In: Matilda Arvidsson and Emily Jones, ed. International Law and Posthuman Theory. Routledge, 2023. In Press.
  • Braidotti R, Jones E, Klumbyte G. Convergences. In: Braidotti R; Jones E; Klumbytė G, ed. More Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury, 2023, pp.21-23.
  • Jones E. Can the Rights of Nature Transform the way Rights are Conceptualized in International Law?. In: César Rodríguez-Garavito, ed. More Than Human Rights. NYU MOTH Project, forthcoming, 2023. In Press.
  • Jones E. Rights of Nature. In: Braidotti R; Jones E; Klumbytė G, ed. More Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury, 2022, pp.130-132.
  • Jones E. Gender and Reparations: Seeking Transformative Justice. In: Ferstman C; Goetz M, ed. Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: Systems in Place and Systems in the Making. Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp.86–118.
  • Chinkin C, Heathcote G, Jones E, Jones H. Bozkurt Case, aka the Lotus Case (France v Turkey): Ships that Go Bump in the Night. In: Loveday Hodson and Troy Lavers, ed. Feminist Judgments in International Law. London: Hart Publishing, 2019.

• Edited Books

  • Arvidsson M, Jones E, ed. International Law and Posthuman Theory. London: Routledge (forthcoming), 2023. In Press.
  • Braidotti R, Jones E, Klumbyte G, ed. More Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.

• Online Publications

  • Otto D, Jones E. Queer approaches to International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199796953-0245.
  • Jones E. On Capitalism as Civilisation: Intersectional Feminist Reflections on International Law’s Indeterminacy. Oxford: Critical Legal Thinking, 2022. Available at: https://criticallegalthinking.com/2022/02/08/on-capitalism-as-civilisation-intersectional-feminist-reflections-on-international-laws-indeterminacy/.
  • Jones E, Otto D. Thinking through Anthropocentrism in International Law: Queer Theory, Posthuman Feminism and the Postcolonial. LSE, 2020. Available at: https://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security/assets/documents/2020/Final-Jones-and-Otto-Anthropocentrism-Posthuman-Feminism-Postcol-and-IL-LSE-WPS-Blog-2019-002.pdf.
  • Jones E. A Posthuman Feminist Approach to Mars. IntLawGrrls, 2018. Available at: https://ilg2.org/2018/10/17/a-posthuman-feminist-approach-to-mars/.

• Reviews

  • Jones E. The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: Reflections on Capitalist Law and Queer Moments of Resistance. London Review of International Law 2020, 8(1), 183-189.