Dr Ash Murphy

Public Constitutional Law - LLB

Public International Law - LLB

Public International Law - LLM

Public Law - GDL

Research expertise

A. Murphy, ‘Climate change and the metaverse: embracing the opportunities while safeguarding against the dangers of a digital reality’ in M. Claudia tom Dieck, T Jung, Yen-Soon Kim (eds), XR and Metaverse (1^st edition, Springer, 2024) 175.

A Murphy, ‘Climate insecurity: the promise and peril of securitising climate change before the UN Security Council’ (2022) 23 (2) Melbourne Journal of International Law 

A. Murphy, ‘Securitising climate change: can the UN Security Council reinforce the Paris Agreement given its inherent positive and negative attributes?’ Florence: European University Institute, 2022 EUI AEL, 2022/14, European Society of International Law <http://hdl.handle.net/1814/75024>.

A Murphy, ‘International Climate Law: Recapping, Reviewing, and Exposing State Responses to Climate Change’ (2021) 2 Keele Law Review 25

A. Murphy, ‘COVID-19 and the UN Security Council: should we expect an intervention?’ ANZSIL Perspective (2020)

A. Murphy, ‘A Climate Security Initiative: Another Way to Make International Climate Law’ (2020) 27 Waikato Law Review 46

A Murphy, ‘The United Nations Security Council and Climate Change: Mapping a Pragmatic Pathway to Intervention’ (2019) 13 Carbon and Climate Law Review 50

Academic collaborations

A. Murphy and F. Emmerich, ‘Teaching Law to Digital Natives in the Post-Reading Era’ (August 2018) 10 Journal of Academic Development and Education 82 

A. Murphy, Y. Nehushtan, ‘This is not the People’s Government or the Democratic Will of the People’ (2020) International Association of Constitutional Law

Invited papers

A.Murphy, ‘Climate security: the promise and peril of climate change before the UN Security Council’ European Society of International Law, Annual Research Forum, Glasgow Centre for International Law, (April 2022).

A. Murphy, ‘International Peace and Security and Climate Change: A normative understanding of UNSC practise in the activation of Article 39’ ANZSIL Peace and Security Workshop (May 2019)

A. Murphy and M. Eccleston-Turner, ‘Securitising Climate Change: Lessons From Global Health at the Security Council’ Max Planck Institute of Public Internationa Law, Heidelberg, Health and the Environment in International Law: Actors, Norms and Responsibilities Workshop (October 2018)

A. Murphy, ‘Navigating the political character of the United Nations Security Council Using Past Practise to Map the Rocks’ Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Conference (July 2018)

A. Murphy and F. Emmerich, ‘Digital native first year law students and their reading skills in a post-reading world’ Association of Law Teachers Conference (March 2018)

A. Murphy, ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction and the UN Security Council: Lessons Learned?’ First Postgraduate Conference of Keele Law School (February 2018)

A. Murphy, ‘The Security Council’s engagement with weapons of mass destruction: precedent for environmental harm as a threat to peace?’ Oxford Symposium on Population, Migration and the Environment (July 2017)

A. Murphy, radio appearance on ARD Broadcasting Service, (Germany and Europe) ‘Amazonian deforestation and the powers of the UN Security Council’ (9^th September 2022, 60 channels across the EU). 

A. Murphy, ‘In the age of environmental decimation, is it time for a Climate Security Initiative’ Planetary Security Initiative (24^th August 2022) <https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/news/age-environmental-deci…; (2022) 

A. Murphy, ‘Will politicians take action to try to save the planet from climate
change?’ (16th September 2019) The Conversation: Part of the Covering Climate Now
Series <https://theconversation.com/will-politicians-take-action-and-try-to-sav…-
from-climate-change-122754>

A. Murphy, ‘Will politicians take action to try to save the planet from climate
change?’ (16th September 2019) News 18 World: Part of the Covering Climate Now
Series, Reprint

A. Murphy, ‘Jair Bolsonaro wants to deforest the Amazon – what powers does the
UN have to stop him?’ (12th July 2019) The Conversation
<https://theconversation.com/jair-bolsonaro-wants-to-deforest-the-amazon…-
does-the-un-have-to-stop-him-120154>

A. Murphy, ‘What George Bush and the neocons can teach us about fighting climate
change’ (14th June 2019) The Conversation <https://theconversation.com/whatgeorge-
bush-and-the-neocons-can-teach-us-about-fighting-climate-change-118807>

A. Murphy, ‘No wonder fox hunting is still prevalent – the ban is designed to fail
British wildlife’ (30th January 2019) The Conversation
<https://theconversation.com/no-wonder-fox-hunting-is-still-prevalent-th…-
to-fail-british-wildlife-110454>

A. Murphy, ‘Are Climate COPs Preventing a Solution to Climate Breakdown?’ (22nd
January 2019) Keele University Comment Blog <https://blogs.keele.ac.uk/areclimate-
cops-preventing-a-solution-to-climate-breakdown-311cd96b9761>

A. Murphy, ‘Brexit brings British backsliding on climate change’ (27th September
2018) The New European Newspaper

A. Murphy, ‘Climate change is a security threat – so where is the UN Security
Council?’ (15th May 2018) The Conversation <https://theconversation.com/climatechange-
is-a-security-threat-so-where-is-the-un-security-council-96658>