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Staff Profile

Dr Emily Jones

NUAcT Fellow

Background

Dr Emily Jones is a Senior Research Fellow in the Newcastle University Academic Track (NUAcT) programme based in Newcastle Law School. Dr Jones’ interdisciplinary research applies critical theory, including, for example, feminist, queer, posthuman, postcolonial and critical disability studies, to analyse and re-imagine international law. Her work spans several fields of international law, such as international environmental law, international human rights law, science, technology and international law, international disarmament law and gender and conflict, among others. She is currently working on projects focusing on intergenerational equity and the rights of future generations in international environmental law, on reparations in international law, on the nonhuman and the rights of nature in international law, and on feminist, queer and critical disability analyses of international law. Dr Jones has also published in the humanities, primarily within the fields of gender, posthuman and interdisciplinary studies. Her research has been funded by a wide range of funding bodies, including the AHRC, the NERC and the ESRC, among others. 


Dr Jones' monograph, Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives, was published with Routledge's GlassHouse series in 2023. Dr Jones 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 and Posthuman Theory (Routledge, 2024).


Dr Jones has supervised several PhD students to completion and has taught and convened a wide variety of courses, including in public international law, gender and armed conflict, several topics within international human rights law and international environmental law, among others. She has also taught courses in the humanities, primarily in gender studies and the posthumanities.

 

Prior to joining Newcastle University, Dr Jones was a Senior Lecturer based in 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. Dr Jones 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). 

Research

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


Dr Jones is currently supervising the following PhD candidates:


  • Louisa Dassow, Oceanic Interconnection: Posthuman Feminism and the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Treaty. Funded by Northern Bridge DTP.
  • Cristian van Eijk, The Environmental Othering of Outer Space. Funded by Northern Bridge DTP.
  • Alexandra Grolimund, Vitiating consent: navigating sadomasochism’s criminalisation in Operation Spanner’s cultural legacy. Funded by a University of Essex Doctoral award.
  • Paula Nuño Balmaceda (second supervisor), A Decolonial Feminist Analysis of the Sources of International Law. Funded by Northern Bridge DTP.
Publications