Rick Ball's Outputs (4)

Age and disability discrimination: Creeping challenges for the military (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Embracing the women: A longitudinal view of attitudes to women service personnel among their peers, 1994 and 2010 (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Privacy in the UK, privacy in the US: Can we learn anything from each other? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 Contribution

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?.