Staff Profile

Dr Emily Jones is a NUAcT Fellow based in Newcastle Law School. Emily is a generalist public international lawyer whose interdisciplinary work combines theory and practice. Emily's work cuts across: feminist and queer theory and international law; posthuman and new materialist legal theory; international environmental law; the law of the sea; science, technology and international law; gender and conflict; outer space law; and political economy, colonialism and international law. Within these areas, Emily's current work focuses on the rights of nature, the regulation of deep-sea mining and current issues in outer space law. 

Emily's monograph, Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives, was recently published with Routledge's GlassHouse series. Emily is the co-editor (with Rosi Braidotti and Goda Klumbytė) of the More Posthuman Glossary, (Bloomsbury, 2022) as well as the co-author of The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis, Volume One, (Bloomsbury, 2021). She is currently co-editing two collections, one titled International Law & Posthuman Theory, (under contract with Routledge) and a second titled Posthuman Convergences: Reflections on Methods and Practices, (under contract with Edinburgh University Press). 

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, where she worked from 2017-2022. Emily holds a PhD from SOAS University of London, an MA from University College London (UCL) and an LLB Law degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has held visiting positions at multiple institutions including at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University (2020), as a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow at the Laureate Program in International Law at Melbourne Law School (2019) and in the School of Law at Sciences Po Paris (2015). Emily is the co-founder and co-convener, alongside Dr Meagan Wong, of the Public International Law Lecture Series.

• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Feminism and Global Constitutionalism: Environmental Reflections. Global Constitutionalism 2022, Epub ahead of print.
  • 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, An Introduction. Australian Feminist Law Journal 2018, 44(1).
  • Jones E. A Posthuman-Xenofeminist Analysis of the Discourse on Autonomous Weapons Systems and Other Killing Machines. Australian Feminist Law Journal 2018, 44(1).

• 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, 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.
  • 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. 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. 'The Bozkurt Judgement: A Feminist Judgment of the Lotus Case. In: Loveday Hodson and Troy Lavers, ed. Feminist Judgments in International Law. Hart Publishing, 2019.

• Edited Book

  • 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. In Press.
  • Jones E. A Feminist Posthuman Approach to Mars. IntLawGrrls, 2018. Available at: https://ilg2.org/2018/10/17/a-posthuman-feminist-approach-to-mars/#:~:text=For%20a%20feminist%20constitution%20for,which%20are%20currently%20in%20place..