All Outputs (4)

Embracing the women: A longitudinal view of attitudes to women service personnel among their peers, 1994 and 2010 (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ball, R. (2013, October). Embracing the women: A longitudinal view of attitudes to women service personnel among their peers, 1994 and 2010. Paper presented at IUS Chicago 2013, Chicago, USA

In the UK, women are excluded from ground combat roles and other specific close quarter specialities. There have been two assessments of this position by the Ministry of Defence (2002 and 2010) with both concluding that the restriction should remain... Read More about Embracing the women: A longitudinal view of attitudes to women service personnel among their peers, 1994 and 2010.

Age and disability discrimination: Creeping challenges for the military (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ball, R. (2013, October). Age and disability discrimination: Creeping challenges for the military. Paper presented at IUS Chicago 2013, Chicago, USA

The principle of equality, and its legal rights to non-discrimination, has had a considerable impact on all aspects of society, the military included. The latest evidence of this in the US are the repeal of DADT and the abolition of the restriction o... Read More about Age and disability discrimination: Creeping challenges for the military.

Privacy in the UK, privacy in the US: Can we learn anything from each other? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ball, R., & Das, O. (2013, May). Privacy in the UK, privacy in the US: Can we learn anything from each other?. Paper presented at The Fifth Northumbria University Information Rights Conference: Changing Notions of Privacy, University of Northumberland, UK

The paper considers the development of the “right to privacy” in the UK and US with the aim of: eliciting the definition and protection of privacy; its challenges; and, determining whether lessons can be learnt for each jurisdiction from one another Read More about Privacy in the UK, privacy in the US: Can we learn anything from each other?.

Privacy in the UK, privacy in the US - Can we learn anything from each other? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ball, R. (2013, May). Privacy in the UK, privacy in the US - Can we learn anything from each other?. Paper presented at Fifth Northumbria Information Rights Conference: Changing Notions of Privacy, Northern Design Centre, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear

The UK and the US are both common law based countries that have developed distinct approaches to the protection of data and information that is private. In the US a right to privacy was first suggested by Warren and Brandeis in their famous Harvard... Read More about Privacy in the UK, privacy in the US - Can we learn anything from each other?.