Chelsea Wallis

Managing Editor

Chelsea is a DPhil candidate and Ann Kennedy Scholar in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. Her thesis addresses domestic abuse, human rights and feminist jurisprudence, focussing on First Nations Australians and Disabled people. Chelsea has convened the Oxford Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group, Oxford Children’s Rights Network, Bonavero Graduate Research Forum, and the Criminal Law Discussion Group, and she serves as PGR representative on the faculty's Equality and Diversity Committee. A former secondary school teacher, she has had work published in the Journal of Law and Medicine, Cultivate Feminism, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, Womankind, and The Turl. Alongside law, Chelsea is a writer, pursuing a PhD in English part-time and having served as Poetry Editor of the Oxford Public Philosophy journal. She was identified as Autistic as an adult and is passionate about celebrating neurodivergence through community building.

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Equality Doesn’t Always Mean Integration: The Right to Education for Neurodiverse People

Equality Doesn’t Always Mean Integration: The Right to Education for Neurodiverse People

Image Description: A young woman with pink hair is tossing her head in joy. Proponents of the rights of people with disabilities widely subscribe to the social model of disability: the belief that it is not the biological markers of ...
The Hidden Pandemic of Domestic Abuse: Will Criminalising Coercive Control in Australia Protect the Most Vulnerable?

The Hidden Pandemic of Domestic Abuse: Will Criminalising Coercive Control in Australia Protect the Most Vulnerable?

Globally, organisations supporting survivors of domestic abuse have faced unparalleled challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, with victims confronting escalations of violence while confined at home with perpetrators. Within ...