Profile
Rob Clucas (LLB, PCHE, PhD) is Lecturer in Law at the University
of Hull. His research interests have included jurisprudence
and children, and his PhD thesis was concerned with a modified
application of Alan Gewirth’s moral theory with respect to the
rights of children. He was supported by the AHRB Research
Leave Scheme for the project "Children’s rights: autonomy and the
welfare/best interests tension. A Welsh perspective", a study on
the practice of the first Children's Commissioner for Wales.
As B. Clucas he has published articles on jurisprudence; medical
ethics, particularly conjoined twins; human rights, and children's
rights and welfare, and with G. Johnstone and T. Ward, he co-edited
the Nomos collection Torture:
Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities.
Rob is the inaugural Chair of the LGBT Staff Network at the
University, and is a national Trustee of the Anglican pressure
group, Changing Attitude.
Research Interests
Rob's current research interests are in sexuality, gender and
the law, with a particular focus on church equality issues.
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Some of Dr Clucas's papers can be accessed at http://ssrn.com/author=635783.
Rob is currently writing on gay bishops and the Equality Act
2010 (for a non-academic piece, see
http://changingattitude.org.uk/campaigns/gay-bishops/guidance-on-choosing-bishops-and-the-equality-act-2010and
on pornography. His next conference papers are 'Legitimate
discrimination: Gay bishops, the Church of England, and the
Equality Act 2010' at the SLSA in April 2012, and 'Unspeakable
acts, the uncivilised and the grossly offensive: is the current
regulation of sex misconceived?' at the Sexual Cultures conference
at Brunel in April 2012.
Rob is organising the Centre for
Gender Studies Seminar series for the academic year 2012-13,
entitled 'Sex and Power'. He is also co-organising (with Mark
Johnson, Anthropology, Hull), a Critical Sexology 'Up North'
seminar on Religion and Sexuality, In September 2013: http://www.criticalsexology.org.uk/.
His most recent conference presentation was at the SLSA Annual
Conference at the University of Sussex, April 2011, with a paper
entitled 'The Anglican Church today: the bedroom, the Communion,
and integrity'.
Chapters in edited collections
- Clucas, B. "24 and Torture" in B.Clucas, G.Johnstone &
T.Ward (eds.)
Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities (Nomos:
Baden-Baden, 2009).
- Clucas, B and Davidson, S (2005) 'Taking Human Rights
Seriously: UK and NZ perspectives on judicial interpretation and
ideologies' In Global Governance and the Quest for Justice
(Volume IV: Human Rights), R Brownsword (ed.) Hart, Oxford,
pp. 153-172. Proceedings from the 2003 International Conference on
Global Governance and the Quest for Justice.
Articles in refereed journals
- Clucas, B (2006) 'The Sheffield School and Discourse Theory:
Divergences and Similarities in Legal Idealism/Anti-Positivism',
Ratio Juris, vol. 19 (2), pp. 230-244.
- Clucas, B (2005) ‘A Welsh perspective: the tension between
autonomy rights and welfare’ childRIGHT, no.218, pp.
16-18.
- Clucas, B (2005) 'The Children's Commissioner for England: the
way forward?' Family Law, vol. 35 (4), pp. 290-293.
- Clucas, B and O'Donnell, K (2002) 'Conjoined Twins: the cutting
edge', Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, vol. 2002 (5),
Available online at <http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/2002/issue5/clucas5.html>