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Dr Emily Jones

NUAcT Fellow

Background

Dr Emily Jones is a Senior Research Fellow in the Â鶹´«Ã½ Academic Track (NUAcT) programme based in Â鶹´«Ã½ Law School. Dr Jones’ interdisciplinary research applies critical theory to analyse and re-imagine international and environmental law. In doing so, her work draws on a range of perspectives, including posthuman/more than human, feminist, queer, decolonial and critical disability studies. She is currently working on projects focusing on intergenerational equity and the rights of future generations, nonhuman legal personhood and the rights of nature, the right to a healthy environment, temporailtiy and climate law, and reparations in 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, 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 both The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis Volume One (Bloomsbury 2021) and Volume Two (Bloomsbury 2026) and has co-edited three volumes: the More Posthuman Glossary (Bloomsbury 2022), International Law and Posthuman Theory (Routledge 2024) and Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices (Edinburgh University Press 2025). Dr Jones is Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment and is on the Editorial Board of the Human Rights Law Review and of Feminist Legal Studies where she is a Creative Content Editor.


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 Â鶹´«Ã½, 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.
Teaching

LAW3017 - Public International Law

SOC8054 - Theorising Gender and its Intersections

LAW8152 - Applied Research Methods

LAW8091 - Legal Research: Theory and Method

Publications

  • Articles

    • Rizk A, Jones E, Saab A, Strobeyko A, Soininen N, Burci GL, Höll D, Bossert L, Larose C, Brown K, Keck F, Lorimer J, Haraoui L-P. . Earth System Governance 2026, 28, 100331.
    • Cusato E, Jones E. . Australian Feminist Law Journal 2026, epub ahead of print.
    • Jones E. . Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 2025, 16(1), 4-48.
    • Jones E. . Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 2025, 16, 135-136.
    • Cusato E, Jones E. . Leiden Journal of International Law 2024, 37(1), 42-61.
    • Gilbert J, Macpherson E, Jones E, Dehm J. . Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2023, 52, 47-74.
    • Blanchard C, Harrould-Kolieb E, Jones E, Taylor ML. . Marine Policy 2023, 147, 105396.
    • Jones E. . Global Constitutionalism 2023, 12(3), 495-509.
    • Cusato E, Jones E, Ohdedar B, Bueno De Mesquita J. . Asian Journal of International Law 2022, 12(1), 1-8.
    • Jones E. . Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 2021, 12, 76-101.
    • Jones E. . Feminist Review 2019, 123(1), 126-134.
    • Charlesworth H, Heathcote G, Jones E. . Feminist Legal Studies 2019, 27, 79-93.
    • Jones E, Kendall S, Otomo Y. . Australian Feminist Law Journal 2018, 44(1), 1-8.
    • Jones E. . Australian Feminist Law Journal 2018, 44(1), 93-118.

  • Authored Books

    • Heathcote G, Jones E, Labenski S, Kula L. . London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2026. In Press.
    • Jones E. . London: Routledge, 2023.
    • Heathcote G, Bertotti S, Jones E, Labenski SA. . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

  • Book Chapters

    • Jones E. Population Control and Global Environmental Law: Manipulating Women’s Rights for Anti-Feminist Aims (forthcoming). In: Rowena Maguire, ed. Feminist Approaches to Environmental Law. Edward Elgar, 2026. In Preparation.
    • Jones E, Bignall S, Braidotti R. . In: Klumbytė, G; Jones, E; Braidotti, R, ed. Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
    • Smith JB, Willis E, Sheehan K, Jones E. . In: Klumbytė, G; Jones, E; Braidotti, R, ed. Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
    • Klumbyte G, Jones E, Braidotti R. Introduction to Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices. In: Goda Klumbytė, Emily Jones and Rosi Braidotti, ed. Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. In Preparation.
    • Klumbyte G, Jones E, Braidotti R. . In: Klumbyte G; Jones E; Braidotti R, ed. Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
    • Jones E. . In: Claerwen O'Hara and Tamsin Phillipa Paige, ed. Queer Engagements with International Law: Times, Spaces, Imaginaries. London: Routledge, 2025.
    • Jones E, van Eijk C, Heathcote G. . In: Matilda Arvidsson and Emily Jones, ed. International Law and Posthuman Theory. London: Routledge, 2024.
    • Jones E, Arvidsson M. . In: Matilda Arvidsson and Emily Jones, ed. International Law and Posthuman Theory. London: Routledge, 2024.
    • Jones E. . In: César Rodríguez-Garavito, ed. More Than Human Rights: An Ecology of Law, Thought and Narrative for Earthly Flourishing. New York: More Than Human Rights (MOTH) Project, 2024, pp.211-239.
    • Jones E, Braidotti R. . In: Braidotti R; Jones E; Klumbytė G, ed. More Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury, 2023, pp.111-112.
    • Braidotti R, Jones E, Klumbyte G. . In: Braidotti R; Jones E; Klumbytė G, ed. More Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury, 2023, pp.21-23.
    • Jones E. . In: Braidotti R; Jones E; Klumbytė G, ed. More Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury, 2022, pp.130-132.
    • Jones E. . 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. . In: Loveday Hodson and Troy Lavers, ed. Feminist Judgments in International Law. London: Hart Publishing, 2019.

  • Edited Books

    • Klumbyte G, Jones E, Braidotti R, ed. . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. In Press.
    • Arvidsson M, Jones E, ed. . London: Routledge, 2024.
    • Braidotti R, Jones E, Klumbyte G, ed. . London: Bloomsbury, 2022.

  • Online Publications

    • Jones E. . New York: More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program, 2025. Available at: .
    • Chuffart R, Jones E, Murray C. . Coventry: CLT (Holding) Ltd, 2025. Available at: .
    • Otto D, Jones E. . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Available at: .
    • Jones E. . Oxford: Critical Legal Thinking, 2022. Available at: .
    • Jones E, Otto D. . LSE, 2020. Available at: .
    • Jones E. . IntLawGrrls, 2018. Available at: .

  • Reviews

    • Jones E. . London Review of International Law 2020, 8(1), 183-189.