Knowing Ius Podcast
Knowing Ius Podcast explores legal topics for a general audience. Episodes often focus on discrimination law, sex, and gender identity, with occasional discussions of other areas of law. Host Michael Foran provides commentary and analysis aimed at making legal issues accessible. The show accompanies writing published at knowingius.org.
Episodes
Examining the Legal Context of Sex and Gender in Higher Education
I’m grateful to the Open University for inviting me to speak about the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers, and its impact on Higher Education. Here is a recording of the lecture and the Q&A session afterwards. PS Those of you following Peggie v RCN, I managed to catch some of the proceedings and will give a run down of this on my next live, probably tomorrow or W
Peggie v Royal College of Nursing: Overview of the Claim
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Lecture 2: Single-Sex Spaces
This is the second lecture in the series I had planned discussing the themes of my new book, Sex, Gender Identity and the Law (CUP 2026). Before this lecture, protesters disrupted the event for about 10 minutes. I’ve chosen not to include the recording of this disruption because it is my view that it distracts from the academic nature of the lecture series. I have made the decision to cancel the r
Lecture 1: How Sex Changed
This is the first in a series of lectures I am giving at Keble College, Oxford to coincide with the publication of my new book, Sex, Gender Identity and the Law (CUP 2026). This lecture traces the history of the law relating to sex status, up to and including the case of For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16. The next lecture will be at 17.00 on Friday 5 June 2026 at Crisp Hol
EHRC Guidance on Single-Sex Services
The UK Government has laid the EHRC Code of Practice before Parliament this week. In this short video, I hope to give a bit of an overview of the Code and its relationship to the underlying law as it relates to sex and gender identity. Forgive the hoarse voice! I’ve been recovering from the flu. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus
Interview with Kathleen Stock
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit knowingius.orgKnowing Ius is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Do we have a right to suicide? Is it good for us? Is it merciful? What happens when being alive itself becomes a choice?Kathleen Stock needs no introduction. Her book, Do Not Go Gentle is an
Publication Day!
Today is the publication day of Sex, Gender Identity and the Law. To coincide with this, the Faculty of Law and Keble College, Oxford, have put together videos exploring themes from the book. This is the final video on the law relating to gender-critical belief. If you’re in Oxford next Thursday, 14 May, come along to the book launch event. I’m delighted to be joined by Akua Reindorf KC, Sarah Vin
Has the gay revolution come to an end? Interview with Ronan McCrea, Part 2
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit knowingius.orgRonan McCrea is a professor of constitutional law at UCL. He’s also a perceptive thinker with an electrifying thesis: Some radical elements of the LGBTQ+ movement have rendered gay rights so dislikable to Western society’s straight majority that the entire project is in peril. Today we look at external threats to gay right
Has the gay revolution come to an end? Interview with Ronan McCrea, Part 1
Ronan McCrea is a professor of constitutional law at UCL. He’s also a perceptive thinker with an electrifying thesis: Some radical elements of the LGBTQ+ movement have rendered gay rights so dislikable to Western society’s straight majority that the entire project is in peril. I strongly encourage you all to read his new book, The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten
Keeping Sex Private (Bonus)
This is a teaser of a bonus episode for paid subscribers. If you’d like to listen to the full episode, please consider subscribing. One of the central issues that has arisen in terms of the relationship between trans rights and women’s rights is whether trans people have a legal entitlement to keep information about their biological sex at birth private.In this episode, I’m joined by Tim Pitt-Payn
Keeping Sex Private (Part 2)
One of the central issues that has arisen in terms of the relationship between trans rights and women’s rights is whether trans people have a legal entitlement to keep information about their biological sex at birth private.In this episode, I’m joined by Tim Pitt-Payne KC, one of the UK’s leading privacy and information law barristers to discuss the law in this area. This is the second of three ep
Keeping Sex Private (Part 1)
One of the central issues that has arisen in terms of the relationship between trans rights and women’s rights is whether trans people have a legal entitlement to keep information about their biological sex at birth private. In this episode, I’m joined by Tim Pitt-Payne KC, one of the UK’s leading privacy and information law barristers to discuss the law in this area. This is the first of three ep
Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Flourishing
Timothy Pitt-Payne KC is a barrister practising from 11KBW chambers in London. He is one of the UK’s leading privacy and information lawyers. He was a pioneer of the emerging law of data protection in the early 2000’s and has since built up an impressive practice at the cutting-edge of the law relating to Freedom of Information and GDPR.Recently we both presented at a conference organised at the U
Sex by Deception
Sarah Vine KC is a barrister specialising in criminal law at Doughty Street Chambers. Her practice includes economic and business crime, homicide, serious organised crime, sexual offences, and cases involving vulnerable defendants and witnesses.In this episode we discuss the law relating to sex by deception - where consent to sex is considered to be vitiated by one party deceiving the other. In th
Criminal Law and Sexual Crime
Sarah Vine KC is a barrister specialising in criminal law at Doughty Street Chambers. Her practice includes economic and business crime, homicide, serious organised crime, sexual offences, and cases involving vulnerable defendants and witnesses.In this episode we discuss what its like to be a criminal defence barrister; the nature of criminal law; its relationship with sexual crime; and the diffic
A proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim?
One of the sticking points that I see regularly in the debate around single-sex services centres on the requirement in the Equality Act 2010 that the provision of single- or separate- sex services must be a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. Some argue that this requirement means that it is unlawful to operate with a blanket rule excluding all men from women-only services. In this
Gender Critical and Gender Identity Belief
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit knowingius.orgNaomi Cunningham is a discrimination law barrister, writer and campaigner. She is most know for her work as chair of the human rights charity Sex Matters and her role in several important Employment Tribunal cases on gender critical belief discrimination. In this episode, we talk about how she came to be the chair of a hum
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